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Salesforce to acquire Airkit.ai, a low-code platform for building AI customer service agents

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Founded in 2017, Redwood City, California-based Airkit was created by Adam Evans and Stephen Ehikian, who sold a previous big data startup called RelateIQ to Salesforce for $390 million […] Salesforce has announced plans to acquire Airkit.ai, a low-code platform that helps e-commerce companies build AI-powered customer service agents.

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The US is losing crypto talent as blockchain devs seek safer havens

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has declined every year since 2017, according to a recent report by Electric Capital. share of blockchain developers has fallen 2% per year in the last five years, dropping to 29% last year from 40% in 2017. Europe (excluding the United Kingdom) maintained a consistent share of around 29% during the five years from 2017 to 2022.

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Online pet goods retailer Chewy lays off 200+ employees

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Chewy, the online pet supplies company that sold to PetSmart in 2017 for $3.35 billion, but then split off a few years later, is the latest company to undergo layoffs, TechCrunch has learned.

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Humane’s ‘AI Pin’ debuts on the Paris runway

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The company’s origin dates all the way back to 2017, when it was founded by former Apple employees, Bethany Bongiorno, Imran Chaudhri. Humane, a stealthy software and hardware company, is clearly milking the media hype cycle for all it’s worth.

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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your embedded analytics. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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Salesforce acquires automated commission management platform Spiff

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Founded in 2017, Spiff serves up a low-code interface designed to make it easy for businesses to create a sales compensation plan that automatically updates based on personnel meeting their pre-agreed targets. […] © 2023 TechCrunch. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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SoftBank-backed Indian insurance platform Policybazaar raises $75 million

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According to rating agency ICRA, insurance products had reached less than 3% of the population as of 2017. ICRA estimated that of those Indians who had purchased an insurance product, they were spending less than $50 on it in 2017. An average Indian makes about $2,100 in a year, according to World Bank.

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