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Business Wars Daily

Apps for College Students (No, Not Facebook) Are Booming

Business Wars Daily

Audible

Business, Business News, News, Daily News

4.6717 Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Today is Friday, October 14 and we're looking at Fizz vs. Flox.

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Thank you. From Wondry, I'm David Brown, and this is Business Wars Daily on this October 14th.

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Happy Friday, everyone.

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You may remember an app that spread like wildfire through college campuses.

1:11.8

It helped students plan events, share photos, and connect with each other in person.

1:16.7

And you probably know the name of the app, right? Facebook?

1:20.3

Well, Facebook may have expanded past campus boundaries and perhaps fallen out of favor with a lot of college-age students, but we're here

1:28.6

to announce it's back. Well, not Facebook exactly, but the idea of college students connecting

1:34.1

via an app, that's very much in vogue. A slate of new apps built for college-aged users are

1:41.2

here, and they are growing. Perhaps the buzziest is called Fizz. I say

1:46.0

buzzy because it's just closed a $4.5 million seed round. Here are the buzz now. The app was founded

1:52.9

by two Stanford dropouts. Reminds me of another Ivy League dropout, but it's technically

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