Consumers rushed to try new Generative AI tools, but their interest is waning. The next phase of growth for Generative AI will come from enterprise adoption. OpenAI, Google and startups prepare for a lucrative fight
The various startup engagement and outreach programs at Google from investment, to partnerships and commercial through various equity free mentorship and support programs.
Folks in Silicon Valley seem to have been indoctrinated in the “Think big” mentality fully – and it’s contagious.
I’ve spent the past couple of weeks working with my American colleagues in New York and San Francisco and meeting our global partners. If there’s one thing I could say is a stark difference between European entrepreneurs and Silicon Valley ones, is this 10X, or “moonshot” thinking.
As every month, VC Cafe is re-posting the “Invest in Israel” Newsletter, published by the investment promotion center of Israel’s Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor, which offers many helpful tools for prospecting investors. For the Invest in Israel archive, click here. The highlight this month is the acquisition of social GPS app Waze, for reportedly $1.3 Billion, by Google (after Facebook …
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LeWeb, probably the biggest tech conference in Europe, migrated from Paris to London for the first time this year. While lots of the ‘action’ happened on stage, I was asked to moderate a few “Hangouts on Air” backstage. In a nutshell, Hangouts on Air essentially enable you to broadcast a live hangout conversation with multiple participants on Google+, and then automatically transform the live stream into a YouTube video.
For all the advertising and ecommerce startups out there: the Consumer Commerce Barometer (CCB) is a great way to gain market insights into how consumers interact with the internet as a source of information for purchasing decision. CCB is the result of a global effort by the IAB Europe in partnership with TNS Infratest and Google to quantify the role of online in the consumer journey from research to purchase.
oogle announced the acquisition of LabPixies, developer of widgets and games for social and mobile applications including Facebook, iGoogle, iPhone, Android and more. LabPixies drives over a billion monthly page views and makes some of the most popular gadgets on iGoogle and the Android platform.
Last year, Eric Schmidt has promised to buy a start up a month as Google re-kindles its M&A activities. Aardvark and reMail were the most recent buys and now, several sources report that theIsraeli start-up Catch Media might be next.
A report published today by BDI-Coface lists Intel as the Best company to work for in Israeli high tech. Intel is a veteran in the Israeli high tech scene: Intel Israel was established in 1974 and was the first development center outside the United States.
Two Israeli start ups have been selected as two of the six featured extensions for Google Wave. Google has launched Wave, its real-time communication and sharing tool, at the end of September for only 100,000 beta users, and each of them got eight invites. I was among the lucky ones to get invited, but I …
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