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AUGUST 10, 2021

Surfside , a data and marketing platform aimed directly at the cannabis industry, has today announced the close of a $4 million seed round led by Casa Verde. The startup is relatively new, but helmed by two founders experienced in the marketing and data space. to help these brands better understand their customers.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa and emerging markets continue to live without access to electricity. Zola Electric , one such provider, is announcing today that it has closed $90 million in new funding to enter new markets and drive distributed renewable energy. The company has evolved since then. “More than 2.2

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CIO

AUGUST 21, 2023

They may publicly preach “No technology for technology’s sake,” but they still frequently share their fascination with the latest tech gadgets. It’s then that the hopes for the technology get way ahead of what it can actually deliver today. They’re not the only ones enthralled by tech. Here’s what they say on the topic.

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CIO

JULY 12, 2022

As anybody in IT can attest, the skills gap companies are facing is real, and it’s getting more pronounced. These include the interpersonal skills that enable teams to go way beyond tinkering with technology – everything from workplace collaboration to leadership to critical thinking. The Great Resignation trend is hitting IT hard.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Establishing commercial markets on the moon is going to require thinking a little differently. Department of Defense’s R&D arm, which has just selected 14 companies to participate in a new study to develop technological frameworks for a lunar future. That’s DARPA’s hunch, anyway.

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CIO

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The cloud market has been a picture of maturity of late. The pecking order for cloud infrastructure has been relatively stable, with AWS at around 33% market share, Microsoft Azure second at 22%, and Google Cloud a distant third at 11%. Here are the top cloud market trends and how they are impacting CIO’s cloud strategies.

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CIO

JANUARY 4, 2024

Intel has set up a new company, Articul8 AI, to sell enterprise generative AI software it developed. The new company’s investors include global investment firm DigitalBridge Ventures. The new entity will use an Intel generative AI system that can read text and images using a combination of open-source and in-house technology.

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CIO

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Dutch insurance and asset management company Nationale-Nederlanden, part of the NN Group, has a presence in 19 countries and serves several million retail and corporate customers. For instance, the company completed its conversion to a 100% Agile company in 2019, an achievement that reinforced its commitment to clients.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2021

Stonehenge Technology Labs wants consumer packaged goods companies to gain meaningful use from all of the data they collect. CEO Meagan Kinmonth Bowman founded the Arkansas-based company in 2019 after working at Hallmark, where she was tasked with the digital transformation of the company.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Does your organization see technology infrastructure as a commodity or as a strategic business enabler? The answer will shape your approach to infrastructure: you can keep legacy infrastructure going as long as you can, or you can pursue the cutting edge of technology. Legacy technology also affects sustainability.

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CIO

APRIL 24, 2024

As we moved from transaction to integration, we began to translate customer thoughts into a comprehensive go-to-market strategy for VMware Cloud Foundation, or VCF. Early in this process, I concluded that the previous go-to-market model was too complex and costly for VMware and its customers. Prior to ICS, Mr.

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CIO

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Businesses are turning to gen AI to streamline business processes, develop proprietary AI technology, and reduce manual efforts in order to free up employees to take on more intensive tasks. Foundry’s AI survey also identified several roles that companies are looking to hire to help with the integration of gen AI in the workplace.

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CIO

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Frost & Sullivan, a global research and consulting firm, recently released the Emerging Asia-Pacific Hybrid Cloud Market Report 2022 report. In this report, Huawei Cloud was named a “Leader” and positioned ahead of all other providers in terms of market performance, technical innovation, and customer services.

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CIO

AUGUST 1, 2023

IT services company Atos has found a buyer for its legacy managed infrastructure services business as it prepares for an IBM-style split between faster- and slower-growing activities. Atos had planned to divide into two publicly listed companies, but on August 1 announced it is taking a different route.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

A year ago, the biggest players in the space were companies founded solely to offer consumers the ability to pay in installments at the point of sale. But the landscape looks very different now that more companies recognize the opportunity and fight for a piece of the pie. Sweden’s Klarna, Australia’s Afterpay and U.S.-based

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

Following nearly four years in the prototype phase, Cana Technology is unveiling what it calls the “world’s first molecular beverage printer” after securing $30 million in funding from venture foundry The Production Board. The company has partnered with certain brands for drinks and also created their own combinations. “It

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CIO

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The advent of new technologies has accelerated the rate of innovation and disrupted the business landscape as we know it. As the pace of innovation speeds up, tomorrow’s front runners are those who readily embrace disruptive technologies to spearhead new business models and capture new avenues of growth.

