Every day we interact with a variety of online marketplaces that impact how we travel, shop and dine. Companies like Uber, Airbnb and Netflix have red…
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More Proof That Silicon Valley is Still About Silicon
Two years ago, we wrote about how the explosion of new big-data and artificial-intelligence technologies was spurring a renaissance in an old Silicon …
Can’t We All Just Get Along? Enter OpenCloud, Where Modern IT Embraces Open Source and the Cloud
In the last two years, well over $50 billion in equity value has been generated by a handful of companies selling “open-source” software. This is tech…
Can You Hear Me Now? AI Tackles Voice and Video
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that artificial intelligence is a big business trend right now. Corporate America is agog at the poss…
From Art to Science – How AI is Upending the Sales Productivity Landscape
Sales has traditionally been more “Mad Men” than “math men”—more art than science, with success based on soft skills, a killer Rolodex and, sometimes,…
Market Makers and Shakers in 2019: Enterprise Tech Predictions for the New Year
OK, so I was a bit delayed in pulling out my crystal ball this year. But now that I’ve done it, I see plenty of overlooked trends on the horizon that …
Choose Your Own Adventure: Which AI Business Model Is Right For You?
Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing every aspect of work and life, as nonstop news headlines make clear. Yet one aspect of the AI disruption re…
The IBM/Red Hat Tango: Elephants Can Dance Too—to the Tune of Open Source
You probably heard the news: IBM is buying open-source pioneer Red Hat for a whopping $34 billion, paying a 63% premium to the company’s open-market p…
AI and Machine Learning Startups: Sell Investors on Today, Not on Tomorrow
The number of startups focusing on machine learning and artificial intelligence is exploding, both in Israel and worldwide. Plenty of them come throug…
Another Open-Source IPO Shows the Market Power of “Free” Software
Last week brought more evidence that open-source software has gone mainstream—and that the IPO market for business-focused tech companies is back. Ope…