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Predictive Analytics World June 18 – 22, 2023

Predictive Analytics World for Industry 4.0 is a vendor-neutral conference for machine learning for smart manufacturing and IoT. Manufacturing generates significant amount of data. To understand the data collected and use to advance people's lives, the development of the technology for machine learning and predictive analytics are critical. Hot topics in...

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Open Source Summit May 10 - 12, 2023

Open Source Summit consists of LinuxCon, ContainerCon, CloudOpen, OpenSource on RAMP and the Open Source Leadership summit, SupplyChain SecurityCon. It is a technical conference where developers, operators, and community leadership professionals collaborate, share information and learn about the latest in open technologies such as Linux, containers, cloud computing and more. The...

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Spotify is going big on video podcasts

After spending more than $1 billion on podcast assets, challenging investor skepticism, laying off dozens of podcasting employees, and parting ways with its main podcasting chief, Spotify is establishing its focus for the vertical moving forward: more video, more consolidation, and more splashy names. At the company’s Stream On event in...

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Top 7 Data Warehouse Software and Services

A data warehouse is a centralized repository of integrated data from one or more disparate sources, organized in a way that facilitates reporting, analysis, and decision-making. The purpose of a data warehouse is to provide a unified and comprehensive view of an organization's data, which can be used to support business...

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Skills-based hiring continues to rise as degree requirements fade

More employers are leaving behind college degree requirements and embracing a skills-based hiring approach that emphasizes strong work backgrounds, certifications, assessments, and endorsements. And soft skills are becoming a key focus of hiring managers, even over hard skills. Large companies, including Boeing, Walmart, and IBM, have signed on to varying skills-based...

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Bitcoin rewards and NFTs may help grow the blockchain

From TechCrunch: Welcome back to Chain Reaction, a podcast diving deep into the stories, backgrounds and latest news with the biggest names in crypto. For this week’s episode, I interviewed Alex Adelman, the co-founder and CEO of Lolli. Founded in 2018, Lolli is a bitcoin rewards app that lets people earn...

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Domino's Pizza Enterprises spends $23m-plus on digital

From Itnews: Domino’s Pizza Enterprises' digital investment slowed in the back half of 2022, but still came in at more than $23 million. Its spend comprised a “digital capex” of $23.3 million, along with back-of-house systems upgrades reported as part of $5.5 million in other capital expenditure, which CFO Richard Coney...

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World AI Week

The world’s leading and largest AI summit gathers the global AI ecosystem of Enterprise, Big Tech, Startups, Investors and Science, the brightest brains in AI as speakers every October in Amsterdam to tackle head-on the most burning AI issues and set the global AI agenda.  Get ready for two-day of mind-boggling...

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C2 Montréal May 24-26, 2023

C2 is a fusion of creativity and commerce. C2 Montréal is about experiencing the unexpected, taking a step back, recharging and leaving your comfort zone behind. This three-day international event, dubbed the most innovative of its kind, focuses on exploring the relationship between commerce and creativity. It gets you think outside...

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How computers can see may surprise you

YOLO (You Only Look Once) is a real-time object detection system that can classify objects within an image and localize them with a bounding box. It is a popular algorithm used in computer vision tasks and has been implemented in various applications including self-driving cars and surveillance systems. YOLO is known...

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Rebooting the Brain

The digital health sector has an increasing number of startups are targeting the brain. One of them is Kernel, a company who is developing advanced neural interfaces to improve, evolve and extend human cognition. Check out the speech from the CEO of Kernal Bryan Johnson. Video source: youtube; Cover image source:...

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Zoom App Download Surge Amid Pandemic

The download of the video conference apps have increased significantly in March as people being locked down due to COVID-19 Pandemic. Zoom is one of the most popular apps, its download has surged from 4 mil+ in February to 26mil + in March. Zoom offers a basic plan which is free...

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Do you really save on Airbnb than booking a hotel room?

Airbnb tries to provide you "Unique homes and experiences all over the world". People from all over the world list their their properties on the platform. Each listing allows hosts to promote properties through titles, descriptions, photos with captions. A profile about your host is included as well as previous guests...

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The Pandemic impact to Airbnb

Airbnb's IPO has now completed. Shares were originally priced from US$45-US$50 per share it went up to US$55-US$60 the day before listing. By the time of the listing, the final price was US$68. Airbnb is a holiday rental marketplace. Users can book homestys and tourism experiences or become a host by...

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Why Netflix could be your best companion in the living room

Netflix is an American entertainment company founded on August, 1997 It specializes in and provides streaming media and video-on-demand online and DVD by mail. In 2013, Netflix expanded into film and television production, as well as online distribution. By July 2017, Netflix had 100+ million subscribers worldwide. Let's have a look...

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Tesla Came Out on Top

Do you drive a Tesla? If you have not heard of Tesla, it is an American automotive and energy company based in California. It is well known of producing electric cars and solar energy. After long time of having negative news in the media, it has finally showed signs of significant...

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What are the Most Popular Smart Phone Systems?

The smartphone market has changed a lot in the last seven years. Back then, BlackBerry was one of the key players, Symbianwas used by Nokia and Samsung was building his own. Fast forward today, the dominating smart phone systems are pretty well known - the Apple's IOS and Google's Android. The...

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Top 5 Smartphone Shipments

Smartphone vendors shipped a total of 358.3 million units during the Q3 2019, an increase of 0.8% compared to the 332.7 million units shipped in Q3 2018. Top 5 vendors are Samsung, Huawei, Apple, Xiaomi and Oppo. Quarter2018Q12018Q22018Q32018Q42019Q12019Q22019Q3Samsung23.5%21.0%20.3%18.8%23.0%22.9%21.8%Huawei11.8%15.9%14.6%16.2%18.9%17.7%18.6%Apple15.7%12.1%13.2%18.3%11.8%10.2%13.0%Xiaomi8.4%9.5%9.5%6.7%8.9%9.7%9.1%OPPO7.4%8.6%8.4%7.9%7.4%8.9%8.7%

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How Amazon Is Doing in China?

According to iresearch, in 2015, the top 25 Internet Companies in China by Revenue are below. Data Source: iresearchchina.com Some of the top 25 companies are e-commerce websites. In 2016, Alibaba’s business-to-consumer marketplace Tmall dominated the market with 56.6% share, JD.com accounted 24.7% share. Amazon had only 0.8% share. China’s B2C...

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PrestaShop launches its new website

If you are using Prestashop, it has just launched a new website. Prestashop is an open source, free e-commerce shopping cart software. With it, you can build an e-commerce website for free. It has more than 300 hundred built-in features for managing product listing, payments, shipping, manufacturers and suppliers. Prestashop provides...

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Top 10 Earning iPhone Apps in 2018

The highest earning iPhone Apps in 2018 brought in millions of dollars. Video streaming apps did extremely well, occupied 7 out of 10 of those top earning apps with Netflix as the top performer. Dating platform Tinder ranked No.3 which brought in 462.2mil. The one music app on the board is...

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