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Business Canvas, a Korea-based document management SaaS company, closes $2.5M seed round

TechCrunch

Business Canvas , the South Korean document management SaaS company behind Typed, announced today it has raised a $2.5 The seed round will be used for accelerating product development and the global launch of an open beta for its AI-powered document management platform. These are primarily B2C users,” Kim told TechCrunch. “As

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Sidekick Browser wants to be a productivity-honed ‘work OS’ on Chromium

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The tool grabbed some early eyeballs a few months ago via Product Hunt — where Chris Messina was among its early fans, lauding the team for shaking up the browser space by combining “so many components that are essential to finding productivity as a modern knowledge worker!”

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Glean aims to help employees surface info across sprawling enterprise systems

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But it’s reasonable to say that knowledge workers in particular devote a sizeable chunk of their workdays to sifting through data, whether to find basic contact info or domain-specific files. the document gets deleted from the Glean system as well,” Arvind said. According to McKinsey, employees spend 1.8

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Zeitworks wants to help businesses measure and improve their productivity

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But since these processes aren’t documented, you can’t exactly build a rule-based engine around discovering what people are doing. Unsurprisingly, understanding these processes is at the core of Zeitworks’ product.

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Freelancer marketplace Toptal sues Andela and ex-employees, alleging theft of trade secrets

TechCrunch

We thought, ‘What if we accelerated [the African remote network] and just enabled applicants from anywhere?’ View this document on Scribd. Because it was always the plan to become a global company. That was clear, but the timing was the question,” Andela CEO Jeremy Johnson told TechCrunch in April.

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Is Your Nonprofit Using Data to Boost Productivity?

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Highlights from that report: Most workers toggle between apps 10 times an hour , costing organizations 32 days per worker, per year of workplace productivity Staff spends 25% of their time looking for information they need to do their jobs Knowledge workers spend 40% of their time on work about work. Why do this?

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Adept aims to build AI that can automate any software process

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In 2016 at TechCrunch Disrupt New York, several of the original developers behind what became Siri unveiled Viv , an AI platform that promised to connect various third-party applications to perform just about any task. A product like Adept’s would presumably need a lot of examples of successfully completed tasks in applications (e.g.

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