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Google Sees Speech APIs Transforming Range of Business Processes

Chatbots and other forms of voice-enabled artificial intelligence (AI) are slowly but surely being incorporated into multiple business processes, especially when it comes to anything to do with customer service. The success of those efforts, however, has been mixed at...

You Need the Right Tech and the Right Culture for Your Remote Business to Succeed

Technology tools are crucial but they aren't everything. Many startups these days are built and run by information workers. Software and services have moved online, manufacturing and logistics have been outsourced, and there aren’t many compelling reasons left to justify...

From creepy to cool: why companies should put the customer first when chasing big data

For some time now, the promise of big data and advanced analytics has been obvious. Customers get a better experience tailored to their needs, wants and preferences, and companies get actionable insights which help them approach customers with more relevant...

Mobile Computing Drives Business Transformation in Health Care

Change comes slowly to the health care industry. It’s still not uncommon to see reams of paper files stacked in the office of a local health care provider. But progress is starting to be achieved as mobile applications begin to...

It seems people are confused by what “strategy” means

Here's a new article where, seemingly, some Australian consultant gets a bunch of top dogs (execs) in a room and asks: “What is your broader strategy?” They go off and write it down. And — drum roll — here are...

4 Technology Trends That Will Transform Our World

Predicting the future requires hubris, and it should therefore be met with more than a terabyte of skepticism. In past years, I’ve made some calls that have proved prescient like predicting way back in 2011 that social media would determine...

Cyber Security Today: Watch what you download, Facebook removes app, an Irish telco embarrassed

Verify the sites you download apps from, Facebook and Apple fight over an app and an Irish telco embarrassed after laptop theft. Here’s another warning about downloading desktop or mobile apps. Bleeping Computer has been told by Kaspersky Labs that an...

One of the ultimate paradoxes of the hiring process

When I was finishing grad school in May 2014 and started going on a bunch of interviews with companies of about 250 employees all the way up to places like Microsoft, Nestle, and 3M, I started following a specific bouncing...

Introducing the Kubernetes Operator for TiDB

Learn how to use the TiDB Operator to deploy, monitor, and manage the distributed, MySQL-compatible, TiDB database on Kubernetes clusters. The rise of Kubernetes has significantly simplified the deployment and operation of cloud-native applications. An important part of that experience...