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“Academy Bank and Treasury Prime are joining forces to provide embedded finance services to the bank’s clients on July 31. “

Here are the five biggest challenges working women face today—and how to overcome them

“Working from home or on a hybrid schedule can be a blessing and a curse. Laure Rudelle Arnaud, chief people and impact officer at Brevo (formerly Sendinblue), appreciates the flexibility”

The New Banking as a Service Reality

“Regulators hate it because a non-regulated entity is assuming too much of the governance over how banking is done,” Treasury Prime CEO Chris Dean says.

The new Banking as a Service reality

“Regulators hate it because a non-regulated entity is assuming too much of the governance over how banking is done,” Treasury Prime CEO Chris Dean says.”

INTERVIEWS Doug Fuller, VP of Software Engineering at Cornelis Networks – Interview Series

As Vice President of Software Engineering, Doug is responsible for all aspects of the Cornelis Networks’ software stack, including the Omni-Path Architecture drivers, messaging software, and embedded device control systems. Before joining Cornelis Networks, Doug led software engineering teams at Red Hat in cloud storage and data services. Doug’s career in HPC and cloud computing began at Ames National Laboratory’s Scalable Computing Laboratory. Following several roles in university research computing, Doug joined the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 2009, where he developed and integrated new technologies at the world-class Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility.

A breakup plan can help protect banks from fintech-failure fallout

“Technology providers for banking-as-a-service providers such as Treasury Prime Inc. can also support banks to step in if a fintech partner has to close, said Jeff Nowicki, vice president of banking at Treasury Prime.”

‘Thready or not,’ the public sector is jumping onto the latest social media platform

“One of the main things, says Rybchuk, is that caution is a good thing, especially given how new Threads is. Move slowly, observe different accounts and get familiar with the functions the platform offers, he advises.”

Transactions: Square, AmEx to launch business credit cards

“Embedded banking software company Treasury Prime and fraud detection platform SardineX are teaming up to provide fraud management for Treasury Prime bank clients.”

Addressing the Top Pain Points in Government With Social Solutions

“As the need for digital services boomed during pandemic restrictions and lockdowns, the government agencies that successfully revamped their digital strategies were better positioned to address this shift in the short-term. But as restrictions declined, many government agencies have pulled back on focusing on digital services — including constituent experiences on social media — and citizens’ expectations are now digital first.”

How Can Food Delivery Platforms Grow? Location-Based Identity

“With a location identity-based fraud prevention solution, the platform can identify cases of multi-accounting and prevent coupon abuse by cross-referencing the location data of the account being used. The solution can also identify policy abuses such as location spoofing, impacting the end customer experience, and delaying orders.” – Andre Ferraz

Fintech’s banking-as-a-service sector struggles

“BaaS sector is struggling.”

The funding drought and consolidations: On Fifth Third Bank’s acquisition of Rize Money

“Fifth Third Bancorp acquired Rize Money, a payments infrastructure provider.”

Mozart Therapeutics Got $25M, Nori Raised $6.25, and More Seattle Tech News

“Formerly known as Sendinblue, Brevo, a customer relationship management solution, announced the addition of a new c-suite member. Joining the company from Salesforce is Isabelle Guis as Brevo’s CEO of North America and Global CMO. Additionally, the company appointed veteran sales executive Julien Cros as its sales director of North America.”

French CRM company opens NYC office, names U.S. CEO

“Paris-based customer relationship management company Brevo has appointed Isabelle Guis as its new CEO for North America and opened an office in New York City.”

These women could be the next Fortune 500 CEOs

“MOVERS AND SHAKERS: Brevo has appointed Isabelle Guis as CEO of North America and global CMO.”

How will regulators’ increased scrutiny of banks play out in practice?

“Federal banking regulators have indicated they will be more assertive in their supervision of mid-sized banks in the aftermath of the collapses of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), Signature Bank, and First Republic Bank earlier this year.”

Data Challenges in the Cloud Era – Ajay Kulkarni, Timescale

“Ajay Kulkarni, CEO of Timescale, discusses how data is eating software in the world of modern applications and why we’re at a tipping point in the industry, as well as today’s biggest data challenges and how enterprises can address these challenges as we move increasingly to the cloud era.”

Hootsuite Launches ‘Enhanced Inbox’ Feature to Help Marketers Streamline Customer Service

“To help marketing teams manage increased customer-service requests on social channels, social-media management site Hootsuite has released an upgraded Inbox product that gives marketers a bird’s-eye view of all public and private messages on all networks, as well as comments on Facebook ads.”

Case Study: Joining the Network: How Fis Approaches BaaS With Treasury Prime

“Treasury Prime + FIS case study”

Meta bets big on AI with custom chips — and a supercomputer

“First unveiled in January 2022, the RSC — assembled in partnership with Penguin Computing, Nvidia and Pure Storage — has completed its second-phase buildout. Meta says that it now contains a total of 2,000 Nvidia DGX A100 systems sporting 16,000 Nvidia A100 GPUs.”

Communicator Spotlight: Melanie Gaboriault of Hootsuite

“Gaboriault reports to Hootsuite’s new CEO Irina Novoselsky and oversees communications, events and customer marketing and advocacy. She also relies heavily on global agency support.”

Timescale to Rebrand as Focus Expands on the Cloud and Future of Computing

“Timescale, the cloud data platform company, is making a strategic move to reposition itself in the market, reflecting a significant transformation taking place within the organization that includes a refreshed visual identity, an updated website, and product restructuring.”

Avthar Sewrathan of Timescale Explores Data Issues and the Crypto Space

“Avthar Sewrathan of Timescale Explores Data Issues and the Crypto Space”

Timescale Enables Developers to Build and Scale Time-Series Databases Efficiently with a Cost-Effective PostgreSQL Platform

“Timescale delivers a well-rounded PostgreSQL platform for efficient database management”

Visualizing IoT Data at Scale With Hopara and TimescaleDB

“I have been involved in building DBMSs for 50 years. During that time, I have been the main architect behind PostgreSQL (the foundation of Timescale), Vertica, VoltDB, and Paradigm4.”

AI and Quantum Computing with Philip Murphy

“In Episode 60, Patrick and Ciprian speak with Philip Murphy, CEO of Cornelis Networks.
The team discuss AI, large language models, optimization problems, and the connections to Quantum Computing.”

Tech Moves: Hootsuite adds execs; Institute for Protein Design names new leader

“I have witnessed first hand the impact of Jessica’s leadership and ability to build cohesive and high-performing teams focused on the customer,” Hootsuite CEO Irina Novoselsky said in a statement.”

US Navy gets 8.2 petaflops supercomputer

“Nautilus is a Penguin TrueHPC and is made of 1,352 compute nodes and has up to 128 AMD Epyc Milan compute cores per node, 256GB of memory per node, 16 Nvidia A40 visualization nodes, 32 Nvidia A100 Quad GPU AI/ML nodes, and uses a 200 Gbps Nvidia Mellanox Infiniband interconnect.”

Penguin Solutions Scyld ClusterWare Release Streamlines HPC And AI Cluster Deployment

“Penguin Solutions released Scyld ClusterWare software v12.0, designed to streamline HPC and AI server provisioning to get HPC and AI server clusters up and running faster, securely, and at scale. Scyld ClusterWare software provides administrators with a complete, scalable, and flexible HPC and AI cluster management and monitoring environment.”

TikTok Under Fire

“As a creator, you’re building your business on someone else’s land” – Mike Donoghue, Subtext CEO

Let’s go beyond ChatGPT: 3 constructive ways to use AI in the classroom

“Since making headlines earlier this year, ChatGPT has dominated the national discourse on the topic of AI in the classroom. Ask anyone their opinion on the use of artificial intelligence in schools and you’re likely to get an earful about the hotly debated chatbot.”

5 Ways Brands Can Reduce Their Carbon Footprint

“Steffen Schebesta, CEO of North America and VP of Corp. Development at Sendinblue shares five ways brands can reduce their carbon footprint.”

Hootsuite Launches AI-Powered Tool to Inspire Creators, Help Generate Effective content

“When asking our customers what their top responsibilities are as it relates to social media, the #1 answer cited by respondents (77%) was ‘coming up…

Creator Database Tops 350 While Deals Slow to a Trickle

“A lot of the air has been let out of the room” when it comes to fundraising rounds, said Mike Donoghue, CEO and co-founder of Subtext, a texting service for creators and their fans.”

Treasury Prime launches instant cross-bank transfer product

“Treasury Prime, an embedded banking software platform, launched OneKey Banking, giving customers the ability to make instantaneous cross-bank network transfers, the fintech announced last month.”

Report: Ed Tech Aids Learning and Eases Student and Staffing Issues

“The adoption of technology could facilitate student learning and social interaction. It could also ease the burdens on educators from staff shortages, according to a new report, “The U.S. State of Technology in Education,” from Promethean.”

Grasshopper Bank secures fintech client using Treasury Prime’s OneKey

“Grasshopper Bank has secured a new fintech client thanks to Treasury Prime’s OneKey platform, which allows fintechs greater visibility of their accounts across multiple banks.  The $606 million bank began beta testing OneKey in March 2022.”

How edtech can solve a few of K12’s biggest non-technology problems

“Teacher shortages and social-emotional learning are not, at first glance, problems crying out for edtech solutions from your IT department. Your students and staff are, however, more certain that more classroom technology is just what the CIO ordered to help districts tackle these most pressing of issues, a new survey from the edtech company Promethean has found.”

5 Strategies That Drive Engagement by Enhancing Customer Experience

“Creating meaningful touchpoints with your customers can significantly improve their experience with your brand…Remaining visible during the customer journey keeps your business top-of-mind and easily accessible,” said Steffen Schebesta, CEO of North America and VP of Corporate Development.

How to Successfully Build and Scale Your Startup’s C-Suite

“It’s essential that your executive team shares your enthusiasm for your company’s mission and culture. A member of your C-suite shapes the foundation of your company and extends its vision into the world.”

Lessons Learned From the SVB Failure

“Two CEO’s discuss the moments they heard the news of the Silicon Valley Bank failure and what they did next.”

Fraud Is Flourishing On Zelle, But Banks Say It’s Not Their Problem…and Other Small Business Tech News This Week

“Sendinblue acquires MeetFox to meet customer’s demand for more resources.”

The Best Accounting Software Applications…And Other Small Business Tech News This Week

“WhatsApp is one of the most widely used messaging and communications platforms in the world and Sendinblue’s new service should help its users leverage WhatsApp’s benefits to keep better in step with their customers, given the increasing popularity of communicting via SMS/text messaging. “

Tired of Politicians Spamming Your Phone? Help is on the Way

“A legal loophole has allowed political campaigns to pelt voters with unsolicited text messages. But a system called 10DLC should tamp down on election spam.”

Proving that banking as a service is hotter than ever, Treasury Prime raises $40M Series C

“Treasury Prime co-founder and CEO Chris Dean believes that the best outcomes for consumers will result from traditional banks and fintechs working together.

The banking-as-a-service startup has worked to build relationships with both banks and fintechs. And Dean believes Treasury Prime’s ability “to keep both sides happy” has contributed to its ability to grow its revenue by nearly 400% and accounts by more than 450% since it raised a $20 million Series B in May of 2021.”

Tearsheet Briefing: How regulators view Big Tech’s entry into consumer finance

“Over the last few years, Big Tech firms have been expanding their footprint in finance, looking to add new revenue lines from the financial services sector.”

Nearly 7 in 10 Dealmakers Say That Sexual Misconduct, Harassment, and Gender Bias Continue to be a Problem in the Industry

“Sendinblue acquired Captain Wallet, a Paris-based mobile wallet marketing company. Financial terms were not disclosed.”

Sendinblue Acquires Captain Wallet to Help Brands Retain Customers

“With the acquisition of Captain Wallet, we are enhancing our value with a new mobile marketing channel that will allow all our users to better engage with their customer base,” Mickael Arias, Sendinblue’s CRO, said in a statement. “We are excited about bringing a turnkey solution to retailers and retail brands of all sizes to help them easily and effectively manage all of their activation and customer loyalty programs within the same platform.”

Creators are seeking alternatives as big platforms vie for talent

“With $2 billion of new venture funding pouring into the creator economy in 2021 and social platforms making a $32 billion–plus effort to lure creators back to their platforms, it’s a great time to be a creator or, more specifically, in the top 1% of creators.”

Hootsuite Workbook, Integrations Aim to Help Social Marketers With ‘Writer’s Block’

“Social media management company Hootsuite ran a recent survey of over 2,500 of its social media manager customers and found that 32.63% of respondents cited difficulty coming up with content ideas as the most significant challenge they face daily.”

The Funded: New Unicorns Have Become Very, Very Rare

“In January, no Bay Area venture-backed companies joined the ranks of those valued at $1 billion or more. That marked the second time in four months that no new unicorns were added to the local herd.”

With Little Marketing Budget but Lots of Moxie, How Stuckey’s Is Plotting a Big Comeback

“But with so few Stuckey’s locations left—and the fact that Stuckey’s products are already for sale in chains like Cracker Barrel—billboards made no sense anymore. But Wright figured they didn’t need a pricey media buy anyway. The job at hand was to introduce younger generations to Stuckey’s by tying it to the nostalgia of the road trip—and that was a job for social media.”

Term Sheet – By Jessica Mathews

“Sendinblue acquired MeetFox, a New York-based scheduling and videoconferencing software company. Financial terms were not disclosed.”

Tips for a Thriving Partner Program in an Economic Downturn

Join host Tori Barlow, VP of Marketing at Allbound, as she talks with Samantha Cartwright, VP of Strategic Alliances at vFunction. They discuss the impacts of the economic downturn on channel and how to scale a program and make the most of what you have.

Everything You Need to Know About New Data Privacy Laws

“We experienced a turbulent 2022 — not only economically, but also in terms of changes in data privacy regulations, which massively impact the way marketers can collect data and target their audience with tailored marketing campaigns. In 2023, new data privacy laws will reshape U.S. privacy compliance for businesses.”

ROS and DDS: Making the Most Out of Your Software Framework

Neil Puthuff writes about how the introduction and ongoing releases of the robot operating system, ROS 2 (now built on top of the DDS framework), has expanded its use beyond its original focus on robotic research. ROS 2 comes bundled with application packages and visualization tools, so it facilitates making robotics systems that can sense, map, and navigate their surroundings.

Don’t be the next Southwest – two Oracle partners weigh in on avoiding technical debt

Thanks to Southwest, technical debt is on the front burner. ERP modernization choices used to be limited to a massive upgrade, or lift-and-shift your (over)-customizations. But that’s changing – here’s how Oracle partners Syntax and vFunction caught my attention.

Sendinblue Reached $100M ARR, Membrion Got $7M, and More Seattle Tech News

“Headquartered in France with a presence in Seattle, Sendinblue is a digital marketing platform for business-to-business and business-to-consumer businesses. The solution surpassed $100 million in annual recurring revenue and achieved centaur status.”

To Understand NFTs, ‘Separate Hype From the Tech,’ Says ConsenSys’ Manager of Product

Nayana Singh, General Manager of Product at ConsenSys, knows the number of NFT doubters has grown, though she encourages skeptics to “separate the hype from the tech.

The Threat of Location Spoofing and Fraud

In this Help Net Security video, André Ferraz, CEO at Incognia, discusses the impact of location spoofing and location-based fraud.

