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It’s time to abandon business intelligence tools

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Logi Analytics’ 2021 State of Analytics: Why Users Demand Better survey showed that knowledge workers spend more than five hours a day in analytics, and more than 99% consider analytics very to extremely valuable when making critical decisions. Yet, adoption rates are still below 30%. Why is this the case?

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

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It also has support for multiple logins, granular notification controls and the ability to search across all these third-party apps (it offers “hundreds” currently but says users can add custom adds “which would function just like a bookmark”) right from the browser. Browsers are interesting again.

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As companies search for hourly workers, Fountain brings in $85M to assist them

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The remote-first company provides an applicant tracking system aimed at the 82 million people considered hourly workers in the U.S. This kind of high-volume hiring is defined as needing to fill over 1,000 positions, or receiving that many applications per position, in a short period of time. That’s where Fountain comes in.

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Glean aims to help employees surface info across sprawling enterprise systems

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hours per week, on average — searching for and gathering information. 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. According to McKinsey, employees spend 1.8

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

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Business Canvas, founded in 2020 by CEO Woojin Kim, Brian Shin, Seungmin Lee, Dongjoon Shin and Clint Yoo, is hoping to solve the challenge that every knowledge worker and writer faces: spending more time on research and file organization than the actual content output they need to create. “In

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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. “Google’s efforts scaling Transformer models yielded [the AI architecture] BERT, powering Google search.

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Extra Crunch roundup: Antitrust jitters, SPAC odyssey, white-hot IPOs, more

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Measuring objectives and key results are core to every enterprise, perhaps more so these days since knowledge workers began working remotely in greater numbers last year. Dear Sophie: What’s the new minimum salary required for H-1B visa applicants? Dear Sophie: What’s the new minimum salary required for H-1B visa applicants?

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