Evangelos Avramakis

Strategy & transformation development with focus on digitalization, marketing & sales, omni-channel-management, digital business models and ecosystems

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Make Your Communication Technology Work for Customers
mit.edu - Tomas Gorny. Tomas Gorny is CEO of Nextiva.
In 2019, businesses will pour a massive $1.5 trillion of their IT spend on “communications services” technologies, Gartner predicts. Across all kinds …
Chatbots
How Are Virtual Digital Assistants And Online Chatbots Used Today?
linkedin.com
Since chatbots have proven enormously successful (achieving a click-through rate of up to 60%), bots are becoming ubiquitous. Here are a few examples …
Technology
Microsoft teams up with global health partners to spot rare diseases faster using new technology
geekwire.com - James Thorne
Patients with a rare disease often face a long and painful road to an accurate diagnosis. The process takes five years on average after they first …
Samsung
Samsung’s new Galaxy Watch Active measures blood pressure
The Verge - Ashley Carman
As well as heart rate Samsung officially announced multiple wearables today, including its newest smartwatch, the Galaxy Active, which it says is designed to make “pursuing wellness goals more convenient,
Technology
These hyper-efficient solar panels could actually live on your roof soon
TechCrunch - Devin Coldewey
The clean energy boffins in their labs are always upping the theoretical limit on how much power you can get out of sunshine, but us plebes actually installing solar cells are stuck with years-old tech
Social Media
It's Time For Social Media to Change the World (Again) |
Inc Magazine - By Dave Kerpen
In the summer of 2007, soon after a college intern convinced me to join Facebook, I remember thinking, "This is going to change everything. This is going to change the world." Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn,
Machine Learning
Statistician raises red flag about reliability of machine learning techniques
Digital Trends
Machine learning is everywhere in science and technology: powering facial recognition, picking your recommendations on Netflix, and controlling …
Stanford University
10 AI influencers you should be following on Twitter
siliconrepublic.com - by Jenny Darmody
Want to expand your knowledge of the AI world? Make sure you’re following these industry leaders on Twitter. The world of AI and robotics is evolving …
We should treat algorithms like prescription drugs
Quartz - By Andy Coravos, Irene Chen, Ankit Gordhandas & Ariel Dora Stern
It’s one thing when companies use algorithms to personalize ads for shoes or tag you in a Facebook photo—it’s quite another when algorithms get to decide whether to release you on bail or send you to While
Novo Nordisk
Novo Nordisk's soon-to-be-released insulin pens will connect to Glooko's diasend platform
mobihealthnews.com
This morning diabetes data management company Glooko announced that two soon-to-be released Novo Nordisk connected insulin pens will now be connected …
Technology
3 ways that big data reveals what you really like to watch, read and listen to
theconversation.com - Anjana Susarla
Anyone who’s watched “Bridget Jones’s Diary” knows one of her New Year’s resolutions is “Not go out every night but stay in and read books and listen …
Royole
TCL is working on a foldable phone that bends into a smartwatch
CNET - by Shara Tibken
It's one of a family of foldable devices in development with the Chinese company, best known for budget televisions.
Nestlé
The Illusion of Choice in Consumer Brands
visualcapitalist.com
Explore the full-size version of the above graphic in all its glory. If today’s infographic looks familiar, that’s because it originates from a …
FinTech
A digital bank that's raised over $100 million will pay you to shop at do-good businesses like Apple and Nike
Business Insider - Madeline Shi
Aspiration, an online bank founded on the idea that customers should pay what they think is fair, is rolling out a new offering that'll pay you to shop at do-good companies. The new product, called the
Artificial Intelligence
This AI is so good at writing its creators won’t release it
New York Post - By Nick Whigham
A group of scientists previously backed by Elon Musk have designed a predictive text machine that is so eerily good its creators are worried about …
Science
'AntBot' Uses Celestial Navigation Instead of GPS
howstuffworks.com - Jesslyn Shields
Your sensory experience of the world is very different from that of an ant. Take Cataglyphis desert ants, living in the scorching Sahara of northern …
Profit
The Top Most Profitable Industries And Their Impact On Low-Income People
Forbes - Erik Sherman
For a brief moment, I was sympathetic toward Amazon. The outrage over the zero percent tax bill—well, to be accurate, a negative 1% rate as the company was due a refund—that the Institute on Taxation Economic
Science
Bosses are spying on employees with work-provided fitness trackers
futurism.com - Dan Robitzski
Panopticon If your workplace gives you a fitness tracker, there’s a chance your boss can personally sift through the data it provides. That means that …
Labor Economics
This Is the Fastest-Growing Six-Figure Job in America — and it Doesn't Require a Degree
Money - Prachi Bhardwaj
Apps aren’t going away anytime soon — and neither are the jobs creating them. Application developers — the people responsible for developing, building, and updating computer and mobile apps — make a median
Technology
Facebook AI chief: We want to make smart assistants that have 'common sense'
CNET - by Marrian Zhou
Even a lot of humans don't have that.
Autos
Audi is advancing the tech that teaches cars to talk to traffic lights
Digital Trends - Ronan Glon
Previous Next 1 of 3 Audi is teaching its cars the language of traffic lights. The German company began offering traffic light information technology …
News (China)
US Report: China’s Biotech Industry Poses Threat to US National Security
theepochtimes.com - Frank Fang
Clinical and genetic data of U.S. citizens obtained by Chinese biotechnology companies through their partnerships with U.S. institutions could pose …
Digital Health
In-Depth: Looking back at 10 years of digital health coverage
mobihealthnews.com
In 2009, the iPhone was a year and a half old. The iPad was just a rumor. The Apple Watch wasn’t even that. There was no such thing as a Fitbit. CMS …
Artificial Intelligence
Chinese company leaves Muslim-tracking facial recognition database exposed online
ZDNet - Catalin Cimpanu
Researcher finds one of the databases used to track Uyghur Muslim population in Xinjiang. One of the facial recognition databases that the Chinese …
Electric Vehicles
Oil companies and utilities are buying up all the electric car charging startups
Quartz - By Michael J. Coren
For decades, oil and gas companies and utilities dismissed electric cars. Now, the old petroleum and power giants are muscling into the driver’s seat of the “new fuels” industry. It’s projected to be big
Machine Learning
We analyzed 16,625 papers to figure out where AI is headed next
MIT Technology Review - by Karen Hao
Our study of 25 years of artificial-intelligence research suggests the era of deep learning may come to an end. Almost everything you hear about …
Sustainability
Is it time to rethink green building (and other) standards?
treehugger.com - Lloyd Alter
Standards are supposed to make things easier and more consistent, but they keep proliferating. Ever since I first got an Apple computer ten years ago, …
Technology
Audi's in-car Information system helps drivers avoid red lights
Popular Science - By Dan Carney
It will also tell you how long before they turn green. Traffic lights are one of the biggest frustrations of commuting, as drivers stress over whether the upcoming traffic light will turn red before they
CES
Facebook’s chief AI scientist: Deep learning may need a new programming language
VentureBeat - Khari Johnson
Deep learning may need a new programming language that’s more flexible and easier to work with than Python, Facebook AI Research director Yann LeCun said today. It’s not yet clear if such a language is
Social Media
Social Media Analytics Is A Disaster: Why Can't We Fix It?
Forbes - Kalev Leetaru
It is a truly sobering thought that the totality of our understanding of social media and the insights we draw from it are based on data, algorithms and analytics platforms we know absolutely nothing Social

