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

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And for all those tabs you open up every time you go down an internet browsing rabbit hole, Sidekick offers a Sessions feature that lets you save them as a collective bundle for easy filing away — with ofc the ability to reopen and revisit again at a later click. ” Everyone has an opinion on the $27.7B Slack acquisition.

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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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OpenAI leads $23.5M round in Mem, an AI-powered note-taking app

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Moody and Xu say the platform is designed to augment knowledge workers in their typical responsibilities, like reading through pages of information, extracting the pieces relevant to a particular question and transforming the information into an answer or a report. There’s no doubt knowledge-seeking tasks are time-consuming.

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Blink, a productivity app aimed at frontline workers, raises $20M at a $100M valuation

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After years of being overlooked in favor of so-called knowledge workers — those who sit at screens day in, day out and are more likely to be using software all the time — frontline workers are experiencing a kind of renaissance in the world of enterprise IT. The global opportunity is a big one, with an estimated 2.7

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BigChange raises $102M for a platform to help manage service fleets

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It has raised very little in funding (around $2 million) before this, at one point trying to raise an angel round but cancelling the process before it completed, according to filings tracked by PitchBook. The other part of the decentralisation story here focuses on what BigChange is actually building.

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

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In the latest developement, Toptal — a marketplace for filling engineering and other tech roles with freelance, remote workers — has filed a lawsuit against direct competitor Andela and several of its employees, alleging the theft of trade secrets in pursuit of “a perfect clone of its business”, according to the complaint.

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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 veracity of metrics like these has been challenged over the years.

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