TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2021

This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest private market news, talks about the coming week, digs into some recent funding rounds and mulls over a larger theme or narrative from the private markets. We already know that the venture market was hot during the period. At least in terms of a tech response.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Kenyan startup Wowzi has secured new funding to expand the reach of its platform, which turns social media users into brand influencers, to West and Southern Africa — as it taps the increasing usage of social sites across the continent driven by the proliferation of smartphones and a deepening internet penetration.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Signal AI , an artificial intelligence startup that trawls the vast sea of internet and other publicly available data to provide organizations with sentiment insights and other information to make better business decisions, has raised $50 million. Indeed, Signal AI itself used to be called Signal Media and focused mainly on this area as well.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

IROKO , a Nigerian-based media company, could file to go public in the next 12 months on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) Alternative Investment Market. According to this report , the media company will raise between $20 million and $30 million valuing the company at $80 million to $100 million. .

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The Crazy Programmer

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The Internet of Things. The Internet of Things has already become an accepted part of daily life. But more devices attached to the internet means more security vulnerabilities — which means a big surge in cyberattacks on IoT devices.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Africans and people in emerging markets missed out on the first set of opportunities that technological advancements brought to the world. 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. million pre-seed to that end.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

One of the founders of CNET, Minor entered tech media at a time when the closest thing most of us had to the web was a spider spinning cobwebs on an old NES. Since his initial foray into media, Minor has taken to cryptocurrency and blockchain in a big way. Halsey Minor has lived many lives. Everything I did was to build credibility.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Google said on Tuesday it is investing in two Indian startups, Glance and DailyHunt, as the Android-maker makes a further push into the world’s second-largest internet market. And this significantly limits the value of the internet for them, particularly at a time like this when the internet is the lifeline of so many people.

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CIO

AUGUST 2, 2024

En la quinta edición del Informe Ascendant de Minsait se revela que el 67% de las empresas del sector ya está utilizando esta tecnología para mejorar la eficiencia de sus procesos internos , y que los casos de uso varían desde el marketing , hasta la optimización de redes, pasando por la experiencia y atención del cliente.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

Launched in South Korea five years ago, content discovery platform Dable now serves a total of six markets in Asia. Now it plans to speed up the pace of its expansion, with six new markets in the region planned for this year, before entering European countries and the United States. Taboola and Outbrain call off their $850M merger.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Radio has long been described as the most intimate of media. Quips about putting radio on the internet aside, the persistent popularity of podcasting and the cockamamie climb of Clubhouse shows that audio-based platforms will continue to echo around the upper echelons of the ecosystem for a while yet.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

If you missed the news that the internet conglomerate was spinning out the video service, don’t feel bad; it slipped past many radars. Let’s answer a few questions: How quickly is Vimeo growing, how profitable is its business, and what can its spinout tell us about the larger video market?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Nick writes actionable growth marketing insights as head of content at Demand Curve. Demand Curve: 10 lies you’ve been told about marketing. But for Internet-based businesses, social proof looks a bit different. Public relations and earned media. Social media and community. Nick Costelloe. Contributor. Influencers.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Telecom operators in India, the second largest wireless market, would like internet companies to compensate for using their networks, a recommendation they’ve made to the local regulatory body, echoing a viewpoint that is gaining some momentum in other parts of the world.

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2022

Talk360, a leading Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) player in Africa, enables people to make international calls through its app for a fee, and it is built in such a way that only the initiator needs the app and internet – a smartphone– to make calls. “In

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

This is in partly because people have been spending more time on social media and e-commerce shopping during the pandemic. We were first to market and, with over 12 million users globally, still hold 88% of market share,” founder and chief executive officer Alex Zaccaria told TechCrunch. Linktree raises $10.7M

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

Tiger Global’s earliest portfolio investments on the continent were in consumer internet companies. Back then, a lot of people were not on the internet, so it was really about consumer services to get people on the internet,” said Opeyemi Awoyemi , whose company, Jobberman, received $1 million from Tiger Global.

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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. The rise of internet filtering and regional “internets” Countries around the world are exerting increasing control over their domestic web landscapes.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

On the one hand, the face of “media” and who and what gets attention has changed drastically in the last decade. Social media has a viral element to it that’s completely different from traditional media, and those creating content on there are different, too. Sometimes, they are still journalists.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The browser extension doesn’t impact on a computer’s or an internet connection’s latency, nor does it “just sit in the background,” CEO Amos Peled said in an interview. The first, Arpeely , they said specializes in real-time media auctions via machine and deep learning technologies.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. The internet allows you to write once and distribute those words to anyone at incredibly low costs, but the economics wound up being pretty tough. Read it every morning on TechCrunch+ or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday. We love a counterexample here at TechCrunch.

