If you want to know the Rosetta Stone that top companies use to reach their most intricate, data-driven decisions, look no further than Tableau. While it doesn’t pop out fully formed answers on its own, Tableau, already a $1 billion titan in the booming business intelligence field, is a go-to technology for companies striving to…
Building web services and smartphone apps, which is most of what I’ve been doing professionally at HappyFunCorp1 for the last decade or so used to be pretty straightforward. Not easy, but straightforward, especially when the client was a consumer startup, which so many of them were. The more we did the better we got at…
If you want to know the Rosetta Stone that top companies use to reach their most intricate, data-driven decisions, look no further than Tableau. While it doesn’t pop out fully formed answers on its own, Tableau, already a $1 billion titan in the booming business intelligence field, is a go-to technology for companies striving to…
Oracle took blockchain mainstream with the launch of Blockchain Applications Cloud at the enterprise tech provider’s OpenWorld annual conference in San Francisco this week. The new suite of software as a service (SaaS) applications is intended to “enhance traceability and transparency throughout the supply chain”, according to the company. Oracle’s blockchain applications are built with…
The Vankyo M50 Passport DLP mini-projector is an Android-powered gadget that can project onto just about any flat surface. It’s pocket-sized, so I smuggled a review unit home to see what it could do. The M50 Passport is an immediately accessible gadget. It’s small – about the size of a passport, hence the name –…
How will we use AI in the future, and what will the impact be on our workforce and our own workplace roles? Telecoms and networking giant Tata Communications recently published a report, Cognitive Diversity: AI & the Future of Work, which explores these issues. Internet of Business spoke to co-author Vinod Kumar, the company’s CEO and…
Bias is an overloaded word. It has multiple meanings, from mathematics to sewing to machine learning, and as a result it’s easily misinterpreted. When people say an AI model is biased, they usually mean that the model is performing badly. But ironically, poor model performance is often caused by various kinds of actual bias in…
Intel and Google are just two of the technology giants to have tried and failed to take the concept of smart glasses into the mainstream. The former abandoned its Vaunt smart glasses earlier this year after heavy investment in R&D and acquisitions, while Google’s foray into what was expected to be a thriving consumer-tech sector has…
Chinese startups rule the roost when it comes to total reported venture dollars raised so far in 2018. That is, mostly. In one key category at least — software-as-a-service, better known as SaaS — they do not. Ant Financial raised the largest-ever VC round in June, a mind-boggling $14 billion in Series C funding. And nearly a dozen…
There’s some turmoil brewing over at Miami-based facial recognition startup Kairos. Late last month, New World Angels President and Kairos board chairperson Steve O’Hara sent a letter to Kairos founder Brian Brackeen notifying him of his termination from the role of chief executive officer. The termination letter cited willful misconduct as the cause for Brackeen’s…
