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Summer International uses social media data to launch new beauty brands

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If you follow #beautytok, #beautytube or any beauty content on social media platforms, you know that popular product trends are hard to keep up with. NYX was acquired by L’Oreal in 2014 for about $500 million. They are also available on Summer.store, the company’s proprietary social commerce network.

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

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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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Chinese cyber espionage growing across all industry sectors

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A sign of Chinas maturing cyber capabilities CrowdStrike attributes Chinas increasingly dominant position in global cyber espionage to a decade of strategic investments, following General Secretary Xi Jinpings 2014 call for the country to become a cyber power.

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Hootsuite lays off nearly a third of its workforce as CEO tries to ‘refocus’

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Social media marketing firm Hootsuite says it has slashed its workforce by 30%. The social media firm has raised more than $300 million in capital to date, per PitchBook , and its backers include Fidelity and Accel, the Palo Alto–based VC. The company offered no specifics on what exactly is changing about the business.

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Indonesian logistics startup SiCepat raises $170 million Series B

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Founded in 2014 to provide last-mile deliveries for small merchants, the company has since expanded to serve large e-commerce platforms, too. SiCepat focuses in particular on e-commerce and social commerce, or people who sell goods through their social media networks.

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Chinese cyber espionage growing across all industry sectors

CIO

A sign of Chinas maturing cyber capabilities CrowdStrike attributes Chinas increasingly dominant position in global cyber espionage to a decade of strategic investments, following General Secretary Xi Jinpings 2014 call for the country to become a cyber power.

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2014 Analyst Forum: Insights for Law Enforcement from Dr. McCue  

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With this post we highlight A member of the panel discussing law enforcement, Dr. Kelly McCue , the Senior Director of Social Sciences & Quantitative Methods with DigitalGlobe Analytics. — Trajectory Magazine (@TrajectoryMag) July 30, 2014. — DigitalGlobe (@DigitalGlobe) September 5, 2014.

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