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Digital listening reveals 3 leading innovation drivers

CIO

The industries these decision-makers represented include insurance, banking, healthcare and life sciences, government, entertainment, and energy in the U.S. The listening centered on conversations about emerging technologies and use cases associated with innovation, such as artificial intelligence, metaverse, blockchain, robotics, Web 3.0,

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It’s time to evolve beyond marketing to create meaningful metaverse moments

CIO

I think of it by way of analogy: Not every business needs to have a social media strategy, but businesses that have customers who use social media need to know how to be present, or they lose an opportunity to be relevant. That’s the direct customer experience. What I think is equally interesting is the indirect customer experience.

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5 ways AI is showing promise as a decision-maker

CIO

An AI system can gather data from customer relationship management software, social media profiles, email interactions, and purchase histories to identify the candidates most likely to convert. Sales optimization In sales, AI can provide account reps with the information they need to close deals.

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Twig takes $35M to turn stuff you own into a way to pay

TechCrunch

In that scenario blockchain becomes useful… We want to increase the liquidity of this asset and make it very easy for consumers to trade the physical goods for virtual goods and use the virtual goods to buy physical goods or experiences. After all the energy costs of crypto can look like an extinction level event, in and of themselves.

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WildWorks, maker of Animal Jam and Feral, angers fans with embrace of crypto gaming

TechCrunch

But in recent days, the company has angered many of its core users with news that it’s reusing Feral’s technology platform and many of its assets to enter the crypto-gaming space with a metaverse game called Cinder , powered by the Solana blockchain. Image Credits: WildWorks’ Cinder.

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Guarding the gates: a look at critical infrastructure security in 2023

CIO

With 2022 now in our rearview mirror, we still reflect on a time marked by global upheavals, like the Russia – Ukraine war, to the skyrocketing energy prices and global inflation. Modern advancements like artificial intelligence (AI) machine learning and blockchain-based networks specifically have an impact in this area.

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Blockchain Technology: The future of startups

Openxcell

Blockchain technology market has been predicted to shoot up from 4.9 These numbers are deemed to grow higher as most of the industries will continue adopting blockchain technology in future. Owing to the security and transparency blockchain offers, companies are big time investing in adapting blockchain based operations.