TechEmpower CTO

AUGUST 21, 2023

We hear them explain that their current software development is expensive, deliveries are rarely on time, and random bugs appear. The answer is to engage a trusted outside source for a Technical Review – a deep-dive assessment that provides a C-suite perspective. These are classic inflection points for a development team.

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CIO

OCTOBER 15, 2024

IT leaders must understand how the business plans to compete, grow, and create value in the market to align IT initiatives within the company’s broader objectives. If competitors are using advanced data analytics to gain deeper customer insights, IT would prioritize developing similar or better capabilities.

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CIO

APRIL 30, 2025

AI agents are valuable across sales, service, marketing, IT, HR, and really all business teams, says Andy White, SVP of business technology at Salesforce. Enriching the sales pipeline Jay Upchurch, CIO at SAS, backs agentic AI to enhance sales, marketing, IT, and HR motions. Use cases for AI agents span countless business workflows.

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CIO

DECEMBER 10, 2024

For example, developers using GitHub Copilots code-generating capabilities have experienced a 26% increase in completed tasks , according to a report combining the results from studies by Microsoft, Accenture, and a large manufacturing company. These reinvention-ready organizations have 2.5 times higher revenue growth and 2.4

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CIO

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

From customer service chatbots to marketing teams analyzing call center data, the majority of enterprises—about 90% according to recent data —have begun exploring AI. Technology: The workloads a system supports when training models differ from those in the implementation phase.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2023

Writing the text strings that instruct AI systems like ChatGPT and DALL-E 2 to generate essays, articles, images and more has become a veritable profession, commanding salaries well into the six-figure range. But not every company or developer has the budget to hire a so-called prompt engineer. Move over, software.

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CIO

MAY 6, 2025

Digital transformation enables growth, creates efficiencies, improves experiences, and develops competitive advantages. A primary objective is evolving business models as technology, data, and AI rapidly change customer expectations and market opportunities.

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Luis Goncalves

APRIL 11, 2025

While launching a startup is difficult, successfully scaling requires an entirely different skillset, strategy framework, and operational systems. This guide explores essential frameworks, common pitfalls, and proven strategies to transform your promising venture into a market leader. What Does Scaling a Startup Really Mean?

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CIO

APRIL 23, 2025

For example, AI agents should be able to take actions on behalf of users, act autonomously, or interact with other agents and systems. As the models powering the individual agents get smarter, the use cases for agentic AI systems get more ambitious and the risks posed by these systems increase exponentially.

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 6, 2025

Although 2024 was another exceptionally lackluster year for new public offerings, the IPO market could gain momentum in 2025 after its three-year lull. With that in mind, here are 13 companies that the Crunchbase News team thinks could be top contenders to go public if our 2025 market forecast bears out. That made sense.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

Africa is the world’s third fastest-growing crypto market, with crypto adoption increasing by more than 1,200% over the last two years. In the latest development, one such company, Bitmama , has raised a pre-seed extension of $1.65 million, adding to the $350,000 it received last October, thus, closing the round at $2 million.

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CIO

MARCH 11, 2025

The surge in generative AI adoption has driven enterprise software providers, including ServiceNow and Salesforce, to expand their offerings through acquisitions and partnerships to maintain a competitive edge in the rapidly evolving market.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Migration to the cloud, data valorization, and development of e-commerce are areas where rubber sole manufacturer Vibram has transformed its business as it opens up to new markets. We’re in publishing, but it’s the accompanying services that differentiate us on the market; the technology component is what gives value to our business.”

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Perficient

MARCH 10, 2025

Generative AI (GenAI) can transform product development, driving unprecedented efficiency, accuracy, and insight. By harnessing GenAI in the product development lifecycle, companies have opportunities to transform how they plan and execute product development.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

“Soci became an essential partner to brands for this transformation, which led to an increased need for brands to turn to technology to manage their presence in local digital market channels.” Khoury says he was inspired to found Soci by the dearth of options for brands to manage their presence across digital marketing channels.

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CIO

APRIL 16, 2025

Navigator: As technology landscapes and market dynamics change, enterprise architects help businesses navigate through complexity and uncertainty, ensuring that the organization remains on course despite evolving challenges. Observer-optimiser: Continuous monitoring, review and refinement is essential.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

To drive change, a reworking of what defines CIO/IT success is needed, with a focus on strategic business goals, innovation, and market differentiation. IDC’s CIO Sentiment Survey, July 2024, n = 395 The gap between digital transformation aspirations and outcomes is partly due to how CIOs and IT leaders are measured.

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CIO

OCTOBER 14, 2024

They can be, “especially when supported by strong IT leaders who prioritize continuous improvement of existing systems,” says Steve Taylor, executive vice president and CIO of Cenlar. He adds, “This mindset stifles creativity, limits growth, and can prevent the organization from keeping pace with changing market dynamics.”

