TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

We want to work on having more click trust and less clickbait on the internet,” he said. Finally, as we navigate the internet in 2020, the privacy question looms large as is how you balance the convenience-privacy trade-off. “We are building you.com. You can already go to it today. And it’s a trusted search engine.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

. “This isn’t just about UGC, this is about tapping into the creative potential of the internet,” she said. Then, when someone from a brand or advertising agency decides that they want to use a piece of content, they can send a licensing request with a push of a button (this is the “release”).

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CIO

DECEMBER 5, 2024

But a combination of shifting business models, regulatory changes, and technological advancements — most recently AI — is reshaping the internet into a more closed, restrictive environment. The rise of internet filtering and regional “internets” Countries around the world are exerting increasing control over their domestic web landscapes.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Google said on Tuesday it is investing in two Indian startups, Glance and DailyHunt, as the Android-maker makes a further push into the world’s second-largest internet market. Glance, which is part of advertising giant InMobi Group, uses AI to offer personalized experience to its users.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

VPN usage has surged in the last several years, with growing concerns over data privacy and security — and sometimes completely different motivations like people wanting to access content otherwise blocked in their regions — driving an estimated 30% of all internet consumers globally to use a VPN at some point this year.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Clear and engaging ads The digital age has gifted something very unique to technical recruiters, the ability to attract prospective candidates through online advertisements. If you plan to advertise for technical roles, ensure that they reach the target audience.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

Paul Davison, the co-founder of Clubhouse, mentioned in the company’s latest town hall that the startup wants to focus on direct monetization on creators, instead of advertisements. It's cool to see a new social platform focus first on *participant* income rather than internalized monetization / advertising.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

In-game advertising at scale, where advertisers can bid programmatically through traditional ad-buying platforms, rather than relying on an ad agency model, remains an enormous area, largely under-exploited. Samuel Huber, CEO and Co-founder at Admix, commented:“We see the internet entering a new stage: Web 3.0

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

This is the company’s Series E round of financing, and it comes hot on the heels of renewed public attention on the site that has dubbed itself ‘the front page of the Internet,’ owing to the role the subreddit r/WallStreetBets played in the recent meteoric rise (and subsequent steep fall) of the value of GameStop stock.

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The Parallax

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Deftly sliding from desktop browsers to mobile devices to smart TVs and other Internet of Things devices, ad fraud is a multibillion-dollar business problem that has been running rampant across the Internet for years. Should chief information security officers at companies hit by ad fraud take a stronger role in stopping it?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2023

The latter is a venture shop that invests in areas of strategic interest to its parent company, Comcast NBCUniversal, a corporate amalgamation that stretches from Internet access to cable television to content itself. It’s a pretty interesting model for companies that want to reach a larger consumer audience, but at a discount.)

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Crunchbase News

MAY 15, 2024

The quality of your experience as an internet user relies on user-generated content, or UGC. In the early days of the internet, it was — basically — for bragging rights, and because they could. We realized that a captive audience is a good audience to advertise to. It’s what we have to do if we want a better internet.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

On the other hand, China has seen rapid development in mobile internet and AI, especially in terms of real-life applications, which Xie argued makes China a suitable testing ground for data processing software.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

Name aside, Yep is taking a fresh new path through the world of internet advertising, claiming that it’s giving 90% of its ad revenues to content creators. But we won’t create your profile for targeted advertising.”. We saw how YouTube’s profit-sharing model made the whole video-making industry thrive.

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 3, 2025

By Andy Triedman Search was the first grand prize of the internet, currently generating about $300 billion annually. For years, incumbents dominated through scale: more data improves search quality, and more users creates advertising leverage. Transforming consumer search and advertising: Consumer expectations change quickly.

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Crunchbase News

DECEMBER 30, 2024

during the first internet boom (and bust!). Previously, he was managing director of the emerging markets technology training, investment and incubation program at the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology , where he managed a global team of more than 150 professionals and over 20 startup investments.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Spinny, a Gurgaon-based startup that operates a platform to facilitate the purchase and sale of used cars , is the latest firm to become a unicorn in the world’s second-largest internet market. Spinny has raised more than $280 million in its Series E financing round, a source familiar with the matter told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Before the acquisition, IRL had plotted a course to monetization that wouldn’t include advertising, which it sees as problematic to building a healthier social app. Advertising-driven revenue requires companies to design experiences that addict users in order to increase the time spent in their apps.

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TechCrunch

JULY 9, 2021

For the latest entry in a series of longform articles that explore the inner workings of notable startups, we looked at NS1 , an internet infrastructure company best known for its software-defined DNS. Part 1: Origin story : how three engineers decided to rebuild the internet’s core addressing system. Can advertising scale in VR?

