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E-commerce marketplace The List checks off new funding, new app

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The List joins the social commerce movement with a new app connecting consumers with global luxury brands and retailers to offer a personalized discovery and shopping experience. The List, with offices in Dubai and Lisbon, was founded in 2016 as an e-commerce marketplace and works with authorized, professional sellers.

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Glorify, an ambitious app for Christians, just landed $40 million in Series A funding led by a16z

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Pray.com, for example, an LA-based app for daily prayer and bedtime Bible stories that was founded in 2016, has raised at least $34 million from investors, including Kleiner Perkins. TC: Is the plan to evolve this into a full-fledged social network? EB: When we talk about it being a social network, 100%.

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How NOT to do Social Media Marketing (and 5 ways to get better at it!)

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Although she traveled some for work, Calveiro said, “If you break it down, a lot of the travel I was doing in 2016 was strictly for Instagram.”. Don’t have the resources for social media marketing? Reply and converse on social networks to boost your brand’s visibility. Check the ROI.

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Tech companies: Stop conflating privilege with potential

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The number of low-income students attending college is increasing: According to a 2016 report from the Pew Research Center , the total share of undergraduate college students who come from low-income families increased from 12% in 1996 to 20% in 2016. More posts by this contributor. 10 Men Making Waves For Women In Tech.

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Korean VC Sopoong closes $8M fund for startups focused on environmental impact

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Sopoong , a social impact-focused VC, intends to support environmentally minded tech founders in South Korea and Southeast Asia, while building a bridge between Korean conglomerates and startups in the sector. Sopoong has closed on around $8 million (10.3

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Clerk bags new capital to improve in-store grocery shopping experience

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CEO Marlow Nickell founded Austin-based Clerk in 2016, and while he saw Amazon and Walmart plowing ahead in the marketing and product merchandising spaces, he saw a need from the rest of the space that didn’t have the capacity to innovate there. Cooler Screens raises $80M to bring interactive screens into cooler aisles. Walmart stores.

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The 10 top network outages of 2021

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Needless to say, the world’s network engineers deserve a load of #HugOps in 2021. In early June, content delivery network Fastly experienced a major outage because of a faulty configuration push causing thousands of high-profile websites to become unreachable. In this post, I run through 10 of the top outages that we covered in 2021.

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