Category: artificial intelligence
Visualping raises $6M to make its website change monitoring service smarter
Visualping, a service that can help you monitor websites for changes like price drops or other updates, announced that it has raised a $6 million extension to the $2 million seed round it announced earlier this year. The round was led by Seattle-based FUSE, a relatively new firm with investors…
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How we got 75% more e-commerce orders in a single A/B test for this major brand
Jasper Kuria Contributor Jasper Kuria is the managing partner of CRO consultancy The Conversion Wizards and is the founder of Capital & Growth, an e-commerce education site. More posts by this contributor 79% more leads without more traffic: Here’s how we did it Pioneer Square Labs’ Greg Gottesman on the…
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Build a digital ops toolbox to streamline business processes with hyperautomation
Boopathy Rajendran Contributor Boopathy Rajendran is the senior vice president and heads global delivery and services at Vuram, a hyperautomation services company specializing in low-code enterprise automation. Reliance on a single technology as a lifeline is a futile battle now. When simple automation no longer does the trick, delivering end-to-end…
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Is the US labor shortage the big break AI needs?
Chetan Dube Contributor Chetan Dube is the founder and CEO of Amelia, a former assistant professor at New York University and an expert on autonomics, cognitive computing and the future impact of a digital workforce. The tectonic shifts to American culture and society due to the pandemic are far from…
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Extra Crunch roundup: NS1 EC-1, Pakistan’s tech ecosystem, SPACs bonanza
Did you see the viral videos of yesterday’s flooding in New York City subways? In one, riders waded through brown, waist-deep water; another video showed a cascade rushing down a flight of stairs to a subway platform where passengers waited for a train. Infrastructure doesn’t attract much attention until it…
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Smile Identity raises $7M to build KYC and identity verification tools for Africa
An estimated one billion people worldwide face the challenge of proving who they are, according to a World Bank Group report which states that 81% of this number live in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia without official proof of identity. It’s no news that Africans spend an inordinate amount of…
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