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Ex-Amazon and Airbnb engineers raise $1.25M for enterprise AI agent developer Cimba.ai

GeekWire

million pre-seed investment to accelerate development of its software that lets companies develop customizable AI agents to generate insights and actions based on internal data. Biswas co-founded Cimba with Vishal Das , a former applied scientist at Amazon Web Services and earned a Ph.D from Stanford.

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KPMG acquires Seattle consultancy firm The Arnold Group

GeekWire

tax, audit and advisory firm KPMG has acquired The Arnold Group , a Seattle-based strategy consultancy that works with B2B technology companies. The 20-year-old Arnold Group specializes in go-to-market strategy development and clients include Amazon Web Services, F5, Tableau, Microsoft, Adobe and others.

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How AI can boost customer satisfaction, retention, and loyalty in the contact center

CIO Business Intelligence

AI First in the Contact Center IBM Consulting and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are working together to bring an AI-first strategy to contact center transformation. This helps to create empathetic and personalized communication that meets customers’ needs and is tailored specifically to them.

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Ex-Microsoft leaders land $5.1M from GitHub co-founder, ex-Snowflake CEO for new startup Aserto

GeekWire

The Seattle startup just launched earlier this year and is in private beta for its product that aims to help early-stage B2B software-as-a-service companies with authorization needs. ” Auth0 is a developer-focused authentication-as-a-service system, while Aserto focuses on authorization.

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Cropin’s agriculture industry cloud to provide apps, data frameworks

CIO Business Intelligence

Cropin, an agritech startup backed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, on Tuesday said that it was launching its industry cloud for agriculture, built on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The company says it has partnered with more than 250 B2B customers.

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Getting a foothold in the 5G applications ecosystem

TM Forum

Application developers have a critical role to play in generating innovative uses of 5G networks, as T-Mobile in the US made clear with its recent. Application developers have a critical role to play in generating innovative uses of 5G networks, as T-Mobile in the US made clear with its recent. in the press release for the launch.

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The impact of 5G and cloud on telco capex and opex

TM Forum

On average, the percentage of total revenues that B2B services (connectivity and beyond) represent, reached 30% in 2020 for many major operators. We are seeing a focus in new IT development around zero-touch operations and enabling full automation for new service models. A good example of this is in the B2B space.

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