GeekWire

APRIL 14, 2023

The company shifted to virtual meetings with the onset of the pandemic. In several cases, the outcome would have been reversed if not for the presumptive votes of Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s founder, with voting power over more than 12% of the company’s outstanding stock. Shareholders voted down all 15 resolutions last year.

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Trends in the Living Networks

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Many workers and executives have learned to appreciate the many positives of remote work, yet for many reasons very few companies will dispense with offices, since they can play a valuable role in highly productive organizations. Humans are deeply social animals. For many people it is their primary place for social interaction.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 21, 2020

This is the spectator view for fans watching NBA games “courtside” in Microsoft Teams: the live stream on one side, and your virtual cheering section on the other. My big takeaway: Microsoft and the NBA are on to something with their new tech-fueled virtual fan experience. Look out for me in the virtual stands!!!

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

If you’re skeptical about dipping your enterprise’s virtual toes into a metaverse, rightfully so. While some investors and developers pulled back , others kept forging ahead, developing chips for augmented and virtual reality, trialing advertising through augmented reality, and “stockpiling gaming content,” according to CBInsights.

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GeekWire

MAY 7, 2020

Riedner interviewed for the role and has been working at the company without yet meeting Paoli or other members of the team in person. Jean Paoli, the company’s CEO and co-founder, has met almost none of the new employees in person, neither during the interview process nor since they’ve started in their new roles.

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Vox

MAY 16, 2024

million on podcast ads in the first quarter of 2024, more than any other company in the audio space. For those seeking therapy, though, the new ease of finding virtual care meant sorting through waves of targeted ads on social media from companies that might not prioritize the quality of care over growing their businesses.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Microsoft chairman and CEO Satya Nadella described his company’s role in a new economy and society transformed by the pandemic in a keynote address on Tuesday kicking off Microsoft’s virtual 2021 Ignite developer conference. Related: Microsoft offers its own take on the metaverse with the introduction of Mesh for Teams.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 2, 2024

Bad actors use virtual cameras, emulators, and other tools to circumvent cameras, microphones, or fingerprint sensors and fool systems into believing they’ve received true data. A prime example is the recent attack that injected an AI deepfake video feed to defraud a Hong Kong company for $25 million.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Instead of waiting on hold or navigating through phone menus, customers can instantly get answers from a virtual agent that is far more engaging and knowledgeable than past generations of chatbots. For example, a retailer could adjust prices on its website based on the visitor’s identity, inventory levels, and competitor prices.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg sees the metaverse as the future of the internet, and of his company. On Wednesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed some answers during a keynote speech about the company’s latest developments in AI. That being said, the company admits this AI is still in development and not widely used yet.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 3, 2024

The contact center is where customers interact with companies through various channels, such as phone, email, chat, or social media. AI can help optimize processes in many different ways, for example: customers’ speech and text into different languages, dialects, or accents. and responding to customers’ moods and emotions.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 10, 2021

Over his career, Doug Schneider has held leadership roles for companies in telecommunications, web hosting and cloud services. As former president of Verio, for example, he took the company through an IPO before selling to a Japanese telecom in 2000 for more than $5 billion. Focus on building a strong company culture.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

This past weekend marked the first Sunday of the 2021 NFL season, and while it was full of exciting highlights, one may have towered over them all: the Carolina Panthers’ viral video of a giant virtual panther leaping around Bank of America Stadium. One potential example? The video is ridiculous.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

At its virtual Ignite 2021 conference Tuesday morning, the company announced a new product called Mesh for Teams, which allows workers to take the form of avatars and navigate virtual work environments. Prototypes of products could even be laid out on a virtual table. Microsoft Image). Microsoft Image).

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The Verge

APRIL 6, 2022

Meta may have given up on its Diem cryptocurrency , but the company is still exploring finance products, according to a new Financial Times report. The parent company of Facebook and Instagram reportedly has a few irons in the fire, including virtual currency employees have apparently taken to calling “Zuck Bucks.”.

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CTOvision

APRIL 16, 2014

Young tech companies certainly do not shy away from innovation or acquisition. Two examples: this year, Facebook acquired virtual reality firm Oculus in an effort to develop new communication lines, and Google purchased DeepMind, pushing into the artificial intelligence sphere. By ShannonPerry.

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GeekWire

JUNE 4, 2021

The aftermath could prove even trickier, creating a hybrid audience, with some people attending virtually and others in the flesh. . based company that makes technology for virtual and in-person events. What should the virtual experience be like? Founded in 2015, the company has raised $9.44 Allie Magyar, Hubb CEO.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 16, 2023

Big Data collection at scale is increasing across industries, presenting opportunities for companies to develop AI models and leverage insights from that data. Blockchain Opportunities Decentralization: Blockchain advocates hope to realign control of the Internet by taking away the power held by big technology companies seen as gatekeepers.