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The Parallax

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Search may be what Google is known for, but advertising has long been how the company makes billions of dollars. Based on surveys of more than 40,000 Internet users in North America and Europe, Chrome will now block several kinds of ads without requiring user interaction or customization with an ad blocker.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

But what Massive is building could take a somewhat known idea and bring it into the modern world as an alternative to charging users or pounding them with advertisements to generate revenue. Part of the company’s perspective is rooted in the belief that the dominant business models of the internet today are lacking.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The internet allows you to write once and distribute those words to anyone at incredibly low costs, but the economics wound up being pretty tough. The model of writing and distributing it for free online was predicated on advertising rates translating from older businesses like television and print to the web.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Kenyan startup Wowzi has secured new funding to expand the reach of its platform, which turns social media users into brand influencers, to West and Southern Africa — as it taps the increasing usage of social sites across the continent driven by the proliferation of smartphones and a deepening internet penetration.

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The Parallax

AUGUST 2, 2018

As with any VPN (including that of Avast, which sponsors The Parallax ), Verizon’s new app works by rerouting your Internet traffic to appear to come from another Internet Protocol address. Unlike some other VPNs, including Private Internet Access and NordVPN , it doesn’t work across multiple devices or platforms.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Also since Apple banned the Facebook tracking pixel with iOS 14 in recent months, a lot of the paid social media advertising has become exorbitantly inefficient for most e-commerce companies.”. We’re excited to invest in Archive and, in doing so, to help their users grow internet-enabled commerce.”.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

” Lame rose to internet stardom for his videos where he spoofs over-complicated life hacks and makes them simple. Today, he posted a video to his followers — 145 million on TikTok and 78 million on Instagram — in which he appears as a Binance-branded superhero, saving the day as a friend types “WTF is web3???”

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

“Google is a monolithic, monopolistic search engine that is closed and has ultimately weaponized AI against users for the sake of serving its true purpose: advertising. Advertising accounts for the majority of Google’s revenue — $256.73 ” Image Credits: You.com. billion in 2021.) ”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

On top of that, Super also promises to help brands avoid costly customer acquisition and advertising fees — they don’t pay for featuring their products in the app, they simply pay a commission for any sales that Super generates. Presumably, the cashback and commission fees vary depending on what payment method the customer uses.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2022

Payment fraud is going mainstream, and anyone with an internet connection can join in. By advertising their ability to purchase food and beverage orders with stolen information (e.g., Instead of solely buying and selling access to information, cybercriminals have begun to promote fraud as a service.

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AUGUST 8, 2024

advertising-focused startups have raised only around $360 million, per Crunchbase data. The Ventura, California, company pitches itself as a platform for advertisers who want to target messages to customers across the “open internet.” The company describes itself as operating at the intersection of generative AI and advertising.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

Monopolies can also arise when a new technology or method of business is invented — Google’s internet parsing search tech led to a nigh-monopoly in many markets, for example. Yet, it’s also an industry where economies of scale can play a key role in profit generation, and increased competition can lead to price wars and advertising tussles.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Workday announced new AI agents to transform HR and finance processes, and Google issued more AI-powered advertising and marketing tools. It’s like the early stages of the internet where only a small group of engineers and tech enthusiasts knew how to get value out of it.” There were new releases for AI video and image generation, too.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Is the internet advertising economy about to implode? In his new book, “Subprime Attention Crisis,” writer/researcher Tim Hwang attempts to answer a question I’ve wondered about for years: does advertising actually work? Is the internet advertising economy about to implode? ai IPO filing.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

His second company, the native advertising startup Namo Media , he sold to Twitter itself. “We’ve had 15-20 years of content moderation experience on the internet now, and so let’s build that in.” But there are a few things that set him and his alt-Twitter effort apart.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Most people have experienced the internet only through Web 2.0: Lately, many have championed web3 as the internet’s next phase, but the term encompasses so much territory, conversations can be rather diffuse. . Please give us your web3 elevator pitch: What is it, and what role does it play in today’s internet framework? .

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

The funding is being led by London-based investor Bregal Milestone, with Level Equity, United Internet and Uberall management also participating. Alongside that, the Berlin startup is making an acquisition: it’s buying MomentFeed , a location marketing company based out of Los Angeles, to continue scaling its business.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

“In the early stages of the internet, 20 years ago, every company needed to have a website because people started to experience the brands online and use Google to search for brands and products,” Oliveira told TechCrunch via email. Image Credits: Take Blip. “Since the beginning of 2020, this movement has increased.

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