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Poparazzi hits 5M+ downloads a year after launch, confirms its $15M Series A

TechCrunch

million global downloads, according to app intelligence firm Sensor Tower. million downloads for Poparazzi, which is largely in line with the startup’s claims, as these estimates aren’t an exact science.). Among those was the audio social network TTYL , a sort of “ Clubhouse for friends.”

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Social network Peanut expands to include more women with launch of Peanut Menopause

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Peanut , a social networking app for women, initially found traction connecting women in the earlier stages of their motherhood journey. But over the years, the network expanded to support women through other life stages. “Men are never going to build this for us, so we have to build it for ourselves,” she says.

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Daily Crunch: ‘Network issue’ causes cloud outage that takes down multiple Microsoft services for 4+ hours

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That’s what Microsoft is saying after some of its services, like Outlook, Xbox Live and Teams, went down during a “change made to the Microsoft Wide Area Network,” Ivan reports. Naps over apps : Sarah reports that app downloads were stagnant in the fourth quarter on both the App Store and Play Store — usually it isn’t, she points out.

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Sequoia heats up early-stage startup investments in India and Southeast Asia

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One founder set eyes on getting the most downloads in the mobile gaming category. Sequoia doesn’t have to put in this amount of effort to win early-stage deals: It began investing in India over a decade ago and has minted 38 unicorns (of 102 in total) in the nation and 11 in Southeast Asia. So what’s with the change of heart?

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GEN New Zealand releases manifesto to encourage greater entrepreneurship

NZ Entrepreneur

Watch the video interview now A network of more than 140 entrepreneurial businesses and organisations warns New Zealand is in danger of being left behind due to a lack of resources and insufficient policies to progress entrepreneurship. They collaborated to produce the manifesto, reflecting the views of network members.

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Entrepreneurial Networks are Driving Global Change, According to Impact Hub Network’s 2019 Global Impact Report

Impact Hub

Ahead of this year’s Global Climate Strike (20-27 September) and the Global Goals Week (21-30 September), the Impact Hub network is launching its 2019 Global Impact Report. The members surveyed said that being part of such a network had helped them to: Feel part of a larger community: 84%. Strengthen their motivation: 77%. Startarium.

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I Just Invested in @Burstly, a Mobile Ad Management Company

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I’m very pleased today to announce that I invested, on behalf of GRP Partners, in Burstly alongside Rincon Venture Partners , an early stage VC in Southern California whith whom we love to work (and were our co-investors on RingRevenue ). Naturally I’m excited about this investment or I wouldn’t have done it.

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