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Make Your Communication Technology Work for Customers

How Are Virtual Digital Assistants And Online Chatbots Used Today?

Microsoft teams up with global health partners to spot rare diseases faster using new technology

Samsung’s new Galaxy Watch Active measures blood pressure

These hyper-efficient solar panels could actually live on your roof soon

It's Time For Social Media to Change the World (Again) |

Statistician raises red flag about reliability of machine learning techniques

10 AI influencers you should be following on Twitter

We should treat algorithms like prescription drugs

Novo Nordisk's soon-to-be-released insulin pens will connect to Glooko's diasend platform

3 ways that big data reveals what you really like to watch, read and listen to

TCL is working on a foldable phone that bends into a smartwatch

The Illusion of Choice in Consumer Brands

A digital bank that's raised over $100 million will pay you to shop at do-good businesses like Apple and Nike

This AI is so good at writing its creators won’t release it

'AntBot' Uses Celestial Navigation Instead of GPS

The Top Most Profitable Industries And Their Impact On Low-Income People

Bosses are spying on employees with work-provided fitness trackers

This Is the Fastest-Growing Six-Figure Job in America — and it Doesn't Require a Degree

Facebook AI chief: We want to make smart assistants that have 'common sense'

Audi is advancing the tech that teaches cars to talk to traffic lights

US Report: China’s Biotech Industry Poses Threat to US National Security

In-Depth: Looking back at 10 years of digital health coverage

Chinese company leaves Muslim-tracking facial recognition database exposed online

Oil companies and utilities are buying up all the electric car charging startups

We analyzed 16,625 papers to figure out where AI is headed next

Is it time to rethink green building (and other) standards?

Audi's in-car Information system helps drivers avoid red lights

Facebook’s chief AI scientist: Deep learning may need a new programming language

Social Media Analytics Is A Disaster: Why Can't We Fix It?