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Using Social Media at Work
Pew Research Center: A Pew Research Center survey of 2,003 American adults (including 795 who are currently employed on a full- or part-time basis) conducted Sept. 11-14 and 18-21, 2014, finds that social media plays some role in the lives … Continue reading
31 Startups Disrupting the Construction Industry
CB Insights: Construction tech, while still nascent, is a growing industry with funding growing 5x in 2015 alone. Collaboration Software – This was the largest category in our market map and includes tools that offer task management, job-site scheduling, and document management … Continue reading
Tipping Point: Digital Advertising to Eclipse TV Advertising in 2017
FT: The bulk of spending by brands on digital advertising is going to Google and Facebook. Combined, they accounted for 75 per cent of all new online ad spending in 2015, according to the Internet Trends report published this month … Continue reading
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25 Most-Funded Artificial Intelligence (AI) Startups
Source: Louis Columbus
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The Data on Data Scientists (Infographic)
Source: Bob Hayes
Artificial Intelligence: An Overview by Eric Horvitz, Microsoft Research (Video)
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uHavVE018M?rel=0] Definition of AI: Study of computational mechanisms underlying thoughts and intelligent behavior. “AI Winter” has been very productive. I tell researchers on our team that if you can just build the thumb and forefinger into computational systems, you … Continue reading
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Wearable adoption more than doubled in past two years
VB: The adoption of wearables has skyrocketed, rising from 21 percent of the U.S. population in 2014 to 49 percent in 2016, according to a report by consulting firm PwC. And parents are significantly more likely to own not just … Continue reading
Digital Transformation Means Going Through 3 Mindset Shifts
If you want to thrive in today’s digital landscape, you must re-think three fundamental activities for your business: How you define and develop your products and services; how you interact with your customers; and how you attract and retain new … Continue reading
News Media: Where the Ad Dollars Are Going
PewResearchCenter: It has been evident for several years that the financial realities of the web are not friendly to news entities, whether legacy or digital only. There is money being made on the web, just not by news organizations. Total digital … Continue reading
Artificial Intelligence Startups in Healthcare
CB Insights: The startups [above] have raised more than $870M in aggregate funding since 2011. This year has seen some notable deals involving companies on the map: New York-based AiCure raised $12.3M in Series A funding and London-based health services … Continue reading