Women on Business

JULY 11, 2012

It’s not a secret that employers use social media to find and research job candidates, but did you know that 9 out of 10 employers are using social recruiting? The numbers are higher than most people probably think according to the 2012 Social Recruiting Survey from Jobvite. 89% have hired someone through LinkedIn.

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Women on Business

JULY 11, 2012

It’s not a secret that employers use social media to find and research job candidates, but did you know that 9 out of 10 employers are using social recruiting? The numbers are higher than most people probably think according to the 2012 Social Recruiting Survey from Jobvite. 89% have hired someone through LinkedIn.

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

JANUARY 11, 2012

While 2011 was a busy year, I’m expecting 2012 to be a breakout year for a number of key subject areas that I work with closely. The run up of social business over the last five years has been phenomenal but there’s a general sense now that it’s about to go truly mainstream.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Xpressbees started its journey within FirstCry, an e-commerce for baby products, in 2012. Xpressbees, which concluded its Series D round three years ago, has raised $175.8 million to date, according to research firm Tracxn. The new round valued the startup at more than $350 million.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The latest demo day marks its tenth year after SparkLabs launched its accelerator program in December 2012. The accelerator has backed more than 270 startups since its inception in 2012, co-founder and partner of SparkLabs Eugene Kim told TechCrunch. .

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2023

The social media company had raised a down round in 2009 before it went public in 2012 at a $104 billion valuation. But it might be hard for a B2B sales startup to gain confidence from Meta’s story — the social media company has always seemed to operate in its own world.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 13, 2021

Founded in 2012, Kiddom was able to raise millions without revenue or a clear business model. For example, ClassDojo prioritized adoption for years before it finally introduced a paying version of its classroom socialization product. The financing came nearly three years after Kiddom’s Series B, a $15 million round led by Owl.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2021

In 2012, I thought it would be great to download Graham’s essays, browse by most-used words and publish my findings on Hacker News. However, Hacker News is the social news website run by Y Combinator, and the morning after I shared my work I woke up to an email from Graham asking me to swiftly take it down.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

In contrast to America, he points out how Sweden is among the most successful societies in the world from a social mobility perspective — referencing its free education and free health care, which sets up as many people as possible for success. “We didn’t have a lot of money,” he tells me.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 16, 2021

By its nature, sales is one of the most social faces of a business, so it’s no surprise that there are tools being built for sales teams that are tapping into some of the most interesting dynamics of the world of social networking, and that the startups that are doing this most successfully are making a killing.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

million VC-backed company, Carbon was founded by Chijioke Dozie and Ngozi Dozie in 2012. Posting audited financials can prove detrimental for a private African company for several reasons ranging from bad marketing and PR if huge losses are incurred to regulatory clampdown if the company performs well. Image Credits: Carbon.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

So we as a company regularly meet and educate on issues around inclusion, social justice and diversity. Cloudbolt was founded in 2012 and has around 200 customers. “One is just pure education. We also recruit with with those ideas in mind. HashiCorp to offer managed versions of its developer tools starting with Consul.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Co-founder and CEO Melanie Perkins and her team started working on Canva in 2012, and launched the product in 2013. But, as part of our marketing, it means that people are able to love the product, share it with their friends and family, and promote it on social media. Canva allows anyone to design.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Social enterprises like One Acre Fund, startups like Apollo Agriculture, and agribusiness giants like Flour Mills and Export Trading Group are also among Pula’s clients. However, it wasn’t until two years later that Njeru joined fulltime as he had a six-year engagement with Deloitte South Africa from 2012 as a consultant actuary.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

Back in 2012, people were saying that food ordering is not going to work online, people just order on the phone or in person,” Cohen said. Finally, Deskimo plans to partner with spaces like social clubs and event venues that usually sit empty during weekdays. Deskimo app’s QR code.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Konvy was launched in 2012 by Chinese entrepreneur QingGui Huang, who previously managed fashion e-commerce platforms in China. Konvy taps into the high rate of social media usage by developing a feedback loop, where engagements on its partner brands’ not only helps Konvy’s existing portfolio, but also helps more brands in the future.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

Convercent was founded in 2012 and has raised over $100 million, according to Pitchbook data. Convercent brings 750 customers and 150 employees to the OneTrust team along with its ethics system, which includes a way for employees to report ethical violations to the company and a tool for managing disclosures. OneTrust was founded in 2016.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2023

Facebook’s purchase of Instagram in 2012 allowed the social media behemoth to dominate the photo-sharing space. . “It put us on the path to achieving what I wanted to achieve, which is scale when it comes to storytelling,” were his exact words. But all’s not rosy in the world of M&A.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

With the new funding, Apeel has now raised over $635 million since the company was founded in 2012. Prior to this round, the company brought in $250 million in Series D funding in May 2020. Preventing food waste nets Apeel $250 million from Singapore’s government, Oprah and Katy Perry.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

More recently, VR has been used in all manner of health care scenarios, from treating social anxiety and other mental health conditions , to surgical training. Big impact.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

” Launched in 2012 by Khoury, Alo Sarv and Tony Rindsberg, Soci’s platform is designed for organizations that have hundreds — or even thousands — of people managing their marketing across various channels. With Sarv and Rindsberg, Khoury spent two years building the product before launching it in a limited beta.

