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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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

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

Government orgs were a target for China-linked threat actors in virtually all regions of the world, and Salt Typhoon, a cyber unit tied to Chinas MSS, made headlines in recent months after compromising major telecom and ISP networks in the US, with this type of targeting also common in Asia and Africa.

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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. 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

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

MARCH 31, 2022

Tushop , a social-commerce platform in Kenya that enables the group-buying of fast-moving consumer goods (FMCGs), is set for expansion across Nairobi after raising $3 million in pre-seed funding in a round led by 4DX Ventures. Chepkemboi says this arrangement earns shoppers up to 60% in savings, even with the agents earning sales commissions.

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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

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

In fact, there are dozens of virtual HQ platforms , some venture-backed and some bootstrapped, mixing gamification and productivity into a service. This summer, Microsoft launched Viva Engage , an in-house social media app for employee engagement. It’s not just startups.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Un reclamo social desde que la digitalización se convirtió en cotidianidad. En concreto, el Gobierno autonómico ha dado un paso adelante y ha lanzado una nueva app bautizada como Tarjeta Transporte Virtual. para los títulos de diez viajes, turísticos y el suplemento del aeropuerto.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Discord is expanding access to its virtual shop, first launched in October, allowing users who don’t pay for a monthly Nitro subscription to purchase cosmetic updates to make their […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Virtual Recruitment Events and Hackathons In 2025, virtual recruitment events will continue to grow in importance, especially with the evolution of remote work and hybrid education models. Virtual job fairs, webinars, and information sessions will become the norm, allowing employers to engage with students from universities worldwide.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

You can now safely get up and use the bathroom during your next virtual meeting and miss nothing. Breaking and driving : Hyundai and Kia now have free anti-theft software for more than 8 million vehicles after social media posts showed vulnerabilities. It will also capture slide presentations and insert those in the summary, too.

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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. Why are contact centers vulnerable?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

In some cases, virtual and augmented reality are also utilized for immersive candidate assessments and onboarding experiences. The Power of Social Media in Candidate Engagement Unsurprisingly, social media platforms have become indispensable tools for candidate engagement.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

This includes marketing tests on social media platforms that yielded a respectable return on investment, he added. He said that he doesn’t typically invest at the seed stage, but was impressed with the progress Pancake has made in a short period of time.

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CIO

MARCH 4, 2025

Government orgs were a target for China-linked threat actors in virtually all regions of the world, and Salt Typhoon, a cyber unit tied to Chinas MSS, made headlines in recent months after compromising major telecom and ISP networks in the US, with this type of targeting also common in Asia and Africa.

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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 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

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The widespread success of platforms ranging from Second Life to Roblox shows that people are open to virtual worlds where they can socialize, play games, exchange information, and share some laughs.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

DECEMBER 11, 2024

As a software engineer or individual contributor, the next step in your career can be to become a principal engineer. The path to becoming a principal engineer at companies can feel unclear, which can inhibit individual engineering careers. But that also provides opportunities for engineers to invent and shape the role of principal engineers.

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CIO

DECEMBER 4, 2024

In fact, virtually everybody expects the pace to pick up. We’ve launched several mental health initiatives, which includes access to virtual wellness workshops and flexible working hours,” says Biswas. As for Pariveda, they like to highlight their focus on the triple bottom line: providing social, environmental, and economic benefits.

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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

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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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. “I’m more interested in connecting the real world, not just doing stuff that’s all virtual,” Budnitz said. Ello, Ello?

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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 27, 2020

How do we build humanistic societies with strong social fabrics that enliven, enrich, and build meaning for our lives? Mental health treatment itself is getting a makeover as startups reinvigorate the in-person therapist and psychiatrist visit as well as think about new models of delivering mental health services virtually.

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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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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

This is why IT recruitment is virtually an ongoing process at most of the leading enterprises in the sector. Legal obligation: Recruitment is important to ensure fulfillment of social legal obligations related to diversity, equality, and inclusion in the workplace. Also Read: Common Virtual Recruiting Pitfalls And How To Avoid Them.

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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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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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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

AUGUST 17, 2021

Among Apple’s more recent social good initiatives is the Impact Accelerator, an effort launched about a year ago intended to find and elevate minority-owned small businesses taking on sustainability and climate change.

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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

DECEMBER 1, 2022

“We will benefit from their unique experience and ability to create amazing experiences that help organizations use virtual spaces to drive impact. With Active Replica, Ervin and Denis sought to built a platform for virtual events and meetings built on top of Mozilla’s Hubs project.

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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

APRIL 29, 2021

The announcement, which took place from a virtual event, was also detailed in the company’s blog post. A virtual affair, this cohort will be a continuation of how the previous cohort panned out. . Last year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the first virtual class of Google for Startups Accelerator Africa was launched.

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