Spotlight on Snapchat Agrega – Heaven32
Snapchat offers a TikTok-style feed, Amazon Echo Buds adds fitness tracking, and Vettery acquires Hired. It’s their Daily Crunch for November 23, 2020.
The big story: Snapchat adds the spotlight
Snapchat has entered a dedicated stream where users can watch short, entertaining videos, quite similar to TikTok. It also comes after application Similar music features added to TikTok last month.
Starting today, users will be able to send their Snaps to the new Spotlight stream. Viewers will be able to direct post creators with public profiles (Spotlight will also include anonymous content from private accounts), but there will be no public commentary on these videos.
To encourage creators to post on Spotlight, Snapchat says it will give away more than $ 1 million every day to those who create the best videos on Spotlight.
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The giants of technology
Amazon’s Echo Buds Get New Fitness Tracking Features – Say “Alexa, start my workout” with the buttons inside and they will start recording steps, calories, distance, pace and duration of runs.
Uber denied permission to lay off 11 employees from its EMEA headquarters “The Dutch employee insurance agency refused to allow Uber to lay off 11 people at the company’s headquarters in the EMEA region.
Facebook Launches “ Drives, ” a US-Only Feature to Collect Food, Clothing, and Other Basic Items for People in Need – The feature is available through the existing Facebook community help center.
Startups, financing and venture capital
Relativity Space raises $ 500 million while targeting industrialization of Mars – Los Angeles-based rocket start-up Relativity has had a great 2020, completing work on a new 120,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Long Beach.
– The company will invest heavily in the development of new manufacturing technologies in cell and gene therapies, viral vectors, vaccines and proteins.
Superpeer video tutoring platform raises $ 8 million, launches pay channels – The Superpeer platform allows experts to promote, schedule and bill one-on-one video calls with anyone who wants to ask their opinion.
Extra Crunch advice and analysis
Seven things we just learned about Sequoia’s European expansion plans – Steve O’Hear interviews Luciana Lixandru and Matt Miller about the company’s plans.
Founders Looking For Their First Check Need A Sales Funnel For Fundraising – Start digging the well before you feel thirsty.
Will the Roaring Twenties in Brazil see the rise of startups? – In September, local startups raised a record $ 843 million.
(Extra Crunch is our membership program, which aims to democratize information about startups. And until November 30, you can get a 25% reduction on an annual subscription.)
All the others
Vettery gets hired to create a ‘unified’ job search platform – Vettery CEO Josh Brenner said the two platforms are largely complementary.
Gift Guide: Which Next Generation Console Does Your Child Want? – This holiday season, the next generation of gamers will look forward to receiving the next generation of gaming consoles.
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