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CIO

MARCH 13, 2023

Stay tuned for future blogs that dive into the technology behind these trends from more of Broadcom’s industry-leading experts. As a current example, consider ChatGPT by OpenAI, an AI research and deployment company. It’s also been flagged as a risk: cybersecurity companies have identified bad actors using ChatGPT to create malware.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Generative AI and, more specifically, ChatGPT captivated the corporate world in 2023, with board directors, CEOs, and other executives fawning (and sometimes fearing) the technology. with best-in-class companies “reaping an enviable 13% ROI.” Isn’t it time some of those overlooked and underappreciated technologies get their due?

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CIO

AUGUST 29, 2023

IBM is an iconic American technology brand. Brendan Kinkade, vice president of technology and hybrid cloud partnerships for IBM, says, “IBM and VMware have been partners for several decades, and we have a shared vision of what it takes to address our clients’ needs.

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

According to market researchers at Gartner 1 , “Utilities are faced with unprecedented challenges.” To overcome these challenges, energy companies are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence (AI), particularly generative AI large language models (LLM). 2 [link] [link] 3 [link] 4 [link] 5 [link] Artificial Intelligence

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Today, one of the companies building tools to meet that demand — a startup called m3ter — is coming out of stealth, and as sign of the state of the market, it already has customers and a tidy sum of funding. It was just last week that another usage-based pricing company, Metronome, announced its own round of funding.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2022

million from Foundry and Venrock , then crowdfunding its personal robot , the company hit a series of challenges. Today, Swedish social robotics company Furhat Robotics is offering the beleaguered startup a gentle landing in what the Swedish company says is an all-cash deal. “This company spun out of Spiro.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2022

With quality growth companies starved for capital, the few investors active in the region were making a killing. As a banker covering technology, I thought there was an opportunity to invest in the region and decided to quit my job at J.P. By 2003, that was gone and the company quickly introduced fees accross its markets.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

This is a quiet period for marketing: End-of-year campaigns are already underway, teams are on holiday vacations and there’s little to do until after the new year. Growth marketers have a wide variety of tools available, but which ones do the pros use? Help TechCrunch find the best growth marketers for startups.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 21, 2023

During that time, Chen says they realized that the marketing, sales and design process have stayed the same, despite new technology and tools being introduced to the market, and is often riddled with bottlenecks. Chen says most have large sales and marketing teams, but a shortage of designers.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2023

Wunderkind , a platform that enables brands to target web visitors through emails, texts and other digital advertising formats, today announced that it raised $76 million in a Series C round led by Neuberger Berman, the financial services company. Indeed, the case against behavioral marketing is stacking up.

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TechCrunch

JULY 5, 2022

During the last decade, for example, a huge portion of venture capital investment went into software-as-a-service companies, some of the least risky private technology companies out there. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. One reason could be that the Chinese tech market is just that: beleaguered.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2023

Better.com finally went public The biggest fintech news of the week centered around Better.com’s no good, very bad public market debut. This is a company that two years ago had planned to go public at a $7.7 But I’m not sure anyone expected it to be hovering at a share price that gave Better.com a market cap of just $19.14

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2023

A privately backed tech company going public on the U.S. markets is welcome news. Sadly, while Triller is an interesting business, it may prove too small an offering to fully unlock the domestic IPO market for technology companies. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 2, 2022

AIMMO announced today it has raised $12 million in a Series A round to advance its data labeling technology and spur global expansions. The company expects its growth in 2022, with the global demand for the autonomous driving field continually increasing. The global data collection and labeling market size was valued at $1.6

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

HotelOnline , a Kenya-based Yanolja-backed travel technology scale-up that fashions itself as an e-commerce and digital marketing enabler in the hospitality industry, has acquired HotelPlus, a software provider with clients in 22 countries. Muliro has also been appointed as HotelOnline’s chief technology officer.

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