Ingrid Lunden

“Snap, Inc. is a camera company,” Snap notes on its homepage, and while a lot of its effort up to now have been about using that camera ethos to help people share images of their lives with their social circles on its flagship app Snapchat, today the company made an acquisition to further that camera […]

Snap acquires Fit Analytics, a fitting technology startup, to double ...

This entry was posted in Europe Finance Fundings & Exits Social on March 17, 2021 by Ingrid Lunden

Growth for Facebook is coming from the developing world, and so the social network today made another key move to cater better to consumers in those countries. After nearly three years in the planning, Facebook is taking the plunge today and officially launching Instagram Lite, a less data- and storage-intensive Android-only version of one of […]

Facebook targets emerging markets with the launch of Instagram Lite, ...

This entry was posted in Apps Social TC and tagged facebook instagram on March 10, 2021 by Ingrid Lunden

Facebook targets emerging markets with the launch of Instagram Lite, ...

This entry was posted in Apps Social TC and tagged facebook instagram on March 10, 2021 by Ingrid Lunden

The vast majority of startups remain focused on consumers, knowledge workers and the opportunities to provide services to those that are already operating completely, or at least partially, in digital environments. But today comes news of funding for a startup building a social network for what is probably one of the least digital business sectors […]

Wefarm adds $11M to expand its network for independent farmers, ...

This entry was posted in AgTech Enterprise GreenTech Social on March 9, 2021 by Ingrid Lunden

A lot of our communication these days with each other is digital, and today one of the companies enabling that — with APIs to build chat experiences into apps — is announcing a round of funding on the back of some very strong growth. Stream, which lets developers build chat and activity streams into apps […]

Stream raises $38M as its chat and activity feed APIs ...

This entry was posted in Apps chat Developer developers Europe Social on March 4, 2021 by Ingrid Lunden

Stream raises $38M as its chat and activity feed APIs ...

This entry was posted in Apps chat Developer developers Europe Social on March 4, 2021 by Ingrid Lunden

On the back of Zynga acquiring Turkey’s Peak Games for $1.8 billion last year and then following it up with another gaming acquisition in the country, Turkey has been making a name for itself as a hub for mobile gaming startups, and specifically those building casual puzzle games, the wildly popular and very sticky format […]

Istanbul’s Dream Games snaps up $50M and launches its first ...

This entry was posted in Europe Gaming Mobile on March 1, 2021 by Ingrid Lunden

TikTok has crafted a number of policies over the years to distance itself from the often-messy political fray, but its users continue to have other agendas in mind. In Russia, a tug-of-war has emerged on the social network. On one side are young people using the app to create videos in support of free speech, […]

TikTok emerges as a political battleground in Navalny-stirred Russia

This entry was posted in Europe Policy Social TC on February 11, 2021 by Ingrid Lunden

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Istanbul’s Dream Games snaps up $50M and launches its first ...