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Perficient

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

billion in annual revenue to the global cybercrime market. Phishing-as-a-Service Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) platforms offer ready-made phishing kits, targeting email, social media, or other communication channels. This ecosystem has contributed over $1.6

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

Kakao Entertainment is owned by Kakao, the South Korean internet giant whose services include its eponymous messaging platform. Radish founder Seungyoon Lee will hold onto his role as its chief executive officer, while also becoming Kakao Entertainment’s global strategy officer to lead its growth in international markets.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

He put $21,000 of non-refundable money on his credit card and invited friends and people he met on the internet before hopping on a plane. You need wide reach, influence, community and media properties all together,” Goldstein said. “I ” Image Credits: The Launch House. How do you actually launch a consumer product?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

In other words, it’s a site where — similar to the Amazon-owned Internet Movie Database — users can look up who’s appeared in which podcasts, rate and review those podcasts and add them to lists. Bruno, Ad Results Media CEO Marshall Williams and Shamrock Capital Partner Mike LaSalle.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

Typically, pre-seed rounds are raised when the startup is still in the product development phase, yet to make revenue or discover product-market fit. Egypt’s Shahry and Nigeria’s Evolve Credit are fintech startups building credit infrastructure for their markets. Startups building financial infrastructure got noticed.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

Collect and leverage zero-party data to personalize marketing and drive growth. If 2020 was the year of the e-commerce boom, 2021 was the year the industry hit major challenges: Data privacy changes deeply impacted merchants’ social media ads, and supply chain issues forced merchants to get creative with their inventory.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2022

Survival tips for startup founders living through their first market correction. On the startup side, my first company, VXtreme, was acquired by Microsoft and became the platform for media streaming over the internet. We then drastically cut product features, re-thought our go-to-market strategy and rightsized the business.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

.” When I suggested that publishers and journalists may be leery about relying too much on a third-party platform to reach their audience, Zheng argued that News Break’s incentives are very different from the big internet and social media platforms. “We are local-centric,” he said.”If

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 31, 2024

The Evolution of CMO Responsibilities in the Digital Era The digital age has undeniably redefined the roles and responsibilities of a Chief Marketing Officer (CMO ). In the pre-digital era, a CMO focused on traditional marketing channels such as television, radio, and print to convey a consistent brand message.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

Because some of the most profitable NFTs are produced by celebrities with teams , it makes sense that music corporations, fashion brands and designers are venturing into the NFT market as well. Real-life fashion brands use NFTs for marketing in virtual worlds like Minecraft , plus several Atari and Microsoft video games.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Jio Platforms is investing $200 million in Glance, which serves media content, news and casual games on Android handsets’ lockscreen, the two said Monday, the latest in a series of bets from Mukesh Ambani’s empire as it looks to expand its offering to more than 420 million telecom subscribers it reaches in the South Asian market.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2020

To get a better handle on the Indian startup market more broadly, The Exchange got ahold of Accel investors Arun Mathew (based in the United States), and Prayank Swaroop (based in India), for a bit of digging. All told, 2019 was a huge year for the Indian startup market in venture capital terms, and 2020’s recovery is underway.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

Substack, a venture-backed subscription media platform popular with writers and known for its email service, has collected more than $5 million in pledges for an extension to its Series B from its community and the internet at large. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2022

We have big ambitions at Firework — to become the infrastructure on which the next-generation of the internet is built and run — and Softbank Investment Advisers supports that vision.”. Last year, Firework was working with some 600 companies, including Albertsons Companies, The Fresh Market and Omnicom Media Group.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

The $2 billion to $3 billion social commerce market in India today is estimated to hit $70 billion in value by 2030, empowering around 40 million small entrepreneurs. The social commerce model leverages community leaders and influencers’ connections to generate sales by marketing directly to their friends and family.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Now, NPE will begin testing out a new thesis: that the next big idea may come from a market outside the U.S. But future checks may go to non-metaverse companies to include those with more near-term potential — like startups taking advantage of the mobile internet in new ways. based projects.

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