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Social Calendar App IRL Lands $16M In Series B Funding Round

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The San Francisco-based company said the infusion of new cash will be used to reinvent its web product and expand the platform overseas. . This new funding will allow us to. This new funding will allow us to. Students with a school email address get access to the virtual campus calendar.

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Steal This 5-Step Banking Innovation Playbook from Gentle Monster

South State Correspondent

With financial hardship, competition from dominant players, and a startup budget, Gentle Monster faced many of the same challenges as a community bank. Leveraging social media, Gentle Monster started to get traction. How Banks Can Leverage: While not exactly a banking innovation, banks can better allocate capital to COIs.

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L’Oréal, Instagram Lead Late-Year Social Commerce Push

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“So it’s no surprise that Instagram is making moves to replicate TikTok’s most popular features — especially in areas where TikTok hasn’t already amassed a strong foothold, like Brazil,” says social media fan site Later. “In Facebook previously launched a short-form standalone app Lasso, but it has failed to take off as yet.

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The ICBA 22/23 executive committee is all in

Independent Banker

Executive committee members tell us what advocacy issues they’ll be focused on during their terms, while board members share their words of wisdom for up-and-coming community bankers: themselves. To sum it up, these leaders are all in and all heart for community banking. We are not Wall Street banks—we are community banks.

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For Visa, She’s Next Is What’s Next

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Visa said Monday evening at a New York gathering in anticipation of the launch that events through a year-long campaign will include interactive workshops, tailored on a community-by-community basis. These entrepreneurs would like to sharpen their social media skills to broaden reach and grow their firms.

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Pixlee Lets Retailers Market Using Real Customers’ Photos

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Pixlee , a San Francisco-based startup, allows retailers or brands to market directly to customers by using their own photos through curating them from social media or having the customer directly submit them for use, which the company says leads to a more authentic and engaging shopping experience for consumers.

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Data, Security Monopolize B2B Funding Rounds

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There may be a few resilient, strategic entrepreneurs out there who don’t need venture capital to run a successful startup. Such was the case for several companies profiled this week by The New York Times , which shed light on the minority of startup owners that decide not to take outside investment. Enterprise Security.

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