TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

Spyke Games , which hopes to bring a new dimension to casual games by using multiplayer functionality and other social elements, has raised $55 million in a seed round of funding. She said the team there “unintentionally” built in social elements into Toy Blast and “stumbled” on to a community of players.

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TechCrunch

MAY 1, 2023

Ahead of Meta’s launch of a text-based social network , female-founded social networking startup RTRO is launching its app this week with the goal of connecting brands, creators and their fans and followers in a more positive environment focused on human connections and communities, not algorithm-driven content.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The VR social app has started rolling out for some users on web and mobile in early access, Meta said. By expanding to mobile and web, Horizon Worlds can cater to a much larger user base, […] After more than a year and a half in development, Meta is bringing Horizon Worlds out of the headset.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

Social commerce startup Flip is mixing live commerce mobile apps with real customer reviews to improve the buying experience and opportunity for the creator economy. It’s not only a social platform, it is the best post-purchase experience — shipping, rewards, returns — everything people love and in a two-click process,” he added.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2022

And it’s an opinionated take on mobile payments — not just a fresh coat of paint. More importantly, the company is positioning its mobile app as a social product — not a fintech product. A fintech app or a social app. But it has always been a social app. Image Credits: Lydia. We need a new definition for money.

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CIO

MARCH 16, 2025

Super-apps are versatile mobile or web applications integrating multiple services and functionality into a unified platform experience. The demographic landscape continues to change, with younger generations favoring mobile solutions that offer immediacy and convenience.

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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

MAY 25, 2022

DJ Gabeau, one of Snapchat Stories’ earliest engineers and founder of web3 social network Primitives , told TechCrunch that he thinks NFTs can be a genuinely enjoyable way for people to connect with one another digitally and make memories. Users don’t have to go through multiple steps to claim the assets, he added.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Gen Z isn’t satisfied with the social media they grew up with, so they’re building the apps that they want to use. It’s like a link-in-bio service, but with a social element that encourages young creatives to connect, collaborate and develop friendships. Image Credits: Tagg.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The fresh cash will be put toward several efforts, CEO and co-founder Frederic Lalonde said in a press release, including supporting Hopper’s new social commerce initiatives. Travel app Hopper raises $96M from Capital One to double down on social commerce by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch. Image Credits: Hopper.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

Birdie’s wider goal for the business is to use the data its platform is ingesting and structuring to power more personalized — and even preventative — healthcare for the social care sector, which remains drastically under-resourced versus the scale of demand for care services. Series A led by Index. . Series A led by Index.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Kapu , a social commerce startup, coming out of stealth today having raised $8 million seed funding, is hoping to help lessen the burden of buying food for Kenyan consumers, many of whom are grappling with the sky-rocketing food prices. Social commerce platform Tushop set for Kenya growth after raising $3 million pre-seed funding.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

Carry1st , a South African publisher of social games and interactive content across Africa, has raised a $20 million Series A extension led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). The company started as a game studio where it conceptualized, developed (from system designs to artwork and engineering), and launched mobile games.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The startup offers a freemium web-based editing tool that allows users to create videos that are fit to be published on popular social media platforms (such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube). InVideo currently does not have any mobile or desktop app. But InVideo plans to release mobile apps by early next year, he said.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2023

The performance of a mobile app can impact how customers perceive a brand. According to a survey from Dimensional Research sponsored by HP, 53% of app users who responded said they’ve uninstalled a mobile app with issues like lag, while 37% said that they hold an app responsible for performance problems.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

: We have a team over in Barcelona for the Mobile World Congress, and one of the top stories coming out of there is the slew of new features Google has announced for Android, Chromebook and Wear OS. You know, the equivalent of the three educational “Rs,” but instead for mobile.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

More social media struggles : Though the subject matter was a downer, Paul wrote a great story about Meta’s confirmed layoffs of 11,000 employees, explaining what happened, why and what it means in the greater context of Meta’s future. No headwinds for you : Why mobile subscription management platforms are enjoying tailwinds , by Anna.

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Universal design in pharmacies is not only about creating accessible environments for all but also about demonstrating a commitment to social responsibility. This blog post explores the importance of universal design in pharmacies for social responsibility, provides practical examples, and discusses why it matters.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2022

Wondering how to improve the marketing performance of your mobile app in the spring without experimenting and extra costs? Q5 is a high season for marketing in the mobile app field. The business period of e-commerce ends right after Christmas, when mobile apps come into play. All these reasons help mobile apps grow in profit.

