ArtificiaI Intelligence (AI)

Working life has changed as we know it. The pandemic has acted as a catalyst for businesses adopting a hybrid working model, with research undertaken by SWZD revealing that 25% of workforces are continuing to work from home. This has, however, allowed successful cyberattacks to increase as businesses adapt and transition to the new normal.

Armonk, NY USA., 11 Jan 2022 – IBM announced it has acquired Envizi, a data and analytics software provider for environmental performance management.

Wilmington, Del., USA – Often considered a “solution for everything,” artificial intelligence (AI) will expand its impact as the video entertainment industry realiSes its benefits to a variety of applications. A recent white paper commissioned by InterDigital, Inc. and written by market research firm Futuresource Consulting examines the industry influence of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) on applications across the video supply chain.

London, UK. 12^th January 2022 – UK company TurinTech, has announced its greener AI platform, evoML, which is said to reduce AI’s carbon emissions by 50%. The company aims to enable businesses to build efficient and scalable artificial intelligence (AI) by automating the whole data science lifecycle.

Armonk, NY USA. – IBM Watson Advertising announced the availability of data from The Weather Company, an IBM Business, on AWS Data Exchange, an Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform. The AWS Data Exchange allows businesses to easily find and subscribe to third-party data in the cloud.

London, UK. 6th January 2022 – ManageEngine, the enterprise IT management division of Zoho Corporation, gives its top five predictions for 2022, covering contextual analytics, cybersecurity mesh, and zero-touch service management.

INFINIQ, an artificial intelligence (AI) and autonomous driving data service company, unveiled its autonomous driving and retail innovation technology at CES 2022, the influential tech event, to an incredible response from 180,000+ attendees from Jan. 5-7, 2022.

Tinylogics has launched FOCI 2, its second generation productivity wearable tool. It is an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered productivity tool with five types of distraction alerts, advanced productivity tracking, and four levels of focus skills training. It was funded in an hour, and reportedly has been trending #1 of all Kickstarter projects.

Boston – Esme Learning Solutions, a global provider of online professional development has announced a further $15 million (€13.25 million) in new funding to support the edtech company’s rapid global expansion.

Beijing. 30 Dec 2021- SENSORO, an IoT and artificial intelligence unicorn company from China, announced the release of a new ESG solution brand named “SENSORO SOLUTION”. The program aims at climate monitoring, ecological protection, livelihood improvement, animal welfare, garbage classification and other applications.

Madrid. 30 December 2021 – Microsoft and Telefonica Tech strengthen their strategic alliance to offer specific confidential hybrid cloud solutions to public administrations and companies in regulated sectors, with a focus on offering monitoring and encryption services to guarantee the security and privacy of their data in Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Dynamics 365.

San Jose, Calif. – Stratio, Inc., a company that develops infrared technologies to enhance public safety, announced their work with South Korea’s National IT Industry Promotion Agency (NIPA). Together they have created an app that detects design infringements.

Hanoi, Vietnam. 29 Dec 2021 – Southeast Asia Commercial Joint Stock Bank has chosen Google Cloud as its primary cloud provider to enhance the service quality and customer experiences delivered on its SeAMobile/SeANet digital banking platform.

Boca Raton, Fla. 28 Dec 2021 – HealthWorksAI, a Healthcare analytics company, announces the launch of the 2nd generation of their xAI program. It’s an advanced analytical approach that collects and processes data, generating in-depth market analysis which standard models do not uncover.

San Francisco. 27 Dec 2021- Focal Systems, the industry provider of retail automation, closed a $25.8m (€22.78m) Series B financing round, led by Point72 Ventures, and joined by existing investors Costanoa, Zetta, and Zebra Technologies, among others.

Madrid, 23 Dec 2021 – Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) and Accenture have signed a collaborative agreement that is focused on accelerating digital transformation and applying analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) to drive faster decision-making and enhance the customer service experience.

Stockholm, Sweden – Quickchannel, a provider of online streaming and recording services, has announced its upcoming work with Scriptix, the go-to partner in speech-to-text customisation techniques.

You don’t have to look far in the media to find experts predicting that 2022 will be the year of automation. As the technology skills crisis continues and the post-pandemic ‘great resignation’ prompts burnt out IT professionals to consider career alternatives it is clear that if people aren’t available to plug the gaps, automation must be at least part of the solution.

There are two sides to the overall IT experience. On the one side, many consumers and employees feel burdened by submitting tickets or calling a helpline if and when there is a technical problem. While on the other side, IT staff that field those requests are reliant on data, which is manually collected, incomplete, or both, which ultimately makes their job harder.

Amaro, Italy – Eurotech, an enabler of the Internet of Things (IoT) in mission-critical applications, and WaterView, a company specialised in computer vision and AI for meteorology, hydrology, and environmental modeling, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for a strategic partnership to enable real-time weather condition monitoring applications.

Seattle – With significant growth projected in the global IoT market over the next 6 years, the need to subsequently secure devices at the edge from attacks, safe and secure through the manufacturing process, and managed securely throughout the life of the product will follow a similar trajectory, predict experts at Sequitur Labs.

London, UK. 15 December 2021 – Packet capture authority, Endace, and next-generation cybersecurity analytics company LinkShadow, announced that LinkShadow has joined Endace’s Fusion Partner program. The partnership will provide enterprises with enhanced SOC team productivity, streamlined investigation workflows, and reduced threat exposure.

Lisbon. Portugal and San Mateo. Calif. 14th December 2021 – Feedzai, the RiskOps platform, announced that it has experienced a 125% year-over-year growth in new Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) in Q3. Large multi-year enterprise deals closed in the US, EMEA, APAC, and LATAM with 100% year-to-date growth in new logos.

Palo Alto, Calif. December 13, 2021 – Lynx MD, the healthcare AI platform for real world clinical and operational data collaboration, announced it has raised $12 million (€10.64 million) in seed financing.

According to Gartner, the tech trend of 2021 is hyperautomation a business approach of automating as many processes as possible. Gartner predicts that, by 2024, hyperautomation will help organisations reduce operational costs by 30%. Successful execution of hyperautomation promises increased efficiency and reduced costs, but what are the barriers to pulling it off? Here Johan Jonzon, CMO and co-founder of edge analytics and integration, Crosser, explores.

Barcelona, Spain, December 9th 2021—Fintech innovator fonYou announces that it has secured €7 Million in growth funding from Banco Santander‘s Smart Fund, in a financing deal that will support fonYou’s future technology development and market expansion as it rolls out its innovative fintech solutions across key regions including Latin America and Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Tallinn, Estonia. 7th December 2021 –  Estonian Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications, announced that Burokratt, the public service AI-based virtual assistant, will officially go live in 2022 following on from its successful beta testing in 2021.