“Two Kroger markets in Houston are rolling out a self-driving car program, in which orders can be placed online and delivered right to your home without a driver. The delivery service was conceived by the robotics company Nuro, founded by two ex-Google employees. Kroger and Nuro began working together last year for a trial run in Scottsdale,…
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Here’s how Workruit, the Tinder for jobs, is working to make hiring hassle-free
“Like? Swipe right. Don’t like? Swipe left. Location-based social search app Tinder made meeting people easy as pie. Manikanth Challa, 26, a graduate of Penn State University, wondered if the same idea could be applied to recruitment and launched mobile recruiting platform Workruit in May 2017. Any job-seeker or recruiter can register on the platform…
To prepare for the fintech revolution, we need to start in schools
“The market experienced a sharp increase in 2018, with global investments topping $57.9 billion, and it’s expected to grow even further. And CEOs are feeling the pressure to keep up: 70% of global CEOs are concerned about the speed change in technology in the financial sector.” https://qz.com/1467341/to-prepare-for-the-fintech-revolution-we-need-to-start-in-schools/?cn=trd&mc=click&pli=27608319&PluID=0&ord=%7Brandom%7D
PagerDuty IPO: Is AI The Secret Sauce?
“PagerDuty refers to itself as the central nervous system of a digital enterprise. This means continuously analyzing systems to detect risks but also to find opportunities to improve operations, increase revenues and promote more innovation. “We apply machine learning to data collected by our platform to help our customers identify incidents from the billions of…
Can there be too much competition between startups?
“So it was surprising to read an entire chapter about this dilemma comparing China and the U.S. in Kai-Fu Lee’s book AI Superpowers While the book is about AI, Lee is trying to undo American conceptions of Chinese innovation early on in the text. Yes, the country was once a copycat haven, but that has…