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Looking Back On Tech, Startups, And VC In 2018

Haystack

1/ Social Network Interference. In 2017, we learned about how social media feeds were used to surface biased or planted information. A concept discussed during that time was “ glasnost ,” a part of the new Russia’s restructuring to provide more openness and transparency in information.

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Twitter Link Roundup #85 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Not surprising that more affluent consumers use social networks differently – [link]. Good article on ranking algorithms & inner workings of Yandex (Russia’s Google) – [link]. Good article arguing that cause marketing is worth the risk for brands – [link].

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Millennials In Asia Are Ambitious And Entrepreneurial: VISA Study

YoungUpstarts

Filipinos come a very close second at 79-percent, followed by Russia (60-percent). Well, unsurprisingly, online social networking is huge with this lot. Weekly Facebook use is incredibly high especially in Southeast Asia (Singapore, Philippines and Indonesia rated 93-percent) as compared to other social networks.

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The 50 Most Promising Israeli Startups in 2016

VC Cafe

Plarium – Multi player games for social networks (Raised Unknown). Kenshoo – Programmatic advertising in search engines and social networks (Raised $65M). MyHeritage – Family tree based social network (Raised $49M). Ctera – Private cloud for corporates (Raised $45M).

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Starcount.com: Charting The Stars In Social Media

YoungUpstarts

. “A tool like Klout measures social media effectiveness, but from a marketer’s standpoint,” Thomson explains. Starcount generates and assigns each a Starcount score, of which the largest number is 100,000.

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

www.readwriteweb.com

This was especially true as we found some of the best developers to be in Russia and India, therefore splitting the travel. For about a year now, weve been working on a social network for sports fans, FantasySportsMatrix.com. =) Weve found that costs and risk can be minimized significantly if your team can handle the UI in-house.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter – June 2012 Edition

VC Cafe

The two companies have collaborated for a long time, with Facebook using Face.com’s technology to help users tag the faces of friends in pictures they upload on the social network with Face.com’s Photo Tagger service. This is Facebook’s second acquisition in Israel, following the acquisition of Snaptu for $70m in March 2011.

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