Cars, Code, and ConferenCES 2023

In this episode, Pedro Lopez-Estepa of Real-Time Innovations discusses how the company is preparing for the imminent vehicle architecture shifts that will be required to support the software-defined vehicles of the future. Not only will this transition impact the number and performance of onboard embedded processors, it will also reshape automotive value chains to the point that whoever controls the software supply chain controls the car.

What Can We Expect for HR in 2023?

As 2022 has come to an end, 2023 will continue to challenge new changes and adjustments to companies’ work policy as a result of employee concerns for work/life balance. In this article, we’ll share three HR predictions for 2023.

With Fewer Resources, Creators Will Be Forced to Evolve—Quickly

“By every indication, 2023 is shaping up to be a difficult year for the creator economy, but not a hopeless one. VC investment in Q4 of 2022 was down 79% from the same period in 2021; social media platforms have dramatically slashed their programs for creators; brands are curtailing their spending, particularly with mid- to lower-tier creators; and creator tech platforms have been cutting costs. It’s a confluence of events that would lead any rational person to think things are bad and only getting worse.”

5 Ways Influencer Marketing Will Be Impacted by an Economic Downturn in 2023

“Influencer marketing isn’t considered “as discretionary as it previously was,” said Mike Donoghue, co-founder and CEO of Subtext, a subscription-based text messaging platform, in an interview. “Two or three years ago, it was this really experimental spend. But I think most people have it baked into the budget now.”

Meta’s been blasted by the EU privacy watchdog for breaching GDPR — now what?

The whole reason why companies use Meta’s ad services is because they can target pretty well, explained Steffen Schebesta, CEO of Sendinblue. Advertising to anyone without geographic limitations, gender, age group, interest, etc., will cause spending to drop dramatically, he added.

Low code/no code tools reap IT benefits—with caveats

Sendinblue, a provider of cloud-based marketing communication software, uses low code workflow automation, data integration and management tools to quickly experiment with features such as new pricing plans, says CTO Yvan Saule. Without low code, which allows him to test new features at 10 to 15% of the cost of traditional development, “we couldn’t afford all the experiments we’re doing,” he says. “If we had to write 15 different pricing systems, it could’ve taken years,” requiring backend fulfillment systems and credit checks for each specific price.

The Crystal Ball: VCs, Private Equity Investors, and Tech Founders Predict What’s to Come in 2023

Welcome to 2023, and a very special edition of Term Sheet, where we ask readers—a slew of VCs, founders, private equity investors, and bankers—to look into their crystal ball and tell us what to expect in the year ahead.

Punchbowl Adds Text Alerts as Outlets Seek Twitter Alternatives

“Punchbowl News turns to Subtext as a Twitter alternative”

EVs, AVs and Radical Transformation

Pedro Lopez-Estepa says that EV startups have proved that market transformation is possible, and while they might not compete in volume, they can do so in innovation. For electric and autonomous vehicles, the transition from hardware to software-centric development, called the software-defined vehicle, is under way. This new reality has opened the door to nontraditional vendors to compete, which begs the question, “What level is this competition real? What are the implications of such radical transformation?”

An EV-Plosion Awaits in 2023, and It’ll Be Packed With Tech

This personalization will likely lead to an increase in subscription-based services in the car, says Will White, co-founder of Mapbox, a provider of online maps.

“We’ll also continue to see high demand for convenience-based services like in-car payments, where consumers will have a credit card on file in their app that pays for everything automotive-related,” said White.

How2Exit Episode 81: Steffen Schebesta – CEO North America and VP of Corp Development at Sendinblue

“Our mission is to put small, medium, or very small businesses on equal footing with the big players. And that’s what we’re building, we’re building a solution that is easy to use that’s affordable and accessible for these businesses.”

How Small Businesses Can Survive Inflation

From battling inflation to burnout and pivoting to adhere to new marketing policies, small business owners have faced several challenging moments in 2022. Looking ahead to 2023, the economic shift that we are experiencing will slow down in the new year. However, we can still expect some sort of impact on businesses of all sizes and industries, especially the smaller ones.

Everything You Need to Know About New Data Privacy Laws

We experienced a turbulent 2022 — not only economically, but also in terms of changes in data privacy regulations, which massively impact the way marketers can collect data and target their audience with tailored marketing campaigns. In 2023, new data privacy laws will reshape U.S. privacy compliance for businesses.

For Budget Sake: Focus on Existing Customers Before Acquiring New Ones in 2023

Data is a major focus for Sendinblue, says Steffen Schebesta, CEO of North America and vice president of corporate development at the Paris-based company. Some people call the company a customer data platform (CDP), because of all the sources of data that is collected, such as behavioral and tracking web behavior, but its roots are in email.

vFunction 2023 Predictions: Creating application and business resilience against technical debt headwinds

Application modernization has moved to the forefront as a 2023 CIO imperative, so here’s what we can expect to see when it comes to major IT trends in 2023:

Mapbox Announces Location Intelligence Platform Updates

Mapbox announced new products that empower developers and organizations to make better data-driven decisions, develop easier and faster, and drive intuitive and seamless user experiences with innovative location technologies.

13 tech predictions for 2023

We asked our community of IT leaders what they see on the horizon for 2023; Edge, digital transformation, Metaverse, the IT skills gap, and more were of note.

What I’ve Learned About the New Era of Communication From My Gen Z Kids

When I picked up my 15-year-old daughter from an event recently, I overheard her, as she said goodbye to someone she’d just met, ask them: “Hey, what’s your Snap handle?”

Marketing Automation’s Role in Building a Connected Revenue Funnel

Grow your revenue more easily with these three automation actions.

Hootsuite CEO And Stuckey’s Owner Provide Insights On How Social Media Marketing Can Help Small Businesses Compete Successfully

To gain more insights, I reached out to Tom Keiser, the CEO of Hootsuite and the current owner and CEO of Stuckey’s, Stephanie Stuckey. Her current revival of this long-time small business brand echoes the continued rise of small businesses in the USA.

K-12 Dealmaking: Promethean Acquires Digital Whiteboard Platform; Jeel Raises $1.1M Seed

“Joining the Explain Everything team with ours is part of our commitment to continuously innovate and work towards providing a superior interactive experience from anywhere,” said Vin Riera, CEO at Promethean

T-Mobile Inseego MiFi X PRO 5G (M3000) Review

T-Mobile’s new Inseego MiFi X PRO 5G ($264) hotspot (also referred to as the M3000) is the follow-up to the Inseego 5G MiFi M2000, which earned an Editors’ Choice award when we reviewed it last year.

The Best Mobile Hotspots for 2023

Inseego 5G MiFi M2000 (T-Mobile) is recognized as one of the best mobile hotspots for 2023

You May Not Be Getting the Internet Speed You Paid for—Here’s Why

Most ISPs oversubscribe their connections,” Ritesh Mukherjee, the senior vice president for enterprise networking at Inseego, a 5G networking company, told Lifewire in an email interview.

Meet the Winners of the 2022 Adweek’s Readers’ Choice: Best of Tech Partner Awards

Hootsuite is recognized by Adweek’s Best of Tech Partner Awards as the Best in Social/Influencer Tech, Social Marketing Management Platform.

Best Workplaces in the Bay Area

The people are truly exceptional at RTI. Everyone is so extremely kind, helpful and welcoming. It’s only been a couple of months since I have started at RTI but I already feel like I am at home. Management also goes above and beyond to make sure you are highlighted for your accomplishments. At our company kick-off, they conducted a surprising graduation ceremony for all of the 2020 graduates and I thought that was so extremely thoughtful and fun. Considering how I never got a proper graduation ceremony, this was honestly the best thing that happened that allowed me to celebrate that accomplishment!

Penguin Solutions Launches Cloud-Native HPC/AI Control Plane and Announces Partnership with Google Cloud

“Through our partnership with Google Cloud, we are now able to offer a solution that meets the needs of both customers who are new to HPC and AI, and also experienced teams that are looking to expand their on-premises environments to the cloud,” said Thierry Pellegrino, president of Penguin Solutions.

Commerce Layer, Frequence and Khoros are Among the 2022 Digiday Technology Award Winners

Subtext is recognized as the best subscription platform from Digiday’s Tech Awards

Why E-Commerce Needs Brick-and-Mortar Retail

“When it comes to delivering the best retail experience in 2023 and beyond, offering customers a mix of online and in-store is key and will require the right technology to elevate customer experiences and drive growth for retailers.”

Farming a war zone

Shortages of everything from seeds to fertilizer might accelerate the adoption of technologies that can help supplies go further in war-torn Ukraine.

UScellular Taps Cradlepoint for Enterprise 5G

The new internet offering from UScellular is delivered by the Inseego Wavemaker FW2010 outdoor 5G customer premise equipment (CPE).

How to Build a Full Lifecycle of Email Marketing

“Getting people to purchase after their first encounter with your business is very unlikely. The importance of setting up a proper lifecycle of email marketing will help attract and retain customers for the long term.”

Penguin Solutions Launches HPC/AI Control Plane, Announces Google Cloud Partnership

“Many organizations want to leverage HPC-style processing for both HPC and AI workloads, but getting things running in the cloud is unfamiliar and complex when configuring a myriad of compute, storage, and network options,” said Mark Seamans, vice president, cloud solutions and services at Penguin Solutions. “With decades of experience in HPC, Penguin is uniquely positioned to simplify, guide, and assist customers through the complexity of creating customized and cost-optimized solutions.” Seamans added, “We are excited to work with Parallel Works to create advanced customer-specific solutions that utilize Parallel Works’ foundational technology and Penguin’s significant HPC/AI domain knowledge.”

How to Build a Full Lifecycle of Email Marketing

Getting people to purchase after their first encounter with your business is very unlikely. The importance of setting up a proper lifecycle of email marketing will help attract and retain customers for the long term.

Social Media Marketing Expected to Withstand to Looming Recession

Hootsuite’s latest Social Trends Report anticipates social media will lead marketing budgets in 2023, with marketers turning to new strategies.

Incognia Grabs $15.5M to Increase Its ID Fraud-Fighting Efforts

Today’s authentication and fraud detection solutions aren’t working for the user, or for businesses, and the market is looking for more innovative technologies,” said André Ferraz, founder and CEO of Incognia.

The 8 Best Portable Wi-Fi Hotspots of 2023

Inseego 5G MiFi M2000 at Amazon is recognized as the best hotspot for T-Mobile data plans

Bots And Misinformation On Social Media Could Undermine The Midterm Elections

We’ve seen examples in the past of how the untethered spread of misinformation on social media can impact public perception, and influence how people make important decisions on things like elections and vaccinations,” said Tom Keiser, CEO of social media management platform Hootsuite.

CTO Sessions: Dan Picker, Inseego

What type of CTO are you? “I have always felt that my first responsibility as a CTO is to envision the things that people (or businesses) don’t yet know they can’t live without, and then to realise those innovations.

6 Strategies for Making Focus Groups More Useful for Companies — and for Schools

You’re bringing a group of strangers together. Sometimes it’s their own colleagues, so it’s a very vulnerable thing, to volunteer to share your ideas and thoughts in front of other people,” said Anna Hughes, director of user experience research at Promethean.

Slow 5G Wireless Disappoints Many Users—But You Can Make it Better

Under the hood, 5G offers other advantages aside from browsing speed. The technology offers lower latency and special treatment for different traffic types in a method called network slicing, Ritesh Mukherjee, the vice president of enterprise networks at Inseego, a 5G networking company, told Lifewire via email.

The 7 Rs of cloud app modernization

vFunction But Bob Quillin, chief ecosystem officer at vFunction says, “Migration does not equal modernization.” He explains, “There are devops benefits to be gained with…

Cyber Pitfalls to Avoid this Halloween and Always

“While Halloween marks the end of Cybersecurity Awareness month, there are some common pitfalls that we do not realize are hanging around in our backyards all year long.”

The Inseego Edge Solution Integrates 5G, Wired Connections, Security and Networking Functions

Over the summer, Inseego released 5G SD EDGE, a 5G cloud solution that delivers networking and security through a 5G network fabric for enterprises, eliminating the need for complex and expensive on-premise custom legacy hardware solutions.

BaaS, Social Payment Apps Gain Traction

Banking as a Service (BaaS), where licensed banks integrate digital banking services directly into the products of other non-bank businesses, is opening consumers up to more options and putting more power into their hands.

The Best Mobile Hotspots for 2022 in the UAE and Saudi Arabia

Inseego’s 5G MiFi M2000 device is recognized as one of the best mobile hotspots for 2022 in the UAE and Saudi Arabia

Inseego, CyberReef Partner to Secure 5G Networks in Regulated Industries

Inseego today announced a partnership with CyberReef, the creator of the industry’s first mobile firewall MobileWall. The new offering will enable the deployment of highly secure 5G mobile access applications that exceed network security compliance requirements, Longley explained.

What to Consider as Regulators Scrutinize Bank-Fintech Partnerships

Banking as a service has evolved from the niche domain of certain community banks to a business line facilitated by software. The growth of the industry, and its concentration among small banks, has attracted the attention of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and its Acting Comptroller Michael Hsu. Experts say that community banks should respond by increasing their due diligence and strengthening their risk management oversight, practices and processes ahead of potentially more scrutiny from regulators.

Omdia Digital Leaders Podcast

The Omdia Digital Leaders Podcast explores topics impacting leadership in the Digital Age. Listen to Omdia experts and industry leaders talk about the things that can make or break your digital success story.

What Treasury Prime’s integration with Jack Henry tells us about how BaaS is evolving

For much of 2022, it appears Treasury Prime has been on a mission to integrate with the leading core banking technology providers. After announcing a collaboration with FIS in May, the firm announced that it has been accepted as a Jack Henry vendor late last month.

Sendinblue buys cloud-based startup for 5th acquisition in past year

On Tuesday, Sendinblue announced it has acquired Yodel.io, a cloud-based business phone company headquartered in San Francisco. Sendinblue made three acquisitions in September 2021 for a combined total of over $47 million, and it followed that up with another acquisition in March for an undisclosed amount.

SendinBlue Acquires Yodel.io Phone Platform

The firm is pursuing a mission of “reducing digital marketing costs for SMBs while creating additional touchpoints for customer success,” says Armand Thiberge, founder and CEO of Sendinblue.

Creators Can Find More Upside by Getting Closer to Their Fans

“The economic downturn is forcing creators to reassess their business and focus on their community.”

How Fleet Managers Can Recruit and Retain the Next Generation of Truck Drivers

“Route optimization software helps reduce and measure the carbon footprint through improved algorithms and analytics capabilities. Route optimization technology also helps create more effective routes that reduce the time drivers need to spend on the road.”

Are Workers Actually Quiet Quitting?

The term “quiet quitting” implies workers abandoning their jobs without a word. In an interview with Yahoo! Finance, Jobsity’s VP of People Operations, Paola Martinez explained what quiet quitting really means and how it’s intended to protect mental health.

Creators Can Find More Upside by Getting Closer to Their Fans

The economic downturn is forcing creators to reassess their business and focus on their community.

Accelerating Time-to-Market using an Integrated High-Assurance Software Stack

The process of building trustworthy and high assurance systems is complex, costly, and requires significant expertise. The end goal is to create a complete software-hardware solution whose components (both individually and collectively) meet your customers’ required levels of assurance for safety and security. This will vary depending upon the standards that are required.

Web3 Developer Tool Provider Infura Announces Plans To Launch Decentralized Protocol

Infura Inc., the provider of tools and application programming interfaces for connecting decentralized apps to Ethereum, said today it’s planning to launch a decentralized protocol to complement its existing product in order to provide better services for the peer-to-peer transactions of Web3 ecosystems.

