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

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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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Daily Crunch: Thousands of Google Play users download Android banking trojan

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And there was even more, of course: MyPlace raised nearly $6 million for a home-sharing social network, Apollo.io Regardless, it’s out in the market racking up downloads, which is pretty bad. And the startup just raised $5 million for its work.

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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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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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Creating Vertical Social Networks for Niche Audiences: How This Startup Captured Millions Across the World

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The likes of Facebook, Instagram and Twitter have billions of users among them, and even those of us who aren’t actively using any social networks understand what they are and how they function. One of the most important things to think about when launching a vertical social network is its initial purpose and timing.

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5 Effective Inbound Marketing Strategies to Nurture in 2024 

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By automating and standardizing these processes, you’ll be able to provide a much more enjoyable user experience while using the bulk of your time and energy for content creation, networking, and other tasks to keep improving your business and expanding your brand.

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What Small Businesses Can Do to Thwart the Top 5 Cybersecurity Threats

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Cybersecurity includes processes, practices and tools that protect your network or database from cyberattacks. Ideally, the perfect cybersecurity measure can be broken down into several sections: application, information, network, cloud and operational security. It will then ask the receiver to click the link or download files.