Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly moving from lab experiments to broader end-user deployment. That much was made abundantly clear by the many companies showcasing AI at CES 2019. For example,...
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CES 2019 was only hours old, and the battle for the voice-first world was already an emerging storyline as it was at CES 2018. The…
The cover of the November print edition of The Atlantic says it all: “Teacher, Therapist, Parent, Spy: What Alexa Is Doing to Us.” The headline…
Industrial Designer Dieter Rams is known for saying that “good design is as little design as possible.” In a new documentary by Gary Hustwit, Rams, Dieter Rams…
Most CMOs I know have heard about the 70/20/10 rule of marketing. This time-honored rule suggests that executives invest 70 percent of their marketing budgets into mainstream activities that generate...
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Cloud computing is more than an essential part of Amazon’s revenue growth. For Amazon, the cloud is part of a broader strategy to create an intelligent and continuously evolving cloud-based super...
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Baidu’s July 31 quarterly earnings demonstrate just how diversified that BAT – Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent – have become. These companies are becoming far-flung in their scope, ascending as global...
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3 Reasons to embrace voice to unlock richer customer insights Here’s the truth: your customers’ expectations and wants are rapidly changing. How do you keep up? Talk and collaborate with them. Traditional thinking...
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Mary Meeker, venture capitalist of Kleiner Perkins, dropped her Internet Trends 2018 report (a comprehensive snapshot of digital trends shaping how we live and work) last week. The nearly 300-page report is...
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This week, Google placed the phone call that rocked the digital world. At its 2018 I/O event, CEO Sundar Pichai played a recording of Google Assistant making a telephone call...
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