TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

Linktree’s latest funding will be used on tools that make social commerce easier. This is in partly because people have been spending more time on social media and e-commerce shopping during the pandemic. Linktree raises $10.7M for its lightweight, link-centric user profiles.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

Indonesian social commerce app KitaBeli’s team, including founders Prateek Chaturvedi (seated, right front row and Ivana Medea Tjandra (center front row). KitaBeli , an Indonesian social commerce app for group buying, announced today it has raised a $10 million Series A.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

Trust wants to give smaller businesses the same advantages that large enterprises have when marketing on digital and social media platforms. Then as part of its community, companies share knowledge of marketing buys and data insights typically reserved for larger advertisers. Trust dashboard. E-commerce sales in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

.’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. And be used to pump out unwanted direct marketing or spam.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

When marketers Paul Benigeri and Geoffrey Woo were at their former companies, in food tech and e-commerce infrastructure, respectively, they experienced how manual and repetitive digital marketing workflows were, especially as the number of disparate and unintegrated marketing tools grew. Kwan Kim recently joined Archive.ai

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

. “This isn’t just about UGC, this is about tapping into the creative potential of the internet,” she said. While we’ve written about other tools for licensing online content , Goodwin emphasized that Catch&Release isn’t just about finding photos for a social media campaign. Image Credits: Catch&Release.

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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

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 “When we saw a large vacuum emerge on June 29 with a lot of short-video apps exiting the market — we knew this opportunity was for us.

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CIO

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The fields of customer service, marketing, and customer development are going to see massive adoption, he says. Its a step forward in terms of governance, trying to make sure AI is being used in a socially beneficial way. Users needed modems and special software and accounts with internet providers.

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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 4, 2021

ShareChat, an Indian social network that added Twitter as an investor in 2019 , may soon receive the backing of two more American firms. Twitter-backed Indian social network ShareChat raises $40 million. ShareChat, Google and Snap did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2021

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. The company hopes to get its product to market by the end of the year.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The group, which first launched in mid-2019, has been focused on building consumer-facing apps that would allow the company to test out new social features and gauge people’s reactions. Now, NPE will begin testing out a new thesis: that the next big idea may come from a market outside the U.S. based projects.

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TechCrunch

JULY 30, 2021

I learned about Yat in April, when a friend sent our group chat a link to a story about how the key emoji sold as an “internet identity” for $425,000. Like any URL on the internet, Yats can redirect to another website, or they can function like a more eye-catching Linktree. “I hate the universe,” she texted.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2020

” Zaccaria said that he and his co-founders Anthony Zaccaria and Nick Humphreys created Linktree to solve a problem they were facing at their digital marketing agency Bolster. Linktree is free to use, but you have to pay $6 a month for Pro features like video links, link thumbnails and social media icons.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

But in late 2020, Cent’s small, San Francisco-based team created Valuables , an NFT market for tweets, and by March, the small blockchain startup was thrown a serendipitous curveball. But for Cent, it was as if the small company had just been handed a free marketing campaign. ” A screenshot of Cent’s social platform.

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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

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Houseparty, the social video chat app acquired by Fortnite maker Epic Games for a reported $35 million back in 2019, is shutting down. At the time, these integrations appeared to be the end goal that explained why Epic Games had bought the social startup in the first place. — sima sistani (@SimaSistani) September 9, 2021.

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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. “We’ve been diversifying the data that we inject in the platform,” he added.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2020

We have the internet now, we can literally create and share information to billions of people all at once, and the ownership system is the same as when people had to get on a boat for six months to send a letter. Any community on the internet should be able to come together, with capital, and work towards any shared vision.

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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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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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CIO

MAY 10, 2024

El programa From lab to market se centra en la identificación y la transferencia de tecnologías de vanguardia. Además, cabe destacar que estas representan adelantos sustanciales en áreas críticas como la salud, las telecomunicaciones y el Internet de las cosas (IoT), entre otros sectores de relevancia.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

Its on-demand booking app is currently available in Singapore and Hong Kong, with plans to enter more markets after Demo Day. Its founders are former Rocket Internet executives who say that their main competition aren’t spaces like WeWork or other hot desk booking apps. Deskimo app’s QR code.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

Tencent is in advanced stages of talks to lead an investment round in Gurgaon-headquartered Pocket FM, the latest in the Chinese giant’s push to broaden its consumer internet portfolio in the Indian market. Indian social network ShareChat, for instance, launched a Clubhouse-like feature earlier this year.

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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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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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Crunchbase News

MAY 15, 2024

The quality of your experience as an internet user relies on user-generated content, or UGC. In the early days of the internet, it was — basically — for bragging rights, and because they could. Recipes are SEO-bait, most reviews feel like some type of influencer marketing, and we’re all worse off for it.

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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

AUGUST 3, 2021

It’s the nineteenth Indian startup to become a unicorn this year (up from 11 last year) as several high-profile global investors double down in the South Asian market. Even as India has already emerged as the second-largest internet market, with more than 650 million users, much of the country remains offline.

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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

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Thirdweb was created by Social Chain founder Steven Bartlett and Furquan Rydhan, who was founding CTO of Bebo and AppLovin. The new capital will be used to hire both on the technical and growth teams and will focus on marketing and video assets to educate users on its tools. I’m excited to see Thirdweb accelerate this shift.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2020

After a flurry of local reports exposing the firm’s massive debt, which is reported to be as high as $520 million , a district court in Shanghai placed Ziwutong Beijing Asset Management, the parent organization behind Danke, on the country’s “social credit” blacklist.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

The company, through its customer base of enterprises, collects data interactions that cover some 1 billion internet users and some 20% of all internet activity, he said, “capturing experiences to see where people are frustrated on the web and in native apps. Indeed, being remote is an asset. ”

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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. There, he ran marketing and business affairs and worked on branding and the international launch. “This is like a digitally native social system.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Xpressbees, an Indian logistics firm that works with several e-commerce firms in the country, said on Monday it has raised $110 million in a new financing round as online shopping booms in the world’s second largest internet market. India’s FarEye raises $25M to grow its logistics SaaS startup in international markets.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

How big is the market in India for a neobank aimed at teenagers? In other markets, including the U.S., Teens represent the “most tech-savvy generation, as they haven’t seen a world without the internet,” he said. Scores of high-profile investors are backing a startup to find out. Image Credits: FamPay.

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