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Social listening app Earbuds raises $3 million in Series A funding

TechCrunch

As he watched first overall draft pick Cam Newton warm up before a game in 2011, dancing to music, Fox couldn’t help but wonder what the future NFL MVP was listening to — and he bet that the crowd of 85,000 fans were curious too. As streaming services like Spotify grow, social listening apps like Earbuds are emerging too.

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Black Swan analyzes social media to predict which products will be successful

TechCrunch

While founded long before the pandemic, Steve King says that Black Swan Data , the data science and tech company that he helped co-launch in 2011, is well-suited to the current environment.

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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. Given the prolific amounts of misinformation in circulation, I thought it worthwhile to repost this piece. Given the prolific amounts of misinformation in circulation, I thought it worthwhile to repost this piece.

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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. While anyone can have a social media presence, not everyone possesses social media influence. It’s clear to those in the know that social media is a universe of the haves and have nots.

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Can social and e-commerce transform the future of the open web?

TechCrunch

In 2011, the company expanded to build themes for online stores. WooCommerce logo. Image Credits: Wikimedia. WooCommerce began life as WooThemes, a small design firm that didn’t look very different from the many others that created WordPress themes.

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X (formerly Twitter) makes X Pro (formerly TweetDeck) a subscriber-only product

TechCrunch

Elon Musk-owned social network X, formerly Twitter, has made X Pro — which was previously known as TweetDeck — a subscriber-only product. Like a lot of Musk promised timelines, the social network got delayed in implementing the new rule by a few days. welp tweetdeck finally went bye-bye for me and this popped up and lmao no.

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Pay-per-mile auto insurer Metromile is heading to public markets via SPAC

TechCrunch

The company, which was founded in 2011 and is led by CEO Dan Preston, said it has reached a merger agreement with special purpose acquisition company INSU Acquisition Corp. Social Capital’s Palihapitiya is equally bullish on the company, tweeting Tuesday “Buffett had Geico. II, with an equity valuation of $1.3

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