SocialFlow, creator of the leading social platform for media companies, now delivers more than 80% of the social content created by the world’s top 150 media companies. Clients use the SocialFlow platform to publish content to the major social networks in 56 languages, reaching more than a billion users in every country on the planet. This provides SocialFlow with a unique perspective about the real-time consumption of media content on social networks.
Jim Anderson – SocialFlow CEO
Many leading news organizations now turn to SocialFlow CEO Jim Anderson for his informed insight and expertise in the world of social media. Mr. Anderson has been a recent guest on networks including MSNBC, Bloomberg News, Al Jazeera America, Yahoo! Finance, and Fox Business. He has covered a range of topics including the U.S. presidential election; the use of social media in responses to natural disasters; social media’s role at the Consumer Electronics Show; and the business prospects of different social networks. Click here to see the video clips.
Mr. Anderson will host and speak at the first annual SocialFlow user conference on February 24that New York’s New World Stages. Kara Swisher, Re/Code Co-Executive Editor and Co-Founder and Ralph Rivera, BBC Director of Digital top a bill of exceptional speakers, case studies and team presentations. Click here for information and to request tickets.

Jim Anderson joined SocialFlow as CEO in 2013. Hehas spent nearly a decade on the cutting edge of social media, and over that time has helped brands and marketers effectively use technology to power their social media efforts. Prior to SocialFlow, Jim was Chief Operating Officer of Vitrue, where he was instrumental in building the team, the products, and the customer relationships that ultimately led to the company’s acquisition by Oracle for over $300M. At Oracle, Jim served as Vice President of Products for social marketing. Prior to Vitrue, Jim spent nearly a decade at EarthLink/MindSpring, the consumer Internet Service Provider where he helped create consumer adoption of the Internet starting in the mid-1990s.

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The team behind JIBO also realized the importance of expression. JIBO uses a more simple design: one eye-like shape looks out from the circular top of the object. It moves and changes as JIBO communicates.

JIBO’s VP of Design, Blade Kotelly, explains that the team focused on creating “core expressive traits” and deciding on movements that “express ideas that refer to human expression.” He explains more in an email:

When Jibo wants to indicate that something amuses him, he can smile – when you smile your cheek pushes up below your eye – and the body can animate accordingly. If we wanted to express thinking, we can slide the eye over to a corner of the screen and move the body – just like a human would do. This way, the user can quickly, and naturally, understand what the robot is trying to convey emotionally.

The team also focused on speech patterns, but finding the right wording doesn’t make the machine seem more human—it comes down to more subtle features than that. As Kotelly explains, expressiveness can also be found in non-verbal sounds, something the team calls “semi-speech.”

“The design team works to determine the right balance of speech and semi-speech at every part of the dialog, in order to create a balance that feels both natural and incredibly special for every Jibo owner,” wrote Kotelly.

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Partnership will further enhance breakthrough artificial intelligence and machine learning development for cybersecurity applications.

Irvine, California, Feb. 16, 2016 – Cylance, the company that is revolutionizing cybersecurity with products and services that use artificial intelligence to proactively prevent advanced persistent threats and malware, today announced a strategic partnership with In-Q-Tel (IQT). IQT is the investment organization that identifies innovative technology solutions to support the missions of the U.S. Intelligence Community. The agreement with IQT supports further development of Cylance’s artificial intelligence and machine-learning technology for cybersecurity applications.

Cylance and its next-generation endpoint threat prevention product, CylancePROTECT®, uses a radically different technological approach to cybersecurity that employs artificial intelligence to determine what is safe and what is not by analyzing the DNA of files before they execute. Cylance integrates a deep understanding of hackers and attack vectors with the most sophisticated artificial intelligence and algorithmic science to neutralize virtually all malicious files before they can do harm. This approach prevents advanced persistent threats and malware from ever executing, effectively redefining the standard of endpoint security.

“Cylance is changing the fundamentals of how cyberattacks are identified and prevented,” said Peter Kuper, Partner on IQT’s Investments team. “Our partnership with Cylance is intended to further enhance how artificial intelligence and related technologies prevent malware and advanced threats from ever executing. Reducing the risks posed by cyberthreats is critical in supporting the missions of our government customers.”

“This strategic partnership with In-Q-Tel will better secure our government and our nation from cyberattacks, which are escalating in number and sophistication,” added Stuart McClure, president and CEO of Cylance.

