Category: Data-Labor-Technology Stories

Traditional sales presentations and tools are not cutting it anymore.

Today’s customer is just too informed, according to Pieterjan Bouten, co-founder and CEO of sales enablement platform Showpad. Bouten told me that the platform he founded with CPO Louis Jonckheere six years ago helps sales teams up their game, giving them a competitive edge in closing deals.

The result is more conversions and less money spent on wasted effort, Bouten said. The company says Showpad Experiences not on
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As more states continue to legalize marijuana and more cannabis companies emerge in the marketplace, it makes sense that established brands might want to explore the world of weed. Netflix dipped its toes in the pot world by patterning with a weed dispensary to create 12 strains of weed based on some of the streaming…
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As more states continue to legalize marijuana and more cannabis companies emerge in the marketplace, it makes sense that established brands might want to explore the world of weed. Netflix dipped its toes in the pot world by patterning with a weed dispensary to create 12 strains of weed based on some of the streaming…
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Bet on this, and it will be the easiest money you ever made: TV in 2018 will bristle with guns. Or more to the point, TV in the new year will continue in its role as a kind of national showcase for
violence in all its forms.

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Thanks to the sweeping tax-overhaul bill passed by Congress and signed into law this month, certified public accountants and financial planners suddenly have found themselves at the center of the cultural conversation.
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Like many of my friends on the Foursquare Swarm application, I am an avid life-logger. I love the fact that Swarm makes it possible to check into locations and organize all of those check-ins into one convenient database that contains a history of my visits. Swarm recently dialed up its life-logging experience by making users’…
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It’s hard to believe there’s anything to look forward to in 2018, but as the ecommerce wars heat up, there’s at least plenty to pay attention to. 2017 asserted the dominance of ecommerce: Amazon bought Whole Foods for $13.7 billion; Google Home and Walmart partnered up to ship items to people via Google Express; internet…
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It’s hard to believe there’s anything to look forward to in 2018, but as the ecommerce wars heat up, there’s at least plenty to pay attention to. 2017 asserted the dominance of ecommerce: Amazon bought Whole Foods for $13.7 billion; Google Home and Walmart partnered up to ship items to people via Google Express; internet…
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Harrison Ford is angry about the Trump Administration’s “War on Science,” and he doesn’t mince words about it in a new PSA for Conservation International. While Ford doesn’t call out the administration by name, the target of his ire is more than evident. “Today’s greatest threat is not climate change, not pollution, not famine, flood…
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Investor frenzy has worried the country’s authorities, who are concerned about growing speculation—and the risk investors could lose money from sharp price declines or from cyber attacks on digital currency exchanges.
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