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Robinhood buys Say Technologies for $140M to improve shareholder-company relations

TechCrunch

consumer investing and trading service Robinhood announced this morning that it will acquire Say Technologies in a $140 million cash deal. Say Technologies is a venture-backed startup, having raised $8 million in 2018, per Crunchbase data. Say has the technology to connect retail investors to the companies that they own.

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clicOH’s shipping technology provides Amazon-like logistics to e-commerce companies in LatAm

TechCrunch

For decades, e-commerce giants, like Amazon and MercadoLibre, have perfected the logistics and delivery technology for their marketplaces, but more recently, startups have developed similar technology to enable any sized e-commerce business to have equal footing.

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Tekever raises $23M for industrial drone technology optimized for maritime surveillance

TechCrunch

It will be using the funding to hire more people, and to continue building out its technology. Tekever — based, fittingly, in historic maritime superpower Lisbon, Portugal — was founded back in 2001 and has only been offering commercial services since 2018.

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3 steps to get your data AI ready

CIO

While many organizations have already run a small number of successful proofs of concept to demonstrate the value of gen AI , scaling up those PoCs and applying the new technology to other parts of the business will never work until producing AI-ready data becomes standard practice.

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Togetherness: Achieving Sales and Marketing Alignment

Speaker: Jeff Davis, Founder, jd2 Consulting Group

Studies show failure to align sales and marketing teams around the right processes and technologies costs B2B companies 10% or more of revenue per year. September 13th 2018, 11 AM PST, 2 PM EST, 7 PM GMT. In today’s B2B business environment sales and marketing can no longer operate in silos.

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Quantum Technology and National Security: Emerging Threats, Strategic Investments, and Federal Agency Readiness

Ooda Loop

and international quantum technology infrastructure has been built out in the last seven years since the initial Quantum Initiative Act in 2018 - with commitments to cryptography, quantum agility, networking, and computing that will reshape national security and federal operations. Domestic U.S.

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Data center provider fakes Tier 4 data center certificate to bag $11M SEC deal

CIO

Deepak Jain, 49, of Potomac, was the CEO of an information technology services company (referred to in the indictment as Company A) that provided data center services to customers, including the SEC,” the US DOJ said in a statement. From 2012 through 2018, the SEC paid Company A approximately $10.7 million on the contract​.

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Staying Relevant in Sales as AI and Technology Continue to Take Over

Speaker: John Barrows, CEO, JBarrows Sales Training

Technology and Artificial Intelligence are evolving faster than ever and disrupting every industry and role, specifically Sales. As sales professionals if we don’t figure out how to leverage technology while keeping the human element we’re going to get replaced. October 25th 2018, 11 AM PST, 2 PM EST, 7 PM GMT.