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Travel app Hopper raises $96M from Capital One to double down on social commerce

TechCrunch

The fresh cash will be put toward several efforts, CEO and co-founder Frederic Lalonde said in a press release, including supporting Hopper’s new social commerce initiatives. Travel app Hopper raises $96M from Capital One to double down on social commerce by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch.

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Social investment platform eToro to acquire fintech startup Gatsby for $50M

TechCrunch

Multi-asset social investment network and Robinhood competitor eToro has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Gatsby — a fintech startup which also aimed to go head to head against Robinhood — for $50 million in a cash and common stock deal. The acquisition marks eToro’s fourth major one since its 2007 inception.

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Social Media Demystified

N2Growth Blog

If you find all the noise around social media to be confusing, rest assured that you’re not alone. If you adapted to desktop computers, fax machines, cell phones and the Internet, then I suggest you need to view social media as the next progression on the continuim of advancement.

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Social Media Influence | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

I’m going to tell you the cold hard truth about social media…what you need to know that most people won’t tell you. I’m going to tell you the cold hard truth about social media…what you need to know that most people won’t tell you.

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Connecting with Gen Z: A guide to boosting employee engagement

CIO

Another caution: the first iPhone came onto the market in the summer of 2007. Rather, the question is how companies can adapt to new communication and social forms as well as changing value systems regardless of the generation of applicants and job candidates. The answer lies in a changing system.

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Leadership and Social Media: Going Beyond The Keyboard

Terry Starbucker

It was a catalyst to a Social Media AND a Leadership revelation - person to person, and face to face, still mattered. And I figured out a way to to that – it was called SOBCon. We got a bunch of people together in Chicago in May of 2007 (nearly 100 of them), and I got my chance to connect face to face.

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3 Cybersecurity Technologies You Should Know

The Crazy Programmer

The majority of cyber-attacks actually use phishing or social engineering, where users are tricked into revealing personal information. SDP is based on the Defence Information Systems Agency’s (DISA) “need to know” model, devised in 2007. That way only authorized users can access it.