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Twine raises $3.3M to add networking features to virtual events

TechCrunch

The team’s original idea was to help people who were missing out on social connections under Covid lockdowns find a way to meet others and chat online. “So we began testing a group space version of twine — bringing twine to existing communities as opposed to trying to build our own, new community.

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Wisdom is a social audio app for opening access to mentorship

TechCrunch

UK social audio startup Wisdom has launched a new mentorship marketplace that’s described as a mix between Clubhouse and the celebrity-focused courses platform Masterclass. At launch Wisdom has around 10,000 “experts” signed up to dish out knowledge through audio livestreams, following around a month of early testing.

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Skich’s new app brings social discovery to mobile game recommendations

TechCrunch

Users aren’t promised in-game rewards, virtual currency or anything else. Where the product gets more interesting is in its potential social mechanic — something that could work out if the app is able to scale to reach a larger number of users than it has today. During tests with 6,000+ users, Skich saw a 21.5%

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Sharify makes it super simple to rediscover your city’s social side

TechCrunch

The pandemic has upended many aspects of urban life but perhaps the most visible upheaval is to citydwellers’ social lives, with curfews calling time on traditional night life across much of the Western world and social distancing putting a chilly spin on opportunities for getting together with people outside your usual circle.

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Perfect Corp., developer of virtual beauty app YouCam Makeup, closes $50 million Series C led by Goldman Sachs

TechCrunch

Virtual beauty try-on technology, like the ones developed by Perfect Corp., is probably best known to consumers for its beauty app, YouCam Makeup, which lets users “try on” virtual samples from over 300 global brands, including ones owned by beauty conglomerates Estée Lauder and L’Oreal Paris.

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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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Tricentis Launches Mobile Application Testing Grid

DevOps.com

Tricentis added a Virtual Mobile Grid service to its portfolio to make it simpler to test mobile applications at scale.

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