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Apple Hopes New Tools Will Help It Dominate Smartphone Based AI: AI Readings
A review of some of the latest news involving artificial intelligence, with a particular focus on items that potentially affect public companies....
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I admit I am often quite critical of some of the companies I write about here on Smartkarma.com. Not surprisingly, a few readers occasionally ask,...
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Silicon Stories D: Five Lessons from the Sharing Economy's Non-Starters
Startups are more likely to fail than succeed. Yet, failure is the mother of success, and there are many lessons we can take from these failed...
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Silicon Stories B: Airbnb...Zero to Hero in the Digital Age
Joe Gebbia & Brian Chesky were relatively newbies to tech and business when they started the awkwardly named airbedandbreakfast.com to help...
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