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Kraftful wants to lift the veil with analytics for makers of smart home hardware

TechCrunch

You can’t swing an outdated Python manual in this town without hitting half a dozen app analytics suites, but the same cannot be said if you’re a product manager hoping to figure out where you lose customers for smart home hardware. “There isn’t much product analytics in most apps for connected hardware.

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How state and local governments can close the digital divide in education with fast, affordable connectivity

CIO

Education has long served as the key to unlocking economic progress and social mobility. However, unequal access to digital tools has created a large gap between children who have access to fast, reliable internet connectivity in school and at home and those who don’t. We know that access to the internet is essential for learning.

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Ethical Social Media: Oxymoron or Attainable Goal?

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

For this generation, social media has generated a vast set of new ethical challenges, which is unsurprising when you consider the degree of its influence. Social media has been linked to health risks in individuals and political violence in societies.

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Can social and e-commerce transform the future of the open web?

TechCrunch

It’s also the lifeline that Automattic needs this decade to rebuild the internet in an open direction. The strategy here is simple: Continue opening up larger swaths of the internet to open-source innovation outside of the walled-garden platforms developed by Amazon and Facebook. billion with a share buyback a few months ago.

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8 data strategy mistakes to avoid

CIO

Building a successful data strategy at scale goes beyond collecting and analyzing data,” says Ryan Swann, chief data analytics officer at financial services firm Vanguard. Undervaluing unstructured data Much of the data organizations accumulate is unstructured, whether it’s text, video, audio, social media, images, or other formats.

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Here are all of the companies presenting at Alchemist Accelerator’s 30th Demo Day today

TechCrunch

” Rocketbrew: A competitive analytics dashboard for e-commerce brands, giving you an easy view of “how competitors price, launch new products and manage their product portfolio.” RED Atlas: A platform for real estate insights and analytics, focusing first on Puerto Rico.

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Kenyan startup Wowzi secures $3.2 million from 4DX Ventures, Andela co-founder to expand across Africa

TechCrunch

Kenyan startup Wowzi has secured new funding to expand the reach of its platform, which turns social media users into brand influencers, to West and Southern Africa — as it taps the increasing usage of social sites across the continent driven by the proliferation of smartphones and a deepening internet penetration.

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