Nicole Martin is Chief Empowerment Officer and Founder of HRBoost® LLC, a HR Shared Services HR firm, that leads as a PEO Alternative based in Chicago, Illinois. In recognition of her professional excellence as well as her community, Nicole has been honored by multiple organizations including most recently as one of Mirror Review’s 10 Game Changing Women in 2019. Awardee for Business Excellence by the Chicago Daily Herald, and a 2016 Enterprising Women of the Year Champion by Enterprising Women Magazine. A sought-after expert, her knowledge and advice have been featured in newspapers and magazines throughout the country. In addition,…
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Ms. Daria Dubinina is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer and Board Member at Crassula. She co-founded and served as Chief Executive Officer at Payment Ninja. She also serves as a Managing Partner at FinHubGlobal. She has dedicated more than 10 years to mastering payments, e-commerce and business development. Leading strategist and entrepreneur, she has also led major partnership deals with top international companies. Her expertise and specialization are in payments, strategic management, international business development, financial technologies, and international regulations. Mr. Alexander Novozhenov is a Co-Founder and serves as Board Member at Crassula. He is a Co-Founder…
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) has come a long way since the 1950s when the concept was first conjured by Alan Turing, and then put into action by Allen Newell and Herbert A. Simon, who created the first AI program known as “Logic Theorist.” Today, AI applications can be found everywhere. While consumers may assume that these use-cases are limited to personal assistants like Siri and Cortana, AI is heavily used in the B2B and enterprise world. For example, financial institutions are using AI to fight money laundering, media companies use it to upscale video footage, and law enforcement…
Not long ago US President Donald Trump quoted that, “Continued American leadership in AI is of paramount importance to maintaining the economic and national security of the United States and to shaping the global evolution of AI in a manner consistent with our Nation’s values, policies, and priorities.” President Donald J. Trump launched the American Artificial Intelligence Initiative, the Nation’s strategy for promoting American leadership in AI, by signing Executive Order 13859 in February 2019. Reportedly, the American AI Initiative focuses the resources of the Federal Government to support AI innovation that will increase prosperity, enhance national security, and improve quality…
A busy commuter is ready to walk out the door, only to realize they’ve misplaced their keys and must search through piles of stuff to find them. Rapidly sifting through clutter, they wish they could figure out which pile was hiding the keys. The system, RFusion, is a robotic arm with a camera and radio frequency (RF) antenna attached to its gripper. It fuses signals from the antenna with visual input from the camera to locate and retrieve an item, even if the item is buried under a pile and completely out of view. The RFusion prototype the researchers developed…
Cisco’s new quarterly Hybrid Work Index tracks workforce challenges by analyzing data culled from users of its Meraki networking, ThousandEyes internet visibility, Webex collaboration, and security platforms. When it comes to supporting the emerging hybrid workforce, getting the network and security right is top of mind among enterprise IT leaders. That’s one finding detailed in Cisco’s new Hybrid Work Index, which the company says will be updated quarterly to gauge how worker and technology habits are evolving as the COVID-19 pandemic continues. Cisco says the index gleans information from anonymized customer data points culled from a number of its products, including Meraki networking,…
IoT, the Internet of Things, is currently one of the most hyped concepts in the computing world. Cloud IoT platforms may even exceed IoT on the hype scale. Nevertheless, both have real applications and could become important to your business. In this article we’ll define IoT and cloud IoT platforms without too much technical detail, then discuss what you need from a cloud IoT platform and how to choose one. The simple explanation of IoT is that it is physical things connected to the internet. These things can have sensors that measure various parameters and send their data over the internet,…
It is important to find IT support for your business. It does not seem like a big deal, but IT can be the difference between success and failure. This can provide your business with solutions that will help it grow, not to mention it also provides protection from outside threats such as hackers and viruses which could destroy data or render your entire system useless. Protect your data Probably the most essential part of any IT support, a business is going to it in order to protect the data of their company. If this information gets into the wrong hands, it could…
I agree with CCS Insight that Apple already has the building blocks to offer its own business productivity suite built around iWork and iCloud. It seems strange that it hasn’t provided these yet. What could the service offer? Take email, for example. Apple’s recent introduction of support for domain-based email within iCloud+ for families could so easily be extended to provide a similar (and private) email service for small business users. A business would then be able to equip staff with email access, and Apple could add the email archiving, management, and search tools businesses need to ensure they maintain all necessary records. Integration would need…
KEY POINTS Kevin O’Leary, “Shark Tank” co-host and host of the new CNBC series “Money Court,” says iconic companies like Nike were able to grow direct sales to customers by an unprecedented degree amid the COVID-19 pandemic.He said “the next big thing” for small businesses is focusing on the DTC channel and specifically the amount of data being generated by online direct sales.Using increasingly inexpensive cloud and AI technology, small businesses can use all the same technology marketing tricks of the giants to market their products and services to customers in more personalized ways. Any aspiring entrepreneur hoping to get…