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  The lowdown on Boxlist, the AI-powered social network aiming to be your new go-to place for discovering TV and film recommendations across all streaming services. What ticks your boxes? Have you ever been frustrated at not knowing what TV or films you will like? Spent half an hour browsing Netflix, given up, and ended up watching a rerun of Friends? Maybe you have tried to contact friend...
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Social media giant, Facebook and BYP Network, the platform connecting black professionals around the world announce new annual partnership... 2020 is getting off to a great start for BYP Network with the announcement that it is collaborating with social media network, Facebook,in a new annual partnership. BYP Network is a platform that connects black professionals around the world to niche loc...
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Frolo is a social networking app on a mission to connect single parents to likeminded single parents living in the same area... We have written in the past about networks for parents to share news and tips, to meet up, and to simply talk with other parents. For example, Mush, a social network dedicated to new mums (and parents fullstop). Single parenting, though, has its unique challen...
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Goodbye Google+. The end game/date for Google+ for consumers (personal) has been announced as the 2nd April 2019. So what....now? Honesty is (most often or not) the best policy and Google has been pretty upfront that they are shutting down Google+ for consumers due to "low usage and challenges involved in maintaining a successful product that meets consumers' expectations." Now Google have a...
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New app friendrequest aims to connect people, taking 'social' offline and to lead the way in facilitating real-life friendship. Initially aimed at young people living, studying and working in London, friendrequest is a new app looking to lead the way in facilitating friendship.  Aiming to address the challenge of forming actual friendships in a world of ‘social’ media, the app...
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2018 has been the year where fake news has become a prominent topic. But what of fake online reviews? Startup Hubbite has been launched with the aim of putting the trust back into online reviews. 2018 has been the year where fake news has become a prominent topic. Social media sites commit to doing all they can to stop it.But what of fake reviews? Trustpilot, TripAdvisor, Yelp and so on...th...
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GirlCrew - this Dublin based social media platform and app is on a mission to help women to make new friends This startup’s origin story might be familiar to many. Elva Carri wanted to go out dancing, but none of her friends were able and willing. Undeterred, she took to Tinder to find (no, don’t get ahead) some female friends in the same position by changing her profile picture to ex...
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Being a new parent is not easy. Even after you have the new little thing in your life topped up with nutrients, stopped the leaking, and turned down the volume (it’s possible that you might notice that not everyone at Startacus has children), there’s still the isolation. The little things that you didn’t consider. The lack of understanding of the finer points of being a parent fr...
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A social network that helps young people fulfil their potential by helping them with career advice and course selection has bagged a £275,000 seed round to boost growth and invest in app development.  Coursematch was launched in 2016 by Chris Worsey, 34, Edtech entrepreneur and former Parliamentary candidate, and Joe Perkins, 24, a computer science grad, after they met in a pub and tal...
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Startacus member Eduardo Cordova recently listed Excuses to Meet in our startup showcasing area on Startacus. Here Eduardo goes on to explain why their new App will fill the social void and help folk lead a more connected life.Over to Eduardo to tell all...Give us your pitch, whats your startup all about?Excuses to Meet is an app that makes it an easy and enjoyable experience for like-mi...
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