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

TechCrunch

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!” ” Everyone has an opinion on the $27.7B

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NVIDIA Releases NIM Microservices to Safeguard Applications for Agentic AI

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AI agents are poised to transform productivity for the worlds billion knowledge workers with knowledge robots that can accomplish a variety of tasks. To develop AI agents, enterprises need to address critical concerns like trust, safety, security and compliance.

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

TechCrunch

The world of hourly workers has never seen a more challenging environment like the one we are in now,” Fountain CEO Sean Behr told TechCrunch. Second, there are many more options for hourly workers than fast-food and retail: people can drive for ride-sharing or food delivery or work at the new Amazon warehouse a few miles away.

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Is Your Nonprofit Using Data to Boost Productivity?

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The unfortunate truth is that Americans are constantly inundated with productivity pressure —productivity in the workplace, productivity at home, productivity while maintaining a healthy work-life balance, productivity in a remote work environment, productivity when returning to an office. the list goes on. That’s 800 hours times 1.25

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Cleary raises $4.5M to reinvent the intranet

TechCrunch

To some degree, that hasn’t changed, but employee expectations have — and so has the work environment, especially as the pandemic has made work-from-home and hybrid work the default at many companies. ” Cleary raises $4.5M to reinvent the intranet by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

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Workiz locks in $13M for productivity tools aimed at home services professionals

TechCrunch

Knowledge workers — those whose professions tend to be anchored to desks or computers — have long been the most obvious and primary focus for a lot of B2B apps and services. “Many field services need software because our expectations as consumers are changing.

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AnyDesk, a maker of remote desktop software, raises $70M at a $660M+ valuation

TechCrunch

We were particularly impressed by the activity levels on a global scale based on a technology stack that is built for a connected multi-platform, hybrid working environment world,” said Christian Figge, Managing Director of General Atlantic. The Stuttgart-based company said that the Series C values it at over $600 million.