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It’s Tech Tuesday.
Worth noting: Nintendo's market cap has doubled to $42 billion since the launch of Pokémon Go. Meanwhile, according to Bloomberg, Verizon is among the top bidders for Yahoo's core business.
Eric Sager is on the move, joining BlueVine as Chief Revenue Officer. Sager was previously the head of sales at Square.
Just funded: Kiip, an SF-based mobile app that offers rewards from brands and companies for customers’ virtual achievements, has raised $12 million in Series C funding, led by North Atlantic Capital.
We are attending Sharethrough’s 2016 Native Advertising Summit today in San Francisco, where senior marketing executives including Jim Lanzone, President of CBS Interactive, will be presenting. Check back for our post-conference story.
Cheers to a great week ahead!
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Slack Fund Fueling Further Growth in Hot Bot Space
BY: STAFF WRITER － JULY 19, 2016
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CREDIT: SLACK MEDIUM BLOG
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Slack, the popular office chat and collaboration platform, announced today that it has invested a total of $1.97 million in 14 startups that integrate apps into Slack’s messaging service. The investments came from the Slack Fund, an $80-million venture pool Slack founded last December.
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Don’t Botch the Bot: Dashbot Aims to Become the Google Analytics for Chatbots
BY: STAFF WRITER － JULY 18, 2016
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DASHBOT CO-FOUNDERS
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Jesse Hull, co-founder and CTO of Dashbot, sees the current excitement about bots just another iPhone moment. He has joked about how his two-year-old can effortlessly talk with Amazon Echo’s Alexa — an adoption curve that has been so fast and natural that Hull envisions a time when little kids will call iPhones and iPads their best playmates.
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BY: STAFF WRITER － JULY 19, 2016
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CREDIT: LIVEENGAGE
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LivePerson, Inc. (Nasdaq: LPSN), a technology provider of brand-to-consumer communications, announced this week that it is partnering with GoDaddy to bring its conversational chat capabilities to GoDaddy’s 14 million-plus clients. The chat capability is available via LiveEngage, LivePerson’s platform for mobile and web messaging.
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BY: RAN XU － JULY 18, 2016
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CREDIT: SHARETHROUGH
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From sponsored stories that sit on the sidebars of a publisher’s site to long-form, homepage-worthy productions like the famous “Orange is the New Black” piece by the New York Times’s content studio, native advertising is being used by brands and publishers in a variety of creative ways.
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