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Maestro nets $15 million for its interactive commerce, community and engagement tools for livestreams

TechCrunch LA

As video commerce becomes the norm and entertainers, brands, businesses, and franchises of all sizes and stripes look to cut out the middle man, the array of services on offer from Maestro may be the scissors these entities need to cut the cord. . Sales, Sony Music Entertainment, in a statement. .

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Snap accelerator names its latest cohort

TechCrunch LA

and international cities like London, Mexico City, Seoul and Vilnius are building professional social networks for black professionals and blue collar workers, fashion labels, educational tools in augmented reality, kids entertainment, and an interactive entertainment production company. Hardworkers — a Cambridge, Mass.-based

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eHarmony Acquired By ProSiebenSat.1

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1, the acquisition of eHarmony will help it expand its Commerce segment internationally. 1 Group is a major German entertainment and media firm, which also has a e-commerce business arm. eharmony has a reputation for a very high number of marriages from users of its platform. According to ProSiebenSat.1, ProSiebenSat.1

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6 Information Surges Raise Huge Startup Opportunities

Startup Professionals Musings

Digital commerce: infinite options for buying goods and services online. Online entertainment: millions of channels, billions of actors. Online entertainment: millions of channels, billions of actors. With the adoption of the Internet, digital entertainment has rocketed across the world, changing how people entertain themselves.

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Ford’s Autonomic Pairs With Alibaba Cloud On Mobility Hub for China

Xconomy

Ford’s recently acquired unit Autonomic , which co-created the automaker’s Transportation Mobility Cloud (TMC), inked a deal Tuesday to partner with Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing division of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba.

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Neel Grover: How Indi Is Helping People Earn Money For Their Knowledge

socalTECH

Indi is focused on powering individual commerce. In essence, we want to give every individual their own, e-commerce store. Our team has a passion for e-commerce, and we also have athletes and others on our team. We run our day-to-day business with professional athletes and folks out of the e-commerce industry.

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Los Angeles-based Ficto launches its Quibi competitor — with Niantic as a content partner

TechCrunch LA

The company’s entertainment is designed to be interactive with live-streaming, geo-location, live chat, polling, choice-based narratives, 360 viewing, augmented reality, and click through e-commerce, the company said.