The future of the web will need a different sort of software developer

In a recent Fortune survey, CEOs cited the lack of qualified talent as the top threat to business – taking precedent over a recession or supply chain glitches. According to Andres Garzon, CEO of IT staffing firm Jobsity, this makes staffing a critical component steering the Internet’s future in 2023 and beyond. “The buzzwords for working smarter will be all about looking beyond immediate borders to recruit highly skilled tech professionals, retain existing professionals with less expensive junior talent and effectively manage costs and workloads,” Garzon tells ZDNET.

ConsenSys Lead Product Owner on Developer Outlook Ahead of Ethereum’s Merge

Ben Edgington of ConsenSys discusses what developers are watching for The Merge.

14 Smart Strategies For Effectively And Efficiently Modernizing Legacy Tech

From security to productivity, there are compelling reasons for a company to modernize its legacy tech—even when it’s “still working.”

4 Steps to Build a Strong Company Culture During Mergers

The influx of employees following an acquisition can be challenging to manage; however, the transition also provides an opportunity to instill your company’s ethos and strengthen company culture–not dilute it.

TikTok for SMBs: Catch the Wave or Get Left Behind

In fact, Hootsuite’s 2022 Social Trends Survey found that 24% of marketers considered TikTok effective for reaching their business goals, compared to just 3% in the previous year — an astounding increase of 700%.

Location Behaviour is the Key to Preventing Identity Fraud

André’ Ferraz, CEO at Incognia explains why location and device intelligence offer retail banks the opportunity to improve fraud detection on mobile without adding friction.

RTI Specifies a Safe Computing Platform for Future Rail Operations with European Railway Operators and Industry

With digitalization, many new technologies will enter the railway system that place high safety requirements on IT environments. As part of the sector initiative, Real-Time Innovations (RTI) has collaborated with a group of European rail operators and industry companies to move this initiative forward.

16 Tech Leaders’ Tips For Developing And Maintaining A Robust Incident Response Plan

Integrate cyber insurance in any incident response plan. Depending on the type of business, cyber insurance can cover the liability associated with a breach.

6 Actionable Strategies to Foster DEI in Tech Hiring

It’s no surprise that the tech industry suffers from a lack of diversity. Despite many companies touting more aggressive efforts, the results are still underwhelming. But your business can take some actionable steps today to build a robust DEI program — efforts that have driven results for us at Treasury Prime.

Apple’s CarPlay Acts More Like Brainiac To Auto Industry Than Trojan Horse

Mapbox comments on the future of the infotainment and navigation system in Forbes.

How Schools Are Improving STEM Education for Girls, Students of Color

Some youth may also associate STEM with being “nerdy” or “not interesting” but STEM really applies to all kinds of interests and hobbies. Things that you might want to do int the world, it’s always going to be relevant,” said Katie McCormick, director of product at Promethean.

Solana Wallets Hacked, MicroStrategy’s Saylor Steps Down, and Robinhood Cuts Jobs: CNBC Crypto World

On today’s show, Lex Sokolin of ConsenSys discusses the Solana wallet hack, Robinhood job cuts, and what to expect from crypto businesses when the bear market ends.

GM, Mapbox Collaboration Glimpse of What’s to Come

“Our customers do very unique, differentiated things on top of (our software),” Alex Barth, vice president of Automotive at Mapbox says. “They have in common that they are using Mapbox, but the UX (user experience) they are creating, the functionality and the optimizations they are creating on top of Mapbox are unique to their business.”

Sendinblue Names Yvan Saule As Chief Technology Officer

Sendinblue Names Yvan Saule As Chief Technology Officer. Saule says his mission is to “foster a strong engineering culture” at the company. Saule also hopes to “empower small to medium-sized businesses to achieve digital excellence, to lead our team of technologists and to enhance our innovative product roadmap.”

Campaigns May Have Lost Their Most Effective — and Annoying — Outreach Tool

“Mike Donoghue, the co-founder and CEO of Subtext, a company that connects media organizations, artists, and other creators with audiences over text, said his company has welcomed 10DLC and thinks it will help build and retain trust with the public.”

Campaigns May Have Lost Their Most Effective — And Annoying — Outreach tool

Mike Donoghue, the co-founder and CEO of Subtext, a company that connects media organizations, artists, and other creators with audiences over text, said his company has welcomed 10DLC and thinks it will help build and retain trust with the public.

Hootsuite Rebrands for Renewed Visibility in Crowded Social Media SaaS Space

“Like an owl hunting at night for its prey, Hootsuite is looking to pounce on an often forgotten category: social media management for businesses.”

Hootsuite Rebrands for Renewed Visibility in Crowded Social Media SaaS Space

Like an owl hunting at night for its prey, Hootsuite is looking to pounce on an often forgotten category: social media management for businesses.

10 Cool Tech Companies That Raised Funding In June 2022

Incognia is pushing the frontier of identity assurance and authentication to deliver increased security with minimal user friction. We’re emerging as the global location identity leader, effectively combatting the increasing fraud on mobile around the world,” said André Ferraz, founder and CEO of Incognia.

Customers Want Personal Advisors, Not Advertisers

Every revolution in communication leads to a revolution in commerce. Why? Because commerce is resilient and fluid: It finds people where they are and where they spend the most time interacting with each other.

Inside Look: Hootsuite’s Office Gets an Inclusive Redesign

“A year and half later, Vu, a tax manager for Hootsuite, was excited to be able to return to in-person work in September 2021 at the company’s newly redesigned office space.”

Connectivity Software Speeds Vehicle ECU Design

Real-Time Innovations (RTI), a software framework company for autonomous systems, has announced RTI Connext Drive® 2.0, a production-grade connectivity framework for software-defined vehicles. The software now accelerates direct integrations into AUTOSAR Classic and ROS 2, enabling developers to leverage data-centric connectivity with familiar ecosystem architectures.

Inside Look: Hootsuite’s Office Gets an Inclusive Redesign

A year and half later, Vu, a tax manager for Hootsuite, was excited to be able to return to in-person work in September 2021 at the company’s newly redesigned office space.

Customers Want Personal Advisors, Not Advertisers

“Every revolution in communication leads to a revolution in commerce. Why? Because commerce is resilient and fluid: It finds people where they are and where they spend the most time interacting with each other.”

How Retailers Can Safely Collect and Use Zero-Party Data

Brands need to clearly communicate why they collect zero-party data (e.g., to make the app user experience more individual/relevant — ideally a win-win for both customer and company), how this data is handled (e.g., safely managed, not passed to third parties) and that a customer can always manage/control/access/delete data.

The Fall 2022 Compass Intelligence IoT Innovator Awards

Inseego wins Top B2B Workplace Device Awards for its Inseego Wavemaker™ 5G FG2000 Series

Tech Moves: Blue Origin hires Air Force vet to lead foundation; ‘grandfather’ of VR retires; and more

Laure Rudelle Arnaud, previously head of people for NFT startup LaCollection.io, joined Sendinblue as chief people and impact officer.

What It’s Like Building a Board of Directors For a Successful Tech Company

Backgrounds and experience, both inherent and lived, play a part in how we all view our roles and approach business. Having the right mix of people in the room leads to a wider and more inclusive perspective to look at projects, products, and initiatives. Diverse points of view are key.

What it’s Like Building a Board of Directors for a Successful Tech Company

“Backgrounds and experience, both inherent and lived, play a part in how we all view our roles and approach business. Having the right mix of people in the room leads to a wider and more inclusive perspective to look at projects, products, and initiatives. Diverse points of view are key.”

Incognia Expands Focus to Combat Increased Identity Fraud

Mobile identity security provider, Incognia, today announced it raised $15.5 million in series A funding led by Point72 Ventures. The new funding round will support continued growth to address the balancing act between security and user experience, delivering security for mobile authentication while requiring no action from consumers.

Selling Your Startup? 5 Things Every CEO Should Know When Selling.

“Selling your startup is one of the most momentous occasions in a CEO’s career. The stakes are high; for most chief executives, it’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and you’ve only got one shot to get it right. But getting acquired is a complex process. A successful sale takes a lot of work and many months of preparation, all on top of the normal work required to keep your business running smoothly. Without adequate preparation and resources, you can risk losing valuable employees, missing deals, ending up with the wrong buyer, and leaving a lot of money on the table.

The Great Resignation & The Future Of Work: Andres Garzon Of Jobsity On How Employers and Employees Are Reworking Work Together

Workplace success isn’t about a hybrid model or offering remote work options. As Jobsity CEO, Andres Garzon told Medium, individuals and organizations are looking for more freedom. The freedom to choose the work model that makes the most sense. The freedom to choose their own values and to pursue what matters most.

TikTok Partners With Hootsuite, Sprinklr, Emplifi and More to Make It Easier for Brands to Reach Users

“The short-form video app is partnering with Sprout Social, Hootsuite, Sprinklr, Emplifi, Dash Hudson, Khoros, Brandwatch and Later for the initial launch.”

5 Strategies That Drive Engagement by Enhancing Customer Experience

A strong digital presence is not only a best practice; it’s essential when it comes to growing your online business. When businesses first migrated online, establishing a landing page and online store were top priorities. Now in 2022, as the number of consumers shopping online hits its all-time high, small businesses must focus on their customers’ online experience.

5 Strategies That Drive Engagement by Enhancing Customer Experience

Creating meaningful touchpoints with your customers can significantly improve their experience with your brand…Remaining visible during the customer journey keeps your business top-of-mind and easily accessible,” said Steffen Schebesta, CEO of North America and VP of Corporate Development.

TikTok Partners with Hootsuite, Sprinklr, Emplifi and More To Make It Easier For Brands To Reach Users

The short-form video app is partnering with Sprout Social, Hootsuite, Sprinklr, Emplifi, Dash Hudson, Khoros, Brandwatch and Later for the initial launch.

“Safe Software” Now The Table Stakes For Suppliers To Electric Vehicles

Our customers, OEMs and suppliers, have not only asked for a small footprint, enabling a heterogeneous supply-chain and flexible ecosystem, but have especially required bringing automotive grade quality for safety and reliability,” confirms RTI’s Director of Automotive, Pedro Lopez Estepa.

I’m The CEO of Hootsuite. I Start My Day Writing Emails Because It’s When My Brain Is The Clearest — Here’s What My Morning Routine is Like.

“Each day, I wake up early and read a bunch of news and newsletters. The sites I regularly check include Platformer by Casey Newton, Stratechery by Ben Thompson, Letters from an American by Heather Cox Richardson, Money Stuff by Matt Levine, DealBook by Andrew Ross Sorkin, Cup of Coffee by Craig Calcaterra, and The Information.”

5 Ways Brands Can Reduce Their Carbon Footprint

Every business has a carbon footprint, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be reduced. Here are a few ways you can implement sustainable digital marketing practices that will reduce your business’s carbon footprint.

5 Ways Brands Can Reduce Their Carbon Footprint

Steffen Schebesta, CEO of North America and VP of Corp. Development at Sendinblue shares five ways brands can reduce their carbon footprint.

Toyota and Mapbox Say Goodbye to Dumb Navigation

Toyota is saying goodbye to the industry’s dumb navigation maps, working alongside partners like Mapbox, allowing the company the flexibility to design the “look and feel” of navigation for its vehicles with its next-generation infotainment system.

Tech Moves: Ex-Amazon product manager joins Shelf Engine; Nerdio adds former Microsoft exec to board; Hootsuite hires CPO

Olivier Legrand, a former LinkedIn managing director, joined Sendinblue as its chief operating officer.

Sendinblue Appoints Olivier Legrand As Its First COO

Sendinblue Appoints Olivier Legrand As Its First COO. Legrand will help accelerate Sendinblue’s growth by “building, developing, and organizing our team globally,” Thiberge says.

Harris County Public Library Giving Out Wi-Fi Hotspots, Chromebooks

Through $30 million from the American Rescue Plan Act, the Harris County Public Library is providing 40,000 Inseego 5G MiFi® mobile hotspots, powered by T-Mobile, for Harris County residents with no, or only slow speed, home internet service.

Glassbeam to Monitor Phantom Healthcare MR systems in India

Glassbeam will supply its data and predictive analytics technology to MR systems manufactured by Phantom Healthcare in India. The company will use Glassbeam Clinsights to monitor MR machines at 100 sites across the country. The deal is the first time that Glassbeam has agreed to supply its technology to an international partner to monitor installations outside of the U.S.

Sweep Raises $73M in Series B Funding

Sweep, a Paris, France-based carbon management platform for large enterprises, raised $73m in Series B funding.The round was led by Coatue with participation Tony Fadell’s…

Sweep helps corporations live up to their lofty carbon promises

There’s coming hard out of the gates with a new company, and then there’s Sweep. The company was founded in 2020, then raised a $22 million Series A round a few months ago, following by a $73 million Series B round announced today. The company swept in with a platform for carbon emissions management. It found a sweet spot in the world of large corporates, which were foaming at the mouth to announce that they were ready to save the planet, but then were left scratching their heads, unclear on how to actually implement, track and report on their progress.

How Sweep Helps Enterprises Calculate, Track and Reduce their Carbon Emissions

Environmental sustainability is top of mind for business leaders around the world. In a global effort to fight climate change, for example, enterprises like FedEx, Amazon and Walmart have even pledged to become carbon neutral by 2040.

Incognia Finds Crypto Exchanges Rely Too Heavily on Passwords and SMS Security

Incognia is turning its attention from Onboarding to Authentication with the release of the second part of its Crypto Mobile App Friction Report. Part one arrived in February,…

Bridgerton’s Season 2 Jumps in Debut Weekend, More Than 193M Hours Viewed on Netflix

According to data from social media management company Hootsuite, total online mentions related to “Bridgerton” season 1 — which debuted December 25, 2020 — totaled 261,379 between November 2, 2020 and December 28, 2020.

The 3G Shutdown Could Affect The Most Vulnerable Of Us

The looming shutdown of 3G networks could leave older adults without a critical communications lifeline. All 3G devices will lose service by the end of the…

25 HR Leaders Building the World’s Most Innovative, Inclusive Workplaces

Insider recently undertook a search for human-resources leaders executing the most creative and ambitious plans for their companies. For a third year in a row,…

WTF is Hybrid Equity?

With the rise in remote and hybrid work, a term is getting bandied around a lot more in management circles: hybrid equity. No, it has…

Blockchain Startup ConsenSys Raises $450M in New Funding at $7B+ Valuation

ConsenSys Software Inc., a fast-growing blockchain startup focused primarily on the Ethereum ecosystem, today announced that it has raised $450 million in funding at a valuation exceeding…

Sendinblue’s Acquisition Spree Continues With Video Conferencing Provider MeetFox

Sendinblue, a digital marketing provider, has acquired MeetFox, a video conferencing and scheduling solution. With the addition of MeetFox, Sendinblue will be able to expand its existing…

How Hootsuite Teaches Brands to Serve Customers Better – Matt Fingerhut – S9E2

This week on the Voices of CX Podcast, we talked to Matt Fingerhut, Senior VP of Hootsuite’s Global Customer Organization. We’ll dive into how Hootsuite teaches brands to…

Sendinblue acquires MeetFox, scheduling software company

Sendinblue acquires MeetFox, scheduling software company. The goal is to help them “create a more professional user experience and streamline meeting coordination,” says Steffen Schebesta, CEO, North America and vice president of Corporate Development, at Sendinblue.

