7 steps to a successful website launch

Why website performance should be one of your key marketing metrics. Whether it’s a campaign kickoff or a completely new site, how smoothly a website launch goes is a great barometer of your team’s overall efficiency. However, websites constantly launch late and over budget. With...
Posted On 22 Jun 2019
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Biofourmis raises $35M to develop smarter treatments for chronic diseases

  Biofourmis, a Singapore-based startup pioneering a distinctly tech-based approach to the treatment of chronic conditions, has raised a $35 million Series B round for expansion. The round was led by Sequoia India and MassMutual Ventures, the VC fund from Massachusetts...
Posted On 06 Jun 2019
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AI-Powered Conversational Bots Are Changing the Game, Says LivePerson CEO

“T-Mobile literally pulled the hold technology out,” says LivePerson CEO Robert Locascio. “Millions of customer at T-Mobile don’t have to be put on hold. There’s no press one or press two. They go straight to a person. You are messaging them. You are doing what’s natural to you....
Posted On 16 May 2019
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AT&T CEO Slaps Down 5G Criticism by Verizon and T-Mobile

AT&T CEO John Donovan slapped down recent 5G criticism by Verizon and T-Mobile at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Those companies and some others have criticized them saying AT&T is “slapping 5G stickers” on upgraded 4G phones. They say it is misleading and...
Posted On 10 May 2019
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Customers Need an Easy Button for Cloud

“Customers need in a lot of ways, I hate to say it, but almost an easy button for cloud,” says Matt Liebowitz of Dell Technologies Consulting.  “Often when they try to build it themselves, they bring the components together themselves, but it’s really difficult to do that...
Posted On 02 May 2019
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Audible now offers live customer service through Alexa devices

Alexa devices just got a new use case: live customer service help. This morning, Amazon’s e-book company Audible announced the first live customer service experience on Alexa devices, activated through voice commands. Instead of dialing a phone number or writing an email, Audible...
Posted On 24 Apr 2019
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Techstars celebrates 10 years in Boston and over $1B in graduate funding

  Techstars – Boston is celebrating its tenth anniversary today. Over the years, it has helped contribute to the Boston startup ecosystem, graduating 155 startups over that time, some of which have gone onto successful exits, while raising over $1 billion in funding....
Posted On 16 Apr 2019
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Techstars celebrates 10 years in Boston and over $1B in graduate funding

    Techstars – Boston is celebrating its tenth anniversary today. Over the years, it has helped contribute to the Boston startup ecosystem, graduating 155 startups over that time, some of which have gone onto successful exits, while raising over $1 billion in...
Posted On 16 Apr 2019
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Disney CEO: What Netflix Has Done Has Actually Been Good For Us

“We wouldn’t have been ready to launch it (Disney+) two or three years ago,” says Disney CEO Bob Iger. “We wouldn’t have even been ready to talk about it. It takes technology. It takes content. It takes the talent to make the content. It takes a marketplace. You could argue that...
Posted On 15 Apr 2019
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Adobe brings content-aware fill for videos to After Effects

Adobe today announced that it is bringing content-aware fill to After Effects, the special effects software that is part of its Creative Cloud offering. The company has long offered this feature in Photoshop, where you can use it to automatically remove objects from a photo, with...
Posted On 03 Apr 2019
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