Various departments can now directly purchase apps from start-ups

In a bid to promote start-up companies and to find technology-enabled solutions for various departments, the State government has allowed all departments and agencies to directly place work orders for mobile apps with the start-ups under the Kerala Startup Mission.

It’s pretty well understood that having a high level of employee engagement fuels better levels of service, a more engaging customer experience and better business results.

Gallup research supports this and shows that firms with a highly engaged workforce experience tend to have:

Making big data smaller is the wave of the future. If you aren't already doing it, you are already behind. Computers and software, at the moment, are only as good as their coders and you need human eyes to see the big picture.

Anyone in the tech world knows that there’s currently a lot of fuss surrounding big data, I hate this word. Not only because I have written about it so much but because it isn’t the right terminology. “Big” Nah, more like “infinite” or “raw.”

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Planners can use Concierge EventBot to provide information such as locations, agendas, and speaker bios, and also to conduct simple polls of attendees, all via mobile messaging.

The unhappy customers in most of the cases, never come back to you the moment they are dissatisfied. Customer satisfaction  is not as straightforward as measuring it is to measure revenue streams and visitors for your website, This makes it hard to set up goals.

It is a normal practice with the app developers to go through alpha/beta testing or some other form of testing, before the final app is released to the market. It is a good practice to release the mobile app before a limited number of audiences and not releasing it to the full public, just after the alpha/beta testing of the app.

While there’s a lot of breathless talk about the potential of big data to do just that, Greg Simon, the Executive Director of the White House’s Cancer Moonshot Taskforce, is a skeptic—at least for now.

“What big data?” asked Simon speaking at Fortune’s Brainstorm Health conference in San Diego Wednesday. “We have in the health system, what is basically insider trading. I know something you don’t know. You know something I don’t know. When I need to know what you know, I call you, I email you. You fax me stuff.”

Everyone knows businesses today are grappling with the explosion of data. What’s less well-known is the value of location data and the intelligence that geospatial analysis can provide business decision makers, beyond those that are GIS (geographic information system) professionals.

Location data is already and will continue to be a growing component of all business data.

As more states pass laws legalizing the sale of cannabis, new retail stores are generating revenue. Just like any business, being able to track and monitor sales of individual products - from the popular to the unpopular - is an advantage for any shop owner who wants to improve their bottom line.

That’s where Headset wants to help. The Seattle-based startup just reeled in a $2.5 million round from Hypur Ventures, Salveo Capital, and Poseidon Asset Management for its marijuana retail business intelligence platform.