TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

A startup called Playbyte wants to become the TikTok for games. The company’s newly launched iOS app offers tools that allow users to make and share simple games on their phone, as well as a vertically scrollable, fullscreen feed where you can play the games created by others. — Playbyte (@PlaybyteInc) May 25, 2021.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Discord’s doubling in corporate value comes as the persistent, inept, American response to the COVID-19 pandemic continues to accelerate the adoption and growth of businesses creating virtual social networking opportunities. If that sounds familiar to some of the internet’s earliest users, that’s because it is.

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CIO

MARCH 4, 2025

Locksmith Panda seems more focused on Indonesia, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, with targeting that is more broad, extending to technology, gaming, and energy companies, as well as democracy activists. In addition to telecom operators, the group has also targeted professional services firms.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

Tabletop gaming is in the middle of a historic boom, despite recent restrictions imposed on in-person gatherings by COVID. The tools adopted by game masters and casual players to play remotely are powerful but not always the easiest to use or adopt. “The game lives in the minds of the people, a shared social experience.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Step forward Cosmos Video , which has a virtual venues platform that allows people to work, hang out and socialize together. Cosmos allows users to create virtual venues by combining game mechanics with video chat. You choose an avatar, then meet up with their colleagues or friends inside a browser-based game.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Yahaha , a Helsinki- and Shanghai-based immersive, user-generated, low-code gaming platform founded by a group of Chinese gaming vets, made a splash in January when it announced a cumulative $50 million in funding ahead of its alpha launch in April. And that’s where Yahaha comes in.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

The Indian social network said it has raised $502 million in a new financing round — Series E — led by Tiger Global that valued ShareChat at $2.1 Social commerce Meesho turned a unicorn on Monday , fintech firm CRED on Tuesday and e-pharmacy firm PharmEasy and Groww on Thursday. “We built the app in 30 hours. .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The widespread success of platforms ranging from Second Life to Roblox shows that people are open to virtual worlds where they can socialize, play games, exchange information, and share some laughs. To people who don’t live and breathe on the blockchain, the internet in its current state is the metaverse.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Mammoth, a recently launched Mastodon app that’s trying to make it easier on users who want to join the decentralized social web, has a notable financial backer. 1 game on the App Store, but not under Disney’s branding. “This is like a digitally native social system. And it’s decentralized.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Most people have experienced the internet only through Web 2.0: online applications, the social web and software as a service form the fabric of our lives. Lately, many have championed web3 as the internet’s next phase, but the term encompasses so much territory, conversations can be rather diffuse. .”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

Web3 is seen as the future of the internet because it allows people to control their own data and digital assets, but crypto developers have been learning from the past when it comes to onboarding new users. workflows on nearly every traditional internet platform. The company also plans to increase its headcount, Young told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Thirdweb was created by Social Chain founder Steven Bartlett and Furquan Rydhan, who was founding CTO of Bebo and AppLovin. They also say companies like Nike, Disney, Bumble and Meta are already itching to begin building apps and products, like blockchain games, NFT platforms, DAOs and creator projects, for the metaverse, web3 and NFT spaces.

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TechCrunch

JULY 9, 2021

For example, people can right now chat while surfing social media with friends, or while watching events together like Apple Worldwide Developers Conference. “Over the last 20 years, games went from single player to multiplayer to voice chats showing up in games so people can actually hang out,” he says.

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CIO

DECEMBER 5, 2024

But a combination of shifting business models, regulatory changes, and technological advancements — most recently AI — is reshaping the internet into a more closed, restrictive environment. Facebook’s relationship with game developer Zynga is a prime example.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Computers, the internet, fintech, artificial intelligence, any tech you can name ( except mobile tech) people in these regions have always had to play catch up. Nestcoin’s products cut across Decentralized Finance (DeFi), media, digital art and gaming. . And that’s sort of what we are trying to do with Nestcoin.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Everyone has a page and there’s an app that’s coming and you can just show it off to anyone in your app, and you can post it to your social networks. The game is actually still in beta, so we haven’t been doing any marketing other than posting some stuff on Twitter. It’s growing 50% or 100% a day.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2022

NFT sales volumes are falling and crypto prices remain depressed, but Nigam expressed confidence about the long-term demand for digital avatars, likening them to mobile apps in their significance to the internet. Eventually, Nigam sees the company expanding into a full-fledged social network, which he said Gen Z is “starving for.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

