TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

The line between social networking and gaming is increasingly blurring , and internet incumbents are taking notice. NetEase, the second-largest gaming company in China (behind Tencent), is among a group of investors who just backed IMVU, an avatar-focused social network operating out of California.

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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

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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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

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

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

JUNE 15, 2021

Alongside that, the Berlin startup is making an acquisition: it’s buying MomentFeed , a location marketing company based out of Los Angeles, to continue scaling its business. The funding is being led by London-based investor Bregal Milestone, with Level Equity, United Internet and Uberall management also participating.

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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

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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Palo Alto Networks

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Leveling Up, Efficiency and Cybersecurity Marketing leaders have traditionally been collaborative, using partnerships to extend the brand and find new markets and users. The role of marketers has expanded beyond brand awareness, lead generation and customer engagement.

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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

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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CEO Insider

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Over the past year, COVID has forced businesses to alter the way they market their services and themselves. Companies were forced to embrace the digital space as more and more customers spent time surfing the internet and social media while the nation was on lockdown.

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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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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 19, 2024

In today’s ever-evolving business landscape, digital marketing is crucial for achieving success. This change is revolutionary in terms of marketing channels and how businesses analyze and respond to consumer behavior. Companies that leverage white label digital marketing services can effectively extend their capabilities.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Over the years, we have seen several job aggregators optimise their algorithms to suit the rising demand for talent in the market and new players entering the talent acquisition industry. Social Media Ours is a generation that thrives on social media. Every system works efficiently if a few best practices are implemented.

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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

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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Kaseya

JULY 5, 2023

Is your MSP leveraging the power of video marketing? The reason is simple: Video marketing allows you to reach a massive audience. If you’re like most internet users, it’s video. Around 82% of all consumer internet traffic is video. If not, you should consider it. Think about it. Ideally, you must entertain and add value.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

As I reflect on the biggest technology innovations during my career―the Internet, smartphones, social media―a new breakthrough deserves a spot on that list. Generative AI has taken the world seemingly by storm, impacting everything from software development, to marketing, to conversations with my kids at the dinner table.

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Openxcell

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Forbes reports that the number of people using social media worldwide has reached 4.9 Over the last few years, social media has evolved from being primarily a communication channel and entertainment platform to marketing and growing businesses, contributing to significant social and political discussions. billion in 2023.

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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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TechSoup

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

According to a 2022 report by Cloudflare , Internet shutdowns are on the rise as a key way for governments to stop the flow of information, censor citizens, and stifle political opposition.

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DataRobot

JULY 6, 2021

Shopping was a social experience. In this time of social distancing, we order supplies on the internet and have them delivered to our homes. confirmed that this cognitive limit on social relationships extends to social media. AI, Sales, and Marketing. Contrast that experience with modern shopping.

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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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CIO

AUGUST 19, 2024

The two work in tandem, with Girl Power USA focused on philanthropic work, and Girl Power Talk on being a “social enterprise,” providing a litany of services. Three months later, she moved into a full-time role as an associate in marketing and PR, and eventually found herself in a manual testing role.

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A List Apart

JUNE 11, 2020

What would your life be like without the internet? Keeping your answers to that in mind, do you think access to the internet is a human right? Living without internet. Globally, over 40% of people still do not have access to the internet. Having no access to the internet creates problems in many parts of modern life.

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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

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

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

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

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

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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Crunchbase News

AUGUST 8, 2024

Per Anindya Ghose , a professor of technology and marketing at NYU Stern School of Business , the decline in adtech investment “can be largely attributed to market saturation, increased regulatory pressures, and economic uncertainties.” For anyone who spends time online, the notion of market saturation isn’t hard to comprehend.

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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

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

SoftBank Vision Fund 2 has led a $300 million investment in ElasticRun as the Japanese conglomerate doubles down on its commerce bet in the world’s second largest internet market. The e-commerce firms and brands, in turn, gain access to a large market that has historically proven difficult to penetrate.

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