TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

As concerts and live events return to the physical world stateside, many in the tech industry have wondered whether some of the pandemic-era opportunities around virtualizing these events are lost for the time being. The virtual concert industry didn’t have as big of a lockdown moment as some hoped for.

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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

JUNE 17, 2021

Twine , a video chat startup that launched amid the pandemic as a sort of “Zoom for meeting new people,” shifted its focus to online events and, as a result, has now closed on $3.3 Unlike one-to-many or few-to-many video broadcasts, twine connects a small number of people for more intimate conversations.

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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. Another way Perfect Corp.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The company’s first product, Read Dashboard, is a dashboard for virtual meetings that leverages artificial intelligence, computer vision and natural language processing to measure engagement, performance and sentiment among participants. Virtual meeting platform Vowel raises $13.5M, aims to cure meeting fatigue. Read Dashboard.

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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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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

NTWRK , a video shopping app that has helped to popularize the idea of livestreamed commerce in the U.S., The company has been working to capitalize on the growing interest in live commerce and creator content, and shifted into live virtual events and festivals as COVID-19 ravaged the U.S. Are virtual concerts here to stay?

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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. He’s biased, of course — Kumospace sells a video chat platform. Image Credits: Kumospace.

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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

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

OCTOBER 14, 2020

A video conferencing tool designed from the ground up as a digital learning platform, with its own unique take on virtual classrooms, Engageli is aiming first at higher education, and it is launching with $14.5 But perhaps Engageli’s most unique feature is how it views the virtual classroom.

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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 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

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Roam’s Map View lets workers see what’s going on and have “project presence,” Lerman says, as well as chat with colleagues via text or video chat. In fact, there are dozens of virtual HQ platforms , some venture-backed and some bootstrapped, mixing gamification and productivity into a service.

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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. You can now safely get up and use the bathroom during your next virtual meeting and miss nothing. HireSpot : Kyle reports that YC-backed startup Crew aims to build the “HubSpot for recruiting” and recruited $2.45

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

Messaging is the medium these days, and today a startup that has built an API to help others build text and video interactivity into their services is announcing a big round to continue scaling its business. Sendbird has confirmed that the funding values the company at $1.05 How to do remote work right, from the teams that know it best.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Ameelio , a nonprofit startup that intends to replace inmate-paid video calling in prisons with a free service, is making inroads against the companies that have dominated the space for decades. Screenshot of the Ameelio video call scheduling interface. The result is poor service at maximum price.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Platforms for dentists are booming right now as many governments gradually make it harder to access dentistry via social care, especially in the U.K. Toothfairy connects patients to dentists on-demand via video, with the app being officially approved by the NHS. Toothfairy is a U.K. startup that has a variation on this approach.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

Clubhouse, a one-year-old social audio app reportedly valued at $1 billion , will now allow users to send money to their favorite creators — or speakers — on the platform. It's cool to see a new social platform focus first on *participant* income rather than internalized monetization / advertising.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

According to a poll from Showpad, 76% of employees report becoming more distracted on video calls versus in-person meetings. In a separate survey , staffers — especially new employees — say that requiring video during virtual meetings increases their work fatigue. Ed Stevens thinks he has the answer.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2021

Clubhouse voice chat leads a wave of spontaneous social apps. Tickets are a unique option that would go well with Clubhouse’s more formal roundtable discussions, and could also be a way that more organizations make use of the platform for hosting virtual events.

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TechCrunch

JULY 9, 2021

Both believe that while investors have thrown money at virtual events and edtech companies, there is an even bigger opportunity in developing a kind of multiplayer browsing experience that enables people to do much more together online. He points to a generation that is far more comfortable watching video on a phone than elsewhere.

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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

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

JUNE 17, 2021

Every exhibiting startup gets a virtual booth where you can post a company video and links to your website and social media accounts. Hopin, the virtual platform, lets you get creative — and interactive. But don’t stop there. Schedule and host livestream product demos, tutorials or Q&A sessions.

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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

MAY 3, 2021

We designed the initial version of our product as a way to connect people who’d never met, kind of virtual speed dating,” says co-founder and CEO Perry Rosenstein. They can’t ignore that humans are largely social creatures, Conn said. But we realized that people were using it for far more than that.” . Image Credits: Gatheround.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

MAY 31, 2022

This led to a forced transition to virtual campus recruiting—which turned out to be a good thing so far! Virtual campus recruiting doesn’t demand a huge budget, eliminates geographical constraints which widen your talent pool, and provides an improved candidate experience to today’s digital-savvy generation—it is a win-win all around.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

We all know that there are four kinds of content: Text, video, pictures and audio. A video can be an Instagram Reel, a documentary or something else, but it’s a video. You could have recorded it as a video. And he covered several topics, so you could have several short videos — 30 seconds, three minutes, whatever.

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OTS Solutions

JUNE 3, 2022

Because of the advancements in electronic device technology and software, video and audio appointments can be held on various internet-connected devices. Just a decade ago, the use of augmented and virtual reality in healthcare was deemed science fiction. Monitoring of Patients using Telemedicine. Let me show you how.

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The Crazy Programmer

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Game developers are the programmers who contribute their essential effort to develop a video game for various platforms like Mac, Windows, Android, and iOS. Game development requires hard coding skills and knowledge about the video, animation, and audio elements. Database Developer.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Of course, the term encapsulates more than just Zoom, it’s a nod to how schools had to rapidly adopt enterprise video conferencing software to keep school in session in the wake of closures brought on by the virus’ rapid spread. Upon joining the platform, each student is placed at a virtual table with another small group of students.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

Zoom introduces new SDK to help developers tap into video services — The company envisions application developers embedding video in social, gaming or retail applications. Dobrik, meanwhile, has stepped down from the Dispo board and left the company. The tech giants. Advice and analysis from Extra Crunch.

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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

AUGUST 13, 2021

Mmhmm, the virtual camera app that adds TV-presenter flair to video meetings, launched with a viral video that hit over 1.5 When two ex-Apple execs founded Humane, they crafted beautiful social media pages full of sophisticated photography without revealing a single hint of what they set out to build. million views.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

But many of them don’t have the social media clout to attract advertisers. It serves as a marketplace for creators to connect with fans, and monetize content like videos and documents by selling them to their followers, or hosting live video sessions.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

JANUARY 3, 2025

In virtual hiring, a positive virtual onboarding experience guarantees better employee retention and inspires new hires to be productive and contribute positively towards a companys business and financial goals. What is Virtual Onboarding? Virtual onboarding is carried out online as opposed to the traditional onboarding process.

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