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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: Pancreatic Cancer Action Network

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Our official launch of text communication will be done at a Los Angeles Kings hockey game on November 27 th. Our official launch of text-to-donate will be January 3, 2011 at another Los Angeles Kings hockey game. We just launched mobile texting and text-to-donate this month (November).

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Star-studded digital avatar startup Genies launches NFT fashion marketplace

TechCrunch

Digital avatar startup Genies , known its for high-profile partnerships with celebrities such as Justin Bieber, Migos and Cardi B, has just released its long-anticipated NFT storefront, “The Warehouse.”

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AmazeVR gets another $15M to forge the future of immersive concerts 

TechCrunch

Users would join as avatars, hang out with other users, and experience VR concerts together. Headquartered in Los Angeles, with an office in Seoul, AmazeVR was founded by JB Lee, Steve Lee, Jeremy Nam and Steven Koo, all former executives of South Korean messaging app Kakao.

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VUZ raises $20 million to scale its immersive social app

TechCrunch

Users can access and engage different content — in addition to those mentioned above, live events, concerts, celebrity interviews and masterclasses, through its 360-degree live streams — by downloading VUZ’s iOS and Android apps. Over 44% of these views come from the Middle East, 32% from the U.S. and 24% from Egypt.

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The Matrix Awakens didn’t blow my mind, but it convinced me next-gen gaming is nigh

The Verge

I jacked into The Matrix Awakens today after watching our exclusive interview with Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss — they play Neo and Trinity, I’m sure you know — and hearing breathless praise around its Game Awards debut. And it’s free to download on those consoles right now, so you should really give it a go. The city surface is 15.79

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Hustler at the end of the world

The Verge

His WhatsApp avatar was a round-faced cartoon man in over-ear headphones. When the pandemic started, Fong did a radio interview in Malaysia explaining in halting English how the public could stay safe with social distancing, hand washing, and frequent testing. Every time Kaplan felt he was about to close a deal, it fell apart.

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What a damning civil rights audit missed about Facebook

The Verge

Perhaps this is because they are practicing realpolitik — Rashad Robinson, who has helped to organize the ad boycott as the head of civil rights group Color of Change, suggests as much in an interview with Charlie Warzel at the New York Times. Suhauna Hussain / Los Angeles Times ). Pizzi said. Tom Warren / The Verge ).