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Why AI Won't Be the Investment Opportunity Everyone Thinks It Is

This is going to be BIG.

When I think about true disruptions in tech—the ones that enable huge investor outcomes because they create generational behavior change, entirely new markets, and populate whole business ecosystems out of nothing—location-aware mobile devices stand out to me as right up there with the web itself.

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Optimizing freemium products: Challenges and opportunities

TechCrunch

Enabling freemium, especially for established products, can bring organizational and operational challenges even if it adds value to the business. Should you ask for their payment information if they want a free trial? Optimizing freemium products: Challenges and opportunities by Ram Iyer originally published on TechCrunch

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Changing how we approach data privacy to unlock economic opportunities

TechCrunch

From securing a loan to renting a car to getting a job, our lives increasingly depend on the digital world to enable trust-based interactions online. Information privacy is the right to control how your information is collected and used, when, and by whom. The growing importance of personal data control.

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Opaque Systems secures cash to keep data private while enabling collaboration

TechCrunch

MC 2 is a collection of packages that enables data owners to perform analytics and jointly train AI models on the collective data without revealing their individual data to each other. “It became very clear that there is a strong and widespread need for the MC 2 technology in practice.” ” The Opaque platform. .

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How to Package and Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, application owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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AI-powered competitive enablement platform Klue lands $62M led by Tiger Global

TechCrunch

Klue , an AI-powered competitive enablement platform, has raised $62 million in Series B funding led by Tiger Global, with participation from Salesforce Ventures. Klue aims to enable product marketers and competitive intelligence teams to increase their coverage of competitors.

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South African startup Qwili gets $1.2M to scale its app and low-cost NFC-enabled smartphone

TechCrunch

The company’s hardware is a low-cost NFC-enabled smartphone called Qwili Pula that allows merchants to send and receive payments. Its business-to-business model has picked up steam, too, as 500 micro and small merchants use the hybrid platform (about half use Qwili’s NFC-enabled smartphones).

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New Study: 2018 State of Embedded Analytics Report

Why do some embedded analytics projects succeed while others fail? We surveyed 500+ application teams embedding analytics to find out which analytics features actually move the needle. Read the 6th annual State of Embedded Analytics Report to discover new best practices. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.