Digital marketing firm Sendinblue makes fourth acquisition in 6 months

Digital marketing company Sendinblue, which has its U.S. headquarters in Seattle, has acquired New York City-based MeetFox, a scheduling and video conferencing software company.

Digital Marketing Firm Sendinblue Makes Fourth Acquisition in 6 Months

Digital marketing company Sendinblue, which has its U.S. headquarters in Seattle, has acquired New York City-based MeetFox, a scheduling and video conferencing software company. The…

Sendinblue Acquires MeetFox

Sendinblue, providers of a digital marketing platform for small to medium-sized businesses, has acquired scheduling and video conferencing software company MeetFox. Financial terms of the…

RTI Presents “Realizing Digital Transformation in Surgical Robotics and Intelligent Medical Devices” Webinar

Real-Time Innovations (RTI), the largest software framework company for autonomous systems, today announced it is co-hosting a complimentary webinar, “Realizing Digital Transformation in Surgical Robotics…

Robotics by Design Kicks Off Engineering Academy

Robotics have proven to be crucial to meet the need of manufacturing even before the pandemic. The strategic use of robotics has improved plant safety…

I’m the CEO of Hootsuite. I Start My Day Writing Emails Because It’s When My Brain is The Clearest — Here’s What My Morning Routine is Like.

“Each day, I wake up early and read a bunch of news and newsletters. The sites I regularly check include Platformer by Casey Newton, Stratechery by Ben Thompson, Letters from an American by Heather Cox Richardson, Money Stuff by Matt Levine, DealBook by Andrew Ross Sorkin, Cup of Coffee by Craig Calcaterra, and The Information.”

Low-Overhead, Cross-Platform API for High-Performance, 3D Graphics Cleared for Safety Critical Uses

The Vulkan SC API from The Khronos Group has been ratified, allowing CoreAVI to enable standards-based implementations across the broadest range of silicon platforms in…

CoreAVI Enables Freedom of Choice and Scalability for Safe Systems Designs

CoreAVI, a developer of functionally safe software stacks for embedded applications, has announced that the Vulkan SC API from The Khronos Group has been ratified,…

CoreAVI Offers Safe Robotics Designs With Newly Ratified Vulkan SC API

CoreAVI today announced that The Khronos Group’s Vulkan SC API has been ratified, enabling CoreAVI to offer developers standards-based implementations of functionally safe software stacks…

Frost & Sullivan Recognizes RTI for its Data-Centric Connext Product Suite

Based on its recent analysis of the North American Software Framework for Autonomous Systems Market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Real-Time Innovations (RTI), the largest software framework company for autonomous…

Tired of Politicians Spamming Your Phone? Help Is On The Way

A legal loophole has allowed political campaigns to pelt voters with unsolicited text messages. But a system called 10DLC should tamp down on election spam.

How AI Will Drive the Future of Auto Supply Chains

As the pandemic sent shockwaves through the global economy, the impact was felt across industries. Among the hardest hit sectors, the automotive industry experienced profound…

Avocados From Mexico and Pepsi most talked about brands ahead of Super Bowl LVI

New Hootsuite data indicates that social media users are loving Super Bowl LVI’s big food and beverage brands right now. On the flip side, automotive…

Trends in Automotive Safety and Software

Neil Stroud, Vice President Marketing and Business Development with CoreAVI, talks about the automotive design market with respect to software trends in system design. This includes…

Hootsuite’s Revenue Leader Says CROs Must Change Their Playbooks

We often celebrate companies who are achieving their goals and KPIs for the year and hitting milestone after milestone. However, there is often a large…

Meta Unveils New AI Supercomputer

Meta Platforms Inc. said Monday that its research team built a new artificial intelligence supercomputer that the company maintains will soon be the fastest in the…

Cloud provider trends in 2022

Amir Rapson co-founded vFunction and serves as its CTO, overseeing technology, product, and engineering. Prior to co-founding vFunction in 2017, Amir was GM and VP…

Vehicle tech abounds at CES 2022, with sensors and software

Futuristic vehicle tech makes up a big part of CES 2022 in Las Vegas – and  not only with the large car manufacturers.  Semiconductor makers and…

Vehicle tech abounds at CES 2022, with sensors and software

Analysts widely believe the chip shortage for automobiles that has wrecked manufacturer revenues in 2021 will continue well into 2022. Key components could be available for no more than 60% of the global demand for EVs, according to Real-Time Innovations, a maker of autonomous vehicle software used by half of the top 10 public EV companies.

Blockchain, Chief Data Officers, and fraud: Here’s what the Crystal Ball predicts for 2022

“In 2022, we’ll see more Big Tech companies introduce new privacy features in an attempt to appease consumers and policymakers. The same companies introducing these changes will likely become more vulnerable as consumers hold them accountable for protecting user data,” Steffen Schebesta, CEO North America, Sendinblue

3 Tips for Starting a Small Business in 2022

“Take advantage of social media and create personalized content. Social media management tools can empower you to make the most of your brand presence online and schedule content in advance. Email marketing is another inexpensive yet rewarding tool to explore. Finally, leverage the power of search engine optimization (SEO) to become more searchable online.”

Sweep raises a $22M to aim at large corporates scrambling to deal with carbon

Enterprise SaaS for measuring company carbon emission is hot. Only recently Planetly was acquired by OneTrust for an undisclosed amount. And there are plenty of…

Sweep, which helps companies capture carbon emissions data in their supply chain, raises $22M

Carbon management platform Sweep has raised $22 million in a series A round of funding, as it sets out to enable large companies to lower their carbon…

Sweep Raises $22 Million as Competition Heats Up Among Emissions Software Providers

Sweep SAS, a France-based carbon-management software startup that was launched this year, has raised $22 million of venture funding as it seeks to help big…

Nowhere To Hide: The Emissions Threat Facing Corporate America

Each degree Celsius of warming will erase 1.2% of the United States GDP, according to Solomon Hsiang, a climate scientist and economist at the University of…

VC Daily: Lime Scoots Out of Pandemic Blues, CEO Says

vFunction, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based startup whose technology accelerates application and cloud modernization efforts, grabbed a $26 million Series A round. Zeev Ventures and Hewlett Packard Pathfinder led the funding, which saw participation from Engineering Capital, Primera Capital and Shasta Ventures.

The Funded: A space SPAC merger and 18 Bay Area fundings at midweek

vFunction Inc., Palo Alto, $12.2 million: Shasta Ventures and Zeev Ventures led the seed funding of this startup, whose service helps companies modernize their older applications. Engineering Capital and Khosla Ventures also invested in the round.

How Hybrid Work Is Changing Expectations

Like many companies, the leadership at JustAnswer.com needed to scramble to get its employees the appropriate technology to work from home at the onset of the pandemic….

Finserv: 2 Tips for Balancing Fraud and Customer Experience

Financial service firms need to protect customer information not only because they are entrusted with a customer’s personally identifiable information (PII), but also because a…

Social Commerce Is Finally Here

Social media platforms have spent the last few years introducing more purchasing features in the hopes of finally bringing social commerce to fruition. Their efforts…

Incognia CEO André Ferraz on Zero-Factor Authentication

Money20/20 USA – the world’s biggest fintech conference – is currently taking place in Las Vegas. Finance has long been the frontline of biometrics and identity…

Sendinblue Launches Email API Offering, Alida Debuts Fall Release & More CX News

Sendinblue, a digital marketing platform, is expanding its solution with Email API as a new value proposition for large businesses. Developers working in large businesses want…

Sendinblue Offers A New Email API For Large Firms

Enterprise brands that need to deliver high volumes of transactional emails while remaining in compliance have a new tool: an email API from digital platform…

Axios Pro Rata – October 19

vFunction, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based cloud infrastructure startup, raised $26 million in Series A funding led by Zeev Ventures and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, with Engineering Capital, Primera Capital,…

Hyundai Motor plans to develop its own chips

Hyundai Motor is the latest automaker to announce plans to develop its own semiconductor chips in order to reduce reliance on chipmakers, according to the…

“Each text message results in a handful of subscriptions”: NOLA.com acquires 19K+ subs by texting locals during Hurricane Ida

Georges Media Group is Louisiana’s largest media organization, delivering 24/7 news coverage through NOLA.com and The Times-Picayune newspaper which has been published in New Orleans since 1837….

How this S.F. company plans to take a bite out of dental claims

Ali Sadat grew up doing homework in the dentist office where his mother worked. Now, many years later, Sadat believes his young startup can solve the…

Facebook’s outage could put off its most important users: Creators

Feeds were quiet for 3.5-billion-plus people yesterday as Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp all went offline for roughly five hours. The total number of people affected by…

Intel- and SoftBank-backed Retrace launches AI-based dental management network

Artificial intelligence-powered dental health startup Retrace Labs Inc., backed by Intel Corp. and SoftBank Group Corp., today launched out of stealth mode with a product claimed…

9 DevOps and DevSecOps best practices for the hybrid work era

DevOps and digital transformation go hand in hand. DevOps culture and methodology prizes speed, experimentation, and collaboration, all happening on cross-functional teams. The processes and tools involved in…

How Creator Marketplaces From Social Networks Stack Up

For more than a decade, when advertisers wanted to reach the young audiences of popular internet personalities, they reached out to marketing agencies to broker…

Bubblehouse Launches First NFT Marketplace That’s Accessible and Eco-Friendly

Startup and NFT pioneer Bubblehouse has announced its own NFT marketplace – the world’s first and only platform that makes these digital assets social, accessible,…

Bubblehouse Inks $4M Pre-Seed Financing Round

Today, Bubblehouse announces $4 million in pre-seed funding. The round was led by Third Kind VC with participation from SV Angel, Watertower Ventures, Soma Capital,…

Bubblehouse Raises $4M in Pre-Seed Funding and Unveils Its Flagship NFT Marketplace App

Today, Bubblehouse announces $4M in pre-seed funding led by Third Kind VC with participation from SV Angel, Watertower Ventures, Soma Capital, and other prominent angels. Bubblehouse is the first social, accessible, and eco-friendly…

Amplitude CEO’s ode to scrutiny ahead of going public

To the chagrin of many public market investors, startups born over the past decade often resisted the IPO route because: a) private markets were flush…

Legacy MFA methods common for new device logins: Incognia app friction report

A review from Incognia of the friction experienced when users attempt to login to mobile apps with a new device indicates that only a couple of apps…

CTO Sessions: Amir Rapson, vFunction

What predictions do you have for the role of the CTO in the future? “CTOs will have to answer for the organisation’s ability to innovate….

Sendinblue makes 3 acquisitions, grows Seattle footprint

Digital marketing company Sendinblue, which has its U.S. headquarters in Seattle, announced Tuesday it has acquired three companies for a combined price of over $47…

Sendinblue Acquires Metrilo, Chatra, and PushOwl

Sendinblue, a digital marketing platform provider, has acquired three ecommerce marketing companies, Chatra, Metrilo, and PushOwl, for more than $47 million. The move comes 11…

Must-have skills for a media startup CEO: Mike Donoghue of Subtext

Have you ever received a text message from your local news outlet? This is one of the more innovative approaches we are seeing recently, particularly…

Despite Some Risks, More Brands Are Blowing Up Consumers’ Phones With Texts

When a brand interrupts your online shopping spree to offer a 15% discount in exchange for your phone number, ignoring it and paying full price…

Supercomputing platform from Penguin Computing to be installed at several DoD sites

Penguin Computing (a division of SMART Global Holdings) has won two contracts totaling $68 million from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP)…

Air Force, Navy Set to Gain New Supercomputers in $68M Deal

The Defense Department awarded California-based Penguin Computing two contracts worth a combined $68 million to provide two high-performance supercomputers and associated capabilities to the Navy…

Innovative US local newsroom strategies: SMS tactics with San Francisco Chronicle and L.A. Taco

The US is a great source of inspiration when it comes to local news. In this special podcast series, we are taking a look at…

Infographic: The Delta Variant Turns Travel Plans Into Online Grief

This was supposed to be our summer, a season of blissful freedom making up for the one scuttled by the novel coronavirus in 2020. But…

MarTech interview with Ethan Anderson, Founder and CEO at MyTime

Creating a unified view of customer buying behaviors across multiple online and offline channels is key to driving a better and more personalized buying experience; Ethan…

How the SF Chronicle is keeping locals updated amid record wildfires

This summer has witnessed the largest number of wildfires ever recorded in Northern California, with the hills around Lake Tahoe glowing amber red over many…

MyTime: The Demand for Modern Payment Methods Pays Off for Businesses

Paytech has become an integral part of company processes since the onset of the global pandemic, and the adoption of this technology has influenced every…

MarTech Interview with Maggie Lower, Chief Marketing Officer at Hootsuite

Hootsuite recently welcomed Maggie Lower as their new CMO, we caught up with Maggie for a chat on her new role and how she forayed into…

Mathematical Optimization: A Powerful Prescriptive Analytics Technology That Belongs In Your Data Science Toolbox

In this special guest feature, Dr. Gregory Glockner, Vice President and Technical Fellow at Gurobi, explains how you can get started using mathematical optimization and provides…

Hackers steal even more Social Security numbers. How should you protect yourself?

Another day, another massive data breach claimed by hackers. Days after a breach at T-Mobile exposed about 53 million people’s personal information, a hacking group known…

Going from monolithic to cloud native with Moti Rafalin of vFunction

In this episode we discuss the challenges of moving your applications from a monolithic type workload to a cloud native workload. Moti Rafalin who is…

Marketing Technology Highlights of The Week: Featuring Hootsuite, HubSpot, Terminus, Xandr and more!

As marketers find ways to measure the success and outcomes of their multichannel campaigns, they must never lose sight of the fact that their purpose…

Hootsuite Acquires Heyday, HubSpot Names New CEO and More CX News

Hootsuite, a social media management provider, has announced a $48 million acquisition of Heyday, a Montreal-based conversational AI platform. Heyday is designed to enable brands to deliver…

CMO’s top 8 martech stories for the week – 5 August 21

Another on the acquisitions trail this week is social media management vendor, Hootsuite, which plans to purchase Heyday, a conversational commerce platform for retailers, for…

Hootsuite Acquires Heyday, a Conversational AI Company, for $48 Million

Hootsuite Inc., a social-media marketing platform, said it is acquiring Heyday Technologies Inc., an artificial-intelligence company that offers chatbots, for $48 million. Heyday offers customer…

Hootsuite Acquires Heyday

Hootsuite has acquired Heyday, a conversational artificial intelligence and messaging platform provider, for about $48 million. “Social is the new interface of commerce and customer…

The Job Roles That Will Lead Hybrid Work Strategies in the Workplace

The hybrid work reality is upon us. And employees, with a year and a half of newfound remote-working capabilities, are speaking up about how they…

Social media manager Hootsuite acquires conversational AI-platform Heyday for $48M

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Dress code debate. You want the Olympics to just be about the athletes and their athleticism; the incredible feats of strength and endurance and agility, the come-from-behind wins, the…

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Organizations are applying prescriptive analytics to power digital transformation, decision optimization, and competitive advantage. As we begin to recover from the global pandemic that has…

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The Drum Future 50 2021

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Raising $12.2M, vFunction rolls out push-button modernization platform for Java apps

Application modernization startup vFunction Inc. today said it raised $12.2 million in seed funding and unveiled a platform that it said enables organizations to transform software written…

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Vfunction exits stealth to transform monolithic enterprise apps into cloud-native microservices

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Uber pays $1.1 billion for Drizly

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VC Daily: Hedge Funds Crowd Out VCs in Private Markets

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Tech.co’s Predictions for the Future of Tech in 2021

Science fiction novels and films have long predicted 2021 – some, better than others. We have to admit that Alfonso Cuarón’s 2006 adaptation of P.D….

