Here are five things in tech that happened this week and how they affect your business. Did you miss them? 1 – Zoom taps AI to empower customers in safe hybrid work environment. Zoom – the communications platform used by nearly 13 million people each month – is working to further elevate its collaboration services with AI technology. Announcements include…
Joanna Swash Group CEO of Moneypenny. Moneypenny handles outsourced phone calls, live chat and digital comms. As businesses and as leaders, we have been tested in recent years. There have been pandemic-induced changes in working practices, a whole shake-up in work-life balance and a power shift that puts people front…
Ahon Sarkar is the General Manager of Helix by Q2, which empowers innovative companies to build personalized BaaS products. In the last six or seven years, I’ve watched banking as a service (BaaS) evolve from an idea that few understood (and fewer embraced) to one viewed as a magic bullet.…
The best leaders understand the significance of continuous education and personal growth. They recognize that stagnation is the enemy of progress and they constantly seek opportunities to expand their knowledge and acquire new skills. Aspiring leaders, too, are encouraged to follow suit and identify areas for improvement that can enhance…
Peter Done is Group CEO and founder of business services specialist Peninsula Group. Innovation drives every company into existence. Think about it. If you own a business, there was once a time when it was merely an idea in your mind—a problem you wanted to solve, an opportunity ripe for…
Michaela Jeffery-Morrison, CEO and cofounder of Ascend Global Media, the company behind Women in Tech World Series. Women-founded startups in the U.S. raised just 1.9%—around $4.5 billion—of all VC funds allocated in 2022. In the U.K., they received 6% of VC funding. Female entrepreneurs, in other words, face a very…
The White House has struck a deal with major AI developers—including Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI—that commits them to take action to prevent harmful AI models from being released into the world.Under the agreement, which the White House calls a “voluntary commitment,” the companies pledge to carry out internal…
Shashi Menon is CEO of EcoEngineers, a carbon advisory and consulting firm helping companies navigate the clean energy landscape. In today’s business world, many functions are outsourced. For example, at my company, we outsource payroll, IT, legal services and taxes because of the highly specialized knowledge required to do the…
CEO at Bazaarvoice, the leading provider of product reviews and user-generated content (UGC) solutions. By now, you’ve likely heard about generative AI, thanks to ChatGPT—in fact, just two months after launching, ChatGPT reached 100 million users. Generative AI has the capability to be pervasive in pretty much every aspect of…
US healthcare executive, keynote speaker, and advocate. Value-based care expert. CEO - Carenodes. As a healthcare industry leader, I have overseen major legislative and structural changes in the industry. I have administrated Medicare's payment program across many hospitals and post-acute providers, and I have negotiated and implemented various value-based contracts.…
Reports of employment growth have been recently met with growing skepticism among economy watchers. Huge swings in the monthly reports and substantial revisions make it difficult to gauge conditions in the labor market. In December 2020, the government reported a decline in employment of 264,000. In January, a 494,000 increase.…
In a declining economy, startups face an uphill battle when it comes to securing funding.…
With all of the recent news about artificial intelligence (AI), it got me thinking about…
A while back, I took a couple of my grandchildren on a tour of the…
Startups face numerous challenges on their journey to success, and failing to overcome any one…
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