CIO

OCTOBER 10, 2024

In today’s fast-evolving business landscape, environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria have become fundamental to corporate responsibility and long-term success. This requires collaboration across departments and a deep understanding of how technology can contribute to sustainability, social responsibility and governance.

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CIO

MARCH 14, 2025

A human firewall is a collective effort of individuals within an organization that fights and wards off cybersecurity threats (such as phishing and ransomware), especially ones that use social engineering. Human intelligence is the only mechanism that can evolve as fast as sophisticated cyber threats and social engineering attacks.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Shih has clearly been considering the move to Meta for some time — and is no stranger to the company’s social media platform, Facebook. That experience led her to create Hearsay Systems, a software developer combining social networks, CRM, and AI to help sales staff at financial services companies.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Maka, an African fashion and beauty e-commerce platform, has raised a $2.65 million pre-seed round led by Pan-African venture capital firms 4DX Ventures and Janngo Capital. Other investors include Palm Drive Capital, angel investor Jonathan Shipman, founder of EVP and Twitch founding member, and executives from delivery platform Wolt.

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CIO

OCTOBER 24, 2024

These days, digital spoofing, phishing attacks, and social engineering attempts are more convincing than ever due to bad actors refining their techniques and developing more sophisticated threats with AI. AI can also personalize training for employees more vulnerable to social engineering attacks.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Revel , an NFT or “social collectibles” platform, raised $7.8 One way to describe Revel is a cross between Instagram and Robinhood, wrapped in social game economics,” Sideman said. Instagram is known as a social media platform while Robinhood is known as an investing and trading platform. (As

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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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CIO

OCTOBER 22, 2024

By 2028, technological immersion will impact populations with digital addiction and social isolation, prompting 70% of organizations to implement anti-digital policies. Additionally, digital immersion will also negatively impact social skills, especially among younger generations that are more susceptible to these trends.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Decentralized social networking may be the future, but in the meantime, there are a lot of Twitter alternatives to keep up with. A new app called Yup aims to help by offering a single place to read feeds, follow friends across services and cross-post to a range of social apps, including Twitter/X itself, as well […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The Power of Social Media in Candidate Engagement Unsurprisingly, social media platforms have become indispensable tools for candidate engagement. Social media also facilitates two-way communication, allowing for real-time interactions that can enhance the candidate experience.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Mastodon founder Eugen Rochko lauds Threads’ entry into the decentralized social media space, saying the move will make Mastodon — the open source Twitter/X rival — “a far more attractive option.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Social network Bluesky once again benefited from Elon Musk's missteps with X, the network formerly known as Twitter.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Meta may have abandoned its efforts around live shopping on Facebook and Instagram, but the social networking company still believes in its apps’ potential as a shopping platform.

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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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Consumer interest in open source, decentralized social networking isn’t something that was only reflected in news headlines over the past year, it’s also apparent in the financials behind Mastodon.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

X, formerly known as Twitter, has filed a lawsuit alleging that a new California law requiring social networks to declare certain moderation practices is a violation of the company’s Constitutional right to free speech. AB 587 was signed into law a year ago.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Decentralized social network and Twitter rival Bluesky is finally letting users look at posts on its platform without logging in. People still need an invite to create an account and start posting but can read posts through a link. This move will also let publishers link to or embed Bluesky posts in blogs. All rights reserved.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Grok began rolling out late this afternoon to X Premium Plus subscribers in the U.S., “Premium Plus” being X’s plan that costs $16 per month for ad-free access to the social network. Longtime […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

India is drafting rules to detect and limit the spread of deepfake content and other harmful AI media, a senior lawmaker said Thursday, following reports of proliferation of such content on social media platforms in recent weeks. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Earlier this year, WordPress.com owner Automattic acquired a plug-in that allowed WordPress blogs to be followed in the fediverse — the decentralized social networks that include the Twitter rival Mastodon and others. As a result, it launched version 1.0.0

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

At the peak of pandemic lockdowns, the invite-only social audio app soared with 10x month to month growth, then faded from public discourse almost as quickly as a16z investors opened their wallets. Remember Clubhouse? Now, Clubhouse is throwing a hail mary to try to become relevant again.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Decentralized social network Bluesky is rolling out a new in-app video and music player for links, along with a new “hide post” feature. The new additions bring Bluesky’s user experience closer to X (Twitter). The new video and music player works with YouTube, SoundCloud, Spotify and Twitch embeds.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Elon Musk’s social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, suffered an outage globally earlier Thursday that lasted for more than an hour. The error, the cause of which remains unknown, prevented users from viewing tweets, according to their complaints. X Pro, formerly known as TweetDeck, also faced the outage.

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CIO

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Microsoft in February launched an investigation of its Copilot AI chatbot after reports on social media of it taunting users who suggested they were considering suicide. One glitch blocked parents without Social Security numbers from filling out the form. The form was available only sporadically between late December and early January.

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CIO

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Antonio Tijerino, president and CEO of HHF, says partnering with IBM on SkillsBuild presented a clear opportunity to connect the Latino community to career-building opportunities in technology through a well-established learning program.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The social media giant is adding a new Premium+ tier that costs $16 per month and offers the “largest reply boost” and removes ads from the For You and Following feeds. X, formerly known as Twitter, is introducing two new tiers for its subscription offering in order to bring in additional revenue.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In a filing with Maine’s attorney general’s office, Mr. Cooper said the hackers stole customer names, addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, as well as customer Social Security numbers and bank account numbers. Mr. […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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CIO

OCTOBER 11, 2024

El segundo persigue mejorar la eficiencia y sostenibilidad en la gestión de recursos críticos , contribuyendo a reducir la factura energética de la ciudad y, el tercer caso se centra en la actividad económica y social de las ciudades , buscando localidades más cohesionadas y mejor planificadas.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2024

Elon Musk has been detailing his vision for X’s, formerly Twitter’s, transformation into an “everything app,” including payments, creator tools, shopping and more, since acquiring the social network over a year ago. Now, the company is committing to a time frame.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

Features include faster access to their Social Security check, 3% earnings on balances and no monthly fees or minimums. To help older adults adjust, Charlie will let customers withdraw t heir Social Security benefit up to four weeks early. But once they retire, they go into “deaccumulation mode.” That can be scary and challenging.

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CIO

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Para 2028, la inmersión tecnológica impactará en las poblaciones con adicción digital y aislamiento social, lo que llevará al 70% de las organizaciones a implementar políticas anti-digitales.

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CIO

OCTOBER 21, 2024

El proyecto supone un avance significativo en la gestión de la identidad digital, centralizando credenciales verificables como el NIA, el carné de la Seguridad Social y otras. Además, permitiría su uso en entidades privadas bancarias, facilitando la interacción mediante credenciales verificadas, reduciendo tiempos y mejorando la seguridad.

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CIO

OCTOBER 30, 2024

There has also been a notable increase in the use of social engineering techniques, including extortion and AI-powered attacks, which have become more prevalent and more difficult to detect than ever before. 38% of organizations ranked AI-powered attacks as their top concern this year.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2023

It’s been more than a year since Elon Musk purchased Twitter, yet we’re still seeing the reverberations of that deal on other social platforms, including the new ones that have cropped up since.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Meta’s social network Threads got a major update Thursday as the company started rolling out tags (without the hash symbol) on the platform. Users will be able to tag only one topic per post to avoid tag spam. The company began testing the tag feature in Australia last month, and it is now rolling out […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Strava is taking one big step closer to becoming a true social network, as the fitness-tracking platform introduces in-app messaging to let users send private one-to-one and group messages.

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