Practically every major social app has a Stories function now. This is why

When Snapchat introduced the ability to post disappearing text and media over half a decade ago, no one expected that a scruffy new startup’s headlining…

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COVID-19 will be an extinction-level event for some publications, especially ones that are solely reliant on scale and advertising dollars. While this too shall pass…

Finding Your Way Forward: Five Key Social Trends for 2021

As we approach the end of 2020, we can look back on what has been an unpredictable and turbulent year. A ‘new normal’ for many of…

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Melinda Gates calls for a caregiving ‘czar’

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Hootsuite CTO Ryan Donovan’s 2021 Social Media Predictions

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TikTok Teens Follow New Stars: Senior Citizens

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SendinBlue raises $160 million to automate repetitive marketing tasks

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Sendinblue Secures $160M In Series B Funding For Marketing Platform

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Digital marketing startup Sendinblue Raises $160 million

(Reuters) – Sendinblue, a digital marketing platform aimed at helping smaller businesses sell more online, said on Thursday it raised $160 million in its latest…

Marketing Platform Sendinblue Raises $160 Million In Funding

Sendinblue, a marketing platform provider that serves SMBs, has raised $160 million in a funding round led by Bridgepoint Development Capital and BPI Capital Management…

Karbo Communications Announces Advanced Social Media and SEO Offerings and Presence in Washington D.C.

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NEXT PLATFORM TV FOR SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

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Infographic: Consumers Take to Social Media to Express Frustrations With Covid Tracing Apps

As Covid-19 ravages the globe, Hootsuite has been tracking how consumers are discussing the virus on social media. And what it’s discovered is that users are not…

The Woman Taking Over TikTok at the Toughest Time

Six weeks ago, as TikTok grappled with escalating tensions between the United States and China, the social media app’s top executives huddled together to figure…

Self-driving Indy race cars to compete for glory

There are few pursuits more taxing for team and driver than keeping an open-wheel race car on the track while competing at speeds in excess…

When journalism and Silicon Valley collide

I’ve often argued that tech companies are media companies and vice versa. There’s a future where these two industries are indistinguishable from each other. As this…

Social Media Is Making The Political Divide Even Worse

There is no denying that the political divide is as deep and as wide as it has ever been, but social media is making it…

COVID-19 and Cyber Security

Throughout history, people have taken advantage of chaotic situations to prey on those who let their guard down during disastrous events. Today, the world is…

Coronavirus-era fraud needs better biometrics than keystrokes

At the beginning of 2020, few could have imagined the world engulfed in a pandemic which would create such widespread disruptions of work and personal…

How the media business can build more trust during the coronavirus pandemic

With a dizzying amount of information being reported and amplified during the pandemic, it’s no surprise that roughly half of Americans say that they do not trust…

Tech Moves: Zillow co-founder joins Palantir board; Hootsuite names new CEO; and more

Zillow Group co-founder and former CEO Spencer Rascoff joined the board of Palantir Technologies, a big data company backed by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel. The notoriously secretive…

Hootsuite’s new CEO has some thoughts about Facebook’s advertiser rebellion

Hootsuite, a tool that helps companies manage their social media accounts, has tapped a top executive from Zendesk as its CEO. Tom Keiser, formerly chief…

Publishers Try Sending News by Text

When BuzzFeed News journalist Mat Honan began texting readers the latest Covid-19 numbers and news in March, readers quickly proved that texting is a two-way…

Putting The Social Back In Social Media: 5 Ways To Make The Most Of Social

Social media has gotten a bad name partially based on how negatively it can affect self-esteem and true connectedness. But that may be changing given…

Trump’s Visa Freeze Could Help Funnel Talented Workers to Canada

Donald Trump’s latest move to restrict immigration to the U.S. might wind up being a windfall for Canada. With Covid-19 travel restrictions in place, Justin Trudeau’s plan…

Karbo Communications Earns Record Number of Creative and Industry Honors in 1H 2020

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Bob Leigh, Market Development for Autonomous Systems, Real-Time Innovations (RTI) – Interview Series

Bob Leigh, is the Senior Market Development Director of Autonomous Systems at Real-Time Innovations (RTI). RTI is the largest software framework provider for smart machines and…

The Brazil Tech And Innovation Round-Up: Fake News Vote Delayed, P&G Launches World’s First Social Accelerator, Housing As A Service, Micromobility, Mobile Fraud

Brazil’s senate was due to vote an anti-fake news bill this Tuesday, however that has been postponed until next week amid controversy over the potential ramifications…

Influence In The Time Of COVID-19 – Even A Global Pandemic Can’t Stop Social Media Influence

Influencers may have to “pivot” to stay relevant during the COVID-19 pandemic, but given that more eyeballs than ever are on screens, even as restrictions…

Coronavirus fears have inspired shaming and death threats online. This is how public concern turns into harassment.

As people adjust to the new normal of surviving a pandemic, many are documenting their quarantine activities online — a decision that often leads to…

COVID-19 has significantly changed our media habits according to new report

As you continue your life in lockdown are you spending more time browsing the internet from your mobile device? Across the world, many of us…

How Penguin Computing Is Fighting COVID-19 With Hybrid HPC

Penguin Computing President Sid Mair said the company is using its high-performance computing prowess on-premise and in the cloud to help researchers tackle the novel…

Autonomy Beyond the Car

During the time it takes you to read this article, 20 people around the world will die in car crashes. Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) can eliminate…

Hootsuite Provides Free Access of Its Professional Plan to SMBs Due to COVID-19

VANCOUVER, BC: Hootsuite announced today that it will provide free access to its Professional Plan to nonprofit organizations and small businesses most impacted by the COVID-19 crisis….

Free Software That Businesses, Schools And Others Can Use During The COVID-19 Crisis

With armies of people now working from home because of the COVID-19 pandemic, organizations everywhere are scrambling for business software that supports videoconferencing, remote team…

A Smaller, More Powerful Battery Begins to Charge Devices

TOKYO—Companies are getting closer to replacing the battery that has led the consumer-electronics revolution over the past 30 years. Solid-state batteries promise to be more…

Twitter Users Are Associating The Coronavirus With President Trump. Here’s The Data To Prove It

One of the most interesting analytics exercises on social media is when you can correlate two distinct concepts and see how they are linked. I’m…

Data Algorithms Are Being Used On Social Media To Track COVID-19’s Impact

On Wednesday the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a global pandemic – the first time such a declaration has been made since the H1N1…

Subtext Creates a Space for Journalists and Their Audience to Connect One-on-One

Journalists have had some concerns with social media platforms for some time now, yet it remains the best way to interact with their readers. Hoping…

RTI Joins Consortium To Speed Delivery Of Safe, Affordable Autonomous Vehicles

An auto industry consortium aimed at bringing safe and affordable autonomous vehicles to market faster has added a member it believes can help break the…

3 out 5 Americans use mobile first for surfing the web

It is increasingly clear that digital, mobile, and social media have become an indispensable part of everyday life for people all over the world. But…

Meet 500 Startups’ 26th batch of startups

Following TechCrunch’s coverage of 500 Startups’ 25th batch (and numbers 24, 23, 22, and 21, in case you wanted to go back in time), today…

TikTok: Why The Enormous Success?

TikTok is one of the hottest apps on the planet. But this is not the result of Silicon Valley twenty-somethings. TikTok is actually the mastermind…

Karbo Communications Continues Record Growth, Launches Content Studio, and Makes Key Hires in 2019

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The CBD Brand Taking Trade-Ins; Plastic Bag Bans Turned Branding Opportunity: Wednesday’s First Things First

With so many CBD-infused products on the market, first-time CBD users or curious onlookers might need a little help—and motivation—in choosing which brand to try. Charlotte’s…

Where top VCs are investing in adtech and martech

Lately, the venture community’s relationship with advertising tech has been a rocky one. Advertising is no longer the venture oasis it was in the past, with…

Twitter’s Top Lawyer Is Final Word on Blocking Tweets—Even Donald Trump’s

Whenever somebody on Twitter takes issue with the network’s rules or content policies, they almost always resort to the same strategy: They send a tweet…

Meet Twitter’s top lawyer, who has the final word on blocking tweets—including Donald Trump’s

Whenever somebody on Twitter takes issue with the network’s rules or content policies, they almost always resort to the same strategy: They send a tweet…

The Year Ahead: The Rise Of Voice-Enabled News, Media Consolidation And More Partnerships

Voice-enabled platforms, like Amazon Alexa, are becoming more widely adopted among consumers. According to research from Voicebot.ai, one in four consumers have access to a…

RTI’s Connectivity Middleware Selected by Aptiv Autonomous Mobility to Provide Secure In-vehicle Communication for its Autonomous Vehicles

Real-Time Innovations (RTI), an Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) connectivity company, announced that Aptiv, a developer of  greener connected solutions, will work with RTI Connext DDS, as…

Network Computing Year in Review

As 2020 approaches, it’s time to look back at 2019 to view the most important trends in four key network areas: automation, branch connectivity, data…

Hootsuite reveals 5 Social Media Trends for 2020

Social media management tool Hootsuite​ has released its ​Social Media Trends 2020​ report. The company’s fourth annual report on global trends in social media reveals the…

How fashion startups get accepted into tech accelerators

When Neha Singh was accepted to The New York Fashion Tech Lab, a programme that connects fashion-tech startups with major retailers, in 2017, her virtual…

Here’s What We’ve Learned So Far From the Viral Agencies Salary Google Spreadsheet

Before Thanksgiving, an anonymous spreadsheet began making the rounds containing the reported salaries and demographic info of thousands of marketers. Our extremely talented data analyst, Hannah Gorman, did…

An Elf-Themed Hotel Suite; Can AI Fool You? Wednesday’s First Things First

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Broadway’s Rob McClure Has Helped Create the App Every Singer (at Every Level) Needs

Rob McClure met Andrew Goren while teaching a master class at the Arden Theatre in Philadelphia six years ago. Little did the Tony nominee realize how…

RTI Unveils Connext Drive: The First Complete Automotive-Grade Connectivity Solution for Autonomous Vehicle Development

Connext Drive is the first and only integrated Framework to bridge all automotive ecosystems including DDS, ROS2, AUTOSAR Classic and AUTOSAR Adaptive. Connext Drive delivers data…

As cloud security improves, a weak link emerges: people

Last summer Capital One Financial Corp. was the victim of a massive data breach encompassing more than 100 million credit card applications and revealing 140,000 Social Security…

Insurance: The Last Frontier In Customer-Centric Buying Experiences

As one Inc.com interview with Jeff Bezos explained, “Back in 1995, when Amazon was still a bookstore, Bezos started experimenting with customer reviews. After some time,…

Hootsuite and Proofpoint Partner to Deliver Real-Time Predictive Compliance for Customers in Regulated Industries

Hootsuite, the leader in social media management, and Proofpoint, a leading next-generation security and compliance company, announced at the LIMRA Annual Conference, the launch of a real-time…

Harmony Helper App Acts as Virtual Voice Coach

The app Harmony Helper is launching to help singers rehearse their songs when going to a voice coach or traditional rehearsal just isn’t practical. Andrew…

Harmony Helper Unveils First App to Give Singers a 24/7 Digital Rehearsal Room that Delivers Better Performances

Harmony Helper Unveils First App to Give Singers a 24/7 Digital Rehearsal Room that Delivers Better Performances. New Singer Learning Tool includes the First and…

Hootsuite taps Proofpoint for AI-powered predictive compliance tool

Social media management platform Hootsuite and enterprise security company Proofpoint have partnered to ensure social media posts don’t hurt your brand. Hootsuite Enterprise customers who also subscribe to Proofpoint…

Why Real Estate Startup Compass Wants You to Know Its Executives Fly Coach: Term Sheet

Compass, a New York real estate startup valued at $6.4 billion, had been rumored to be eyeing an IPO. But following the WeWork saga, the SoftBank-backed…

RTI Awarded $2M in Government Contracts to Advance DoD Capabilities in Modeling and Simulation Systems

Real-Time Innovations (RTI), the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) connectivity company, today announced that it has been awarded two Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase…

Meet the CIOs of today: Resumes vary while scope widens

Hailing from a software engineering background, Sharon Mandell became a chief information officer without quite realizing it. Mandell co-founded a software company around the 1990s. Coming from…

Electric bike-sharing startup Wheels raises $50 million in latest funding round

Electric bike-sharing startup Wheels said it has raised more than $50 million in its latest funding round led by venture capital firm DBL partners, as…

Wheels raises $50 million for ebikes focused on safety and durability

Wheels has raised a $50 million round of venture capital for its micromobility platform featuring electric vehicles that fall somewhere between scooters and bicycles. Based in Los…

The MarTech Minute: Qualtrics launches CoreXM, Liiv buys Telmar and Gartner’s CMO survey

A new product name and new features from Qualtrics. The customer experience platform Qualtrics has launched CoreXM, a reiteration of its previous Research Core platform with added…

Acquisition of AI lab a benefit for Alteryx BI users

With the acquisition of Feature Labs, a startup founded at MIT, Alteryx is making a heavy investment in augmented intelligence and machine learning capabilities. In a…

Tibco Spotfire BI platform gets an AI boost

Tibco Spotfire users will benefit from the enhanced cloud-native and augmented intelligence capabilities the vendor has added across its business intelligence products. During its recent…

News of Firms

Karbo Communications has opened a dedicated creative division. The Karbo Communications Content Studio offers a range of more than 50 creative services, including social media management, branding,…

Karbo Communications Announces Dedicated Content Studio

Karbo Communications, a top-ranked U.S. technology public relations (PR) and digital marketing agency, announced the opening of the Karbo Communications Content Studio, the company’s dedicated…

Karbo Communications Launches Content Studio for Better Content Integration

Karbo Communications, a top-ranked U.S. technology public relations (PR) and digital marketing agency, today announced the opening of the Karbo Communications Content Studio, the company’s dedicated…

Facebook Hiding Likes and Video Views Could Force Publishers to Shift Strategies

Facebook is running an experiment to hide “like” counts and other public-facing social scores, which could ultimately affect publishers and brands looking for visibility on…

Karbo Communications Announces Dedicated Content Studio

Agency Delivers Tech PR-Content Integration with Newly Established In-House Creative Division SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – September 30, 2019 – Karbo Communications, a top-ranked U.S. technology…

Gen Z Media Company The Tylt Brings on New Leads for Editorial and Sales

Social polling company The Tylt continues to build out its platform to create a place where its target audience—millennial and Gen Z consumers—can express their…

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WeWork’s drama is the gift that keeps on giving (at least for now, until another company from that cohort decides it’s time to grab some…

Why Facebook Just a Bought a Brain Control Startup: Term Sheet

You might remember brain computing company CTRL-labs from my previous interviews with Lux Capital’s Josh Wolfe when I called the startup “freaking crazy.” READ MORE >>>

Google veteran Tony Wang joins 500 Startups as managing partner

San Francisco-based accelerator 500 Startups is expanding its executive team with the hiring of Tony Wang. Wang is joining the early-stage firm from Color Genomics, a venture-backed…

