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Speech recognition anyone? AT&T; opens up Watson API

gigaom.com

AT&T opens up Watson API. Ma Bell has taken the locks off of its Watson speech application programming interfaces (APIs), allowing any developer to access them. For the remainder of 2012, AT&T will give free and unlimited access to the Watson APIs to any developer paying AT&T’s $99 annual registration dues.

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Turning the Camera on Chris Dixon

Both Sides of the Table

Lastly, he touched on the distrust of equity following the bubble in 2000, and that, particularly on the East Coast, people need to see good exits and good exits that reward employees. He added that current Internet trends favor NYC, given the reliance on creativity, design, and the importance of consumers – all areas in which NYC excels.

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Bottoms Up Everyone: A New Economic Revolution Is Upon Us

YoungUpstarts

As a percentage of total US employment, proprietors have steadily increased every year since 2000. The US labor force gained over 10 million more working proprietors between 2000 and 2012—with over 21% of working Americans receiving at least part of their income through self-employment.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

It launched open API’s and created a platform whereby third-party developers could come build any app they wanted and Facebook didn’t even want (yet) to take any money from them to do so. In April of 2000 there were fears that the AOL / Time Warner merger would create a monopoly on the Internet.

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Girls Who Code: Crashing the “Brogram”

ReadWriteStart

Small wonder that women made up just 21% of all programmers in 2010, off from 24% in 2000. Small wonder that women made up just 21% of all programmers in 2010, off from 24% in 2000. And where a company called Sqoot holds an API hackathon with a list of “great perks” that includes massages, a live DJ and “Women: Need another beer?

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Robotics (RPA) Brings New Rules to Process Automation

Austin Startup

We got our start with process automation in the 2000’s, and we never stopped looking for ways to help our clients get to their business outcomes faster. In the 2000’s, a new wave of software tried to solve business process automation. BP3 has been helping our clients find a faster way to do things since 2007.

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The Final Edition

thebarefootvc

I had seen the beginning of this evolution during the Internet boom…my first venture investment, in 2000, was in a company called Yodlee, which later went on to IPO and was eventually bought by Envestnet.