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How doing everything wrong turned Automattic into a multibillion dollar media powerhouse

TechCrunch

Automattic founder and CEO Matt Mullenweg at TechCrunch Disrupt 2014. Automattic focused on media at a time when that industry was being demolished by the internet. It all began with a blog post. Back in 2003, that was the context for the so-called weblog, which would shortly be elided to blog. Image Credits: TechCrunch.

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Bolt CEO addresses startup’s performance in wake of lawsuit, says merchant numbers are up 192% YoY

TechCrunch

CEO Maju Kuruvilla issued a blog post today acknowledging that the company “has become very popular in the media these past few months.”. In his blog post, Kuruvilla revealed the following figures around the company’s performance, writing that Bolt: has a total of 13.8 ” The company said it could not comment on the matter.

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SHRM Top 25 Indian HR Influencers on Social Media 2014

QAspire

Last week, SHRM India published a list of “ Top 25 Indian HR Influencers on Social Media ” for the year 2014-15. This year, they considered activity/interactions beyond Twitter to cover Blog , LinkedIn , Klout and Quora. I am glad to be ranked amongst top 5 influencers for the third consecutive year.

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Glossier just laid off one-third of its corporate employees, mostly in tech

TechCrunch

Founded in 2014, Glossier is widely touted as one of the earliest breakout successes of the DTC model, and raised its Series E last July at a $1.8 The company built its own point-of-sale system and commerce APIs in-house, allowing them to deliver a “seamless” customer experience, former Glossier CTO Bryan Mahoney said in 2018.

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The four main goals of our Freshworks implementations

Xebia

The number one goal of Freshworks implementations: grip Lessons learned from over 100 implementations At Xebia, we have done over 100 Freshdesk, Freshchat and Freshservice implementations since 2014. This helps organizations to get a better grip on their customer service operation and to further improve the quality of service.

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Exotel raises $40 million for its full-stack customer engagement platform

TechCrunch

The blog post from last year also recounts the struggle the super hot startup faced in its lukewarm years. “There was a lot of visibility for the company in digital and traditional media as it kept building beyond the odds. The bank balance dipped to 14 lacs at a point in 2014-15. Then there was some regulatory scare.

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10 celebri disastri provocati dall’intelligenza artificiale

CIO

Dopo che le storie sono state derise sui social media, Gannett ha deciso di sospendere l’uso di LedeAI in tutte le edizioni locali che utilizzavano il servizio. Quando ha rilasciato Tay, un chatbot AI, sulla piattaforma di social media, l’azienda lo ha descritto come un esperimento di “comprensione conversazionale”.