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- FollowingToday we have another OG app news. At this time Ivan Google reportedly pulled it from PlayStorm. You may remember that OG was promising an ad-free Instagram experience. Apple took the first step and removed it a few weeks ago after Meta claimed that such an app violated its policies.
- The day has finally arrivedHulu today increased the price of subscription, reports Lauren.
- This is a trap!Varun Badwar, co-founder of Indore Labs, said, “If threats to the software supply chain are not already a boardroom priority, they will be soon.” Kyle. A software supply chain startup has raised $25 million to continue developing its graph analytics technology to learn how dependencies are used in an organization and create relevant risk indicators.
Startups and VCs
“The rough model I’m using inside is last year’s party and this year’s hangover. That’s what it feels like to me — we’re just starting to understand the excesses of the past year,” Mark Goldberg of Index Ventures said in an interview. Mary AnnInterchange Newsletter. “We have now seen the retirement period after the fact. By indexing, we may be investing in what we think will be the next generation of fintech companies right now.
Cloud kitchens became popular during the global pandemic as a way for restaurants to reach out to their communities when people rarely go out. One of them, Foodology, a Columbia-based cloud kitchen and virtual restaurant company, has just raised $50 million. Christine Reports.
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Growth hacking is really just a growth experiment.
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“Growth hacking” might not be the best phrase to describe the work required to adjust marketing campaigns and systems. In fact, successful marketers constantly iterate, measuring and testing efforts to reduce waste and maximize ROI.
“If each test results in 1% improvement, after 100 tests you’re on your way to 100% improvement,” writes Jonathan Martinez, a self-described “marketing nerd” at Uber, Post Office and Postmates. Chim.
The best way to find marketing hacks is to “use a rigorous testing framework to run countless A/B tests,” advises Martinez, who shares the RICE (Reach, Trust, and Effort) scoring spreadsheet, along with his thoughts on finding and activating growth hacks.
“It’s important to remember that there is no such thing as infiltration of development. Instead, you should think about how you can run 100 tests to move the needle forward.
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Big Tech Inc.
When a Florida company asked an employee to turn on a webcam during the workday so the company could monitor their work, it learned that overseas hiring and video surveillance violated European human rights policies. came He has more about what happened.
ICYMI over the weekend, Twitter locked Kanye West’s account following an anti-Semitic tweet; Taylor He reported. And that’s apparently after Elon Musk sent a welcome message to Ye, who tweeted that he had been removed from Instagram.
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