Segmint Announces Strategic Partnership With IBM To Enhance Financial Institutions Data
Segmint today announced a strategic partnership with IBM to integrate Segmint’s Key Lifestyle Indicator® (KLI®) technology with two IBM financial services solutions: Customer Insights for Banking (CIB) and Customer Insights for Wealth Management (CIWM). CIB and CIWM leverage predictive analytics, machine learning, deep learning and Watson technology to create actionable insights that allow financial institutions to deepen
Ticketmaster Will Soon Admit You To Events Using Audio Data Transmitted From Your Phone
Ticketmaster will soon be able to admit you to live events and track your movement using nothing more than a discrete digital audio broadcast from your smartphone. The ticketing giant has teamed up with Lisnr, a data-over-audio company that uses an ultrasonic sound technology it calls “smart tones” to transmit information between devices. There are myriad
Money In Cleveland Tech-Startup Community Begins To Circulate: Tech Czar Talk
Startup money in Cleveland is finally beginning to circulate. A new financial-technology (fintech) startup is about to make a national “splash.” Tech powerhouse Park Place Technologies strengthens its European operations with an acquisition. And JumpStart continues to power the entrepreneurial ecosystem with a new fund. Splash Some Cash. Startups are rarely overnight successes. There are
Ohio Is Pumping Out Startups As If They Were Growing On Buckeyes
Ohio is a state bursting with startups, so much so that it seems a new accelerator is popping up almost monthly in the Buckeye State. Google “Ohio accelerator” now and you’ll find at least two new accelerators to come out of Ohio in the past two months alone. That’s not even counting some of the more-legacy
Midtown Neighborhood Drives Cleveland To The Head Of The High-Tech Class
Cleveland is ranked 12th out of the nation’s Top 20 cities when it comes to year over year growth in tech jobs, according to ZipRecruiter.com. One neighborhood in particular is playing a leading role in that growth. Midtown, once full of blight, is coming back to life in a big way. The neighborhood, which sits
Flexibility And Trust Go Hand-In-Hand At Top Northeast Ohio Employers: Top Workplaces 2017
Flexible work hours made it feasible for Alissa Tyminski and her husband to grow both their family and their menagerie of pets. A few years ago, Tyminski was verging on burnt out between her job as a veterinary technician at an emergency clinic and a new baby at home. Then a former colleague told her
Cleveland Rocks: No ‘Mistake’ About It
Once considered the “mistake by the lake,” Cleveland is getting the last laugh. After a banner year in 2016 — playing host to the Republican National Convention and winning an NBA championship — the city is beaming with pride, and residents are eager to get the word out about everything the “CLE” has to offer.
Jaguar Land Rover, Lisnr Team Up To Personalize Cars Using Sound
Using sound to transmit data might sound like science fiction, but it could soon come to a Jaguar Land Rover product at a dealership in your area. Jaguar Land Rover’s tech incubator now includes Lisnr, a company devoted to using what it calls Smart Tones to transmit data using sounds that are outside the human
Software Firm CEO Says Startups Take Time To Make An Impact
It takes just a few years to turn a startup into a firm that can be acquired quickly. But if your goal is to have a large impact on the world, expect it to take at least 10 years. “It took Microsoft nine years to get to $100 million in sales. … Oracle took 10
Revenue Conduit, Blu-Board Are Seeking Startup Spotlight: Tech Czar Talk
There are two new Cleveland startups that are changing the entrepreneurial landscape in Northeast Ohio. Cleveland-based Revenue Conduit and Blu-Board are crafting new platforms that are disrupting markets globally. CLE Money Maker. Recent news regarding national retailers tends to be bleak. Sears and Kmart are hanging on for dear life. Things are not any better
Crain’s Cleveland Business Who’s Who In Northeast Ohio
From CEOs and politicians to philanthropists and entrepreneurs, Crain’s Who’s Who list is just a snapshot of those making an impact on Northeast Ohio. There were no specific criteria used, but our editorial team huddled and determined which leaders we thought every person doing business in the region should know. Special consideration was given to
Speeding Prescription Process Brings Success To CoverMyMeds
After Columbus health-care technology company CoverMyMeds became the first local startup to be bought for $1 billion, one question kept recurring: How did they do it? CEO Matt Scantland said the answer really isn’t all that complex. “We have a simple formula for success,” he said recently at the company’s Miranova offices. “Start with a