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The bot imperative: Why companies can’t afford to drag their heels (VB Live)

Polly.ai raises $1.2 million to help companies poll their employees

LinkedIn’s ProFinder service to find freelancers now available to all in the U.S.

Roland Smart, vide-no, and the new marketing battleground – VB Engage

How AMD designed what could be its most competitive processors in a decade

SkyGiraffe announces $6 million in funding, open-sources its REST endpoint

Mixpanel launches Autotrack to help less technical people start monitoring websites

The House Fund unveils Berkeley startup incubator and $2 million philanthropic round
Coupa’s Platform Manages Billions in Corporate Spend

Prenav raises $6.5 million to help companies inspect their properties using automated drones

Samsung and Tencent surge in race to become Asia’s most valuable firm

DroneDeploy raises $20 million to help businesses make sense of their aerial drone data

Andreessen Horowitz backs $6.6 million round for optimization startup SigOpt

Apple CEO Tim Cook hosting fundraising dinner for Hillary Clinton tonight

U.S. judge clears Fitbit of stealing Jawbone’s trade secrets

Steve Wozniak: An iPhone without a headphone jack would ‘tick off a lot of people’

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How A.I. will help us quantify workforce production

Instrumentl helps match scientists with the best research grants

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How humans and machines can collaborate to solve problems and communicate compassionately

Tesla unveils new Model S sedan with larger battery and faster acceleration

Microsoft updates Word Flow keyboard for iOS with built-in search

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How to avoid UI dead ends when building your chatbot

Prisma for iOS now works offline

VB Live
Personalization: The only way to conquer our multi-channel, multi-device world (VB Live)

Pinterest acquires Instapaper to improve article discovery

Former Facebook Live product manager launches Alively for private video livestreaming

Intel blasts back at Nvidia, saying Xeon dominates 97% of A.I. servers

Google Search removes ‘mobile-friendly’ label, will start negatively ranking mobile interstitials in 2017

Elon Musk announces Tesla announcement

MindSpark puts autistic adults to work as software testers

McDonald’s recalls 32M activity wristbands given out with Happy Meals due to risk of burns to kids

Samsung announces the $68 Z2, the first Tizen-powered 4G smartphone

Happy Internaut Day: 25 years ago today the World Wide Web opened to the public
Logikcull Closes $10 Million Series A Round from OpenView and Storm Ventures

Boomerang for Gmail creators launch Respondable to help you write better emails using A.I.

5 bots to try this week: BFF Trump, FutureStates, Bits, Sensay, and The Fixer

Target plans to enhance offline-online shopping experiences

Samsung Scoop looks like an Amazon Echo competitor