About In-Q-Tel

In-Q-Tel is the not-for-profit, strategic investor that works to identify, adapt, and deliver innovative technology solutions to support the missions of the U.S. Intelligence Community. Launched in 1999 as a private, independent organization, IQT’s mission is to identify and partner with companies developing cutting- edge technologies that serve the national security interests of the United States. For more information, visit http://www.iqt.org.

NanoSteel, a company with roots in the Idaho National Laboratory, has been on a roll lately. It has been named to the Cleantech Group’s Top 100 list for the third consecutive year. The list recognizes the top 100 private companies in clean technology and is collated by combining proprietary Cleantech Group research data with over 11,000 nominations and specific input from an expert panel. And in the past week, its Advanced High-Strength Steel has been written up in auto industry publications.

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Sky Ireland is launching its biggest ever advertising campaign in 27 years to promote its new premium Sky Q offering to subscribers.

The creative for the campaign was managed by the London agency Brothers and Sisters while MediaCom Ireland will manage the media and planning.

The campaign will be delivered across multiple media channels including TV, outdoor, cinema and print, as well as detailed use of digital and social channels.

One tool being utilised is the brand new Celtra formats, meaning the ad swells initially when it appears on mobile and tablet screens to maximise cut through and ensure standout.

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Startups like Celtra have hit the market with new creative automation dashboards, and they emphasize that they’re tool providers, not competition for creative agencies. But those tools are being used by agencies that are slowly encroaching into creative territory.

Mindshare and Opera Mediaworks, for instance, both use Celtra as an ad development tool and a creative-tech hybrid offering for brands.

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Dell is developing what it call “the most secure PCs in the industry” with a new feature which checks the BIOS of a PC against a reference image of that BIOS stored with Dell offsite.

Dell has also added a new artificial intelligence and machine learning protection product it from Cylance. According to Dell, its newest BIOS verification function uses a cloud server to test the BIOS image on a PC, to verify that those computers have not been compromised. Malware that hacks into a PC’s BIOS is notorious for being impossible to remove, and has even been used by government intelligence agencies to compromise machines.

Resilient Systems, the industry standard solution for incident response (IR), announced an expansion of its investment in Europe with the appointment of Arne Jacobsen as German Country Manager, focused on driving additional revenue in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Resilient is experiencing rapid global growth of more than 350 percent annually, as organisations realise the importance of having a proven Incident Response Platform (IRP). Resilient enables security teams to respond to security incidents faster and more intelligently.

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Specialist in IT operation and security analytics Prelert, has turned its expertise on the problem and is launching a new Retail Order Analytics solution. It’s aimed at helping online and multichannel retailers to identify technical and operational issues as they’re happening in order to stem losses and protect revenue streams.

Built using unsupervised machine learning technology, Prelert’s solution automates data analysis and detects the periodic nature of daily and weekly order cycles. It adapts to changing data patterns that may result over time due to factors like a new product becoming available or current events that cause a spike in product interest.

“A significant drop in the number of orders taken by an e-commerce site during a particular day might be obvious in retrospect, but can be very difficult to catch in near real time without automated machine learning. Static thresholds and even moving averages can’t reliably identify issues,” says Mark Jaffe, CEO of Prelert. “Our anomaly detection algorithms have been proven to work and provide significant ROI within hundreds of progressive IT organisations around the globe. We can provide the same value now for retail and e-commerce organisations, with a solution tailored specifically for them”.

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From the Jakarta Post, February 4, 2016

Cylance, the company that is revolutionizing cybersecurity through the use of artificial intelligence to proactively prevent advanced persistent threats and malware, today announced that it has been positioned the furthest for completeness of vision in the Visionaries Quadrant of the latest Gartner Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms (EPP).

Gartner uses “market understanding” as one of the evaluation criteria in positioning an endpoint protection platform vendor’s completeness of vision along with offering (product) strategy, innovation and geographic strategy.

“We believe being positioned the furthest for completeness of vision in the Visionaries Quadrant is a powerful validation of our vision of using artificial intelligence and machine learning to level the playing field for organizations struggling with the constant influx of zero-day malware,” said Cylance Founder and CEO Stuart McClure. “We’re enthusiastic about equipping more organizations with our new breed of preventive technology that can stop malware and attacks before they ever execute—an ability that security professionals and C-suite executives in our market know to be absolutely critical.”

For a copy of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms, click here.