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Reddit’s GameStop traders turn their attention to AMC stock

The Verge

Reddit traders who have successfully profited off GameStop (GME) stock are now turning their attention to struggling movie theater chain AMC. It’s part of a chaotic, meme-fueled effort to create an organized short squeeze, and force traditional hedge funds into losing millions of dollars on their bets against struggling companies.

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Emotional marketing and an e-mail titan walk into a bar

TechCrunch

The whole thing is honestly worth a read, but we especially paid attention to how funding has dropped for female founders: Round sizes for women + non-binary founders were up to 49% lower than males. 85% of venture funding goes to all-male teams. million in funding. million in funding.

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How Nonprofits Can Leverage Crowdfunding: Best Practices and Data

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The statistic of 28% are repeat donors or 72% are new donors – points to the need for nonprofits to not only use social channels and crowd funding platforms to attract new donors, but more attention needs to be give to engagement and retention. Stand out by making the fundraiser unique and fun to get people’s attention.

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The most innovative companies in applied AI for 2025

Fast Company Tech

offers a web app that enterprises use to monitor how their brand name is portrayed in social media posts, videos, links, and memes. The company closed two funding rounds in 2024: $200 million in February and $260 million in September at a $4.6 Enterprises are also using AI apps to protect softer corporate assets, such as reputation.

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Give Local America: Getting People Excited About Giving Days

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This guest post highlights some of the techniques Knight Foundation grantees are using to attract attention. How do you get attention for a 24-hour online Giving Day campaign? launched a meme contest, encouraging their nonprofit partners to create one to promote their Giving Day campaign.

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Robinhood’s long weekend brings a total of $3.4 billion to its balance sheet

TechCrunch

Per Robinhood, the new funds were “led by Ribbit Capital, with participation from existing investors including ICONIQ, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia, Index Ventures, and NEA with terms being finalized.” Sources familiar, however, tell TechCrunch that the funds were raised in the form of a convertible note.

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Bitcoin spot ETFs heat up, SBF’s bail revoked and web3 gaming adoption grows in Asia

TechCrunch

Check out what caught our attention below. Spot bitcoin exchange traded funds, or ETFs, have been a hot topic in the crypto community for many years, but have recently gotten more attention due to Jacobi Asset Management listing Europe’s first bitcoin spot ETF almost two years after its initial approval. PT, subscribe here.

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