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SMALL WEBSITE CHANGES THAT CAN DELIVER BIG IMPROVEMENTS Posted by Tyler Bishop | Sep 10, 2018

In 2017, American Airlines elected to remove one olive from their olive trays in their passenger snack platters. This resulted ...
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The Genetics (and Ethics) of Making Humans Fit for Mars

As George Church, a Harvard geneticist and leading synthetic biologist, argues: “One likely path for risk reduction in space does ...
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Hybrid cloud data specialist Datrium nabs $60M led by Samsung at a $282M valuation

Cloud services — where our data, apps and computing power are all being managed in servers owned by others, many ...
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Hacera creates directory to make blockchain projects more searchable

In the 1990s when the web was young, companies like Yahoo, created directories of web pages to help make them ...
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Nvidia launches the Tesla T4, its fastest data center inferencing platform yet

Nvidia today announced its new GPU for machine learning and inferencing in the data center. The new Tesla T4 GPUs ...
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Sisense hauls in $80M investment as data analytics business matures

Sisense, a company that helps customers understand and visualize their data across multiple sources, announced an $80 million Series E ...
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Twilio’s contact center products just got more analytical with Ytica acquisition

Twilio, a company best known for supplying communications APIs for developers has a product called Twilio Flex for building sophisticated ...
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Dropbox may be adding an e-signature feature, user survey indicates

A recent user survey sent out by Dropbox confirms the company is considering the addition of an electronic signature feature ...
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Anaxi brings more visibility to the development process

Anaxi‘s mission is to bring more transparency to the software development process. The tool, which is now live for iOS, ...
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Packet hauls in $25M Series B as customized cloud vision takes shape

In a world where large hyperscale companies like Amazon, Microsoft and Google dominate the public cloud, it would seem foolhardy ...
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Zendesk expands into CRM with Base acquisition

Zendesk has mostly confined itself to customer service scenarios, but it seems that’s not enough anymore. If you want to ...
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Intel acquires NetSpeed Systems to boost its system-on-a-chip business

Intel today is announcing another acquisition as it continues to pick up talent and IP to bolster its next generation ...
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New Relic shifts with changing monitoring landscape

New Relic CEO Lew Cirne was feeling a bit nostalgic last week when he called to discuss the announcements for ...
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Adobe looks to AI to lift customer experience business

For years, marketers have been trying to optimize the online shopping experience to better understand their customers and deliver more ...
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PagerDuty raises $90M to wake up more engineers in the middle of the night

PagerDuty, the popular service that helps businesses monitor their tech stacks, manage incidents and alert engineers when things go sideways, ...
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Microsoft commits to fixing custom apps broken by Windows 10 upgrades

Microsoft wants to make life easier for enterprise customers. Starting today, it is committing to fix any custom applications that ...
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Salesforce updates Sales Cloud ahead of Dreamforce with increased automation

Dreamforce, Salesforce’s massive customer conference is coming later this month to San Francisco, but the news is starting already well ...
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Don’t Fear Chatbots If You Have a Rich Content Strategy

“OK, Google, how do I integrate helpful chatbots into my existing content strategy without spending a fortune or frustrating my ...
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10 Elements that Attract Students to Your Website

The new 2018 E-Expectations® Trend Report by OmniUpdate and Ruffalo Noel Levitz is out with the latest research about how ...
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3 Ways that SEO can change the finances of your company

What is SEO? How does it help a business grow? SEO, the short form for “search engine optimization” is one ...