Happs, the community-driven live video platform for independent creators, has raised a $4.7 million post-seed funding round led by Bullpen Capital. The round included participation from Crosslink, Goodwater and Corazon. This brings the total funding to date to $6.2 million. Rob Hayes of First Round Capital and former Instagram head of growth Bangaly Kaba also […]
Ascent360 is now available in the Lightspeed App Store, a Data-Driven Marketing Platform that provides actionable insights on existing customer data Ascent360 has recently announced an integration with Lightspeed in the app store that will bring point-of-sale and e-commerce data to life. The power of these combined solutions will allow retailers to ingest critical customer […]
Zodiac, an Orion Innovation company in the cloud transformation of telecommunication operator video systems, has partnered with Agama Technologies, a specialist in video analytics for service quality and customer experiences. Under the partnership, Zodiac will integrate Agama’s client device monitoring system into its Stack device software for set-top boxes and Android Smart TVs. This integration […]
The small startup has raised a $1 million pre-seed round led by SignalFire with additional participation from Justin Kan & Robin Chan’s GOAT, Canaan, Lenny Rachitsky, Nathan Baschez, Justin Waldron and Dave Nemetz, among others. Spore wants to transform the creator web experience into a Shopify-like basket of tools that users tap into to connect […]
Media measurement and analytics company ComScore published a report exploring the future of app measurement and app tracking transparency. The report provides critical insights for publishers and advertisers navigating privacy changes including iOS14.5 and Apple’s App Tracking Transparency framework. The past several years have seen significant evolution in both the web browser environment and the […]
Universal Music Group (UMG), music-based entertainment company and Snap Inc announced a multifaceted global agreement that will allow Snapchat’s users to incorporate UMG’s catalog of recorded music and content into creative tools, including Sounds and augmented reality Lenses. Under the terms of the innovative multi-year agreement, UMG’s entire recorded music catalog is available on a […]
Podcast downloads have boomed during the last 12 months. Online travel agency and metasearch engine Kayak co-founder and tech entrepreneur Paul English has launched Moonbeam, a podcast discovery app that blends machine studying and human curation to current personalised suggestions. Even the highest streaming apps like Apple Podcasts and Spotify lack strong discovery instruments. Last […]
Google has delayed its major Privacy Sandbox change to its Chrome browser, pushing back a plan to block third-party cookies until late 2023 as it determines how to protect users while providing web publishers a way to make money. The Privacy Sandbox initiative aims to create web technologies that both protect people’s privacy online and […]
Dun & Bradstreet, a provider of business decisioning data and analytics and Zeta Global Holdings Corp, a data-driven marketing technology company that empowers enterprises to acquire, grow and retain customers, announced they have entered a strategic alliance. The Dun & Bradstreet-Zeta alliance will bring together trusted consumer and business data into a single private data […]
Business and technology leaders representing key vertical industries across the GCC agree that the organisations creating the future of customer experience will do so with a digital-first mindset that meets customers’ increasingly digital demands. The consensus was reached at Avaya CXO (Re)Connect, the first major in-person meeting of technology leaders hosted by Avaya in the […]
