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

TechCrunch

Fire up a web browser and it’s hard to deny it’s the best of times for knowledge work. “The typical user is a knowledge worker — product managers, engineers, marketers, a fair number of students. ” So what type of work/worker is Sidekick made for?

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How to craft the perfect email subject line

The Next Web

Last year, a McKinsey Global Institute report noted that knowledge workers spend about 28 percent of their workday managing email. Including a company name is especially important if you already have a positive relationship with the reader.

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Adept, a startup training AI to use existing software and APIs, raises $350M

TechCrunch

Instead of investigating ways to generate text or images, like startups OpenAI and Stability AI, Adept’s studying how people use computers — specifically how they browse the web and navigate software — to train an AI model that can turn text instructions into sets of digital actions.

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Magical makes $35M appear to move data between webpages

TechCrunch

He’s the co-founder of Magical , an RPA startup that’s designed to move data across websites and web apps with a few keystrokes. We see so many knowledge workers still relying on these manual, outdated ways of working,” Sambhi said. But the goal is to introduce paid plans with premium features in the future.

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Robin raises $30M to expand its office reservation software as companies embrace hybrid work

TechCrunch

Accessing Robin on the web or mobile, workers can request rooms, desks and equipment before they arrive at an office. .” Launched in 2014, Robin began as a conference room scheduling app. But over the past 8 years, the platform has expanded to handle various aspects of desk booking, room reservation and guest management.

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SightCall raises $42M for its AR-based visual assistance platform

TechCrunch

There has been an interesting wave of startups emerging in recent years building out the tech stack used by people working in the front lines and in the field, a shift after years of knowledge workers getting most of the attention from startups building a new generation of apps. “The video solution has to work.”

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Superpowered lets you see your schedule and join meetings from the Mac menu bar

TechCrunch

After solving this particular pain point, Superpowered plans to broaden its scope to fix other annoyances for knowledge workers — like Slack notifications, for example. The company also has a vision for the product’s future that extends beyond meetings.