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HireRight Adds Social Media Screening

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Irvine-based HireRight , which provides employment background checks, drug testing, education verification, and other services, says it has added new social media screening, via a partnership with Fama Technologies. Financial details of the deal were not announced.

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President Trump reportedly has approved the Oracle deal for TikTok’s US operations

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operations of the wildly popular social media app, TikTok, according to a report from Bloomberg. operations from its parent company Bytedance was something that Trump administration had demanded on the grounds that the company’s data handling policies and popularity in the U.S. The spinout of TikTok’s U.S.

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Enplug: Bringing Social Media To A Display Near You

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Culver City-based Enplug (www.enplug.com) is looking to change those one way digital displays into social, interactive content. We spoke with CEO and co-founder Nanxi Liu about the company''s software. What''s the story behind the company? Nanxi Liu: We started the company in the summer of 2012, with five totally random people.

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5 Tips For Startups To Win With Social Media

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Social media is so pervasive in today’s world that every entrepreneur believes instinctively that they know how to use it for their startup. When it comes to social media for your business, expect a high learning curve, but rest assured it’s not rocket science. Top social networks are Facebook (1.2 billion users).

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Concerns Keeping You From Social Media

Tech Coast Venture Network

While social media is a hot topic for individuals and businesses, you would be surprised to learn that some businesses and individuals are simply avoiding even checking it out. 1 Fear of the Unknown – My opinion is that it is only an unknown if you don’t research it and educate yourself about the topic.

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Entity Academy, an edtech startup that trains, mentors and places women in tech roles, secures $100M

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Jennifer Schwab, the founder and CEO of Entity, has built the business since 2016 on virtually no outside funding, but said that this latest financing is a precursor to the company working on its first, more traditional VC-led equity round. Entity’s own story fits into both of those story lines.

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Los Angeles-based childcare and co-working startup Bümo adds more virtual classes for kids at home

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But in the face of a global pandemic, every company has had to improvise and in the few months since its launch in 2019, that’s just what Bümo did. The two met in their early twenties when Nguyen was trying to launch a fashion business and Lim was solidifying her career as a social media celebrity and designer. .