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Fresha raises $100M for its beauty and wellness booking platform and marketplace

TechCrunch

Fresha’s current range of services include a free-to-use platform for booking appointments; free software for managing accounts; a payments service that includes both a physical point of sale and digital interface; and a wider marketplace both to provide goods to the businesses (B2B); and for the businesses to sell goods to customers (B2C).

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Payday wants to power the future of work for Africa with $3M seed led by Moniepoint Inc

TechCrunch

Payday also offers virtual dollar and naira cards (which allow Nigerian users to purchase goods and services on foreign platforms), currency swaps, payment links, local bill payments and peer-to-peer transfers. Payday ramped up its social media marketing push over the last few months to increase market share, which seems to be paying off.

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Why focusing on holistic care helped Kindbody triple its revenue in 2021

TechCrunch

Over the last decade, our lives have changed exponentially due to the easy access to information via social media platforms, and the COVID-19 pandemic only added a feeling of perpetual uncertainty. It’s a familiar look for the 2020s at this point, and that’s intentional. Barbara Collura, president of Resolve.

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Dashlane taps JD Sherman, ex-Hubspot COO, as new CEO, as co-founder Emmanuel Schalit steps aside

TechCrunch

“This is about thinking about its next leg of our scaling strategy, more B2B monetization after being strong in B2C,” Sherman said in an interview, praising his predecessor’s growth of the consumer business and noting his realization that “B2B was not his forte.”

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Spain’s Rosita Longevity, an app that helps seniors be more active, is headed to Florida

TechCrunch

The app-based coaching program packaged as Rosita Longevity focuses on encouraging (gentle) exercise as a way to boost seniors’ mobility and decrease frailty, as well as increasing their social connections (via cohort-based group classes) for an age group that can suffer especially from loneliness and associated mental health issues.

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Applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in business

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Recent advances in AI have been helped by three factors: Access to big data generated from e-commerce, businesses, governments, science, wearables, and social media. Financial services companies use AI-based natural language processing tools to analyze brand sentiment from social media platforms and provide actionable advice.

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Every Business Is (Or Should Be) a Social Business

Mills Scofield

I believe the distinction between social and non-social business is a false dichotomy. We talk about “social businesses” — those that are mission-led and focused on creating positive social change — and “non-social businesses” — those that focus on revenue and profit.

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