TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Last fall, social analytics startup SocialRank sold its product and business to Trufan , allowing the team to focus on something new: a professional social network. “This is the place for your professional social life,” Taub said. Today, they’re officially unveiling Upstream to the public.

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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

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

As many of us have seen, personal trainers, yoga teachers and similar types of freelance professionals have all had to shift to offering virtual sessions over Zoom and similar platforms. It’s now become a platform for virtual fitness classes, learning workshops and the like, with users in the U.K., Europe, the U.S.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

VUZ , a social app that allows users to stream and experience immersive realism in extended reality (XR) and metaverse digital experiences, has raised $20 million in Series B investment. The platform offers over 20,000 hours of content covering entertainment, creators, sports, and XR, VR, and AR experiences virtually anywhere in the world.

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CIO

MARCH 4, 2025

Adversaries are pre-positioning themselves within critical networks, supported by a broader ecosystem that includes shared tooling, training pipelines, and sophisticated malware development. These networks are similar to botnets, but are primarily used as proxies, and are often administered by independent contractors that are based in China.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

UK social audio startup Wisdom has launched a new mentorship marketplace that’s described as a mix between Clubhouse and the celebrity-focused courses platform Masterclass. Clubhouse voice chat leads a wave of spontaneous social apps. But currently it’s purely social audio. I think audio is authentic.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2021

Virtual beauty try-on technology, like the ones developed by Perfect Corp., is probably best known to consumers for its beauty app, YouCam Makeup, which lets users “try on” virtual samples from over 300 global brands, including ones owned by beauty conglomerates Estée Lauder and L’Oreal Paris.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2021

One company that is planning to drive the wave of telemedicine across the continent, as the Covid-19 pandemic rages on, is mPharma , a Ghanaian health tech start-up that is set to open 100 virtual centers across seven markets in Africa over the next six months. This is what makes mPharma’s telemedicine unique,” Rockson told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2022

Brett Martin, the co-founder and president of Kumospace, believes a core piece to easing the transition is workplace collaboration tools — especially video chat tools that foster a “virtual office” feeling. “ When COVID-19 hit, we scrambled like everyone else to go virtual. Image Credits: Kumospace.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

“From the time we started PubNub the vision was what software is needed to power virtual spaces. . “From the time we started PubNub the vision was what software is needed to power virtual spaces. Services that it currently covers include in-app chat, geolocation, virtual events, push notifications and IoT services.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2021

A lot of things are changing quickly with social media, which has become more toxic in some ways and less trustful about safety and security of its users, as well as taking away some of the controls that brands had to engage with their audience on their terms,” Myers said. “It How engaged are your employees?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Lerman previously co-founded and led Yext, the publicly traded brand management company that uses a cloud-based network of apps and search engines to keep company information up to date across the web. This summer, Microsoft launched Viva Engage , an in-house social media app for employee engagement. and abroad, CEO Howard Lerman said.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2022

Users aren’t promised in-game rewards, virtual currency or anything else. Where the product gets more interesting is in its potential social mechanic — something that could work out if the app is able to scale to reach a larger number of users than it has today. It’s just a recommendation. Image Credits: Skich.

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The Crazy Programmer

JULY 18, 2021

The majority of cyber-attacks actually use phishing or social engineering, where users are tricked into revealing personal information. A VPN masks your IP address by allowing the network to route it through a VPN host’s configured remote server. Instead, it was proposed that all network communication be considered untrustworthy.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

When Ashley Sumner designed and launched Quilt, it was meant to be a response to digital social networking, preferring creating authentic in-person interactions between people who didn’t necessarily know each other. Quilt, an audio social network focused on self care, raises $3.5 million in seed.

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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. Those opportunities are apparent in Discord’s explosive growth.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

Daniel Liss is the founder and CEO of Dispo , the digital disposable camera social network. District Court for the District of Columbia put it in his recent decision , “No one who hears the title of the 2010 film ‘The Social Network’ wonders which company it is about.” Daniel Liss. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Twine , a company that provides networking tools for virtual events and remote teams, will soon bring its services to Zoom thanks to its just-closed acquisition of the Y Combinator-backed startup, Glimpse, which had developed a “speed matching” platform designed for virtual events. intelligence. intelligence.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

Twitter held talks with Clubhouse around a potential acquisition of the live drop-in audio networking platform, with a deal value somewhere around $4 billion, according to a report from Bloomberg. TechCrunch has also confirmed the discussions took place from a source familiar with the conversations.

