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Tech Companies That Missed the Mark in 2016

CTOvision

From Snapchat Spectacles to virtual reality, 2016 was a year of innovation and growth in the tech industry. However, not every company saw great success, and even the tech giants had some big snafus. Here are some of the most notable tech company failures of the past year. Rick Delgado.

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Seattle’s newest unicorn: Rec Room raises $100M as social gaming popularity fuels big growth

GeekWire

On a video call from the hospital where he and his wife welcomed a baby boy over the weekend, CEO and co-founder Nick Fajt was excited about the 5-year-old startup he’s been raising into a unicorn in Seattle, where a majority of top tech companies operate in enterprise software or cloud computing. The company is not yet profitable.

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Pendulum raises $5.9M to help companies identify potentially harmful narratives online

GeekWire

The tech: Pendulum’s software is used by corporate risk intelligence groups within Fortune 500 companies to identify risks and opportunities that arise from social media and other online content. government, helping to combat harmful narratives and foreign election interference in 2016. million seed round.

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RiskIQ Accelerates Momentum Across Entire External Threat Management Solution Set in First Half of 2016

CTOvision

What the press release does not capture well enough is that RiskIQ is the only firm we have seen that can provide network defenders with true insights into how adversaries are using infrastructure to attack. We track RiskIQ in our Security Companies Directory -bg. They are like the SIEM of the Internet and all mobile devices.

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Twitter could soon introduce Facebook-style emoji reactions

TechSpot

In 2016, Twitter changed its App Store category from Social Network to News, helping it move out of the shadow of Mark Zuckerberg's company and its billion+ userbase.

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Futurist proved correct! …and today describes the extraordinary social technologies of 2016 (release)

Trends in the Living Networks

This morning Future Exploration Network issued this press release (excuse the hyperbole :-) ) I have already done several radio interviews on the forecasts in the release with quite a few more radio, newspaper and TV interviews lined up for the next days - the ideas seem to have struck a chord. Futurist proved correct!

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Local and anonymous social media app Yik Yak is back

The Verge

Yik Yak — the anonymous, local social media app that only shows posts from people in your immediate area — has returned from the grave with new ownership after shutting down four years ago. But while the anonymity made it popular for college students, Yik Yak also was rife with bullying and harassment.

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