Sentences with phrase «social base in»

For a variety of activities which bore practically and critically upon the concept of art, but which were at home neither in the studio nor in the gallery, Art & Language promised a social base in shared conversation.

Further, belief is seen to have a concrete social base in the organized body of believers.

Not exact matches

Re / code talked to After School's creators — Cory Levy and Michael Callahan (of One, a San Francisco - based social media startup), and asked them some questions about their app and about how they plan on combatting the obvious strain of bullying that goes hand - in - hand with anonymous apps such as theirs.

The social media findings are based on a December 2009 telephone survey of 500 small businesses, compared to one done in December 2008.

Usually, this is used for technology companies but is great for every vertical in a startup, especially tech - based like the Fownders social learning platform.»

«Generally, when you are the basis for a platform, you don't want to scare away investment in your platform developers by competing with them... There is a vibrant ecosystem of game developers, headed by Zynga, who do a good job making successful social games already, and Facebook gets a cut of what those developers make, so there is currently no need for Facebook to step in and make games itself, either strategically or monetarily,» Hoskins recently explained via Quora.

Ads on social media are targeted specifically towards you based on past purchases, drawing you back in and trying to prompt you to buy more similar products.

• Furhat Robotics, a Stockholm - based social robotics company, raised $ 2.5 million in seed funding.

And I'd been guilty of perpetuating this sort of prejudice by perpetuating stereotypes of psychics as shifty, exotic people or as being unreal, unable to be found as mothers or neighbors or activists like Emily, who's active in social justice - based causes, particularly the fight for transgender equal rights.

• FishBrain, a Stockholm - based mobile social network for sport fishing, raised $ 13.5 million in a Series B funding.

The London - based National Institute of Economic and Social Research, a non-partisan think - tank, said in May that the economy of a European Union — free U.K. could be as much as 3.2 % smaller by 2030.

• Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings, a Palo Alto, Calif. - based SPAC, said it plans to raise $ 600 million in its IPO.

«Write to Play» heralded Playworld's first - ever social media giveaway, and the results are impressive: Not only did its Facebook fan base increase from 600 to more than 9,000 during the two months the contest ran, but as finalists rallied to gain community support for their campaigns, many local news outlets reported on their efforts, earning Playworld significant free publicity in the process.

Most recently, social marketing company Buddy Media was bought for $ 689 million by Salesforce.com, which also snatched up a similar, New Brunswick — based firm called Radian6 for $ 326 million in 2011.

• GoDaddy will acquire Main Street Hub, an Austin, Texas - based social media marketing platform, for $ 125 million in cash plus up to $ 50 million in potential future earn outs, according to TechCrunch.

• vTime, a London - based virtual reality social network, raised $ 7.6 million in Series A funding.

Empire Avenue, a small social - media startup that's headquartered in Edmonton but based in, well, everywhere, is a perfect example.

Unlike corporations in the west, Korean businesses tend to approach social change from a purely profit - based perspective.

Paul Klein is president and founder of Impakt, a leading global CSR consultancy based in Toronto that helps corporations and non-profit organizations to become social purpose leaders.

Based in Denver, Punch Bowl Social brought in $ 36 million in revenue last year, landing on the Inc. 5000list at No. 1195.

In addition, our approach to connecting business with social change is based on addressing the priorities of a wide range of stakeholders including employees, business partners, shareholders, government regulators, advocacy groups and consumers.

• Nebanan, a Germany - based locally - focused social network for neighborhoods, raised $ 16 million ($ 19.8 million) in Series A funding.

Harness the power of your current - loyal customer base and include them in spreading your brand's social proof.

Since then, their Toronto - based startup, Viral Nation, has evolved into one of the largest social - media marketing firms in the world, on track to generate more than $ 15 million (U.S.) in 2018 sales, according to the founders.

Based on what I saw in Seoul last week, I've developed four practical ideas to help corporations make their investments in social change both more effective and more profitable.

Election - meddling is «not something we want on Twitter,» the San Francisco - based social network said in an unsigned statement.

• Fiit, a U.K. - based social workout app, raised 2.4 million pounds ($ 3.2 million) in seed funding.

Fortune ran numbers to calculate how much extra revenue the U.S. would need to raise, over the next decade, if it lowered the rate of growth in Social Security by one percentage point, reduced increases in Medicare, Medicaid, and other health care spending by a proportional amount, and held discretionary spending below growth in GDP (albeit from the higher base established by the new laws).

• Ritual a San Francisco - based social ordering app that connects users to their favorite local eateries, announced $ 57.5 million in total funding.

Increasingly, major investors are using information gathered from major social media sites as a way to trade, programming algorithms that buy and sell stocks at least in part based on social media sentiment.

Founded in 2009 by siblings and entrepreneurs Zeina and Ahmed Abou Chaaban, Palestyle is a UAE - based luxury brand with a social mission.

Clearly defining your goals can help you determine which email marketing solution is best for your business, says Simms Jenkins, author of The New Inbox: Why Email Marketing is the Digital Marketing Hub in a Social & Mobile World (Incisive Media, 2013) and chief executive of BrightWave Marketing, an Atlanta - based digital marketing agency.

• Safanad increased its investment in HC - One, a U.K. - based provider of health and social care.

• LoveCrafts, a London - based online social marketplace for crafts, raised 26 million pounds ($ 33 million) in funding.

Also, your chances of buyer's remorse diminish significantly because social proof — the act of making decisions based on what others recommend — justified the purchase in your mind.

In today's cloud - based, mobile - focused, inherently social world, customers demand a higher level of responsiveness than ever before: they expect businesses to provide what they want, when and how they want it.

Since 1995, New York - based management consulting firm ghSMART has been advising the globe's top business minds in every major industry and across private, public and social sectors.

«A lot of people jump in thinking it's going to be a quick, easy fix,» says Lowell Brown, CEO of Toronto - based marketing firm Going Social.

The suspension appears to have been lifted in the past few days, based on social media activity on Interior Department accounts.

At MassRoots, the cannabis social network based in Denver, it is not unusual to have marijuana and team meetings go hand - in - hand.

The company, based in Des Moines, has a fairly simple proposition: Users sign up for a Dwolla account by entering their social security number and bank routing number.

In a digital era where social tools make you more visible and accessible, you make personal and business decisions based on trust daily.

• L Catterton made «a significant» growth investment in Punch Bowl Social, a Denver, Colo. - based dining and entertainment company.

Based on research by Dr. Robert Cialdini, a leading social psychologist, it turns out that because of the sheer magnitude of information you have to take in every day, your brain has developed 6 shortcuts to help you make decisions.

Patton Gleason, president of Richmond, Va. - based NaturalRunningStore.com, says social media helps him build relationships with existing customers; they in turn promote his online store to new audiences when they share the information they've received on their own networks.

Among other things, it is working hard to get publishers and advertisers interested in its Facebook Audience Network, which allows ads outside of the Facebook site or app to be targeted to users based on the data that the social network has about their interests.

Performance should be based, in part, on what was accomplished as a result of money invested in social issues and organizations.

Christian Borges, vice president of marketing for MRY, a New York - based social - media agency that got its start in the college space, adds that this domino - like reality makes it even more important to achieve brand recognition and adoption in the first place.

We specialize in providing powerful websites, shopping carts, credit card processing, secure payment gateways, strategic marketing campaigns, custom logos, and social media programs for entrepreneurs operating successful businesses in the internet, home - based and mail - order industries.

Led by Japan, Indonesia, South Korea and India, Asia was the fastest growing region for Twitter in summer 2010, according to Semiocast, a Paris - based social media research company.