TechCrunch LA
AUGUST 30, 2022
Genies has made forays into fashion before — the startup partnered with Gucci back in 2020 to give the retailer’s customers access to try on new virtual designs and to buy curated digital goods. Eventually, Nigam sees the company expanding into a full-fledged social network, which he said Gen Z is “starving for.”
TechCrunch LA
JANUARY 14, 2019
Meanwhile, new venture-backed companies like the superstealthy Shadows, SuperPlastic and Toonstar are all developing virtual characters that will launch via social media channels like Snap and Instagram, or on their own platforms. ” Los Angeles-based Brud is by far the most established of this new breed in the U.S.
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TechCrunch LA
JANUARY 19, 2020
The former founder of the publicly traded Shenzhen-based gaming publisher iDreamSky, acknowledged that his new company couldn’t work in China’s tightly controlled social media market. Higher Ground Labs is betting tech can help sway the 2020 elections for Democrats. were a foreign concept.
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 31, 2020
Even the best solutions these days need to be marketed on multiple platforms, including online, social media, and the proper industry and customer channels for customer geographies. Mark personally invented the early Facebook social network, while he was at Harvard, and went on to build a huge business.
socalTECH
NOVEMBER 13, 2020
Jo told us why, in a world full of social networking apps, why Pod.io We've created a social media platform which helps you meet new people, and we're also very focused on privacy, and don't sell your data, don't spy on you, but provide an environment where you can meet other people based on shared interests and shared locations.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 5, 2010
I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? And so it goes with social networking.
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 8, 2013
Partially due to the economy, but also due to longer, healthier lives and changes in job tenure, 60% of working Boomers are now expected to stay in the labor force, with real power and influence, for at least seven more years, to 2020. Six out of 10 Internet users aged 50-64 use social media now, and the growth rate continues to increase.
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