In the latest development, a startup called thirdweb — which has created a development toolkit to make it easier to build and launch web3 products such as blockchain games, NFTs, DAOs, marketplaces and more — has raised $24 million, a Series A that values the startup at $160 million.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Historically, falling bandwidth and smartphone costs along with improved Internet reliability helped lay the foundation for the recent Indian startup wave, according to Swaroop. Well, according to a survey of Gen Z VCs , their top three focuses are the creator economy, edtech and social gaming.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Two-plus years after spinning off the X graduate, the company grounded the project aimed at bringing internet connectivity to underserved areas via balloon. In the early innings of the pandemic, the social video chat app claimed that it was landing 50 million new signups a month, as humans sought virtual connection amid quarantine.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

The news comes as other sources reported that the country’s government may require larger internet firms to get approval before making investments. South African mobile games company lands $20M : Meet Carry1st, a social games publisher that just landed eight figures. TechCrunch Experts.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Video is at the heart of how people use the internet today, and creators are at the heart of what is being made and watched on video. YouTube currently has over 40 million active gaming channels , making it the largest gaming platform in the world,” said Hirsch in a statement. million people.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 23, 2021

tapped the equity crowdfunding market, a noodle or two on the a16z media game, Talkspace’s SPAC, VC and founder predictions for 2021, and where’s the right place to found a company. Ahead, Juked may invest more in journalism, more into social features, and more into user-generated content. Sound good? Let’s get into it!

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2022

For those who don’t keep up with teen app trends, both Sendit and NGL are leading anonymous Q&A apps, a subgroup of social apps currently popular among a younger demographic. 5 top (non-game) free app on the U.S. 12 in Social Networking (Sendit) and No. Anonymous social NGL tops 15M installs, $2.4M

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2023

Immutable is a web3 company consisting of two entities: Immutable Platform, a developer platform for building and scaling Ethereum-based web3 games, and Immutable Games, a web3 game developer and publisher. Anna explores the ins and outs of the turbulent market, and how apps are following examples from mobile gaming.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Launching today in beta, Playground is a social platform that seeks to help people discover and develop community while empowering creators to monetize their audience. For now, the beta is open to select creators in the cultural space (art, music, wellness, gaming, and more), and for community members, there’s a waitlist.

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CIO

JANUARY 22, 2025

With the power of social media and the internet, connecting with people virtually anywhere in the world is possible. Having someone to support and enable the inner work that becomes a factor within the first year of leadership has been an absolute game-changer for me. Their geographic location doesnt matter as much.

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CIO

AUGUST 9, 2024

For instance, a conversational AI software company, Kore.ai , trained its BankAssist solution for voice, web, mobile, SMS, and social media interactions. Intelligent Search People rely on intelligent search every single day, thanks to LLMs trained on internet datasets.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2021

It’s part of what early crypto adherents have labeled Web3 and describe as the internet owned by the builders and users and orchestrated with tokens. The efforts of Chou and company to decentralize its social token infrastructure is interesting on its own.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2022

Virtual reality, Meta style : Meta’s new virtual reality headset technology is going to focus on face-tracking and eye-tracking, features the company calls “social presence,” Ivan writes. The TechCrunch Top 3. It doesn’t come out until October, so you have roughly two months to pull together the $400 we think it is going to cost.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2022

Meta joins the supercomputer game : It is a truth universally acknowledged: A [tech megacorp] in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a [supercomputer]. But in good news, Mark Cuban is backing a startup that wants to change the pharmacy game for consumers by selling drugs at cost plus 15%. Let’s see if it works.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2021

This can be used across industries and for mobile apps like games and social media, but also for the next generation of digital-first industries as more mobile and IoT devices are being used as point-of-sale systems,” Eric Futoran, CEO of Embrace, told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Logan Paul is offering refunds for CryptoZoo, the failed and allegedly fraudulent Pokémon-inspired NFT game that he launched in 2021. You can’t sue him if you get a refund. In an X (formerly Twitter) post on Thursday, Paul announced that he is “personally committing” more than $2.3

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

Just last week, Binance snagged a partnership with soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo, who wants to “ change the NFT game.” ” Lame rose to internet stardom for his videos where he spoofs over-complicated life hacks and makes them simple. ” These high-profile partnerships come at a troubling time for crypto.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

AI is playing a huge role in that navigation game: it’s too much for a single human, or even a large team of humans, to parse; and so a company like BlueOcean building tech to do some of that work for marketing professionals and others to have better data to work with becomes very valuable.

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Openxcell

MARCH 30, 2023

From human genome mapping to Big Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence (AI),Machine Learning, Blockchain, Mobile digital Platforms (Digital Streets, towns and villages),Social Networks and Business, Virtual reality and so much more. What is IoT or Internet of Things? These objects thus become ‘intelligent’ to a small extent.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

Slice is bringing credit to the masses in that country by bringing technology to the underwriting process and is issuing hundreds of thousands of cards per month, putting it at the top of its game in the South Asian market. s new social media watchdog group Ofcom has found that social media giants are not taking women’s safety seriously.

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