Category: Startups
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Economic Agents
AI Agents negotiating and trading with each other including payment is rapidly becoming a reality. But the mainstream AIs have not learnt about it yet…. we asked Claude from Anthropic… which is normally on point. #ai conversations #claude #negotation #payment The concept of AI agents autonomously negotiating and paying each…
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Tech Trends 2024
CB Insights has released their latest forecasts rollup. They explore the concept of AI mind reading. For more details, visit: https://www.cbinsights.com/reports/CB-Insights_Tech-Trends-2024.pdf.
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The centre of the tech startup universe is moving from the USA to Asia
A string of data and opinions have been released in recent days that support the view that the global tech startup ecosystem centre is shifting towards Asia and Australasia – where population growth and performance are increasingly leading the world. CrunchBase says US Regional VC investments in tech are in…
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The future of tech is outside Silicon Valley
Peter Thiel – known for his investments in Paypal, Facebook, AirBnB and Palantir – spoke in Saudi Arabia about his strong views on the topic of ‘the future of tech’ this week. He believes tech will increasingly be created outside the US and California has lost their monopoly. This reinforces the views…
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The Way Forward for Innovation in Australia
Old innovation ecosystem models are broken, it is time to realise the open models based around startups (particularly scalable global product based tech startups) are the key to our future. The above diagram by StartupCommons summarises the change in focus at a macro level, we also need to look at…
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Blockchain hot spots
As blockchain outstrips bitcoin in fintech what are the hot areas? CB Insights has some insightful views, looks a bit like Google Trends…
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Software Entrepreneurs Must Go Mobile-First Or Die
Mobile has long been the catch cry for startup and enterprise Business Technology experts alike. This article originally from TechCrunch gives a very well prioritised list of how and why with examples.
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Microsoft Has Just Launched Its First Android Smartphone, The Nokia X2
This new MS CEO is unlike any other, after Office on iPad and Salesforce.com now there is this droid phone, talk about changing strategy …
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What We Do
For some time now the question ‘What do you do?’ has been a little bit of a long answer here at Cooper & Co. We have a diverse range of interests but there are key underpinning motives, values and desires about improving our world with a mix of commercial and…
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SydStart by Cooper & Co.
Cooper & Co are proud to be the founding and long term sponsors of the largest professional tech startup event in Australia – SydStart. This event is something we support because we want to grow the startup ecosystem in Australia and it is undergoing a dramatic growth phase, due in no…