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• Interview with Adrian Cable, co-founder of Kaptivo

  by Josiah Motley, May 26, 2017

  The online collaboration tool that turns any whiteboard into a shareable presentation

  Ever find yourself in yet another stale meeting struggling to keep up with the presentation, while simultaneously attempting to listen to the person giving the presentation? You're not alone. In fact, most humans have a hard time consuming visual and auditory information simultaneously, even if they don't realize it. While our brains can accomplish lots of things at the same time, we simply have a

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• Knoema releases their first chatbot - Yodatai

  by Josiah Motley, May 25, 2017

  Will help connect big data with end users through the use of artificial intelligence

  Being able to access these large amount of data dumps help set Yodatai up to be a great researching tool for almost anyone, where you're involved in big business and SMBs or utilizing it for general research purposes. With a time series database of over 2.5billion, across 1000's of topics and sources, Yodatai is well-equipped to answer a multitude of questions. Simple questions like "Tell me about

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• Viz lands $7.5M to apply AI to stroke victims

  by Bambi Francisco Roizen, May 24, 2017

  Artificial intelligence acts as a physician's assistant in the emergency room

  Now there's a solution to hopefully shorten the time between when a person gets a stroke and when they get the right treatment. Viz.ai is medical software that uses artificial intelligence to read a CT scan and assist physicians. The two-year-old company just raised $7.5 million in new funding, led by Danhua Capital, Innovation Endeavors (whose founding partner is Eric Schmidt). Jerry Yang's AME Cloud

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• Meet George Dimopoulos, co-founder of VentureFriends

  by Steven Loeb, May 24, 2017

  VentureFriends mainly focuses on investing in Greek talent, both in Greece and abroad

  George has been an angel investor for the last five years investing in Greek and foreign tech companies, including Taxibeat which was recently sold to Daimler. He has a rich finance/deal structuring experience stemming from his four year tenure with Bank of America Merrill Lynch in London where he was involved in numerous transactions with total EV valuation of c. €17 billion across multiple geographies.

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• Never buy an email list; Seriously. Never!

  by Ryan Phelan, May 23, 2017

  Here's why you just can't buy an email list

  After 17 years in email marketing, I've seen marketers make every mistake possible, from sending messages riddled with typos, to mailing the unsubscribe file instead of the active list, to promoting a free product and then charging $200 for it on the landing page. I've also fielded thousands of questions from marketers over the years to help them avoid making mistakes like these. The one I hear mos

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• What would it mean if Amazon expanded into pharma

  The effect it would have on Amazon, pharmaceuticals and other companies in the space

  Some of the biggest tech companies have been staking their claims in the healthcare space in the last few years. Companies like Google and Apple have been investing for a while, while newer companies like ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• Seniors could be the solution to slowing smartphone sales

  While the percentage has tripled since 2011, 75 percent say they need help with their devices

  A big part of the problem is oversaturation. Basically, so many people have smartphones now that the number of new customers is dwindling as people hold onto them longer. The solution, then, is to find ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• Biz Stone returns to Twitter to "guide the company culture"

  Stone will have work to do, as Twitter has seen a mass exodus of employees in the last two years

  There seems to be something about Twitter that keeps bringing its founders, who left the company long ago, back into the fold. First it was Jack Dorsey, who reclaimed the CEO position in 2015, and now ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• When Jet.com was young: the early years

  The timeline of events that led to Walmart buying Jet.com to go after Amazon

  It's a look back at the modest days of startups, what traction they had in their first few years, and how they evolved. In the end, we hope to provide a glimpse into what great startups looked like in ...
  By Ronny Kerr
  

• Symphonized delivers a solid set of earbuds for under $30

  The NRG 3.0s follow up on the bass heavy 2.0 series by delivering better balanced sound

  There is definitely demand for users looking for a set mid-level set of earbuds. You're not interested in those $100 plus Beats headphones, but you also aren't satisfied with the buds that come with your ...
  By Josiah Motley
  

• Facebook cleans up Live Video, bans fake posts

  The company updates its policy to disallow videos of static, animated or looping images

  As Facebook continues to deal with the fallout from its fake news scandal, it also has to contend with fake content that, while less damaging to its overall reputation, may actually have an impact on a ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• Collaboration tool Kaptivo now works with Slack and Trello

  The device that makes any whiteboard smart now has functionality with Slack and Trello

  Released today, Kaptivo now has functionality that allows you to directly share slides and sessions directly inside of Slack. So, basically, now your collaboration tool (Slack) can work with your other ...
  By Josiah Motley
  

• Wolters Kluwer announces Legal Education Board of Advisors

  The education tech company adds eleven people to their Legal Education Board of Editorial Advisors

  Education tech company Wolters Kluwer has released their appointments to its Legal Education Board of Editorial Advisors. While Wolters Kluwer has educational and research products and services for everything ...
  By Josiah Motley
  

• These are the startup competitions for the healthcare space

  A list of startup competitions awarding prizes to startups focused on healthcare

  Vator has been holding its own competitions, using VatorX, to find and filter for the best startups. We've had some very successful and notable winners in the past that have gone on to raise big funding ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• How does Crunchbase make money?

  Crunchbase used to rely on advertising, but now makes money from premium products and its data

  Crunchbase is a valuable resource for anyone looking for insights into companies and investors, including journalists, job seekers, venture capitalists, sales reps, and major brands. I personally use it ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• How does Snap's first earnings report compare to its peers?

  The company saw losses of over $2 billion, with soft user growth, sending its stock down 24%

  Wednesday was a big day for Snap, as it reported its first quarterly earnings since it went public at the beginning of April. The news, however, wasn't very good. Not only did the company miss expectations, ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• How machine learning unlocks the value of video

  New technology allows for deeper insights into video, driving viewers from inspiration to action

  Digital video consumption has surged, igniting new monetization opportunities for these modern distribution outlets and content makers, a point I explored in a previous essay. The challenge I didn’t ...
  By Sandeep Casi
  

• Snapchat makes timed snaps a thing of the past

  Users can now set their snaps to play forever, at least until someone closes them

  In the wake of the Snowden leaks, a bunch of companies popped up dedicated to being empheneral, including Secret, Yik Yak, Whisper and Snapchat. The idea was that your data wouldn't be stored forever, ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• Facebook deletes fake news accounts ahead of U.K. election

  If you're not read, you're not shared, and therefore possibly fake

  While Mark Zuckerberg may have started out intiailly dismissing Facebook's problem with fake news, and its role in potentially affecting the outcome of the U.S. elections last year, the company is now ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• The increasing focus on reliving our digital past

  New services are empowering people to reconnect with their memories and relive special moments

  We’re experiencing a global explosion of personal content, a deluge of digital data that’s partially curated, deleted or in the case of moments that often really matter -- lost in the ceaseless ...
  By Steve Cosman
  
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