TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

If you’re somewhat famous on various social networks, chances are you are exposed to hate speech in your replies or in your comments. We have developed a technology that detects hate speech on the internet with a 90 to 95% accuracy and only 2% of false positive,” founder and CEO Charles Cohen told me.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

IRL, the SoftBank-backed social app and recent unicorn , is today announcing its first acquisition. The company is purchasing, for an undisclosed sum, the “digital nutrition” company AaBeZe Labs and its portfolio of IP with the goal of making IRL a healthier and more ethically designed social networking app.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2022

Gamification and social hooks have become cornerstones across every category of consumer apps these days, and today one that’s using these to build out a new e-commerce platform in Europe is announcing a seed round to give its growth a boost. Translating that to today’s internet landscape in regions like Europe and the U.S.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Sometimes, the internet’s most viral memes may seem entirely incomprehensible (like when Baby Gronk rizzed up Livvy Dunne), but the things that captivate our attention online matter. Can you believe that it was only this summer when Baby Gronk rizzed up Livvy Dunne?

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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.

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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. The Internet is a tool. Neither were those who are typically credited with establishing or preserving democracy.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 17, 2022

That, that, that don’t kill me, can only make me stronger ” : Two of our top stories for today centered on the same topic — Kanye West, who now goes by Ye, surprising us all by announcing he was going to buy the conservative social media site Parler. The TechCrunch Top 3. Manish has the basics on the deal.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2023

I am haunted by mulch posts. The most recent mulch video came to me in the middle of the night, when I was hours into scrolling through a particularly nasty bout of insomnia. The video was an edit of a tiny dog surrounded by a frame of glittering hearts, with an AI-generated voice narrating, “Today, […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The entrepreneur and founder of venture fund Seven Seven Six, speaking at an event at the University of Virginia, espoused a fairly negative view of the current social media landscape and the creator economy — an environment where he says, everyone has “been so trained […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved.

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CIO

MARCH 4, 2025

Operator Panda, which seems to be CrowdStrikes name for the group known as Salt Typhoon, specializes in exploiting internet-facing appliances such as Cisco switches. Simply relying on multi-factor authentication is not enough to prevent complex breaches that rely on social engineering and impersonation to exploit existing relationships.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In one of the largest studies ever on mental health and internet use, the Oxford Internet Institute has declared that there is no “smoking gun” linking the internet with psychological harm.

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TechCrunch

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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

We want to work on having more click trust and less clickbait on the internet,” he said. Finally, as we navigate the internet in 2020, the privacy question looms large as is how you balance the convenience-privacy trade-off. He acknowledges that trust and accuracy elements could get tricky as social networks have found out.

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CIO

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Its a step forward in terms of governance, trying to make sure AI is being used in a socially beneficial way. AI will become accessible and ubiquitous When the internet first arrived, early adopters needed to learn HTML if they wanted to have a website, recalls Rakesh Malhotra, principal at Ernst & Young.

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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.

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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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CIO

MARCH 4, 2025

Operator Panda, which seems to be CrowdStrikes name for the group known as Salt Typhoon, specializes in exploiting internet-facing appliances such as Cisco switches. Simply relying on multi-factor authentication is not enough to prevent complex breaches that rely on social engineering and impersonation to exploit existing relationships.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Notion, the online workspace startup that was last year valued at over $2 billion , is currently offline after a DNS outage knocked the site off the internet. ” Domain name servers, or DNS, is an important part of how the internet works. Facebook Oversight Board says other social networks ‘welcome to join’ if project succeeds.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Nicknamed the “26 words that created the internet” by Jeff Kosseff, Section 230 established a liability shield for platforms that host third-party content. In the nascent days of the internet, 230 created favorable legal conditions for startups and entrepreneurs to flourish, cementing the United States as a world leader in software.

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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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The Crazy Programmer

JULY 18, 2021

Modern-day internet users need to ensure they are protected, and companies should also set cybersecurity protocols to help keep their systems secure from threats. The majority of cyber-attacks actually use phishing or social engineering, where users are tricked into revealing personal information.

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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

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

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Step forward Cosmos Video , which has a virtual venues platform that allows people to work, hang out and socialize together. As well as having a social application, office colleagues can work collaboratively on tools such as whiteboards, Google documents and Figma; play virtual board games or gather around a table to chat.

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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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Twitter’s new CEO and owner Elon Musk is rattling the cage at his social network and ruffling a lot of feathers both inside and outside of the company. “We’ve had 15-20 years of content moderation experience on the internet now, and so let’s build that in.” ” Sign up here if you want to take a gander, too.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2020

So instead of constantly swapping out links in Instagram and other social media profiles, a Linktree user includes one evergreen link to their Linktree profile, which they can update as necessary. 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

On Valuables , anyone on the internet can place an offer on any tweet, which then makes it possible for someone else to make a counter-offer. “There’s already value in what we post on social media. ” A screenshot of Cent’s social platform. . ” A screenshot of Cent’s social platform.

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TechCrunch

JULY 8, 2021

But the company later pivoted to create a social payments app. And one that makes money work the way the Internet works,” Circle co-founder and CEO Jeremy Allaire told TechCrunch’s Natasha Lomas in 2016. In other words, Circle will have plenty of capital on its hands if the merger goes through.

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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. Radio has long been described as the most intimate of media.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

based social-crypo-community platform for women Eveworld; and inFeedo, an employee retention SaaS platform. . “If Essentially, bringing the power of the internet to that smallest participant in the internet economy is what’s the most exciting aspect of this fund.” .

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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

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

APRIL 5, 2021

Clubhouse, a one-year-old social audio app reportedly valued at $1 billion , will now allow users to send money to their favorite creators — or speakers — on the platform. It's cool to see a new social platform focus first on *participant* income rather than internalized monetization / advertising.

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Crunchbase News

MAY 19, 2025

But brands like Wendys became popular online because their team is fluent in internet culture (it sure wasnt the chicken sandwiches ). In this post, Ill break down how to trend-jack and go viral using the most powerful weapon the internet ever invented: memes. The internet moves faster than ever these days (and its only increasing).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Disinformation and discord spread like wildfire on social media, but so did important information and documentation of brutality, often via the newly popular medium of live streaming. . Finally, they made big progress with their Starlink broadband internet constellation. Definitely the space industry newsmakers of the year.

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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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