Clubhouse

If you’re an entrepreneur, creative, or social media enthusiast, chances are you’ve heard of the new live-audio chat app Clubhouse that’s exploded during quarantine. I sat down with Dan Fleyshman – a philanthropist, social media mogul, serial entrepreneur, and the co-founder of the online learning platform for entrepreneurs 100 Million Academy – to discuss his thoughts on Clubhouse. Dan has had extreme success on the app, creating popular rooms such as Money, Investing, Side Hustles, and Building Wealth. For reference, Dan is the youngest founder to take a company public at 19, and has angel invested in 35 companies. He is also the founder of Elevator Studio, which has spent more on Instagram influencer and celebrity posts than any other company in history. Essentially, this guy knows his stuff – and he thinks Clubhouse will be the #1 app of the year. Anais, author: Why do you believe Clubhouse is the next big thing in social media? How have you been using it? Dan: There are a few reasons for all the hype about Clubhouse. It’s exclusive. The app is still “invite only” while it’s in their beta testing. Movie stars, rappers, beauty executives, comedians, and venture capital executives are…

By Imani Moise (Reuters) - Social media chatrooms are beginning to resemble the squawk boxes on old-fashioned trading floors, as a new generation of retail traders continues to gain influence over the stock market. While attention has focused on the Wallstreetbets Reddit page that helped send shares of GameStop Corp and AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc soaring, thousands of "amateur" investors have also been congregating on Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, Discord, Clubhouse, Slack and other platforms to trade tips away from the public eye, posts shared with and seen by Reuters show. For example, Rapper 21 Savage's manager, Stone Mound Meezy, started a Clubhouse room on Wednesday to celebrate earning $40,000 in GameStop options. It quickly filled with more than 1,200 participants who encouraged newbies to jump into other investments, including Nokia Oyj and cryptocurrencies. "If I make $100K because of this goofy *ss room ... OOOOH WEEEEE," Meezy wrote after investing in Nokia at their suggestions and seeing he was in the money. In another Clubhouse room, venture capitalist Mark Monroe was urging 2,500 members to stay away from "meme stocks" that he believed could crash by the end of the week. At the same time, on Instagram, 23-year-old…

This post is a delayed version of Techpoint Digest, a week-daily newsletter that rounds up major happenings in African tech. You can start receiving it hours before everyone else if you subscribe now Today we are discussing: Twitter acquires newsletter startup, Revue WhatsApp clone, GBWhatsApp Twitter trend South Africa set to regulate cryptocurrency Clubhouse is coming to Android Outrage against GBWhatsApp, WhatsApp copycat users Photo by AARN GIRI on Unsplash Yesterday, GBWhatsApp trended on TwitterNG. Before talking about the ‘why?’, let’s do something for the uninitiated. I learnt about GBWhatsApp three years ago; the number of ‘attractive’ features on the app enticed me. ‘Status’ was new to WhatsApp, and downloading them from other users is not allowed. But GBWhatsApp permits that — the bait. And that’s only one of the many ways GBWhatsApp contravenes everything Facebook’s WhatsApp prohibits. GBWhatsApp is arguably the most popular of several WhatsApp’s clone apps available on the Internet — there is FMWhatsApp, WhatsApp Indigo, YOWhatsApp, among others. These apps give users the allowance to break certain WhatsApp restrictions. One of these is the anti-delete feature — when a user deletes a chat or media, it remains for GBWhatsApp users. Back to the ‘why?’ While I…

The State Premier of Thuringia has faced criticism for playing Candy Crush during online coronavirus response meetings with Angela Merkel and referring to the chancellor in a diminutive way.Playing gamesBodo Ramelow admitted to playing Candy Crush on his mobile phone during meetings with the chancellor and other state premiers, during which they discussed the containment of coronavirus in Germany. He made the confession at the weekend, in what he believed to be a closed meeting on the audio chatroom app Clubhouse. According to reports, Ramelow, a member of the hard-left Die Linke party, said that during the sometimes lengthy coronavirus meetings, “Some people play Sudoku, others play chess or Scrabble on their phones, and I play Candy Crush.” He is also reported to have referred to Angela Merkel as “Merkelchen,” which translates to “little Merkel.”Ramelow has since apologised for this on Twitter, saying that “diminishing the chancellor’s name was an act of male ignorance.”Ramelow, along with other state premiers, resisted Merkel’s proposals for tougher lockdown restrictions in a coronavirus response meeting in October, just weeks before a new wave of coronavirus cases hit Germany. Ramelow has since admitted that the chancellor was right to push for tougher restrictions.Politicians criticise RamelowThe new head of the CDU party, Armin…