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CIO

DECEMBER 26, 2024

This increased complexity means more companies will be relying on IT consultants to help navigate the changes and develop short-term and long-term strategies. An IT consultant is a technology professional who advises and supports business clients in designing, developing, and executing technology projects in service of business goals.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

With IT systems growing more complex and user demands rising, AI is emerging as a transformative tool for tackling these challenges. While it might not seem a lot, a 3% improvement in an organization with 6,000 software developments is a whole other product you can put up.

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CIO

JANUARY 5, 2025

Research from Gartner, for example, shows that approximately 30% of generative AI (GenAI) will not make it past the proof-of-concept phase by the end of 2025, due to factors including poor data quality, inadequate risk controls, and escalating costs. [1]

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CIO

JANUARY 14, 2025

For CIOs leading enterprise transformations, portfolio health isnt just an operational indicator its a real-time pulse on time-to-market and resilience in a digital-first economy. The traditional approach is failing Imagine being tasked with developing a rapidly growing metropolitan area.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

A founder recently told TechCrunch+ that it’s hard to think about ethics when innovation is so rapid: People build systems, then break them, and then edit. Some investors said they tackle this by doing due diligence on a founder’s ethics to help determine whether they’ll continue to make decisions the firm can support.

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TechEmpower CTO

JULY 24, 2023

Even when they have talked to multiple developers or development firms, we’re often the first to ask basic questions like “Who are your customers?” ” or “Are you developing for desktop, tablet, mobile, or all three?” The innovator/developer relationship needs to be a conversation.

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CIO

MARCH 14, 2025

Thats an eternity in tech terms ; by the time a deal is signed, market conditions may have changed, new competitors emerged, or the solution itself evolved. Legacy Systems Complicate the Adoption of New Technology The Challenge: Many organizations still have outdated IT infrastructure, which makes integration complicated and costly.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The Law provides a set of frameworks that are as comprehensive as the EU AI Act, with the intention of balancing the need for innovative AI development with the need to safeguard society. Lastly, China’s AI regulations are focused on ensuring that AI systems do not pose any perceived threat to national security.

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CIO

DECEMBER 11, 2024

This approach is repeatable, minimizes dependence on manual controls, harnesses technology and AI for data management and integrates seamlessly into the digital product development process. Data science was previously the domain of tech-savvy organizations due to the technical expertise required to build models from scratch.

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CIO

DECEMBER 4, 2024

That may be a key tension unfolding for the 2025 IT hiring market, as evidenced by IT recruitment firm Harvey Nash stepping back from the ramifications of its own recent survey of CIOs, who were decidedly pessimistic about IT hiring in the new year. Predictions are all about timing, but sentiment can take a long time to sway.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

MARCH 20, 2025

Companies of all sizes face mounting pressure to operate efficiently as they manage growing volumes of data, systems, and customer interactions. The chat agent bridges complex information systems and user-friendly communication. Update the due date for a JIRA ticket. Review and choose Create project to confirm.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

Smile Identity , a KYC compliance and ID verification partner for many African fintechs and businesses, has acquired Inclusive Innovations, the parent company of Appruve , a Ghanaian developer of identity verification software. We want to add that depth in more markets, and Appruve gives some of that.”

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CIO

JANUARY 20, 2025

billion, highlighting the dominance of cloud infrastructure over non-cloud systems as enterprises accelerate their investments in AI and high-performance computing (HPC) projects, IDC said in a report. Shared cloud led the way Shared cloud infrastructure, representing the bulk of the market, grew 136.5% billion in the same quarter.

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CIO

OCTOBER 24, 2024

These days, digital spoofing, phishing attacks, and social engineering attempts are more convincing than ever due to bad actors refining their techniques and developing more sophisticated threats with AI. Moreover, AI can reduce false positives more effectively than rule-based security systems.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

They understand that their strategies, capabilities, resources, and management systems should be configured to support the enterprise’s overarching purpose and goals. Collie believes it’s far more productive to ask business leaders about their own jobs, including their view of market trends and the key business challenges they’re facing.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

DECEMBER 4, 2024

To address these challenges, we introduce Amazon Bedrock IDE , an integrated environment for developing and customizing generative AI applications. This approach enables sales, marketing, product, and supply chain teams to make data-driven decisions efficiently, regardless of their technical expertise.

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Henrik Warne

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

For the first time ever, I was laid off, and had to find a new software developer job. In my case, we were 17 people let go that day, including 8 developers. Next, I went through my list of companies I would like to work for, and looked to see if they had any open developer roles. Here is what I learnt from the process.

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Crunchbase News

APRIL 16, 2025

More commonly, its a negative one, like a market downturn. Over the past couple weeks, as weve seen Klarna , StubHub and others delay scheduled pre-IPO roadshows, it appears markets are to blame. But for market watchers, the questions remain: Where do IPO candidates go from here? Is the new offering market in for a long freeze?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

“Most of the companies we have seen have an AI component to support the discovery or development processes,” Francisco Dopazo, a general partner at Humboldt Fund told TechCrunch recently. Have declines in the public-market valuations of biotech companies impacted your investments in the sector? Robert Mittendorff, M.D,

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