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B2B social management platform Oktopost raises $20M growth round with Expedition

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With the pandemic forcing people online, social media use exploded, for obvious reasons. More brand-oriented platforms such as Sprinkler, Sprout Social and Hootsuite have obviously risen in use, but so did traffic to Oktopost, a much more B2B-oriented proposition. It can also handle social listening and analytics.

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Social commerce startup Kapu, by ex-Jumia executive, comes out of stealth with $8M funding

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Kapu , a social commerce startup, coming out of stealth today having raised $8 million seed funding, is hoping to help lessen the burden of buying food for Kenyan consumers, many of whom are grappling with the sky-rocketing food prices. Social commerce platform Tushop set for Kenya growth after raising $3 million pre-seed funding.

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What is Azure AD B2C?

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Azure Active Directory Business-to-Consumer (commonly called Azure B2C) is an important business solution for systems that need to authenticate end users to a web/mobile application using a white-labeled experience. Azure AD B2C provides an easy identity system as a service with pay-as-you-go pricing options. Who uses Azure AD B2C?

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Consolidating User Accounts in Azure AD B2C

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In my past couple of articles ( What is Azure B2C & Multi-Tenant Architectures with Azure B2C ), we talked about some of the basics of using the Azure Active Directory Business to Customer (Azure AD B2C) platform and about some common use cases. This is where Azure Active Directory B2C comes into play.

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HSBC invests in Singapore’s customer intelligence and risk assessment startup

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The problem we’re trying to solve is to empower and enable, whether they are a financial institution, a fintech company or any kind of a B2C company that’s trying to acquire or onboard new customers,” said Hayk Hakobyan, CEO and co-founder of Bizbaz, in an interview with TechCrunch.

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A Vine mess: The choice between rebooting and reviving old software

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This article uses my own experience working on high-throughput B2B and B2C stacks during a similar time period that Vine was around, and I’m making some assumptions. It might be ambitious to think that you can go from zero to a world-class social media site in a matter of months.

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Givz raises $3M in seed funding to make donations a marketing tool for businesses

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In March 2020, right before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the company pivoted from B2C to B2B and used the technology rails it had built to create the e-commerce marketing platform that Givz is today. Eniac partner Vic Singh said that there’s been a trend of brands experimenting with different ways to target the socially conscious consumer. . “We

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