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Consumer investment fatigue

Tomasz Tunguz

Many of the promising marketing and media innovations of the past six years, daily deals, subscription ecommerce, social gaming and social media, have been struggling. Perhaps new mobile ad technology will enable social networks to flourish. Fatigue is too strong a characterization.

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Memory.ai, the startup behind time-tracking app Timely, raises $14M to build more AI-based productivity apps

TechCrunch

If the first wave of smartphone communications and the apps that are run on smartphone devices — social, gaming, productivity, media, information, etc. These days, however, it feels like the worlds of AI and advances in mobile computing are increasingly coming together to evolve that concept once again.

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Infinite Canvas raises $2.8M for a metaverse creator group modeled after esports teams

TechCrunch

Ten different people would probably define the metaverse in 10 different ways, but it’s generally used as shorthand for the web of emerging virtual spaces full of personalized avatars, games and digital goods that are already shaping our world. The pair liken the new venture to “an esports team for the metaverse.”. Shachar asked.