Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology company headquartered in Austin, Texas. In 2020, Oracle was the third-largest software company in the world by revenue and market capitalization. In 2023, the company’s seat in Forbes Global 2000 was 80. The company sells database software and cloud computing. Oracle's core application software is a suite of enterprise software products, such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, human capital management (HCM) software, customer relationship management (CRM) software, enterprise performance management (EPM) software, Customer Experience Commerce and supply chain management (SCM) software.
Shopify Inc., stylized as shopify, is a Canadian multinational e-commerce company headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario. Shopify is the name of its proprietary e-commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale systems. The platform offers online retailers a suite of services including; payments, marketing, shipping and customer engagement tools.
Musixmatch is an Italian music data company and platform for users to search and share song lyrics with translations. Musixmatch has 80 million users, 8 million songs with their respective lyrics, and 115+ employees.
Kajabi LLC is an Irvine, California-based SaaS technology company that develops a platform for creators and entrepreneurs to create, market and sell digital content. Recently Kajabi has expanded its focus to include support for online courses and app development. The company is a tech unicorn, with a $2 billion valuation.
Link Motion Inc, formerly NetQin and NQ Mobile, is a multinational technology company that develops, licenses, supports and sells software and services that focus on the smart ride business. Link Motion sells carputers for car businesses, consumer ride sharing services, as well as legacy mobile security, productivity and other related applications. Link Motion maintains dual headquarters in Dallas, Texas, United States and Beijing, China. A Court Receiver, lawyer Robert Seiden, was appointed over Link Motion in February 2019 in the United States in the federal district court in the Southern District of New York by Judge Victor Marrero. The Receiver removed Wenyong “Vincent” Shi as chairman and chief executive officer, and replaced him by appointing Mr. Lilin “Francis” Guo.
Sprinklr is an American software company based in New York City that develops a SaaS customer experience management (CXM) platform. The company's software, also called Sprinklr, combines different applications for social media marketing, social advertising, content management, collaboration, employee advocacy, customer care, social media research, and social media monitoring.
Apadmi is an independent technology company based in Manchester. Specializing in mobile, Apadmi works with clients including Argos, the BBC, Co-op, the Guardian, NHS, Lexus, Range Rover, and United Utilities.
Eric Wong, born in New York City, is the president and CMO of recorded music for Warner Music Group.
Amazon Alexa, or, Alexa, is a virtual assistant technology largely based on a Polish speech synthesizer named Ivona, bought by Amazon in 2013. It was first used in the Amazon Echo smart speaker and the Echo Dot, Echo Studio and Amazon Tap speakers developed by Amazon Lab126. It is capable of natural language processing for tasks such as voice interaction, music playback, creating to-do lists, setting alarms, streaming podcasts, playing audiobooks, providing weather, traffic, sports, other real-time information and news. Alexa can also control several smart devices as a home automation system. Alexa capabilities may be extended by installing "skills" such as weather programs and audio features. It performs these tasks using automatic speech recognition, natural language processing, and other forms of weak AI.
ByteDance Ltd. is a Chinese internet technology company headquartered in Haidian, Beijing and incorporated in the Cayman Islands.
TikTok, whose mainland Chinese counterpart is Douyin, is a short-form video hosting service owned by Chinese internet company ByteDance. It hosts user-submitted videos, which can range in duration from three seconds to 60 minutes. It can be accessed with a smart phone app.
Zenia Mucha is an American businesswoman who is Chief Brand and Communications Officer at TikTok, after spending 20 years in senior positions at The Walt Disney Company.
Karyn Spencer is an American talent agent for social media influencers who has had roles at Vine, AT&T, Target and Whalar. Spencer also co-produced the films Spread (2009) and Killers (2010), both starring Ashton Kutcher.
Charlie Kindel is an American tech executive and former chief product and technology officer at SnapAV. He formerly held roles with Control4, Amazon, and Microsoft. Much of his career has been spent focused on smart home products.
The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly impacted the international and domestic economies. Thus, many organizations, private individuals, religious institutions and governments have created different charitable drives, concerts and other events to lessen the economic impact felt.
Triller is an American video-sharing social networking service that was first released for iOS and Android in 2015. The service allows users to create and share short-form videos, including videos set to, or automatically synchronized to, music using artificial intelligence technology. It initially operated as a video editing app before adding social networking features.
Randonautica is an app launched on February 22, 2020 founded by Auburn Salcedo and Joshua Lengfelder. It randomly generates coordinates that enable the user to explore their local area and report on their findings. According to its creators, the app is "an attractor of strange things," letting one choose specific coordinates based on a certain theme. It gained controversy after a report of two teenagers coincidentally finding a corpse while using the app.
Pearpop is an American social media collaboration platform headquartered in Los Angeles. The company was co-founded by former creator Cole Mason and talent manager Guy Oseary in October 2020. The platform enables brands to discover and activate social media creators for social media campaigns, instantly and at scale. A recognized market leader, Pearpop was named to Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies List and named "Influencer Marketing Platform of the Year" by Digiday in 2022.
YouTube Shorts is the short-form section of the American online video-sharing platform YouTube. Shorts focuses on vertical videos that are less than 60 seconds of duration and various features for user interaction. As of May 2024, Shorts have collectively earned over 5 trillion views since the platform was made available to the public on July 13, 2021, which include video views that pre-date the YouTube Shorts feature. Creators earn money based on the amount of views they receive, or through ad revenue. The increased popularity of YouTube Shorts has led to concerns about addiction for teenagers.
V Pappas, also known as Vanessa Pappas, is an Australian-American businessperson who was the chief operating officer (COO) at TikTok. Pappas previously held executive positions at Next New Networks and YouTube, and has served on the board of directors of Simon & Schuster and the board of trustees of the Paley Center for Media.