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Mills Scofield

JANUARY 16, 2013

I'm again privileged to have an incredible "kid" share his wisdom on the role of intrapreneurship in social business. It's becoming more accepted in 'regular' business so let's apply it to social as well. Be mission-driven Social entrepreneurship is facing a serious problem of ego.

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CTOvision

JUNE 7, 2015

2012 Sep, In one of the most destructive attacks against computers noted against any company to date, Saudi state-owned oil company ARAMCO had data destroyed on over 3/4 of their companies computers. 2012 Oct, South Carolina Gov Nikki Haley announced a massive hack into state websites. Reporters suggested this be her "wake-up call".

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

The ongoing push for social distancing to slow the spread of COVID-19 has meant that more people than ever are using internet-based services to get things done. And that is having a direct impact on digital customer service, which is seeing unprecedented traffic and demands when things are not running smoothly.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Tapping into a surge of remote hiring and employment that themselves were ushered in by the COVID-19 pandemic and social distancing measures, HackerRank now counts 2,800 customers — including 25% of some of the biggest companies in the world (from the Fortune 100) — and 18 million developers. .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2021

They have augmented this with sign language videos from social media (with permission, of course) and government speeches that have sign language interpreters — but they still need more. We’ve seen attempts at automatic sign language (usually American/ASL) translation for years and years.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Studies have indeed found that when peers and teachers incorrectly pronounce or change the names of students of color, those students participate less in class and becoming socially withdrawn to avoid associating with their name.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

Michael Wilkerson founded Tugende in 2012. This brings Tugende’s total Series A financing to $9.9 San Francisco and Paris-based VC firm, Partech led the round. Enza Capital participated, alongside some unnamed angel investors.

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QAspire

AUGUST 6, 2013

Social media has become mainstream and an integral part of business strategy. Social media is at the center of how people connect, consume information, drive conversations, initiate movements and promote brands. Download the 2012 Report Here. I was featured at #4. Download the 2013 Report Here.

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Crunchbase News

APRIL 25, 2025

The Palo Alto, California-based company provides conversational AI and automation tools for businesses across social and messaging platforms. Founded in 2012, the company has raised $276 million, per Crunchbase. The most recent example of that infatuation is Manychats $140 million growth capital raise led by Summit Partners.

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Two of the five, Vala Afshar and Brad Martin , have just written a 2012 & 2013’s Must Read book, The Pursuit of Social Business Excellence. Because that’s how Vala, and Brad, and the rest of the team, are wired (no pun intended) – to be social, to care, to make sure others matter.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

It also draws on Golden Gate Ventures’ proprietary database, which dates back to 2012 and tracks information like the time between funding rounds and fundraising success rates, as well as public databases, reports and expert commentary from the New York Stock Exchange.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

Sarah writes that “the States alleged Meta had illegally maintained monopoly power in the social networking market through its acquisitions of photo-sharing app Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014, and that it gained further power through data policies that harmed app developers.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2020

On August 12, Twitter launched a complete rebuild of its 2012 API, with new endpoints for data collection, new access levels and a new developer portal. Edward Tian is a computer science student at Princeton and an investigator at Bellingcat who combines technology and investigative journalism.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

E-commerce has undoubtedly seen a huge boost in growth in the last year and a half of COVID-19 living, with people turning to the web and apps to shop for essentials and not-so-essentials to keep their social distance, and using delivery services to receive their goods rather than picking things up in person.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

nRelate, a third player in the space took a different “anti-clickbait” approach to content recommendations and successfully exited to Ask.com in 2012. Both were successful in their own right. SmartGift and Loop Commerce were similar competitors in online gifting and the list goes on.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 26, 2012

2012 was a fantastic year. 2012 also bought me the recognition amongst “ Top 20 Indian HR Influencers on Social Media (at #4) ” by Society of Human Resources Management, SHRM India. As I look back at 2012 in terms of blogging, here are some of my important lessons, one for each month along with a respective snippet.

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