“A space for casual and direct audio conversations.” This is how Clubhouse is officially defined, a new social network that in just a few months – and even less, a few weeks in the case of Spain – has risen to the level of expectation, comments on other social networks such as Twitter, and whose parent company has raised important financing flows to carry out new improvements. But what is Clubhouse? We could define it as a social network based on streaming voice audios and whose content is ephemeral. As a kind of podcast counterpart of which Twitch is for the video format. Although perhaps not that either, because for now Clubhouse is more focused as we said on that the conversations that occur are natural, to the point that, at least for the moment, it captures the audio directly from the microphone of the telephone or the headphones that you have connected by Bluetooth. In other words, it does not prioritize that the quality of the audio is captured by a mic, surely inviting you to do so without further preparation. Now we will continue to explain how the Clubhouse works inside once we enter, but first we must…

Slack threads, Scheduled Zoom calls, and endless email chains do not capture the unpredictable thrill or joy of having physical conversations. With COVID-19 evolving the way we work and socialize, the free-flowing, ad-hoc communication with friends and open office conversations are often missing. Clubhouse, a new type of networking app has recreated the spontaneity of conversations online. The app uses an audio-based social network where people can spontaneously jump into voice chat rooms and talk about stuff together. Clubhouse is “24/7 virtual panel” where you can jump in and even participate in the live audio rooms of friends, teammates, industry professionals and even celebrities like Kevin Hart, Oprah and Drake. Over $100 million raised Founded last year by Paul Davison, who previously founded offline people-meeting location app Highlight, Clubhouse has grown from having just 1,500 users in May 2020 to over two million active users. Last weekend, the buzzy live-voice chat announced a new funding round led by venture firm Andreessen Horowitz. According to Axios, the Series B round was about $100 million. The app which was valued at about $100 million last May after it raised $12 million is now worth $1 billion in valuation according to The Information. Absolute exclusivity…for now The…

Africa recorded a total FDI of $38 billion in 2020 representing a drop of 18% from $46 billion recorded in 2019, data from the United Nations Trade Association shows.Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy attracted a total FDI of $2.6 billion in 2020 down from the $3.3 billion it attracted a year earlier. South Africa, a major competitor for FDI inflows in Sub Saharan Africa attracted less with $2.5 billion the report highlights.Egypt recorded the highest influx of FDI among African countries with a total inflow of $5.5 billion representing a whopping 38% drop. Despite the drop, Egypt remains the top investment destination in Africa.Egypt continues to remain the top destination for FDI in Africa.According to the UN report, “FDI flows to Africa declined by 18% to an estimated $38 billion, from $46 billion in 2019. Greenfield project announcements, an indication of future FDI trends, fell 63% to $28 billion, from $77 billion in 2019. The pandemic’s negative impact on FDI was amplified by low prices of and low demand for commodities.”Nigeria has failed to push the needle on FDI investments in the last decade attracting more portfolio inflows compared to direct investment which is viewed as more stable and required to…

Jamal James, of Magnolia, is a rapper who learned of the app from the members in his rap group, Cypher Clique. He joined Clubhouse because his ...

David Gokhshtein, a former United States politician and founder of Gokhshtein Media, has recently hinted at the crypto community about the increased popularity of VeChain (VET). The continued development and successes recorded by the leading enterprise blockchain platform, VeChain, is significantly boosting its popularity among potential investors. Read Also: VeChain (VET) Wins Innovative Green Technology Award at China Green Economy Summit 2020 According to David Gokhshtein, who is a stern XRP enthusiast, but increasingly developing interest in the VeChain blockchain project, the digital token VET has been the talking point in the midst of the users of the invite-only social media app, Clubhouse. However, the former politician, who contested for a seat in the United States Congress from the Republican Party last year, did not state the basis of the discussion in relation to the VeChain blockchain project and its native token, VET. David Gokhshtein tweeted, “VET is being talked about hard in the Clubhouse rooms.” $VET is being talked about hard in the Clubhouse rooms. — David Gokhshtein (@davidgokhshtein) January 24, 2021 Read Also: VeChain (VET) To Welcome New Consensus PoA 2.0 In 2021 Binance Also Acknowledges VeChain (VET) For Its Blockchain Solutions For Businesses It was an exciting…

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