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Former Yext CEO launches Roam to provide a virtual HQ for distributed teams

TechCrunch

Lerman previously co-founded and led Yext, the publicly traded brand management company that uses a cloud-based network of apps and search engines to keep company information up to date across the web. This summer, Microsoft launched Viva Engage , an in-house social media app for employee engagement. and abroad, CEO Howard Lerman said.

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Ethical Social Media: Oxymoron or Attainable Goal?

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

For this generation, social media has generated a vast set of new ethical challenges, which is unsurprising when you consider the degree of its influence. Social media has been linked to health risks in individuals and political violence in societies.

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Create The Perfect Virtual Recruiting Strategy For Universities With These Tips

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

This led to a forced transition to virtual campus recruiting—which turned out to be a good thing so far! Virtual campus recruiting doesn’t demand a huge budget, eliminates geographical constraints which widen your talent pool, and provides an improved candidate experience to today’s digital-savvy generation—it is a win-win all around.

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Countable brings in $12M for virtual brand communities

TechCrunch

A lot of things are changing quickly with social media, which has become more toxic in some ways and less trustful about safety and security of its users, as well as taking away some of the controls that brands had to engage with their audience on their terms,” Myers said. “It

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Kentik Virtual Panel Series, Part 2: How Akamai, Uber and Verizon Media Are Supporting Remote Work and Digital Experience

Kentik

Last week Kentik hosted its second virtual panel on scaling networks and services during COVID-19. As our moderator, Kentik Co-founder and CEO Avi Freedman was joined by network leaders from Akamai, Uber and Verizon Media, namely: Christian Kaufmann, VP of Network Technology, Akamai.

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PubNub raises $65M to build and run data streams for messaging, presence and other real-time aspects of ‘virtual spaces’

TechCrunch

“From the time we started PubNub the vision was what software is needed to power virtual spaces. . “From the time we started PubNub the vision was what software is needed to power virtual spaces. Services that it currently covers include in-app chat, geolocation, virtual events, push notifications and IoT services.

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It’s Time for the Media and Entertainment Industry to Virtualize

Dell EMC

When it comes to virtualization, the media and entertainment (M&E) industry has lagged other industries. For 30 years, broadcast engineers have relied on bare-metal hardware and hard-coded applications, trusting that these solutions could deliver the performance and predictability required of a broadcast network.

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