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Polymath Robotics launches plug-and-play autonomy software for any industrial vehicle

TechCrunch

Polymath Robotics, which came out of stealth Friday and is a Y Combinator Summer 2022 cohort, aims to become the Oracle of the robotics world. “What’s appealing about this approach is that I can see a future of an Oracle-like company of robotics,” Sweeney said. Think of it as SaaS for industrial robotics. ”

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Beware the hidden bias behind TikTok resumes

TechCrunch

Nagaraj Nadendla is SVP of development at Oracle Cloud HCM , where he leads the development of cloud recruitment solutions including Oracle Recruiting and Taleo. While innovation in recruiting is a big part of the future of work, the hype around TikTok and video resumes may actually take us backward. Nagaraj Nadendla.

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How Google Cloud learned to embrace its partner ecosystem

TechCrunch

Given the current hype around generative AI, that’s perhaps no surprise, but this is also the story of Google Cloud learning how to sell to enterprises and embracing more traditional ways of selling to them. “I was very excited because I knew of Thomas’s history and experience and accomplishments at Oracle.

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Aisera lands $90M to automate customer service requests with AI

TechCrunch

The platform then cross-references sources like ServiceNow, Salesforce, Oracle, Confluence and SharePoint for customer data to personalize its replies to the request. But the hype around AI has fueled the rise of startups such as Lang.ai , which automatically tags customer conversations to resolve service issues. upselling).

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Platforms break open!

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

One of my favorite quotes in the Connect documentation is this one: “As long as you can invoke the API over HTTP, your application can be Microsoft, HP, IBM, Novell, Oracle, even Sun-based. The API is SOAP. It appears, from perusing the documentation, that someone in Kintera saw the light, and included PHP code. What’s to lose?

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Theranos’ greatest invention was Elizabeth Holmes

The Verge

Never mind that Holmes’ company was medical — her mythos was pure founder gold and tech money, like that of Larry Ellison of Oracle and Tim Draper of DFJ, was backing her. During this heady period, though, investors tended to overlook tech-hyped things that weren’t actually tech. “Do Theranos had just come out of stealth mode in 2013.

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Elizabeth Holmes’ verdict won’t change Silicon Valley

The Verge

Theranos investors included Silicon Valley celebrities: Larry Ellison’s Tako Ventures, Tim Draper’s Draper Jurvetson Fischer, and Don Lucas, known for his early Oracle investment. Thankfully for investors — and the startup hype cycle — you don’t go to jail for being a sucker.

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