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South Africa’s Flow gets funding to automate social media advertising for real estate agencies

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And it’s evident that proptech, unlike other industries, has lagged in utilizing social media to make sales. South African startup Flow wants to change how real estate agencies, developers and agents interact with their end customers. Sperling and Levy founded Flow in 2018 as an app that rewards tenants for early rent payments.

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Social media giants urged to tackle data-scraping privacy risks

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’s ICO, Canada’s OPC and Hong Kong’s OPCPD, has urged mainstream social media platforms to protect users’ public posts from scraping — warning they face a legal responsibility to do so in most markets. A joint statement signed by regulators at a dozen international privacy watchdogs, including the U.K.’s

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Daily Crunch: Kanye West reaches agreement to acquire social media platform Parler

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That, that, that don’t kill me, can only make me stronger ” : Two of our top stories for today centered on the same topic — Kanye West, who now goes by Ye, surprising us all by announcing he was going to buy the conservative social media site Parler. The TechCrunch Top 3. Manish has the basics on the deal.

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Why cloud is integral to Japan Rugby Football Union’s media strategy

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As head of the JRFUs media business division, Yutaka Muroguchi has contracts with all three organizations, and is in charge of video management and broadcasting rights. The media plays a big role to make rugby more accessible, and the trigger to formulate a media strategy was the launch of League One in 2022.

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Daily Crunch: Meta decimates its staff as the social media giant lays off 11,000

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More social media struggles : Though the subject matter was a downer, Paul wrote a great story about Meta’s confirmed layoffs of 11,000 employees, explaining what happened, why and what it means in the greater context of Meta’s future. The TechCrunch Top 3. million shares were worth almost $4 billion.

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Backed by former Facebook and Twitter execs, Tagg launches social branding app for Gen Z

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Gen Z isn’t satisfied with the social media they grew up with, so they’re building the apps that they want to use. It’s like a link-in-bio service, but with a social element that encourages young creatives to connect, collaborate and develop friendships. Image Credits: Tagg.

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How social commerce is bridging Southeast Asia’s infrastructure gaps

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Amit Anand is a founding partner of Jungle Ventures and an early pioneer and leader in the development of Southeast Asia’s venture capital industry. Conceptually, social commerce isn’t new — it has existed in some form ever since people have made recommendations to each other. Globally, social commerce is on the path to becoming a $1.2

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