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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.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In a separate survey , staffers — especially new employees — say that requiring video during virtual meetings increases their work fatigue. “CEOs are dissatisfied with their virtual all-hands platforms and badly need something better.” Ed Stevens thinks he has the answer. laughs, cheers) in real time.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

With the promise of an interconnected virtual world coming into focus and user-crafted gaming content exploding, Infinite Canvas is looking to apply to the metaverse lessons learned in the esports boom. “Metaverse” is the hot buzzword right now, but it’s not an empty term. million subscribers.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2022

The metaverse will see similar challenges to the current security issues facing digital organizations, just adapted to the different forms of engagement, interaction and access that come with immersive, virtual environments. Social media platforms are awash with aggression, bullying, harassment and exploitation.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

While there’s been plenty of attention and money lavished on virtual event platforms over the past year, Introvoke co-founder and CEO Oana Manolache predicted that we’re only at the beginning of a “third wave of digital transformation.” It’s announcing today that it has raised $2.7

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Alta , a virtual reality metaverse studio, announced today it has raised a 12.4 Alta’s next goal is to expand and build networks of virtual worlds across multiple platforms, incorporating elements of the metaverse, Anoshechkin said. The consumer virtual reality market is projected to reach more than $5 billion by 2023 from $2.6

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The Crazy Programmer

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Interconnection of Computer Networks. In fixing inter-organizational relationships, networks must be interconnected. A parallel machine interconnection network sends information to every desired destination node from every source node. Virtual Reality. Network Management Protocol. Parasitic Computing.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Unlike Mastodon , Hive Social , or other existing social networks being flooded with dissatisfied Twitter users, Post News emerged two weeks ago. Post News is trying to capitalize on the “virtual watercooler for journalists” side of Twitter. ” TechCrunch reached out to Bardin and a16z for comment.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Apple is increasingly interested in avatar representations through Memoji, Mark Zuckerberg wants Facebook to be a metaverse company and platforms like Roblox, where users enter a virtual world and buy accessories for their character, have never been more popular. Twitter acquires screen-sharing social app Squad.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2021

A company from the creator of Ello and Kidrobot is announcing a new $20 million funding round to build out an imagined virtual world populated with deranged-yet-cute cartoon influencers. More investors are betting on virtual influencers like Lil Miquela. New ‘No Ads’ Social Network Ello Is Blowing Up Right Now.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Cityblock works with community caregivers to work with residents to provide primary care, behavioral health and other services to address social determinants of health, in person and… increasingly… through virtual consultations.

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Perficient

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Phishing-as-a-Service Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) platforms offer ready-made phishing kits, targeting email, social media, or other communication channels. DDoS-as-a-Service Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)-as-a-Service allows individuals to hire attackers who overload a target’s network, effectively shutting down websites or services.

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The Crazy Programmer

AUGUST 5, 2024

Network security must be at the top priority due to the reports of devastating breaches that make headlines and make their way to boardroom conversations. Thus, having network security protections becomes quite important to stave off these threats. In today’s post, we are going to explore six ways how to improve network security.

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OTS Solutions

JUNE 3, 2022

Just a decade ago, the use of augmented and virtual reality in healthcare was deemed science fiction. Animal testing can be reduced, and human clinical trials can be expedited using AR and VR (Virtual Reality) technology, referred to as “virtual patients” or “organs-on-a-chip.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Alon Alroy is the co-founder, CMO and CCO of Bizzabo, an event technology platform for hybrid, virtual and in-person events. About 27% expressed interest in attending events in-person only, 34% preferred to attend virtually, and 39% wanted to participate in hybrid events with both in-person and virtual components. Alon Alroy.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Networking isn’t just for holiday parties. The two cardinal rules of networking, according to CIOs and career coaches, are to schedule time to do it for at least an hour every month, and to approach it as something you do to help others in addition to yourself. I suffered from a crippling lack of self-worth.”

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

The cohort’s theses focused on market-driven DeFi, client-driven social protocols, tokens-as-coordination mechanisms, decentralization of all layers, consumer products unbundling, DAOs as risk-pooling mechanisms and so on. What it does: Exclusive social clubs on top of NFTs. To date, the company raised $5 million in a seed round.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

You might think that Clubhouse is the final word on audio-centric social networks, but a San Francisco startup called Swell is launching its own iOS and Android app focused on voice conversations. Today it’s launching more broadly, in advance of its session tomorrow at the virtual SXSW, “ Voice is transforming our online presence.

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