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Nigeria’s Prospa gets $3.8M pre-seed to offer small businesses banking and software services

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A f ew months past graduation, the startup, combining both worlds of banking and business management tools for micro and small businesses, has closed a $3.8 As a serial entrepreneur running businesses in tech and media, Obasi experienced how tough running operations and banking his business simultaneously was in Nigeria.

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12 AI predictions for 2025

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The next step for agents, she says, is pulling together communications from all the different channels, including email, chat, texts, social media, and more. But Ive found them immensely useful in trimming down busy work.

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Cost, security, and flexibility: the business case for open source gen AI

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According to Baris Sarer, who leads the AI division of Deloittes technology, media, entertainment and telecommunications industry practice, Metas Llama model is the one that shows up most in industry deployments, followed by Mistral. GitHub lists more than 100,000 projects with LLM in their names, compared to 50,000 in May.

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10 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

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A wider world of IT partners “We are witnessing a paradigm shift where enterprises are not just increasing their number of partnerships but also diversifying the types of partners they work with,” says Harshul Asnani , president of technology, media, and entertainment at Tech Mahindra. Double down on vendor management.

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Key considerations to cancer institute’s gen AI deployment

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Vendor management Gen AI is more than just choosing between a free, insecure, public chatbot and a private, controlled one. Umeton himself says he has a bot that monitors news outlets and social media feeds, and compiles a weekly digest for his review. The advent of ChatGPT was just the beginning,” he says.

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Micromax, smartphone sales stalled, eyes a steer into electric vehicles

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Reports on social media show the company’s reluctance to handle consumer complaints. “China-based vendors managed to get quality devices, high specifications and the latest technology at affordable prices with huge marketing and channel spends,” Singh said.

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Why Use a CRM in the Cloud?

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It’s also necessary to either train or hire technicians with the expertise to manage the system. SMEs without an extensive IT team will find it much more cost effective to let the cloud vendor manage the hardware and software. Easier Scaling of Operations. Integration Flexibility. Improved Reliability.

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