TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

Public App, a location-based social network that connects individuals to people in their vicinity, has raised $41 million in a new round, just six months after securing $35 million as the hyper-local Indian startup looks to expand its presence in the world’s second-largest internet market.

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CIO

APRIL 17, 2025

Compared with ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot, Gemini, launched in 2023, took an early lead in multimodal features the ability to process and generate images, audio, and video in addition to text. Users can direct the movement of the camera to customize content and stitch clips together to create longer videos, too.

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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. Users post video reviews of their purchases and can see in real-time data how they did, as well as receive commissions from sales that resulted from their posts.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Teach yourself growth marketing: How to perform growth experimentation through A/B testing In recent years, video has morphed into the king of social media content across the globe. It means that you need to prioritize video content for your startup. What does all that mean for growth marketing? It helps to prioritize.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In a new report, a social media watchdog group details how steroid content is exploding in some TikTok communities, promoting potentially dangerous and often illegal substances while propagating unattainable body image ideals to boys and young men.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2022

Firework provides shoppable video and livestreaming commerce capabilities for retailers, consumer brands and publishers that want to tap into their own customer data to build engaging video experiences across their own digital properties and social channels. Last October, Albertsons was the first U.S.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

A women-led startup called Honeycomb is launching its private social app for families, backed by $4 million in seed funding led by Peter Boyce at Stellation Capital. Instead, the team kept hearing from early adopters how they wanted to store their photos and videos, too, not just audio recordings. Image Credits: Honeycomb. these days.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

Leap , a platform for people over 55 to learn via social interaction, has raised $3.1 Users connect over audio and video, in groups of between five and 10. million in a seed round led by European early-stage investor Creandum and SF-based South Park Commons.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

If you’re working for an advertising agency or you’re in charge of a brand, editing and exporting a video ad that works across all social and web platforms can be a lengthy and time consuming task. When you create a new video to showcase your brand, you usually start with a 16:9 video with a duration of a couple of minutes.

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CIO

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Those days are behind us, as deepfake audio and video are no longer just for spoofing celebrities. Deepfake fraud attacks surged 3,000% last year, and unlike email phishing, audio and video deepfakes dont come with red flags like spelling errors or strange links. Why are contact centers vulnerable?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Video is the beating heart of the most popular content online these days, and it’s not just because it’s entertaining. It’s also because of how accessible it is: it’s become incredibly easy for anyone, whether you’re technical or not, to make, post or watch video.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Picsart today offers a range of digital creation and editing tools aimed at both consumers and professionals alike that make photo and video editing more fun and approachable. technology and help the company better support the recent growth of video creation on its service. The company believes DeepCraft’s A.I.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

If you follow #beautytok, #beautytube or any beauty content on social media platforms, you know that popular product trends are hard to keep up with. We have our own supply chain and we have the power to distribute brands across Asia via our social commerce and live distribution platforms.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2023

CapCut, the ByteDance-owned video editing app that’s the company’s second to hit $100 million in consumer spending after TikTok, is now expanding into business tools.

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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. Others regularly post gameplay videos in the app. Now, a new startup is announcing a major round of funding to make its own mark on the space.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2023

TikTok appears to be working on an integration with Lemon8 , another social app owned by TikTok’s Beijing-based parent company, ByteDance, according to new findings from product intelligence firm Watchful.ai. The app, a lifestyle social network, had originally launched in arch 2020 but was artificially inflated on TikTok this spring.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2023

At the time, the company said support for HD videos was coming soon. Today, the company confirmed with TechCrunch that HD video support is now rolling out to both iOS and Android users. Similar to the HD photos feature, the HD videos feature gives customers the choice to share high-def videos across WhatsApp.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

100ms , the live video conferencing infrastructure startup based in India, has raised $20 million in Series A funding to power the next generation of live video apps, coming barely five months after they closed the seed round.

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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. Telecoms are betting on immersive media and see it as one of the most robust use cases for 5G and the future of video streaming. Asia, and Europe. “We

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Pinterest is further investing in creator tools and video with today’s news it’s acquired the video creation and editing app, Vochi, for an undisclosed sum. With Vochi, Pinterest says it will have the ability to bring even more quality video to its users.

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 8, 2025

Whatnot, a competitor to TikTok Shop, is an online marketplace where people can buy and sell collectibles like trading cards and toys through live video auctions. The opportunity for what live and social commerce can do for sellers and sellers businesses is pretty tremendous, Whatnot co-founder and CEO Grant LaFontaine told Bloomberg.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 17, 2023

More posts by this contributor 5 growth lessons I learned while scaling from $0 to $1M ARR When it comes to early-stage growth marketing, it’s often better to imitate than innovate Video content is king. There’s no denying the dramatic increase in video consumption across the globe. lighting, selfie-style, etc.) Let that sink in.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2023

As social platforms like X (formerly Twitter), Meta and TikTok face off with regulators and the theater of public opinion for how they are handling incendiary and graphic content, disinformation, writing and other media related to Hamas and Israel, Pavel Durov, the CEO of Telegram, has controversially come out to defend how his messaging app […] (..)

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Reddit announced that it has acquired short video platform Dubsmash. Dubsmash will retain its own platform and brand, and Reddit will integrate its video creation tools. In 2017 it began transforming itself into a social platform and moved its headquarters from Berlin to Brooklyn. The deal’s terms were undisclosed.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2023

Zarta, a new ad-free creator platform that focuses on pay-per-view video content, announced today that it has closed a $5.7 The platform allows creators to upload videos, set parameters for a free preview and then charge viewers a small amount to unlock the whole video. million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).

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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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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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

I see what you did there : Lauren reports that video is fueling the newest group of dating app startups. Breaking and driving : Hyundai and Kia now have free anti-theft software for more than 8 million vehicles after social media posts showed vulnerabilities. million worth of funding so far. Kirsten has more.

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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

OCTOBER 25, 2021

. “I believe that the best consumer investments come from people who have unique insights on consumer behavior and ways that new tech products can allow new forms of social interaction,” said Charles Hudson from Precursor Ventures , who led the pre-seed investment round.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The short-form social video company has been working hard these past few years to convince the world that it’s not beholden to its parent company […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Brands are growing concerned about where to spend their main social media marketing budgets. Over 50% of social media marketing budgets are spent inefficiently because of poor creatives, mixed messaging, limited ad types and unfortunate ad captions. Image or video ad creatives? I therefore decided to instead use video ads.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Instagram is launching the ability for users to post video Notes, the company announced on Wednesday. Now, you can post a two-second looping video Note that will be visible to your mutual […] © 2023 TechCrunch. Notes is Instagram’s status feature that launched a year ago.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2023

But now, the social network is allowing websites to embed public content including Lenses, Spotlight videos, Public Stories, and Public Profiles. Users who want to embed a Story, video, or a Lens, can open up the content on a desktop browser using the link. […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The up-and-coming social app BeReal continues to vie for users’ attention with more and more bells and whistles. Behind the Scenes functions like an iOS Live Photo, showing a few seconds of video recorded right before taking a photo; RealGroups […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 16, 2021

While the video engine powering the 3D character rending components of this “digital human” version of Einstein is the work of another synthesized media company — UneeQ — which is hosting the interactive chatbot version on its website. So there’s a bit more than AI artifice going on here too.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Then shortly after, another student, in frustration, shared in the Discord chat a video that Awodele had made only the day before. It was an Instagram video, seen by TechCrunch, in which Awodele said she would no longer serve as a reference for students who didn’t tell her if they’ve obtained a job offer. ServiceNow said the same.

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