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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

Just a quick note that I'll be moderating a Technology Council Event : Social Networking as a Business Strategy May 19, 2009 - Culver City Social networking media are used on a daily basis to grow businesses and expand career opportunities. Can social networking be a money-maker for companies?

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The top 10 companies investing billions in the Metaverse

VC Cafe

think about the entrepreneurs that started in the early days of the Internet, mobile, crypto, VR and yes… now Metaverse. If nothing else, it shows how many billions Meta is willing to commit in order to advance Mark Zuckerberg’s vision for the future of the Internet. Here we go! Epic Games. but still lost $2.8

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How The New General Data Protection Regulation Will Affect Online Businesses

YoungUpstarts

On May 25, 2018, the European Union implemented new Internet regulations called the General Data Protection Regulation – GDPR, for short. This includes e-commerce websites that ship internationally, content news sites accessible in the European Union, social networks like Facebook and Instagram, and more. Conclusion.

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Yahoo! vs Facebook: Lame Lawsuit, Good Timing ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

CEO Scott Thompson alluded to their plan a couple weeks ago but the IP lawsuit itself was only official late afternoon yesterday (and now public). ’s claims of IP infringement or offer a litigator’s perspective of Yahoo! owns a bunch of patents around email, IM, etc), and yes E) social networking.

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Do It Right The First Time: Avoiding “Janitorial” Legal Work

Gust

Nevertheless, choosing to defer basic corporate housekeeping items can be disastrous in some circumstances, as when the failure to spend a few thousand dollars on legal fees to clarify IP ownership and equity arrangements comes back to bite a successful company to the tune of millions of dollars on the eve of a liquidity event. Good stuff!

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Looking Back On Tech, Startups, And VC In 2018

Haystack

companies, more sensitivity around technology IP and security. 1/ Social Network Interference. In 2017, we learned about how social media feeds were used to surface biased or planted information. In the meantime, we have what we have today. This is again a much deeper topic to explore and I will do that in early 2019.

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From Agency to Enterprise Software: The Evolution of Buddy Media

This is going to be BIG.

Buddy Media builds, promotes and monetizes one of the largest networks of engaging and entertaining social media applications on the web. The company reaches more than 8 million internet users each month through some of the top applications on Facebook and other social networks.

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