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Technology’s role in social sustainability

CIO

Technology has a critical role to play in any organization’s social sustainability strategy. And according to a survey from NTT, a majority of senior executives recognize this and are actively working to harness digital technology and innovation to support their social sustainability initiatives. That number is set to grow.

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7 famous analytics and AI disasters

CIO

Organizations across every industry have been and continue to invest heavily in data and analytics. But like oil, data and analytics have their dark side. According to CIO’s State of the CIO 2022 report, 35% of IT leaders say that data and business analytics will drive the most IT investment at their organization this year.

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10 projects top of mind for IT leaders today

CIO

From AI and data analytics, to customer and employee experience, here’s a look at strategic areas and initiatives IT leaders expect to spend more time on this year, according to the State of the CIO. Other surveys offer similar findings. 1 priority among its respondents as well. Risk management came in at No. For Rev.io

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Contentsquare closes a mammoth $600M round as customers clamor for digital analytics

TechCrunch

The same survey found that over four-fifths of companies — 82% — were prevented from pursuing digital transformation projects due to the staffing, resources and expertise required. Contentsquare remains focused on its original bread and butter, which is to say web and app analytics. In some cases, it cost them dearly. In the U.S.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Vanity metric dangers, planning for failure, Black founders survey

TechCrunch

Blogs are a great example: Because they’re a cheap way to drive SEO, companies crank them out, then use KPIs like time on site, pages per session and social media likes to demonstrate how successful they’ve been. Abimbola Adebayo, founder and CEO, Pinnu Analytics. Sevetri Wilson, founder and CEO, Resilia.

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Data analytics startup StarTree secures cash to expand its Apache Pinot–powered platform

TechCrunch

StarTree , a company building what it describes as an “analytics-as-a-service” platform, today announced that it raised $47 million in a Series B round led by GGV Capital with participation from Sapphire Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, and CRV. But they can require a lot of engineering effort to deploy and operate.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Musk’s Twitter bid, European cannabis survey, borrowing against NFTs

TechCrunch

For our latest investor survey, we contacted eight investors who are actively signing checks for cannabis tech companies and asked them to tell us what they’re looking for, how they measure success, and the best way founders can get their attention. How social commerce is bridging Southeast Asia’s infrastructure gaps. Walter Thompson.

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