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Indian gaming platform Mobile Premier League valued at $945M in $95M fundraise

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MPL , which counts Times Internet among its backers, operates a pure-play gaming platform that hosts a range of tournaments. MPL, which does not develop games of its own, hosts about 70 games across multiple sports on the app today. “As Indian fantasy sports app Dream11’s parent firm raises $225M at over $2.5B

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IOWN and the Next Internet

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We need a new generation of the Internet to address these obstacles – an Internet that is personal, functional, smart, inspires trust, and can be widely adopted by all. And it will do all of this while also significantly lowering Internet power consumption.

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Emotional marketing and an e-mail titan walk into a bar

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Precursor Ventures’ Charles Hudson on ‘the conversation no one has during an upmarket’ Internet is the new Miami. To quote Winnie CEO and co-founder Sara Mauskopf, “Internet is the new Miami.” Banana Capital’s debut fund is for internet-first founders. million in funding.

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ShareChat valued at $2.1 billion in $502 million fundraise

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Moj competes with a handful of players, including Times Internet’s MX TakaTak, as well as Glance’s Roposo and DailyHunt’s Josh — both of which received funding from Google late last year. It also quietly launched a fantasy sports app called Jeet early last year, as reported first by TechCrunch.

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Admix raises $25M Series B to scale up in-game ads, and prep for Metaverse gaming

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The London-based company brings ads to games, e-sports, virtual reality, and augmented reality. Samuel Huber, CEO and Co-founder at Admix, commented:“We see the internet entering a new stage: Web 3.0 Last year we covered Adtech startup Admix’s $7 million Series A funding.

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“Link-in-bio” company Linktree raises $45M Series B for its social commerce features

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” Zaccaria added that one of Linktree’s differentiators is its adoption by users in a wide range of categories, including health and wellness, real estate, sports, music, politics, publishing and food. ” Streamlabs launches a ‘link in bio’ website builder that includes tipping.

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Beyond ‘Netflix Party’: startups and their VCs bet we’ll browse more of the web together

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From watching sports to watching movies to perhaps even reviewing X-rays with one’s doctor some day, both say more web surfing together is inevitable, particularly for younger users. from NBC Sports to YouTube to Disney+), and it relies on data synchronization to ensure that every user sees the same original video quality.

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