Megaport Virtual Cloud Router Bursts Into New Metros

Megaport added regions and capabilities to its virtual cloud router, which allows businesses to establish private, on-demand connections at Layer 3 now from 19 metro…

Sisense and TIBCO Spotfire: Buyer’s guide and reviews August 2019

Traditional approaches to business intelligence are too slow, inflexible, and expensive. You need an approach to business intelligence that is governed and scales yet allows…

What gives data a competitive edge

If a business wants its competitors to read ’em and weep, it needs artificial intelligence, data scientists and a chief information officer willing to lean…

TDK Named a Sponsoring Vendor Partner for RF Inductor Components by Modelithics

TDK Corporation (TSE:6762) today announced that its subsidiary TDK Corporation of America has been named a Sponsoring Modelithics Vendor Partner (MVP) by Modelithics, Inc., an…

Data ethics issues create minefields for analytics teams

AI technologies and other advanced analytics tools make it easier for data analysts to uncover potentially valuable information on customers, patients and other people. But,…

The Funded: 500 Startups names early batch founder as its COO

500 Startups has named a founder of a company from one of its earliest batches to be its chief operating officer. Courtney Powell was in the…

500 Startups Names Courtney Powell to Lead Operations

500 Startups has named Courtney Powell as the venture-capital investor’s chief operating officer. In her new role, Ms. Powell will manage day-to-day operations as the…

Karbo Communications Expands Presence in Los Angeles, Seattle and New York

Top-Ranked Tech PR and Digital Agency Serves Client in Key Markets Across the U.S. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. ­– July 22, 2019 – Karbo Communications, a…

Japanese telco giant plants research lab flag in Silicon Valley

Some of the computing industry’s biggest innovations have come from research labs. The transistor was created at AT&T’s Bell Labs, the hard drive by IBM…

Gen Z is more conservative than many realize – but the Instagram-fluent generation will revolutionize the right

In 2018, students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, watched a gunman murder 17 of their classmates. The teenagers mobilized. “Every single…

TDK launches $50 million corporate venture fund for material science technologies

TDK announced that it has established TDK Ventures as a $50 million corporate venture capital fund to invest in early-stage startups in material science, energy and power, and related areas,…

CEO Dan Streetman Shares TIBCOs Innovation Model

Steve Jobs said, “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” I remember learning about TIBCO’s unique model for innovation including their ‘connected intelligence cloud’…

Karbo Communications Announces Record Growth for First Half of 2019

Karbo Communications, a top-ranked U.S. technology public relations and digital marketing agency, announced record growth in the first half of 2019, an overall increase of…

Mass-Scale mmWave in 5G: What’s the Hold Up?

Millimeter-wave technology can be one of the great enablers of the 5G landscape. However, multiple hurdles must be jumped before it becomes viable for broad…

At TIBCO Now, a corporate cultural innovation shift on the wind

We can talk about innovation in business terms of its impact on revenue and profit, or in productivity terms of agile releases and faster resolutions….

Karbo Communications Announces Record Growth for 1H 2019

Top-Ranked Tech PR and Digital Agency Celebrates Record Growth and Expanded Client Roster SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. ­– June 17, 2019 – Karbo Communications, a top-ranked…

What do you see as the key challenges in sensors as they play a larger role in the Internet of Things (IoT)?

Filtering requirements have not only multiplied, but have also become more complex due to the ever increasing RF bands for 5G, new services, and WiFi…

This year’s Digiday Publishing Awards finalists reflect a changing industry

This year’s list of Digiday Publishing Awards finalists reflect and industry intent on navigating a path forward. As publishers seek new ways to create valuable…

The Future of Healthcare: “We Must Address Administrative Inefficiencies” with David Niewolny

Administrative Inefficiencies – The lack of technology adoption, billing complexity and information/data interoperability have created a perfect storm of administrative inefficiency. Just one example is…

How Advanced Analytics Is Helping to Flush Out Insurance Fraud

Advanced analytics and machine learning modeling require lots of data to be trained, and in the insurance business, there’s no better place to get data…

The Building Blocks of 5G

The complexities and applications of 5G networks will bring about step-by-step innovations that will procedurally add unprecedented functionality to our public spaces. With every generation…

The Rise of Influencer-Based Marketing Strategies

Businesses are struggling to stay relevant and to get in front of the right customer, at the right time, with the right call to action….

Thin-film power inductors boast rated inductance of 1.0 µH

TDK Corporation announces the development of a miniaturized thin-film power inductor in an IEC 2012 case size that can handle higher currents compared to conventional…

Inside view of Tibco integration architecture planning

They may be called technology boutiques, though some prefer the term “best-of-breed” tool providers. Whatever they’re called, a parade of innovative software startups have become…

This is why self-driving cars suck at making unprotected left turns

Human or robot driver, left-hand turns in a car are tough. Unprotected turns? Even harder. Cruise, the self-driving car company backed by General Motors, put…

AI and machine learning: Top 6 business use cases

Artificial intelligence and machine learning aren’t considered new technologies anymore, but their use cases are, according to TIBCO. Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning may…

Karbo Communications Honored as Silver Stevie Award Winner in 2019 American Business Awards

Karbo Communications, a top-ranked U.S. technology public relations and digital marketing agency, announced that it has won a Silver Stevie® Award for Public Relations Agency…

Entrepreneur Weekly Podcast: Mike Donoghue, Kyle Lelli, and Cameron Mitchell

Opinions That Count and Five Cultural Pillars: Do you really want to know what your consumers are thinking? Well, there is a way to shift…

Karbo Communications Honored as Silver Stevie® Award Winner in 2019 American Business Awards®

This is the Second Consecutive Year Karbo Communications has Received a Stevie® Award Win for Public Relations Agency of the Year SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. ­–May…

BLDC Engines Enable the Future of Motors

For some time, BLDC motors have been known, particularly in the automotive industry, as being “ripe” for a breakthrough. Their advantages include precisely controlled motor…

5G is the Y2K of the next decade

The press surrounding CES 2019 and Mobile World Congress 2019 5G announcements coupled with the bankruptcy proceedings of Sears/Kmart occurring recently has caused me to…

IT Science Case Study: Improving Customer Service with Better Data

eWEEK IT SCIENCE: Desigual had a five-month runway to deliver an assisted-shopping application and one additional month to roll it out. With Docker’s help, it…

Finding the right recipe for innovation comes down to people and culture

Innovation is influenced by people and culture but it’s led by technology. All three are necessary and must be synchronized for best results. “Many companies…

RTI and Beeond Announce Proposal for Connectivity Standards Integration for IIoT

In a recent announcement, Real-Time Innovations (RTI), Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) connectivity company, and Beeond, an OPC UA consulting, training and development services company,…

Top 5 ways businesses are actually using new technologies

Companies are using emerging technologies like IoT to drive innovation projects, according to a TIBCO report. Here’s how. Technology is crucial for innovation in businesses,…

TIBCO Software buys SnappyData for real-time analytics on Apache Spark

Data integration software firm Tibco Software Inc. said today it has acquired a startup called SnappyData Inc. as it looks to boost the real-time analytics capabilities of its platform. Financial terms…

Digital Marketing and PR Agency Karbo Com Announces Another Year of Record Growth

Karbo Communications, a top-ranked U.S. technology public relations (PR) and digital marketing agency, announced 2018 revenues of $2M, an increase of 44% over 2017.

Digital Marketing and PR Agency Karbo Com Announces Another Year of Record Growth

Top-Ranked Agency Expands Client Roster and Wins Top Awards SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.—March 4, 2019—Karbo Communications, a top-ranked U.S. technology public relations (PR) and digital marketing…

Karbo Communications Announces Another Year of Record Growth

Karbo Communications, a top-ranked U.S. technology public relations (PR) and digital marketing agency, announced 2018 revenues of $2M, an increase of 44% over 2017.

Digital Marketing and PR Agency Karbo Com Announces Another Year of Record Growth

SAN FRANCISCO, March 04, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Karbo Communications, a top-ranked U.S. technology public relations (PR) and digital marketing agency, today announced 2018 revenues of…

The Industrial Internet of Things: A guide to deployments, vendors and platforms

Although many IIoT projects are still in the proof-of-concept or trial stage, there are clear signs of a widespread move towards full production deployments. The…

Account News In Brief (February 18, 2019)

SAN FRANCISCO — Karbo Communications has been named TIBCO Software’s agency of record. Karbo will handle TIBCO’s messaging, media, and public relations efforts in North America,…

TIBCO Appoints Karbo Communications as North American Agency of Record

Karbo Communications, a top-ranked U.S. technology public relations (PR) and digital marketing agency today announced it has been named TIBCO Software Inc.’s Agency of Record. Karbo…

TIBCO Appoints Karbo Communications as North American Agency of Record

Industry leader in integration and analytics taps award-winning PR agency SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.—February 11, 2019—Karbo Communications, a top-ranked U.S. technology public relations (PR) and digital…

TIBCO Appoints Karbo Communications as North America Agency of Record

Karbo Communications, a top-ranked U.S. technology public relations (PR) and digital marketing agency, today announced it has been named TIBCO Software Inc.’s Agency of Record. Karbo…

Accounts in Transit; 5W Adds Topps; Karbo Tapped by TIBCO; BVK Cements Ties with James Hardie N.A.

Karbo Communications has been named agency of record for TIBCO Software Inc. Karbo will handle TIBCO’s messaging, media, and public relations efforts in North America, advancing the…

Wireless Technology Predictions 2019

We asked leading companies and manufacturers what the future of wireless technology would look like for 2019. Here’s what they had to say: Read More…

Bellwethers for 2019 Electronics Industry

Marketeers, engineers, and reporters tend to maintain a love-hate relationship with the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). The show has gotten too big, its venues are…

At CES 2019, 5G rides one last wave of hype before reality kicks in

Amid the hoopla of CES 2019, next-generation 5G tech is once again the talk of Las Vegas. But as with previous editions of the big electronics show,…

5G market predictions for 2019

The importance of 5G continues to grow and to find out what’s in store for next year, TechRepublic talked to several 5G experts to discuss…

How Sony’s ‘Spider-Man: Into the SpiderVerse’ uses AR to put a new spin on a beloved superhero

There’s a new Spider-Man on the block, and his concept of high technology doesn’t involve an automated costume. In the age of the blockbuster movie,…

10 machine learning success stories: An inside look

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), once considered pie-in-the-sky projects for companies, are becoming mainstream. More enterprises are harnessing the technology, which mimics the behavior…

TIBCO to buy data management firm Orchestra Networks: sources

(Reuters) – TIBCO Software Inc, a large privately-held business software provider, is acquiring French data management company Orchestra Networks in a move that will bolster…

How to establish a thriving IT innovation hub

Aerospace and industrial giant United Technologies depends on innovation to meet the demanding needs of its corporate and government customers. To ensure a steady pipeline…

Silicon 60 Class of 2018

OnScale Inc.* (Cupertino, California) has raised seed funding of US$3 million to launch its solver-as-a-service offering for complex engineering calculations that require high-performance computing. OnScale combines…

Will Native Content Fall Victim to Fake News?

Native ads have overtaken display as the most popular form of digital advertising, but the gaming of social channels and the mistrust of media based…

Another Use for A.I.: Finding Millions of Unregistered Voters

The mechanics of elections that attract the most attention are casting and counting, snafus with voting machines and ballots and allegations of hacking and fraud….

Linux-Focused Penguin Computing Banking On AI Infrastructure

Custom Linux-based system builder Penguin Computing Tuesday formed a new practice focused on building data center infrastructures for artificial intelligence. The new Penguin Computing artificial intelligence…

Karbo Communications Earns Record Number of Awards in 2018

Prosperous year delivers steady stream of recognition for top-ranked agency SAN FRANCISCO and REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Oct. 09, 2018 — Karbo Communications, a top-ranked tech…

Pigeon wants to be Reddit for Facebook Messenger

Advance Local today announced the launch of Pigeon, a meme-sharing Facebook Messenger bot that gives anonymous users the ability to share content or vote up or down…

8th Wall Web Frees Mobile AR From Tyranny Of The App

The tyranny of the app is crushing the soul of XR. The ability to move seamlessly between virtual worlds has until now been the exclusive…

10 Views of Sensors Expo 2018

SAN JOSE, Calif. — More than 5,000 people registered for this year’s Sensor Expo, where more than 250 companies showed their wares. The numbers are a…

Senzing uses entity resolution to find relationships in databases

Cybercrime hurts businesses’ bottom lines. Damage costs from social engineering, ransomware attacks, and malware infections are expected to hit $6 trillion annually by 2021, according…

Karbo Communications Wins Bronze in 2018 Stevie Awards

Karbo Communications, a digital marketing and PR agency, announced that it has won a Bronze Stevie Award for Public Relations Agency of the Year.

Karbo Communications Honored as Bronze Stevie® Award Winner in 2018 American Business Awards®

Stevie winners will be presented with their awards on June 11 in New York SAN FRANCISCO, June 12, 2018 — Karbo Communications, a top-ranked digital…

Industry News In Brief (June 11, 2018)

BEIJING AND SAN FRANCISCO — EASTWEST Public Relations, which has offices across Asia, and US tech-focused Karbo Communications have struck a partnership under which they…

EASTWEST Public Relations and Karbo Communications to Provide Localized PR Programs for Global Companies

EASTWEST Public Relations, a full-service independent PR agency with offices across Asia, and Karbo Communications, a top-ranked U.S. technology PR and marketing agency, today announced they…

EASTWEST Public Relations and Karbo Communications to Provide Localized PR Programs for Global Companies

BEIJING and SAN FRANCISCO, June 07, 2018 — EASTWEST Public Relations, a full-service independent PR agency with offices across Asia, and Karbo Communications, a top-ranked…

Karbo Teams Up with Asia Partner

San Francisco-based digital tech PR and marketing shop Karbo Communications has entered into a strategic partnership with Singapore-based agency EASTWEST Public Relations to deliver localized traditional and digital…

10 Charts That Will Challenge Your Perspective Of IoT’s Growth

Realizing the Internet of Thing’s (IoT) potential to reduce costs and enable new business models needs to start with a platform perspective that includes app…

Karbo Communications Expands Content Development Services for Tech Startups and Enterprises

Karbo Communications, a top-ranked technology public relations (PR) and digital marketing agency, today announced the expansion of its content development services. In addition to its…

Karbo Communications Expands Content Development Services for Tech Startups and Enterprises

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.—May 09, 2018 — Karbo Communications, a top-ranked technology public relations (PR) and digital marketing agency, today announced the expansion of its content development…

Digital Marketing and PR Agency Karbo Com Announces Record Growth

Top-Ranked Agency Expands Offerings and Opens Two New Offices SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.—March 5, 2018—Karbo Communications, a top-ranked U.S. technology public relations (PR) and digital marketing…

Engineering Startup OnScale Raises $3 Million Seed

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Term Sheet — Thursday, March 1

OnScale, a platform that allows engineers to accelerate innovation in 5G, biomedical, and IoT markets, raised $3 million in seed funding. Thornton Tomasetti led the round. Read…

How the Industrial IoT is transforming industry

IoT may be the “latest” big thing, but that doesn’t mean it’s accepted by customers. Here are tips on building a business case for IoT…

Consortia Provide Shared Vision for IIoT System Design

The consortia behind two IIoT reference architectures have joined forces to help industrial professionals optimize IIoT system design. Separate reference architectures developed by two major…

A Look at InvenSense’s Low-Noise, Low-Power, Waterproof MEMS Capacitive Barometric Pressure Sensor

A new MEMS capacitive barometric pressure sensor, from InvenSense, is said to be the industry’s lowest-noise and lowest-power pressure sensor. InvenSense has released the ICP-101xx series of…

8th Wall To Revolutionize Mobile AR Development

I had a recent, painful experience app developers know well: developing an app for both iOS and Android. Porting from one platform to the other…

RTI and ITTIA Partner on IIoT Data Integration

In a recent announcement, ITTIA and Real-Time Innovations (RTI) have made public a partnership to offer a complete software solution for real-time data distribution, long-term…

Partners Offer Comprehensive Data Utility Package

ITTIA and Real-Time Innovations (RTI) partner to offer a complete software solution for real-time data distribution, long-term data storage, and on-demand queries. As a provider…

Augmented reality developer tools startup 8th Wall raises $8 million

Mobile AR had a lot of hype heading into the rollout of ARKit and ARCore this past year, but for the most part mobile AR…

Breakdown on Piezo Actuators from TDK at CES 2018

TDK has just released a new line of piezo actuators with haptic feedback, converting electrical energy into linear motion with high speed, force, and response…

Fending Off an Attack, Qualcomm Tries Offense

The smartphone-chip maker invades Broadcom’s back yard, and makes the point that it still has the moxie to compete on its own There are epic…

Which State Is The Most Generous And Who Wins?

