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Can AI help you binge books? BingeBooks is a new service to do … exactly that

TechCrunch

The pandemic has been terrible for many industries, but the book industry has gotten a rare reprieve in an otherwise dismal past decade. Locked in homes and forced to socially distance from others, us humans have more time on our hands and more need to connect to characters than ever before. No boring book clubs.

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Chefclub raises $17 million to expand its food media brand beyond social networks

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Chefclub has been building a major media brand on social media platforms. It starts with cooking books, obviously. Chefclub has sold 700,000 books so far. As those books are self-published, the company gets to keep a good chunk of the revenue. Finally, the startup plans to enter a new market — consumer-packaged goods.

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

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Fresha — a multipurpose commerce tool for independent wellness and beauty businesses such as hair, nail and skin salons, yoga instructors and more, based first and foremost around a completely free subscription platform for those businesses to schedule bookings from customers — has picked up $100 million.

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

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Travel booking startup Hopper today announced that it closed a $96 million follow-on investment from Capital One, bringing the company’s total raised to $740 million. of the third-party air travel market in the U.S. Evidently, the downturn hasn’t soured investors on the travel industry.

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Early Snapchat employee debuts Yoni Circle, a social storytelling app for womxn

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Drimal, has now launched her own social app, Yoni Circle. Drimal came up with the idea for a social storytelling app, in part, because she saw the potential when working on the Snapchat “Our Stories” product. An early Snapchat employee who once architected the “Our Stories” product, Chloe?

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This West Point grad started a booking system for restaurants, and VCs just funded it

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Indeed, he says, the idea for his startup — Perfect Venue — largely owes to the time in between deployments, when Hutchison found himself organizing social events for his unit — and frustrated by the process. “It

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Global AI regulations: Beyond the U.S. and Europe

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The identified scenarios where AI is used include judicial, news, medical, biometric recognition, autonomous driving, social credit, social bots and where AI is used by state organizations. the world’s leading tech media, data, and marketing services company. He has written several papers and a book on these topics.