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SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Now, it is evolving to become a social learning platform that helps any student navigate high school. We’re the hallways of the educational internet,” said Fiveable co-founder and CEO Amanda DoAmaral. What do students do in the hallways of high school?

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CIO

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The attacks, in which criminals frequently leverage social engineering to impersonate company insiders, C-suite executives or trusted vendors to request urgent payments, can financially devastate organizations. It can be easy to fall victim to a BEC attack, especially for companies with limited resources and leaner teams handling payments.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

Leap , a platform for people over 55 to learn via social interaction, has raised $3.1 million in a seed round led by European early-stage investor Creandum and SF-based South Park Commons. Also participating was Learn Start/Learn Capital, alongside angels Michelle Kennedy (Peanut founder), Sahil Lavingia and Tim Tuttle.

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CIO

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Social engineering attacks Deepfakes significantly enhance the effectiveness of social engineering by making it much harder to distinguish bad actors from legitimate customers. Once this is achieved, the threat actor calls using their own voice to social engineer the agent. All you need is a short recording of the persons voice.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

Spyke Games , which hopes to bring a new dimension to casual games by using multiplayer functionality and other social elements, has raised $55 million in a seed round of funding. She said the team there “unintentionally” built in social elements into Toy Blast and “stumbled” on to a community of players.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In the name of transparency and accessibility, Twitch launched its new Privacy Center to educate users, after conducting “extensive research” and finding that many of its users had no idea how their personal data is collected and used.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

Beam Impact , a company that enables consumers to turn their spending into a way to support social causes, has raised $13.3 The company’s B2B2C model connects consumers with brands that are supporting social causes and allows them to donate a portion of their purchases to a nonprofit of their choice, at no cost to them.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

As a Systems Integration Specialist at McMaster, Tara’s journey highlights the importance of balancing technological progress with operational stability, ensuring that innovations serve to enhance rather than disrupt the educational environment. Learn more about Avaya’s Innovation without Disruption approach for education.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2022

Upon first launch, users simply tap on the categories of games they most enjoy — like board, adventure, card, casino, educational, strategy, word, racing, sports, casual, puzzle, and others. Social recommendations remain an area today’s app stores don’t address. It’s just a recommendation. Image Credits: Skich.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The Importance of Effective Leadership in Educational Institutions In the constantly evolving landscape of education, effective leadership plays a pivotal role in the success and growth of educational institutions. One of the primary challenges is the competitive nature of the industry.

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CIO

MARCH 7, 2024

Social sustainability is good for business. And companies are taking it seriously: a recent NTT report found that more than 40 percent of executives surveyed said social sustainability is a top imperative for their C-suite and Board of Directors. trillion, underscores the financial advantages of prioritizing social sustainability.

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CIO

APRIL 11, 2024

During the pandemic, an estimated 1.500 million students missed school, institutions adopted smart technologies to ensure the continuity of education. The importance of education in supporting the success of Saudi Vision 2030 cannot be overstated. From what I see across the nation, there is an emphasis on STEM.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Online education has been one of the hotspots in the tech world this year, as people turn to e-learning tools to fill in the gaps variously arising from closed schools, closed offices, social distancing and more time on our hands at home because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

Yubo , a social livestreaming app popular with a Gen Z audience, announced today it’s becoming one of the first major social platforms to adopt a new age verification technique that uses live image capture technology to identify minors using its app, in order to keep them separated from adult users.

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CIO

APRIL 14, 2025

But it applied one set of criteria peaceful resistance for social change and synthesized this short list.The point is: the AI was simply citing (and taking a very narrow view of) human judgment because it lacked its own. Neither were those who are typically credited with establishing or preserving democracy. The Internet is a tool.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Panorama Education , which has built out a K-12 education software platform, has raised $60 million in a Series C round of funding led by General Atlantic. Clients include the New York City Department of Education, Clark County School District in Nevada, Dallas ISD in Texas and the Hawaii Department of Education, among others.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

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. Currently, Babin’s research is focused on outsourcing, with particular attention to the vendor/client relationship and social responsibility.

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CIO

APRIL 17, 2025

Meta AI Meta AI is Metas multimodal AI virtual assistant for the companys messaging and social media applications, including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger. Potential business uses include product ideation, app mockups, logo design, creating images and videos for social media posts, and educational materials.

