“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…
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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…
DATA’S GROWING ROLE IN SCALABLE ECOMMERCE
“In the US, for example, ecommerce currently accounts for approximately 10% of all retail sales, a number that’s projected to swell to nearly 18% by 2021. Financial analysts predict the retail giant (Amazon) will control 50% of the US’ online retail sales by as early as 2021, In order to shift ecommerce from a product-centric…
eBay Wants You to Know It Uses Artificial Intelligence
“Chief Architect and Vice President of eBay AI and Platforms Sanjeev Katariya said AI is woven into all aspects of its platform and touches every experience within eBay. “We have over two decades of data and customer insights that we use to train our algorithms and make our AI smarter,” Katariya said. “Every time a…