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How to talk to your board about tech debt

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This balances debt reduction and prioritizes future strategic innovations, which means committing to continuous updates, upgrades, and management of end-user software, hardware, and associated services. Our research reveals that top performers allocate around 15% of their IT budget to debt remediation.

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10 tips for de-risking hardware products

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million fundraise , I asked company founder Narek Vardanyan what he thinks are the biggest pitfalls in hardware development. 10 tips for de-risking hardware products by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch Last week, when I wrote about Prelaunch.com’s $1.5 In other words, your potential customers.”

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ThirdAI raises $6M to democratize AI to any hardware

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Houston-based ThirdAI , a company building tools to speed up deep learning technology without the need for specialized hardware like graphics processing units, brought in $6 million in seed funding. It was when he was at Rice University that he looked into how to make that work for deep learning.

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CES 2024: How to watch as Nvidia, Samsung and more reveal hardware, AI updates

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CES 2024 will be here before we know it, taking over Las Vegas with throngs of crowds, booths full of products and a lot of companies making claims about how AI is improving their offerings. As noted in our CES preview, though the conference has had its ups and downs of late, it’s increasingly become […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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How to achieve seamless collaboration

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1] HP Managed Collaboration Services includes hardware, repair services, and analytics components and may include financing. To register for access, visit [link] Some features and capabilities may require additional purchase of HP services and/or commercial hardware capable of supporting the HP Insights agent for Windows, Mac, & Android.

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7 common pitfalls for hardware startups and how to avoid them

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You’ve likely heard that “hardware is hard”; mostly because hardware startups have to deal with things that software companies don’t really have to worry about. ” Hardware development is complex and challenging. Hardware development is inherently a lot more costly than cranking out software.

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Mavenoid, which automates technical support and onboarding for hardware companies, raises $30M

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Mavenoid , a Swedish company that provides both human- and AI-enabled support and troubleshooting tools for hardware companies, has raised $30 million in a series B round of funding. Hardware issues are repetitive, difficult, and time-consuming to fix. ” Technical support. Mavenoid: Illustrating fixes.