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 8, 2025

Its social selling platform allows sellers to host live video auctions in which they showcase items for sale in real time, interact directly with potential buyers via chat, and facilitate instant bidding within the app. Whatnot has tapped into a powerful shift in the way people shop live, video, social, and mobile first.

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CIO

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Small language models are also better for edge and mobile deployments, as with Apples recent mobile AI announcements. Anshu Bhardwaj, SVP and COO at Walmart Global Technology says that consumers arent the only ones who stand to benefit from mobile AI. Now, it will evolve again, says Malhotra. Agents are the next phase, he says.

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CIO

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Social engineering attacks Deepfakes significantly enhance the effectiveness of social engineering by making it much harder to distinguish bad actors from legitimate customers. Once this is achieved, the threat actor calls using their own voice to social engineer the agent. All you need is a short recording of the persons voice.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

Before starting Brief, co-founder and CEO Nick Hobbs was a Google product manager who had worked on AR, Google Assistant, Google’s mobile app, and self-driving cars, among other things. Brief’s mobile news app aims to tackle information overload and media bias. Twitter declined to share deal terms.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

Threading the needle : Dominic-Madori spoke with Lisa Lambert, the head of National Grid’s CVC National Grid Partners, who discussed that “ environmental and social concerns should be top of mind right now for any smart investor.” TechCrunch+ is our membership program that helps founders and startup teams get ahead of the pack.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Un reclamo social desde que la digitalización se convirtió en cotidianidad. Cualquier madrileño que se precie ha deseado alguna vez poder deshacerse de la tarjeta física de transporte público para evitar cargar sus bolsillos y acceder a la red del suburbano empleando su dispositivo móvil. Tenemos un transporte que siempre está vivo.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Taha Ahmed and Rooshan Aziz left their jobs in strategy consulting and investment banking in London earlier this year in order to found a mobile-only education platform startup, Maqsad , in Pakistan, with a goal “to make education more accessible to 100 million Pakistani students.”

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CIO

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Can you talk about what internal mobility does for the organization and share some of the things you do to foster career mobility? Encouraging career mobility helps the organization grow new fresh ideas and ensure diversity of thought. It was about being more social. And that other one was made during afternoon tea.’

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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. For starters, he’s a repeat founder who sold his first company, the YC-based mobile email startup reMail, to Google. Then, Musk did buy it.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Cloudtenna raises $2.5M, launches mobile search app to find content across cloud services. He acknowledges that trust and accuracy elements could get tricky as social networks have found out.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Rec Room has been around for just five years (launched in 2016 in Seattle), and it has — at least for now — avoided the fast-rise/precipitous fall that has characterized so many other social gaming hits. There are some 12 million rooms on the platform already, Rec Room said.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

After some research, the founders noticed that these sellers also engaged with other channels, such as websites or social media. So wherever you sell, on social media, Afrikrea marketplace, or your website, all of it ends up in one dashboard,” the CEO said.

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Why Drug Companies’ Web Pages and Mobile Applications Should Be Accessible for Screen Reader Users In today’s digital landscape, ensuring that online platforms are accessible to everyone is not just a legal requirement, but also a moral imperative. Proactively addressing screen reader compatibility helps mitigate these risks.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Reddit is giving users the ability to translate posts into other languages. There will be eight different languages available to start — including English, Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch and Swedish. To translate a Reddit post, users click on the “translate” button at the top underneath the Redditor’s username.

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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

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Meet Revyze , a French startup that is developing a mobile app for iOS and Android at the intersection of education and social. But there is an issue with mainstream social platforms. If you watch an interesting video on TikTok, the social app might recommend something completely different when you skip to the next video.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

But only a few players are taking advantage of the market, which can make a case as the next frontier for mobile money and investment apps in Africa. Two angel investors — Pascal Gauthier of Ledger and Jason Yanowitz of Blockworks — and a syndicate social fund also participated. ” .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Trufan , a startup selling tools helping marketers analyze their social followings and collect audience data, announced today that it has raised a $2.3 First, it acquired the SocialRank product and business in 2019, allowing it to offer capabilities like showing brands their most valuable social media followers. million seed round.

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