MarketForce, a Kenyan B2B retail and financial services distribution startup, has expanded into five additional markets across Africa to grow RejaReja — its retailer ‘super app’ that makes it possible for informal merchants to order and pay for inventory digitally, accept payments for utility bills, and access financing for their businesses. The startup has today […]
ツイッターCEOの「旅立ち」が意味するもの ビジョナリーはなぜ“帝国”から去るのか | シリコンバレーの保守化？
シリコンバレーの巨大企業にもはやビジョナリーは不要？ ツイッターの共同創業者、ジャック・ドーシーの最高経営責任者（CEO）退任は、さまざまな憶測を呼んでいる。 公開された文書や、ドーシー自身のツイートによれば、退任はあくまでも「彼の意志による決断」ということになるが、ここ数年の彼の動向から、米紙「ニュ…
Glorify, an ambitious app for Christians, just landed $40 million in Series A funding led by a16z
Religion-based apps, tools and communities aren’t brand new, including to investors. Pray.com, for example, an LA-based app for daily prayer and bedtime Bible stories that was founded in 2016, has raised at least $34 million from investors, including Kleiner Perkins. Ministry Brands, a nine-year-old, Knoxville, Tennessee-based outfit that now includes dozens of software and payments […]
Social app IRL makes its first acquisition with deal for digital nutrition company AaBeZe Labs
IRL, the SoftBank-backed social app and recent unicorn, is today announcing its first acquisition. The company is purchasing, for an undisclosed sum, the “digital nutrition” company AaBeZe Labs and its portfolio of IP with the goal of making IRL a healthier and more ethically designed social networking app. AaBeZe’s founders Michael Phillips Moskowitz, the former […]
コミケ準備会、「TOKYOワクションアプリ」事前登録呼びかけ 入場時の時間短縮のため
コミックマーケット準備会は、12月30日と31日に東京ビッグサイトで開催する「コミックマーケット99」の参加者に向け、「TOKYOワクションアプリ」の利用を呼びかけている。入場時などの確認作業を円滑に進めるためとしている。 一般参加者は入場の際、チケットと本人確認書類（運転免許証、学生証など）の他にワクチン接…
LinkedIn adds Hindi to reach 500 million people in India
Less than 20% of India’s 1.3 billion people speak English. But LinkedIn, the largest professional social network globally, has so far catered only to this sliver of the population in the world’s second largest internet market. On Thursday, the Microsoft-owned service said it’s beginning to change that. LinkedIn has started to roll out support for Hindi […]
4 analysts break down Bret Taylor’s pretty sweet week
Bret Taylor finds himself in a unique position in Silicon Valley: in just one week at age 42, he’s accepted substantial positions at two tech powerhouses.
Reddit Introduces New Real-Time Features To Keep Users Engaged
Social media platform Reddit said on Wednesday it would launch several real-time features, including voting animations and typing indicators, […] to boost engagement on the platform that has fueled a ‘meme-stock’ frenzy in the recent past. Reuters re…
「 メタバース は新しいモールのようなもの」：コスメブランド、シャーロット・ティルベリーがVRストアにメタバースを導入
シャーロット・ティルベリーはVRフォーマットを利用したソーシャルショッピング新機能「Shop With Friends」をローンチ。来年には、ユーザーが自分のアバターを作って仮想ストアを歩き回ることができる機能が追加される予定であり、オンラインショッピングの「メタバース」にさらに深く関与することになる。
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TechCrunch+ roundup: Jack leaves Twitter, Black Friday data, Nubank lowers IPO pricing
Perhaps it should be pro forma for corporate boards in search of a new CEO to start by talking to the company’s longtime engineers, product managers and marketing leads.