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CIO

OCTOBER 14, 2024

She says that she has since continued to explore AI and is “now looking to integrate AI into her educational technology project and continues to engage with AI initiatives in her research role at university.” “I Jumping into AI course, Kaufman quickly learned about “AI’s technical aspects and societal impact.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

Coursera, an online education platform that has seen its business grow amid the coronavirus pandemic, is planning to file paperwork tomorrow for its initial public offering, sources familiar with the matter say. certification, which means that it hits high standards for social and environmental performance.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 16, 2021

Alforithmic says the “digital Einstein” is intended as a showcase for what will soon be possible with conversational social commerce. “This is the next milestone in showcasing the technology to make conversational social commerce possible,” Alforithmic’s COO Matt Lehmann told us.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Ruthe Farmer is the founder and CEO of the Last Mile Education Fund , and a global advocate and evangelist for equity and inclusion in technology and engineering. Awards and recognitions predicated on many of the above factors, as well as social capital. Ruthe Farmer. Contributor. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

VC has been invested over the past decade according to race, gender and educational background makes for grim reading — with all-ethnic teams and female entrepreneurs receiving just a fraction of available funding versus all-white teams and male founders. The implications for social justice and social mobility are clear.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

One of the biggest gripes about investing apps is that they are not acting responsibly by not educating users properly and allegedly letting them fend for themselves. Today, an eight-year-old company that has been focused on nothing but financial education is now offering trading and banking services in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

We know we can’t do socialization as well in the cloud, we can’t do childcare as well in the cloud, and those are some of the things that parents look to schools for,” Kumar said. The coaches are there to help through online coursework, while also leading enrichment activities meant to give the social edge back to the school day.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The app also has a community component, connecting users with sustainability challenges, classes and other educational tools, along with a social network to communicate with peers to track relative progress. Aspiration can now tell you the ‘social impact’ of your monthly spending. “Systems are made of people.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

Education has been one of the most significant categories in the tech industry in the past couple of years. CreativeLive is another that has been focusing on educational content specifically for this segment of the market. Image Credits: Domestika. Another is the startup’s focus on e-learning.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2022

Zenda , a UAE-based startup looking to change how parents pay school bills, and the way educational institutions manage fee collection, is eyeing Africa as its next frontier for growth. With all the knowledge we have from our previous venture, we understand the education sector. million seed funding it has raised.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Unlike the others, Canva focused on democratization of design, creating a UI that allowed anyone to make just about anything, from slide decks to t-shirts to social media assets. Launched in 2013, Canva emerged during the design rennaissance, around the same time that Sketch, Figma and InVision were crashing the Adobe party.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

This is when I realized that if we truly want to disrupt K-12 (esp K-5) education, we need a solution that works from the outside in – being part of classroom time and funded by schools.” Litnerd’s books, workshops and lesson plans are built around the social and emotional learning ( or SEL ) practices that most U.S.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Founders Hamdi Tabbaa, Sabri Hakim and Hussein AlSarabi position their platform at secondary school students, offering content tailored to local curricula, filling the gaps in educational resources available online, while tackling the region’s high dependence on offline tutoring.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

For many women, trying to access financial services means facing logistical and social barriers. By participating in ROSCAs through Oraan, users also have the opportunity to join committees with people outside of their communities and social networks. The startup’s ultimate goal is become an online bank, said Iqbal. . “We

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

A video conferencing tool designed from the ground up as a digital learning platform, with its own unique take on virtual classrooms, Engageli is aiming first at higher education, and it is launching with $14.5 Today, a startup called Engageli is coming out of stealth with an app that it believes fills that need.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2021

Both dealt with the challenges of accessing financial services as immigrants and wanted to created a company to serve other people without Social Security numbers or credit histories. Mittal said immigrants are also in general more creditworthy, because many moved to the United States to pursue educational or career opportunities.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Two angel investors — Pascal Gauthier of Ledger and Jason Yanowitz of Blockworks — and a syndicate social fund also participated. There are users, moms in particular, that use the platform to invest in their kids’ college education. ” . .

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TechCrunch

JUNE 21, 2022

The funding will be used on Anfin’s product development, especially its social investment features, including one that lets users host and join live audio rooms. Like other investment apps aimed at Gen Z and millennial users (90% of Anfin’s users are 18 to 35 years old), Anfin has educational content about stock market fundamentals.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Amy Jenkins left her post at Outschool, a marketplace for live online classes for kids, when the company decided to focus more on consumers and less on the enterprise — a shift that included numerous rounds of layoffs at the richly backed education unicorn.

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