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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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Ride the AI wave: Learn to flow

CIO

While we could attribute this to crappy leadership and archaic corporate institutions that have eroded trust exacerbated by the pandemic theres another culprit at play: A highly distracted workforce drowning in the algorithmic world of social media. This disengagement is costing an astounding $7.8 trillion in lost productivity.

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Defining the Next Generation Enterprise for 2014

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Along this journey of global, open, and social digital networks, we’ve also encountered enormous challenges in grappling with issues such as individual privacy and equal access, as well as the inherently large inequalities that emerge from the gaps between the digital haves and have-nots. Workforce communities. Marketplace.

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Exemplar Technologist and CEO Pamela Arya of @Optensity named @WITWomen Leadership Award Finalist

CTOvision

By Bob Gourley With this post I would like to share some good news and offer a public congratulations to friend Pam Arya of Optensity , as well as the other exemplars of leadership listed below. The following is from the press release at [link] : Women in Technology Announces Finalists for 15th Annual Leadership Awards. Rising Star.

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Sesamm bags $37M to give corporates ESG insights using natural language processing

TechCrunch

With that in mind, Sesamm enables businesses to track textual data from across the web — including news portals, NGO reports and social networks — and convert this into actionable insights. “Data sources include highly vetted news organizations, expert blogs and social media. . billion company.

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3 ways investors can assess the strength of an NFT opportunity

TechCrunch

The first NFT was created in 2014 and was sold only last year. Instead, investors should be looking for transparency in a project’s leadership and tech infrastructure. They are the ones who will sustain promising NFT projects as they face inevitable moments of volatility.

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Micromax, smartphone sales stalled, eyes a steer into electric vehicles

TechCrunch

Reports on social media show the company’s reluctance to handle consumer complaints. The company chose a price disruption strategy to swiftly dethrone Samsung from its leadership position in the Indian smartphone market, making it one of the trailblazers in the first wave of cheap, sub-$200 smartphones.

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