TECHNOLOGY OF THE FUTURE

Liulishuo raises approximately $100M in Series C funding to extend its lead in building smart AI English teachers BEIJING, July 26, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- On July 26, 2017 Beijing time, Liulishuo, China's leading AI + Education company, announced they have closed an approximately $100 million Series C funding at a press conference in Beijing. This new round of funding was led by China Media Capital ("CMC") and Wu Capital. All of Liulishuo's earlier investors,� including Trustbridge Partners, IDG Capital, GGV Capital, Cherubic Ventures and Hearst Ventures, also participated in this round. � Founded in 2012, after years of data collection, Liulishuo now hosts the world's largest speech bank of Chinese people speaking English and this helped the company to self-develop the world's most advanced automatic assessment engine for spoken and written English. As of July 2017, Liulishuo's flagship mobile app product "Liulishuo" has the most popul

Microchip Technologies: High Risk, Low Reward I must confess that our 21% gain on put options in Microchip Technology Incorporated (MCHP) back in April makes it rather enjoyable strolling down memory lane to write about this company again. In my view, it’s time to return to the well as once again the shares look overvalued and there might very well be some money to be made by buying puts on this name. Those less interested in actively profiting from this move should simply avoid the company at the moment. I’ll go through my logic below, with an eye to trying to make a reasonable forecast for future prices. In sum, the problems that I referenced earlier not only linger, but have gotten somewhat worse in my opinion. Financial Snapshot A few things leap off the page when I conduct a quick review of the financial statements at Microchip. One thing that is immediately apparent is the continued tenuous relationship between revenue and net income. For the most recent period, revenue i

Technology-led innovation in digital health: The law of inverse relationships While researching for my upcoming book, I asked the nationally recognized CIO of a health system what he thought of the market for emerging technologies such as AI, cognitive, blockchain and digital health solutions in healthcare. His response was: The teacher is ready, but the student is not. What he meant was that the technology vendor community is developing innovative solutions at a faster rate than the ability of the healthcare sector to adopt it. It’s no secret that healthcare IT is a couple of steps behind other sectors such as banking and retailing. I have been keenly noting the seeming contrasts in the outlook for healthcare IT when I speak with healthcare industry executives and technology providers. Here are some examples: Healthcare policy uncertainty is taking a toll on discretionary spending in IT. However, VC funding for digital health funding has been on a tear this year. While VC-

SDN, NFV & Network Virtualization Technology Advances and Insights 2016 – 2030 – Opportunities, Challenges, Strategies & Forecasts  MarketResearchReports.Biz/SDN, NFV & Network Virtualization Ecosystem SDN and NFV investments will grow at a CAGR of 46% between 2016 and 2020, eventually accounting for over $18 Billion in revenue by the end of 2020 Recent research report, technology insights and forecast on “The ​SDN, NFV & Network Virtualization Ecosystem: 2016 – 2030 – Opportunities, Challenges, Strategies & Forecasts“​ While the advantages of SDN (Software Defined Networking) and network virtualization are well known in the enterprise IT and data center world, both technologies also bring a host of benefits to the telecommunications service provider community. Not only can these technologies help address the explosive capacity demand of mobile traffic, but they can also reduce the CapEx and OpEx burden faced by service providers to handle this demand by dimi

Affiliate vs. Influencer Marketing: Which Should Your Company Use? Free Webinar | August 16th Find out how to optimize your website to give your customers experiences that will have the biggest ROI for your business. Register Now » Too many times, we see things as one thing against another -- chocolate or vanilla, yin or yang, paid or organic -- as if the two entities cannot hope to coexist. The same goes for affiliate marketing and influencer marketing, and unfortunately for us, digital marketing agencies get their clients caught up in an endless battle of which vehicle is better. But they’re having the wrong discussion. They should ask which type of marketing is best suited for the organization’s current goals. Affiliate and influencer marketing each have a time and place. Your responsibility is to figure out where your company is today and how to get where you want to go tomorrow. It all starts with a broader understanding of your options and opportunities. Related: Ho