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The 2020 data and AI landscape

The audio problem Learn how new cloud-based API solutions are solving imperfect, frustrating audio in video conferences. Access here When COVID hit the world a few months ago, an extended period of gloom seemed all but inevitable. Yet many companies in the data ecosystem have not just survived but in …

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11 Things You Should Never Buy Without a Coupon

Stocked House Studio / Shutterstock.com I discovered coupons in the 1980s, when I was a college student working nights and weekends as a grocery-store cashier. Extreme couponing wasn’t a thing yet, at least not at our store — no one wheeled multiple carts up to my register and ended up …

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Growing From Mistakes Made: How FortyTwo Became S’pore’s Largest Online Furniture Retailer

FortyTwo is the largest online furniture retailer in Singapore, boasts co-founder Naveed Lee. When the 42-year-old worked as a retail executive in a furniture showroom back in 1998, he noted the low efficiency of the traditional furniture business, which in turn caused high mark-ups in product prices. In 2002, he …

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