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The top 10 companies investing billions in the Metaverse

VC Cafe

billion merger with IronSource , an Israeli scale-up specialising in mobile gaming monetisation might also position them as a big player in crypto gaming – offering developers the ability to integrate a simplified crypto wallet into their games in the near future. Unity’s recent $4.4 Also, their $1.6 There are now 2.8B

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Leading Visual Content Creation App Developer Lightricks Raises $130 Million Series D

The Startup Magazine

The creator economy has changed the way we, as a society, experience social networks. At a time when we are seeing content creators monetize content on social media at new levels, it is clear that Lightricks’ platform has the ability to create a one-stop shop that will be meaningful to its users.”.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? And so it goes with social networking.

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Zhongguancun in Beijing – China’s Silicon Valley (Part 4 of 5)

Steve Blank

Startups here are primarily in what they call the TMT (Technology, Media and Telecommunications) segment. About 1/3 of all China’s Venture Capital investment is made in Beijing and the majority of those investments are in the Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) sector I’ll describe shortly. Closed for You, Open For Us.

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Zhongguancun in Beijing – China’s Silicon Valley (Part 4 of 5)

Steve Blank

Startups here are primarily in what they call the TMT (Technology, Media and Telecommunications) segment. About 1/3 of all China’s Venture Capital investment is made in Beijing and the majority of those investments are in the Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) sector I’ll describe shortly. Closed for You, Open For Us.

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Dave Gardner on Using Social Media to Connect With Big Companies

Life Beyond Code

Recently, my friend Dave Gardner (president of Gardner & Associates Consulting ) shared his story of how he used social media to reach (and start a working relationship with) a big company (Dell.) Dell uses Radian6 which is now owned by Salesforce.com to monitor what’s being said about them in the social media space.

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9 Big Businesses That Began In College

YoungUpstarts

Some of these businesses are still with us, including Google and the social media behemoth Facebook. Others, like Def Jam, have been transformed through mergers and acquisitions. Each of the nine businesses listed below began in college, and in some cases, with no initial profit motive in mind.