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Dataconomy

MAY 8, 2024

These proxies act as a bridge­, allowing companies to access new marke­ts and explore untapped opportunitie­s. UK-base­d proxies, in particular, offer a unique advantage­ by providing a virtual presence within the­ United Kingdom. This capability proves invaluable­ for various endeavors that nece­ssitate a UK virtual presence­.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 26, 2024

More than 70 companies, or 35%, are completely new to the GeekWire 200 in this latest update, reflecting the dynamic nature of the industry and changes in our method for calculating the ranking (details below). Many of the companies making their debut on the GeekWire 200 are developing or significantly leveraging AI.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 30, 2024

They manage networking with other professional development activities such as attending conferences, reading leadership books, and participating in social media. While those are examples, there are other networking practices IT leaders can engage in more consistently through online communities and social media.

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GeekWire

MAY 14, 2020

The “virtual movie theater” technology is powered by Scener , a two-year-old Seattle startup that was incubated inside RealNetworks. The company pivoted to a co-watching model — a change that has paid off as people look for ways to connect socially without leaving their homes. The Scener team. Scener Photo).

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The Accidental Successful CIO

JANUARY 22, 2014

IT can play a role in helping the company to set the right price for their products Image Credit. In order for your company to be successful, they need to sell their product or service to the right customer at the right price. Some generate more profit for the company than other products do. The Problem With Pricing.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 15, 2022

To fill gaps in training data: Some data sets don’t fully reflect a company’s use cases. For example, a system trained to recognize phone numbers may not have enough international numbers to work with. For example, when people switched from wired headphones to wireless, all that historic customer data lost its predictive value.

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Trends in the Living Networks

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Continuing my sequence of top posts from this year, today I have selected the 10 most popular and interesting posts on social media I've written this year. Some thoughts on why Australians are #1 globally on social media usage (from a slow start). Predictions for enterprise social software and social network analysis.

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Eric D. Brown

MARCH 5, 2024

A standout example of NLP in action is conversational AI platforms like ChatGPT. For example, AI-driven logistics and supply chain management can predict disruptions and automatically reroute goods, minimizing delays and reducing costs. This level of personalization enriches the customer experience and fosters brand loyalty.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

(GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) When I met Satya Nadella in 1992, we were both engineers at Microsoft, and I never would have guessed we’d go on to be life-long friends or that he’d end up running the company for over a decade. 4 marks 10 years of Satya at the helm of the second company in the world to reach a $3 trillion market cap.

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Trends in the Living Networks

JUNE 20, 2012

As such, we certainly need to apply what is being learned in the field of gamification, particularly its social aspects, to see how it can help positively change behaviors. The app tracks their progress and rewards them with virtual badges. Gamification works well when [a social element] is embedded in the game,” he tells HPW.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 17, 2023

The company’s free-to-use chatbot, powered by an API from ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, acts as a virtual assistant that responds instantly, gathers information, sets up appointments, and produces a conversation summary for business owners. It can be used within social media profiles or on a website.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

Our guest on this week’s GeekWire Podcast, Robbie Bach , was there at the beginning, and led Microsoft’s gaming business for many years as chief Xbox officer and president of the company’s Entertainment & Devices Division. . I was never a big fan of virtual reality. based think tank that promotes bipartisanship.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

JANUARY 6, 2021

Just to make things a bit more complicated, in addition to supporting sometimes widely dispersed workforces, many CIOs helped lead their companies’ accelerated digital transformation efforts to meet evolving customer demands in the wake of the pandemic. A good example of CIOs who have made changes can be found at Target Corp.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Unlike that energy company, many organizations have yet to feel an urgency to capitalize on the value of their vast reservoirs of unstructured data. Since those early days, the ratio of structured and unstructured data has shifted as the Internet, social media, digital cameras, smartphones, digital communications, etc.

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GeekWire

JUNE 26, 2021

But how do you really know that it will form the basis for a great company? Microsoft, for example, failed to recognize how its hold on the PC industry would be disrupted first by the internet and later by mobile devices. Facebook and Twitter launched in the early 2000 timeframe, popularizing the notion of social networking.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

When employees disengage from work — often called quiet quitting — it starts a ripple effect that can damage everything from their career trajectory to your team, company, and the global economy. It also commonly refers to the set of initiatives companies undertake to foster that connection among their employees. trillion in 2022.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

One of those images showed a makerspace campus concept, where educational institutions and companies can cooperate to encourage innovation. Using new tech like AI and virtual reality — while being mindful of the pros and cons for using such tools to envision urban futures.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2023

A holistic collaborative approach, involving all strategic business units, has become integral to supporting Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) commitments and targets across its core operations and processes. Hear from international experts on ESG leadership and how the future green economy will take shape.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Metaverse , popularized by Mark Zuckerberg when he renamed his company Meta , is the one you’ve probably heard of the most. Or will a small group of us end up playing video games in a completely — and probably lonely — virtual world? Then there are the social effects. It’s a dream the tech industry is still chasing.

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