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Stream raises $38M as its chat and activity feed APIs power communications for 1B users

TechCrunch

A lot of our communication these days with each other is digital, and today one of the companies enabling that — with APIs to build chat experiences into apps — is announcing a round of funding on the back of some very strong growth. ” That moment of opportunity is not one that Stream is pursuing on its own.

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15 Business Leaders Share Their Experiences and Insights on Getting Through COVID-19

StartupNation

I’ve had the opportunity to help business owners strategize their plans using PR as a tool to help navigate through difficult times with clarity. The opportunity is there, you just need to find it. Working in public relations has allowed me to see businesses in a different light. Don’t try to fight it.

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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. It would be foolish for any investor to write off consumer investing as a category because of the massive opportunity consumer internet companies offer.

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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.