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Despite the economy, LA’s Maple Media is hunting for app acquisitions
TechCrunch reports: "Over the past three years the Los Angeles-based startup Maple Media has amassed a portfolio of roughly thirty companies and one hundred...
A Portal Between Digital and Physical Worlds? It’s Close to Reality
The Hollywood Reporter reports: "Development of mirror worlds is accelerating during COVID-19 as Hollywood increases its virtual production, says Magnopus co-founder and CEO Ben...
TikTok Boom! How the Exploding Social Media App Is Going Hollywood
The Hollywood Reporter reports: "The impossible-to-ignore, 2 billion strong platform is leveraging a massive sheltering-at-home audience hungry for new content to draw A-listers and...
Google and Facebook: Digital ad market is avoiding coronavirus disaster
VentureBeat reports: "Reports of the demise of the digital advertising market due to the coronavirus outbreak appear exaggerated as the tech giants dominating the...
Google is shutting down Shoelace, the social app you’ve probably never...
TechCrunch reports: "You know that old saying, “you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone?” Sometimes that’s quite literally true. Take Shoelace, a...
BBC Studios Sells Shows To Chinese Streamer Owned By TikTok’s Parent...
Deadline reports: "BBC Studios has signed a content deal with Xigua Video, the Chinese streaming service owned by TikTok’s parent company ByteDance."
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Snapchat Grows Daily Active Users to 229 Million
Billboard reports: "Snapchat’s parent company on Tuesday reported user growth rising 20 percent to 229 million daily active users during the first quarter of...
Grain, a startup built expressly atop of Zoom, has raised $4...
TechCrunch reports: "Whenever a platform breaks out, companies emerge to seize on its reach by building their services or products atop it. It happened...
Facebook will start alerting users who have interacted with ‘harmful misinformation’...
TechCrunch reports: "Facebook this morning announced its latest step in effort to combat the spread of misinformation around the on-going COVID-19 pandemic. Chief among...
TikTok now lets parents set restrictions on their kids’ accounts
The Verge reports: "TikTok is amping up its parental controls today with a feature that lets parents remotely set restrictions on their kids’ accounts....
