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B2B Venture Capital: Corporate Social Media, Marijuana Procurement, and Big Data

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This week, the two countries were the only markets that landed on the B2B venture capital board, with funding landing at SaaS, Big Data and procurement startups across a range of industries, from corporate social media management to marijuana procurement. B2B FinTechs in the U.S. Software-As-A-Service (SaaS).

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WeTrade Platform's Nasdaq Transfer From OTC Could Raise $121 Million

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Currently listed on the OTC under the symbol WETG, the membership-based eCommerce platform WeTrade has a market cap of $1.7 Funds raised from the Nasdaq listing will be earmarked for research and development, marketing, staffing and investments. The company’s cloud intelligence division, YCloud, recently expanded into those markets. “We

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Investing Intelligently: Applications of AI, ML & Big Data in Investment Management

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With growing applications of NLP in investment management, and coupled with ML techniques and data from non-traditional sources such as social media posts to identify trends have helped Investment managers to better predict the impact on companies in specific and market at large.

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Watson Marketing Delivers a Competitive Edge that Financial Institutions can Bank On

Insights on Business

IBM has developed Watson Marketing capabilities to help banks discover insights beyond the abilities of conventional computing. Like diamonds masked by coal dust, banks possess insights rendered invisible by the sheer size and unwieldiness of massive amounts of unstructured data.

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The big data boom – what it means for banking

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Big data has been one of the tech industry’s most popular buzzwords for a few years now. But as the number of data sources grows and technology to process it becomes more powerful, the trend is changing from a nice-to-have addition to becoming an essential part of any company’s offering. Fighting fraud.

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Deep Dive: Digital-First Banks Harness The Power Of Data Analytics

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Every interaction tells banks what customers actually want, meaning FIs just need the right tools to interpret this data. One of the most powerful tools in the financial sector is data analytics. Big Data analytics reached a market valuation of $29.87 Data Analytics Behind the Scenes.

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Google Quits Cookies As Data Privacy Regs Show Fangs

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Looks like the digital advertising and marketing sectors are in for a reckoning. As we know, mostly anonymous corporations have been collecting consumer data online for years, usually without explicit permission, selling it or using it for ad retargeting and personalization. That’s a bad moon rising for some Big Data operators.

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