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Gen Z social app Yubo rolls out age ‘estimating’ technology to better identify minors using its service

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Yubo , a social livestreaming app popular with a Gen Z audience, announced today it’s becoming one of the first major social platforms to adopt a new age verification technique that uses live image capture technology to identify minors using its app, in order to keep them separated from adult users.

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SoftBank leads $150M round for Firework’s shoppable video

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Firework provides shoppable video and livestreaming commerce capabilities for retailers, consumer brands and publishers that want to tap into their own customer data to build engaging video experiences across their own digital properties and social channels. Last October, Albertsons was the first U.S.

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Picsart acquires R&D company DeepCraft in seven-figure deal to aid video push

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Picsart today offers a range of digital creation and editing tools aimed at both consumers and professionals alike that make photo and video editing more fun and approachable. technology and help the company better support the recent growth of video creation on its service. and cloud technology evolves, it says.

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Epic Games to shut down Houseparty in October, including the video chat ‘Fortnite Mode’ feature

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Houseparty, the social video chat app acquired by Fortnite maker Epic Games for a reported $35 million back in 2019, is shutting down. Related to this move, Epic Games’ “ Fortnite Mode” feature , which leveraged Houseparty to bring video chat to Fortnite gamers, will also be discontinued.

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Microsoft acquires video creation and editing software maker Clipchamp

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Video editing software may become the next big addition to Microsoft’s suite of productivity tools. Today, more people are creating and using video, thanks to a growing set of new tools that allow anyone — even non-professionals — to quickly and easily perform advanced edits and produce quality video content.

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Reduct.Video raises $4M to simplify video editing

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The team at Reduct.Video is hoping to dramatically increase the amount of videos created by businesses. The startup’s technology is already used by customers including Intuit, Autodesk, Facebook, Dell, Spotify, Indeed, Superhuman and IDEO. That means editing a video is as simple as editing text. (I’ve

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Going after social commerce for sportspeople, Millions gets $10M

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Millions.co , a social commerce platform geared towards professional and semi-professional athletes wanting help to monetize their fanbase by selling merch and/or on-demand video, has grabbed $10 million in funding led by Boston-based Volition Capital. “We love Cameo , but we’re really different and focused on sports.”

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