It is the season of giving — where #GivingTuesday campaigns and other events and holidays end the year and bring many together. Americans gave $390…

JotForm and Asana Partner to Accelerate Path Between Data Collection, Insights and Monetization

JotForm, the solution that helps build online forms and deliver business value, today announced its partnership and product integration with Asana, the work-tracking app for teams….

Real-Time Innovations advances management of smart grid IoT devices

Real-Time Innovations (RTI), the Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity company, announced they were awarded $1 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy…

Is edge computing all around us right now?

Instead of a complex infrastructure deployment, latent computing resources could be used to support the edge computing needs of the IoT. The data processing and…

The MEMS packaging market is growing faster than the devices market itself

According to Yole Développement (Yole), the MEMS packaging market will grow from US$2.56 billion in 2016 to US$6.46 billion in 2022, showing a 16.7% CAGR over this…

AT&T Previews Edge Compute Plans

AT&T Labs has been quietly defining its concept of edge computers and is now slowly edging toward deploying them. Long term, the work has broad…

TDK launches new sensor range as it hosts industry event

The sixth annual TDK Sensors Developers Conference is currently under way in Santa Clara, in the US.  Keynote speaker at the event is Jenelea Howell, director of IoT and…

How is the Industrial IoT transforming industry?

I described in earlier articles how Industrial IoT involves a wide range of technologies, from semiconductors to cloud computing and artificial intelligence. This month, I…

Flexera Sees BDNA Acquisition Driving App Rationalization

IT organizations have had a vested interest in trying to rationalize the number of applications that need to be supported to reduce the licensing fees…

How to Overcome Limitations of Conventional Discovery in the Cloud

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Karbo Com Opens Silicon Valley Office for Tech Companies Seeking Advanced PR and Digital Marketing Services

Top-Ranked Agency Delivers Market Leadership Services SAN FRANCISCO AND REDWOOD CITY, Calif.—Oct.  10, 2017—Karbo Communications, a top-ranked U.S. technology public relations (PR) and digital marketing…

“Above the Trend Line” – Your Industry Rumor Central for 10/2/2017

Above the Trend Line: your industry rumor central is a recurring feature of insideBIGDATA. In this column, we present a variety of short time-critical news items…

Miniature Coupled Inductor Coils Enable Wireless Remote Power And Secure Communication

Interest in wireless devices has increased demand for smaller gadgets and electronics, along with higher security communication and more efficient power transfer. Far electric fields…

Term Sheet — Thursday, September 21

Optalysys Ltd, a U.K.-based developer of light-speed optical coprocessors, raised $3.95 million in funding. Investors were not named. Read More >>>

Slidecast: How Optalysys Accelerates FFTs with Optical Processing

In this RichReport slidecast, Dr. Nick New from Optalysys describes how the company’s optical processing technology delivers accelerated performance for FFTs and Bioinformatics. Earlier this week, the…

BDNA to Launch Cloud Asset Insights to Optimize Cloud Management for Amazon EC2 Deployments

BDNA, the leader in delivering the most trusted and comprehensive technology asset information, announced today an agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to develop BDNA…

Term Sheet — Tuesday, September 19

Flexera agreed to acquire BDNA, a Mountain View, Calif.-based enterprise technology data provider. Financial terms are not being disclosed. Read More >>>

Optalysys Readies Optical Sequencing Alignment for Market

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Earlham Institute Presents Sequence Alignment Using Optalysys’ Optical Correlator Computing System

The Earlham Institute, a Norwich, England-based life science research institute, are working with Optalysys, a Yorkshire, England-based start-up, to apply Optalysys’ optical computing system to…

Real-Time Innovations Announces Connectivity Software That Can Be Used For Autonomous Vehicles

Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity company Real-Time Innovations (RTI) has announced its RTI Connext DDS 5.3, which is the “first connectivity software designed to…

BDNA Partners with Amazon to Develop New Cloud Tool

BDNA, a provider of comprehensive technology asset information, is entering an agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to develop BDNA Cloud Asset Insights, a new…

Industrial IoT security: Is risk increasing?

Recently, as more applications get serious about implementing IIoT designs, I get an increasing number of questions from insurance company executives. The most common question:…

High-Impedance Chip Beads With Lowest DC Resistance

TDK Corporation announced the development of the MMZ0402EUC series of chip beads, with the lowest DC resistance for a chip bead its size*. The two…

High-Impedance Chip Beads Feature DC Resistance Values of Only 0.62 Ω and 0.69 Ω

TDK Corporation announced the development of the MMZ0402EUC series of chip beads, with the lowest DC resistance for a chip bead its size*. The two…

Underwater Drone Uses RTI’s Connectivity Platform for Consumers, Explorers and Researchers

While flying drones seem to be getting the bulk of the attention, a number of cool submersible drones are quietly coming to the market. These…

Autonomous Cars Face a Slew of Sensory, AI, and Communications Challenges

Object-detection, communication, navigation, safety, and security are just a few of the challenges facing autonomous car makers. Many of these require advanced sensory and communications…

Karbo Communications Continues to Rank Among Top U.S. Technology PR Agencies

PR Week and O’Dwyer’s Recognize Technology PR and Marketing Firm as Best in the U.S. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.—July 18, 2017—Karbo Communications, Inc., a top U.S….

High-performance redundant Linear Hall sensor

The new TDK-Micronas (Freiburg, Germany) HAL 24xy Linear Hall-effect sensor family offers extended distance measurement, improved robustness and state-of-the-art diagnostic functions for applications under stringent conditions. The…

InvenSense Introduces Update to SensorStudio IoT Design Platform

InvenSense recently announced an update to SensorStudio, their sensor prototyping and development platform for the IoT. From its inception in 2003, InvenSense has created a…

TDK Showcases Extensive Sensors Offerings at Sensors Expo & Conference 2017

TDK Corporation and its Group Companies EPCOS, TDK-Micronas, Tronics and InvenSense will present the industry’s single source of innovative sensor solutions in Booth 416 at…

What’s the Difference Between TMR and GMR Sensors?

Tunnel-magnetoresistance and giant-magnetoresistance elements contrast significantly in output, accuracy, temperature drift, and aging deterioration, thus targeting them for vastly different applications. Demand for magnetic sensors…

SPMJ Comunicação and Karbo Communications to Deliver Impactful PR Programs for Startups, Tech Enterprises Across the Americas

SAO PAULO, BRAZIL and SAN FRANCISCO, June 13, 2017—SPMJ Comunicação (SPMJ), one of the leading mid-sized, Brazilian corporate communications and media relations companies, and Karbo…

Karbo Connects with SPMJ Comunicação

San Francisco-based digital tech PR and marketing shop Karbo Communications has forged a partnership with Brazilian agency SPMJ Comunicação, expanding the agency’s footprint into Latin America.

How Technology Is Redefining Native Advertising for Brands

Native advertising has come a long way since its inception. Initially, it was met with customer resistance and brand criticism, but many brands have since…

Real-Time Innovations seeks internet of things revolution

Real-Time Innovations aims to do more than jump into the emerging world of the internet of things. It has devised software that enables companies and other…

Separating Signal from Power: New Automotive Inductors from TDK

Inductors such as the ADL3225V devices are useful when you want to use just one conductor to transfer both signal and power. I still find…

McNealy sees Sun’s past in IoT’s future

When Sun Microsystems said, “The network is the computer,” it might have been talking about the Internet of Things, which was little more than an…

KARBO COMMUNICATIONS WINS GOLD 2017 HERMES CREATIVE AWARD

Leading Tech PR Agency Wins Award for Best Online Placement in Fortune SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – April 25, 2017 – Karbo Communications, Inc., a top…

Carbots won’t think like humans, and that’s a good thing

Tons of metal do not collide quietly. I started my career crashing cars. My first job was in bio-mechanical impact testing at a research laboratory…

Choke Suits Automotive Power over Coax Apps

TDK Corporation has unveiled the ADL3225V choke for automotive power over coax (PoC) applications. The wire wound inductor, which has a DC resistance of 0.9…

Brainstorm: The Role Of Supercapacitors In Future Energy Systems

Within just a handful of years, devices that previously housed no electronics—let alone information processing capabilities—have become increasingly “smart.” To fully realize the benefits of…

EBay Brings Ad Sales In-House To Focus On First-Party Data Strategy

On May 10, eBay will part ways with its longtime ad rep firm, Triad Retail Media, which was acquired by Xaxis last October. Recode first reported the…

eBay Ramps Up Advertising, Moves To Product Ads, Pages

eBay is building out an in-house advertising team and cutting ties with an outside ad firm, Triad Retail Media, to move sales in-house after working together since…

eBay is doubling down on its advertising business, just like Amazon

For years, eBay’s advertising business was something of an afterthought compared to its core commerce operation — so much so that eBay had another company…

Ebay Survey Results Point to More People Buying and Researching Cars Online

Every three minutes, a car or truck was sold on eBay via a mobile device during the fourth quarter of 2016. And if the results of…

KARBO COMMUNICATIONS WINS TDK U.S.A. CORPORATION ACCOUNT

Leading Tech PR Agency Will Provide Branding, PR Services to Leading Provider of Communications, Energy, Automotive and Internet of Things (IoT) Components SAN FRANCISCO –…

Real-Time Innovations’ Stan Schneider: Machine brains should be closer to the devices they control

Stan Schneider is the CEO of RTI, or Real-Time Innovations, and has led the development of “fog” technologies for a diverse range of industries. Beyond his passion…

How a distributed databus enhances industrial IoT systems

A pulse is missing. Is it the patient? Or is the pulse monitor not functioning? Life-and-death IoT systems literally have no margin for error. How…

KARBO COMMUNICATIONS WINS TOP GLOBAL BRAND ACCOUNTS – eBay Advertising, IoT World, Logitech and ABBYY

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – October 25, 2016  –  Karbo Communications, Inc., a top U.S. tech PR and digital marketing agency, today announced that it has…

Why artificial intelligence will finally unlock IoT

By Dean Tang, CEO of ABBYY North America  According to Gartner, there will be more than 20 billion connected devices worldwide by 2020. Today’s enterprises are…

Unravelling The Mysteries Of Medical Billing With Artificial Intelligence

By David Bayer, Vice President, Compreno Group at ABBYY Codes, Codes And More Codes When you go to the grocery store and make a purchase,…

Mylan’s EpiPen Pricing Crossed Ethical Boundaries

By Daniel Kozarich, Senior Business Consultant at Vendavo Here’s why the drugmaker should apologize to consumers. As the CEO of the drug maker that sells…

The Week in Review: IoT

Security The Industrial Internet Consortium this week unveiled the Industrial Internet Security Framework, a set of specifications for connected health-care devices and hospitals, intelligent transportation,…

CRM Matching: What Advertisers Aren’t Being Told About Scale

By Salim Tarazi, Director of U.S. Ad Operations at eBay Advertising Given the “who’s who” list of platforms offering it, CRM matching has truly arrived….

Is DevOps changing storage from simple to API?

“Storage should be easy. It should be that anyone can manage it, it’s something you put in the closet and forget about.” This was the…

3 approaches to consider for your cross-channel attribution strategy

By Sam Mulinder, Client Insights Lead at eBay Advertising Attribution in advertising today reminds me of a wide receiver scoring a touchdown in the NFL. As…

Nexenta Announces NexentaFusion 1.0 Community Edition and NexentaStor 5.0

Nexenta has announced the availability of the enterprise and community edition of NexentaFusion 1.0 and version 5.0 of NexentaStor, the company’s OpenSDS solution. Featuring an…

NexentaStor, Primary Data, NooBaa roll out software-defined technology

VMworld 2016 is serving as a launching pad for software-defined storage, with vendors using the conference to show off their applications for virtualizing and managing storage….

Hot Products from VMWorld 2016

NexentaStor 5.0 and NexentaFusion 1.0 Key features: NexentaFusion offers simplified storage management/analytics. NexentaStor 5.0 provides All-Flash RAs and new kernel-based HPR solution with asynchronous replication…

Top 3 Mobile Video Ad Mistakes Brands Still Make

By Salim Tarazi, Director of U.S. Ad Operations at eBay Advertising With platforms such as Netflix and Snapchat, consumers are spending more time watching videos…

Adjusting your pricing model in an IoT-driven manufacturing industry

By Daniel Bormolini, VP Customer Strategy at Vendavo For some, the Internet of Things (IoT) — and the vast possibilities and impacts that come along…

People on the Move, August 9

David will be leading the charge in modernizing the underlying architecture of Vendavo’s solutions to expedite the digital transformation of Vendavo’s customer base. David will…

People on the Move, August 9

David will be leading the charge in modernizing the underlying architecture of Vendavo’s solutions to expedite the digital transformation of Vendavo’s customer base. David will…

What B2B CFOs Can Learn from B2C Pricing

Successful pricing strategies strike the right balance between the value attributed to a product or service by the buyer and the seller. Rideshare companies like…

Machine Learning in the Enterprise: You Can’t Afford to Be Wrong

By Ravi Mirchandaney, SVP Engineering at Vendavo As the final moments of Rutger Hauer’s tears in the rain monologue come to a close in Blade…

Northern Arizona U Deploys Software-Defined Storage for Research Data

Northern Arizona University has implemented a software-defined storage (SDS) appliance to support large research data sets, such as genome maps, Landsat images and complex chemistry…

The Most Crucial KPI: Pricing Power

By John Oosterhouse, CFO at Vendavo The rise of the digital enterprise has come with a rash of new issues that must be addressed. Organizations…

Dealing with the Docker platform

Containerization is a relatively new application development and deployment methodology, with the Docker platform emerging as the de facto container standard. Docker enables breaking monolithic…

Using Downward Price Pressure And Commoditization to Your Advantage

By Mitchell Lee, Business Consultant at Vendavo  Long-term view: the chemicals industry is thriving. In the last decade the value of chemical exports has doubled….

