YOUR STORY - Koo App has raised $6.3M in a new round co-led by Tiger Global and Accel Partners. Koo App was launched as a microblogging platform for Indian languages that is an offshoot of their user-generated content platform Vokal. The focus of Koo was to create a micro-blogging platform that can help people communicate in a language they are comfortable in.
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TECH CRUNCH - LinkedIn is rolling out a new feature that allows users to schedule posts to send at a later time. It has seemingly been tested internally for several months already, according to at least one online report back in Aug from the web developer and app researcher Nima Owji, but it seems that LinkedIn is now readying things for prime time.
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ANI - Qlan is looking to introduce and empower gamers with unique user experiences and networking opportunities. Its latest and optimized version will focus on making it easier to discover gamers, squads and esports tournaments on the platform. It introduces exclusive filters and promoting esports tournaments to boost registrations for organizers and publishers with a data-driven reach algorithm. The platform's beta phase amassed ~50K users; the full version app will further empower unique community building.
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TECH CRUNCH - Fizz closed a $4.5M seed round in Jun, and already, the social media app for college students raised its $12M Series A. Fizz is only available to college students, and users can only access the Fizz community for their own college. On the app, students can publish text posts, polls and photos without a username or identifying information attached. The app had launched on 13 campuses and in two months, that number has doubled to 25 campuses.
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TECH CRUNCH - YouTube is experimenting with a new feature that allows creators to add quizzes to their community posts - the social media-style posts for channels that have at least 500 subscribers. The quiz beta is only available to a small number of creators. The company also said it's experimenting with a photo editing tool which will now come to the YouTube app on iOS devices after earlier tests on Android.
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WIRED - Truth Social's popularity has seen boosts tied to the recent chaotic news cycle about Twitter. It boasted 10M visits in Nov so far, up from ~ 8M in Oct. Truth Social is both a replica and the antithesis of Twitter-like social network Mastodon. Focused on dialog and respect instead of ads, profit, and virality - meant to disincentivize trolls - Mastodon grew slowly. Mastodon also has heavy moderation capabilities, allowing server administrators to act on hate speech and other inappropriate content.
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TECH CRUNCH - In looking for Twitter alternatives, Brazilians are showing more inclination toward the India-based social network Koo which has seen ~1M downloads in the country. But just a week into the launch in the South American market, Koo is already facing moderation and security challenges. The social network faces moderation and security problems after its Brazil launch. Hackers took control of popular influencer Felipe Neto's Koo account by posting that they were warning users of the social network's lack of security. The company explained on its Portuguese-language Twitter account that it "relaxed our security for the last 2 hours to resolve the OTP issue" and all user data is safe.
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TECH CRUNCH - Tumblr will add support for ActivityPub, the open, decentralized social networking protocol that is powering social networking software like Twitter alternative Mastodon, the Instagram-like Pixelfed, video streaming service PeerTube, and others. The ActivityPub protocol provides a client-to-server API for creating, updating, and deleting content, as well as a federal server-to-server API for delivering notifications and subscribing to content. If Tumblr were to add ActivityPub support, it means users on Mastodon could follow Tumblr users' posts from their own Mastodon instance - without having to use the Tumblr app.
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CNBC - People are increasingly using their social networking "feeds" to discover compelling content as opposed to viewing the media shared by the friends that they follow. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg referred to TikTok as a "very effective competitor." It's important for Meta to develop AI that can recommend a range of content including photos and text to users besides just short videos, he said.
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