Monthly Archives: November 2017

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Artificial intelligence (A.I) has fascinated technologists and science fiction writers for decades, but the business world seems to be getting serious about its disruptive potential. Technologies including Deep Blue from IBM, DeepMind from Google or Microsoft’s Chatbots are going beyond press-mentions, and beginning to demonstrate value in solving real world problems. Last […]

Top 20 Companies paying the Highest salary for A.I Engineers

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Hellocar is another UK car-buying startup closing doors – The used-car market seems ripe for disruption, not least in terms of customer service and creating a better experience online. However, if recent events are anything to go by, it is a hard nut to crack. Following Carspring going quiet after […]

Failed ventures November 2017 : RIP Startups that didn’t make ...

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The Facebook Journalism Project recently announced that it is partnering with the DMZ university incubator and the Ryerson School of Journalism to advance innovation in journalism. They are launching the Digital News Innovation Challenge, which will provide five startups with $100,000 in non-dilutive seed funding. The announcement highlights it is A Canada-wide […]

Facebook attempts to address fake news by nurturing digital startups ...

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A few days ago, I reviewed a Digital Wallets and their aggressive cashback programs. The article included  picture of a banner advert at a Reliance retail store where MobiKwik claimed “Save 15%” I decided to test out the claim for myself and this is how it went: I downloaded the […]

Read the fine print: Don’t fall for SuperCash ‘cashback’ deals!

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This week we feature UENI , a London based limited company which was founded in 2014 with the goal of providing an easy, low cost solution for small businesses to get online and get new customers through digital advertising. Time, cost, and complexity are the key barriers which prevent many […]

Startup of the week: UENI from London

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Innovations in Virtual Reality and gaming continues to be among the top startup ideas. Most of the VR innovations are in support of video games, and for other recreational activities. However, a few emerging business innovations in retail and property management seem to be taking hold too. Such futuristic thinking […]

Williams-Sonoma is buying a 3-D imaging and augmented reality startup ...

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Facebook announced a “Community Boost,” (link) program to help US small businesses grow and to equip more people with the digital skills they need to compete in the new economy. Facebook Community Boost will visit 30 US cities in 2018, including Houston, St. Louis, Albuquerque, Des Moines and Greenville, South […]

Facebook to launch Digital Training, Startup Training Hubs

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It has been a little over a year since the Indian government dramatically Demonetized a couple of high-value currency notes. This large-scale economic experiment still generates a lot of press. Analysts, economists and the media spent endless hours analyzing this move, reviewing the pro-and-cons. At the time, many also predicted […]

A year after the great Indian Demonetization: how are digital ...

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Millions of clients and freelancers are converging on online task sites like Upwork (previously oDesk),  Toptal, Elance, Craigslist, Guru, TaskRabbit, Fivrr and other portals. With greater awareness of the portals, there is also increasing competition from bidders and freelancers seeking work. Even the popular professional social media site Linkedin has […]

5 Tips for freelancers to succeed on bidding on Tasks

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This week we feature Io-Tahoe LLC, a startup pioneering machine learning-driven smart data discovery solutions that span data lakes and relational databases. Io-Tahoe is a smart data discovery product which enables organizations to discover data in lakes and relational data instances, helping enterprises trace data elements across their systems in […]

Startup of the week: machine learning-driven startup Io-Tahoe

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