A foggy forecast for the industrial internet of things

By Dr. Stan Schneider, CEO of RTI Signs on I-280 up the San Francisco peninsula proclaim it the “World’s Most Beautiful Freeway.” It’s best when…

Transitioning the Internet of Things to the Internet of Everything

Voice biometrics to ubiquitous connectivity, this year’s IoT smorgasbord covered a lot of ground. The huge growth predicted for the Internet of things (IoT) so…

Lenovo renews data center push with enhanced networking storage, server offerings

It’s no secret that China’s Lenovo Group Ltd. has its sights set on becoming a major player in the data center. That became apparent when…

Lenovo Expands Networking, Storage, Server Portfolios

The company is leveraging partnerships with Juniper, Intel, Nutanix and others to build out its data center infrastructure offerings. Lenovo officials are continuing to partner…

Finance: A Sales Force’s Greatest Asset

How does your company improve profitability? And who is responsible for this growth? These were two of the core questions we – in collaboration with…

Choosing the right tech for your company’s future

More than 20 years ago, Jack Welch, then chief executive of General Electric, said that information systems would be his company’s top priority. Since then,…

EBay Ads VP On The Push Toward Mobile Native, Viewable Guarantees

Since its split from PayPal – and the $925 million divesture of its enterprise technology business last summer – eBay has been relatively silent. But…

Hitachi announces IoT group and platform

This story was delivered to BI Intelligence IoT Briefing subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here. Japan-based industrial giant Hitachi announced that it is creating…

IS CIOTO The Next C Level Position And Other Ideas From IoT World

It’s a big job, with a collection of vowels to match. Companies are rapidly embracing Internet of Things (IoT) technologies to streamline their operations and…

‘INTERNET OF THINGS’ CONFERENCE HELD IN SANTA CLARA

SANTA CLARA, Calif. (KGO) –The cutting edge of the Internet isn’t about computers anymore, it’s about everything from cars, light bulbs and more — all…

Hitachi Launches IoT Business Unit, Lumada Platform

The creation of the Hitachi Insight Group and the IoT platform positions the conglomerate to better compete with the likes of GE in the emerging…

HP Enterprise Joins Internet of Things Platform Wars

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. is joining a crowded race to help companies get a leg up on one of tech’s hottest trends, the Internet of…

Talking Small Business Strategy with CNBC and The UPS Store

National Small Business Week is currently in full swing, and the amount of valuable information out there for small to midsize businesses (SMBs) is staggering….

It’s an ​IoT world: The big shift to intelligent devices

‘Internet of things’ (IoT), or ‘machine to machine’ connectivity (m2m) as the cellular providers define it, is now reaching a widespread level of maturity. Internet…

Between the cloud and the corporate data center, there is fog computing

As cloud computing and the Internet of Things have taken hold of corporate imaginations, there is an underlying assumption that they will bring about a…

Industrial IoT Needs Data Security

Data-centric security provides an in-depth defense layer essential to making the new world of connected industrial things safe. There is a great deal of excitement…

Movers and Shakers, April 20

Vendavo hired John Oosterhouse as chief financial officer. Read More >>> 

Nexenta & Canonical team up on SDS for OpenStack

Canonical Ltd. has teamed up with Nexenta Systems Inc. to create a combined Ubuntu OpenStack and NexentaEdge solution. The two firms have integrated two existing…

7 Tips For a Thriving, Sustainable Family Business That Lasts

John D’Eri was concerned his autistic son, Andrew, would have trouble finding steady employment after completing school. Set on changing those odds, D’Eri, who spent two…

Nexenta storage, Lenovo servers join hands

Nexenta and Lenovo launch strategic partnership to give customers new all-flash, all-disk and hybrid storage options and single-call technical support for software-defined storage Nexenta and…

The State of Small Business: Washington

As part of our yearlong project “The State of Small Business,” Business News Daily plans to report on the small business environment in every state…

ABBYY Introduces New Products to Identify Key Information from Documents

ABBYY is releasing two new language-based platforms to help businesses understand and act on complex, unstructured information. Based on Compreno, a natural-language processing technology, the…

5 Ways to Leverage Local Marketing to Build Your Brand

If you’re like most small business owners, the thought of carving out time for marketing, especially when you don’t have much of a budget to…

Townsquared in the PCMag Start-Up Spotlight

Neighborhood businesses need a more immediate way to communicate with each other and organize their community than the occasional Chamber of Commerce meeting. Townsquared, the…

Debunking Myths About Software-Defined Storage

Software-defined storage has been hailed as the answer to handling the data deluge of the 21st century. The ultimate goal of SDS is to provide…

ABBYY Helps Simplify Building of Cognitive Computing Applications

Thanks to the commercialization of platforms such as IBM Watson, interest in all things relating to cognitive computing is running high. But actually building these…

Down And Out Pricing: Navigating Volatility in The Chemical Market

Optimal efficiency is the name of the game to maximize profits in chemical manufacturing. The traditional model to load the plants and drop prices until…

50 enterprise startups you’ve probably never heard of who really are changing the world

It’s become a Silicon Valley cliche to talk changing the world by launching a startup. Most startups don’t do anything quite that dramatic. But some of them…

The Top 5 Trends for Small Businesses in 2016

No business sector is more diverse, inventive, and challenging than small business. Each year, millions of U.S. small businesses innovate with new ways of doing…

Identity Crisis in the C-Suite: Who Owns Profit?

Back in 1998, in the International Ballroom of the Washington Hilton Hotel, Dun & Bradstreet CEO Terry Taylor delivered a simple message to members of…

Manufacturing in The Digital Age: Where Do We Go From Here?

In the last few centuries, we have seen what could be considered three industrial revolutions moving from the steam engine to the conveyor belt and…

Lessons Leaned from Small Business Saturday Past

Small Business Saturday is seemingly the rosiest shopping holiday we’ve got this holiday weekend. Everyone loves to “love local” and America is leading the way…

Private social network Townsquared links local merchants

A few months ago, a shoplifter struck at a store down the street from Catherine Chow’s Hayes Valley boutique Azalea. Within moments, an alert flashed…

Townsquared Raises $5.3M To Expand A Nextdoor-Like Experience For Local Retail, Small Businesses

Even though Rohit Prakash was a dual MD and PhD researching optogenetics at Stanford University, his entrepreneurial itch kept returning him to his family’s small…

5 Stories We Didn’t Get to Write, Week of Nov. 13

While The VAR Guy works his hardest each week to bring you the hottest channel and vendor news, some stories inevitably have to get left…

Nexenta Partners with Universities for Higher Education Program

Nexenta, a provider of open source-driven software-defined storage (OpenSDS), has launched a program to partner with higher education institutions on developing technical curricula designed to…

DDS solves major big data IoT problems

As a big data technology, Internet of Things (IoT) is still in the very early stages of adoption. IoT faces major challenges because, unlike many…

Storage Weekly Notes: New Developments For Western Digital, SanDisk, Seagate In Focus

Western Digital Corporation has made headlines in the past few weeks, with China-based Tsinghua Holdings planning to invest $3.8 billion for a 15% equity stake…

Karbo Communications Launches PowerStart PR Launch Program For Early-Stage Technology Startups

Designed to Help Seed-Funded Companies Break Through the Market Noise SAN FRANCISCO, CA – October 8, 2015 – Karbo Communications, Inc.,a top-ranked tech public relations (PR)…

Stay in Control During Market Volatility

For chemicals manufacturers, market volatility is the new normal. It’s a daunting fact to accept, but it is the truth. With oil prices having reached…

How to Fill Your Analytics Talent Gap

In the last half decade, a talent gap has caused problems for executives looking to utilize data in a meaningful way. Companies are in dire…

SanDisk Partners With Nexenta To Offer Open Source Software-Defined Storage All-Flash Array

Flash storage provider SanDisk Corporation witnessed robust solid state drive product sales last year that drove the company’s rally in back in 2014. SSD revenues jumped…

Harness Enterprise Data to Win On the Global Stage

Theodore Levitt, the Harvard Business professor credited with coining the term, globalization envisioned a focus on interdependence across borders. However, he has seen its foundation…

Review: Software-based NAS options for the storage do-it-yourselfer

Software-based Network Attached Storage (NAS) is perfect for the do-it-yourselfer who doesn’t want to buy a pre-packaged appliance. With software-based NAS, you load the software…

SanDisk and Nexenta release open-source, flash software-defined storage array

SanDisk is best known for storage. Led by Nithya Ruff, the company’s head of open-source strategy, the company is integrating open-source into storage. In their…

Sales Velocity: Track It, Then Floor It!

The sales division of a manufacturer is working 300 sales opportunities, each averaging $12.5 million in value. The win rate is 8% and the average…

Real-time computing: Gateway to the Internet of Things?

Real-time computing means much more than getting a seemingly immediate response after hitting Enter. In fact, its real meaning involves interfacing to real machines doing…

RTI intros edge-to-cloud platform for Industrial IoT

RTI just introduced its RTI Connext DDS 5.2, a unified Industrial Internet of Things platform designed to deliver low-latency data distribution and scalable load balancing…

Arise (yet another) IoT platform

Real-Time Innovations (RTI) is an almost-25-year-old vendor of messaging software. While somewhat unknown to the outside world, RTI and companies like it provide the critical…

2015 Top Embedded Innovators: Dr. Stan Schneider, Chief Executive Officer, Real-Time Innovations (RTI)

Elected by his peers, Schneider serves on the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) Steering Committee. The role includes fiscal oversight and setting up subcommittees such as…

Getting Industry to an Internet Frame of Mind

Think about all the ways you spent your leisure time as a kid. How you listened to music, how you watched TV. Maybe you listened…

Internet Of Things May Drive Distributed Generation Microgrids

A number of technology companies and utilities have embarked on a testbed project to demonstrate a microgrid architecture for integrating solar, wind and storage that…

Industrial Internet Consortium Announces Microgrid Testbed

At a meeting yesterday to mark its one-year anniversary, the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC), a member organization working to accelerate the deployment of industrial Internet…

Industrial Internet Consortium launches first grid-focused testbed

The Industrial Internet Consortium has launched its first energy-focused testbed. The Communication and Control Testbed for Microgrid Applications is made up of Industrial Internet Consortium…

Public Relations Agency Karbo Communications Achieves Record Year

Public Relations Agency Karbo Communications Achieves Record Year New B2B and B2C Clients Include Nexenta, ECAL and VigLink SAN FRANCISCO, CA – March 24, 2015 …

Dell Enterprise CTO Greenblatt Leaves Company

Sam Greenblatt, the CTO of the Enterprise division at computing giant Dell, has left the company and joined the advisory board of Nexenta Systems, a…

Video Friday: Mars Helicopter, 100 Dancing Robots, and Putin’s Combat Cyborg

In one of the wilder ideas we’ve heard for planetary exploration, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is proposing that we send a little robotic helicopter to Mars…

Australian calendar-marketing firm ECAL opens NYC office

One man’s “completely new marketing channel” is another man’s “entirely new way to be annoyed by ads.” But an Australian startup that’s trying to find…

ACDSee Pro 8 review: New editing features plus online storage

ACDSee Pro is considered one of the premier photo organizing and editing packages, and for good reason. Although sometimes awkward, it’s powerful and “gets it”…

ACDSee launches combo asset manager-photo editor to compete with Adobe

While Adobe’s massive Creative Cloud suite— starring Photoshop, Illustrator, and a host of Web and video apps — may fairly be considered the creative software gold standard,…

People-first email from WeMail and IBM Verse

Apple didn’t invent the smart phone, they just took the idea of a smartphone and jumped ahead a quantum leap. It’s a bit too much to…

Email Is Broken. These Apps Promise To Fix It

Everybody loves to complain about email. We get way too much of it, we can’t tell what’s important from what’s not, we never have time…

The Daily Startup: Big Backers for Breezeworks: Ev Williams, Marc Benioff, David Sacks, Peter Thiel

A parade of big-name investors has joined Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, whose investment firm Obvious Ventures led a $5 million Series A round for San Francisco-based Breezeworks, a startup that wants to…

WeMail Adds Voice Messages to Email

Do we really need another email client for phones? The answer seems to keep being yes. Almost everywhere you look, startups and big companies alike…

WeMail Raises $1M From Twitch, Reddit Founders For Intelligently Designed Mobile E-mail

Sure, there have been plenty of attempts at re-thinking e-mail on mobile devices. But that’s no reason not to try, try again. A pretty experienced…

WeMail Turns Mobile Email Into Chat

WeMail, a new mobile app that makes your inbox look like chat, is betting it will make the task of going through your inbox less…

WeMail raises $1M to make email happen at the speed of IM

WeMail, a Mercer Island-based startup, has raised $1 million in funding to change the way people use email on their mobile devices. The company’s app,…

WeMail makes email more like instant messaging

The number of startups that have tried to reimagine email for mobile now seems almost as large as the number of unread emails many people…

WeMail organizes your inbox, lets you reply to email with your voice

WeMail is the newest app trying to fix your overwhelmed and overcrowded inbox. The free service, which launched today, uses a few organizational tricks to…

ACD Systems Launches New ACDSee Pro 8 & ACDSee 18 Software

ACD Systems recently announced the release of two new image-editing/management products: ACDSee Pro 8 and ACDSee 18. Offering users a variety of imaging features in…

Better Messaging Means Security Can Grow with IoT

The brake pedal in your car probably isn’t attached to the brakes. But don’t worry, the pedal knows how to tell the brakes that you’ve…

New Software Framework Coming to Army UAS Ground Stations

The U.S. Army will soon be able to integrate new avionics capabilities at a much lower cost than it currently does thanks to a new…

RTI Q&A on Building the DDS Security Standard

This technical Q&A with the CTO of RTI discusses the DDS Security standard for the Industrial Internet of Things. The Data Distribution System (DDS) is…

GE Healthcare Selects RTI Connext DDS for Connectivity of Large Medical Instruments

The Internet of Things (IoT) is going to be connecting billions of ordinary things and making each one accessible through the Internet. This will revolutionize…

Meet the company connecting GE Healthcare’s new medical equipment

A new generation of medical equipment is helping GE continue bragging about its industrial internet progress. It includes a CT scanner that can be linked…

First Formal DDS Security

As noted in today’s article on some of the characteristics of the DDS data transport standard, it’s missing a rather important component: formalized security. Proprietary…

PowWow And The Allure Of Instant Mobile Apps

As enterprises try and re-imagine what their world looks like when all of their employees are able to work from anywhere (and, indeed, demand to…

PowWow Streamlines Enterprise Apps for the iPhone

PowWow, a San Francisco, Calif.-based software startup, today announced that the company’s self-named mobile application delivery platform is available on the iPhone, following a version…

Tools to tighten the Internet of Things

The Internet of Things (IoT) is coming, and there’s no doubting its potential. Government IT managers don’t care that your fridge can tell your smartphone…

Powwow extends their Windows app-refactoring solution to the iPhone

You might remember Powwow from an article that Brian wrote back in May as they emerged from stealth mode. They re-factor Windows and web applications…

Apple and Google Dominate ‘Internet of Things’ Influence with Home Automation Efforts

It’s early days for the Internet of  Things, but the largest technology players are moving quickly to stake out the territory. In just the past month, Apple announced…

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Are you all in?

It matters. When I wrote that first sentence of copy for Karbo Communications’ website, it was based on working with entrepreneurs and technology executives for…

Deliver apps to mobile devices on the fly — without VMware or Citrix

A new company is offering an alternative approach to desktop application delivery to mobile devices, one that could save time and money for IT. IT…

PowWow customizes desktop, Web apps for tablets and smartphones

PowWow, a privately held upstart in the enterprise mobile software market, promises to simplify the porting of Windows or Web applications to smartphones and tablets…

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