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

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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

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

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

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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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Muck Rack, the journalist database, raises $180M in its first outside funding

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The times, meanwhile, have introduced a new layer of communication in the form of social media, which sits alongside, or often above, that of publications when it comes to mass communication and how people learn news, opinions, about new products, or whatever it is that is being broadcast.

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Does Atlantic Canada have a blueprint for rural revival in the post-pandemic era?

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He then started Social West , a Calgary-based digital marketing conference that, before long, expanded to three cities. Business writer Gordon Pitts pinpoints 2011 as the game-changing year for the Atlantic startup scene. Past innovation hubs have relied on physical proximity in order to build networks of human and social capital.

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

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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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