Predictive analytics firm InsideSales is adding more former Salesforce executives to its leadership roster.
The Provo, Utah-based startup on Friday named Dean Robison, a 13-year Salesforce veteran, as the new SVP of customer success, where he'll head up customer support and account management.
Avanish Sahai is joining InsideSales as the SVP of channels and alliances. He comes to InsideSales by way of DemandBase, but his roots stretch back to Oracle and Salesforce, where for the latter he played a key role in building the AppExchange marketplace.
Robison and Sahai join an executive team already stacked with fomer Salesforce employees. Jim Steele, former chief customer officer at Salesforce, joined InsideSales in January as its new president of worldwide sales and chief customer officer. David Rudnitsky and Lindsey Armstrong, also from Salesforce, joined InsideSales in March.
The hiring spree caps off an eventful few months for InsideSales. The company closed a $60 million series D round back in March led by Salesforce Ventures, and just last week announced the acquisition of fellow sales analytics provider C9 Inc.
The deal gave InsideSales access to C9's forecasting and pipeline tools, which will broaden its reach across sales teams and bolster its efforts in enterprise expansion. InsideSales has largely targeted its services toward the top of the sales funnel, marketing its technology as an aid to sales team when contacting leads and closing deals.
But C9's temporal database is geared toward enterprise sales teams that go companies and sell products in the field, or in sales speak, the bottom of the sales funnel.
San Mateo, Calif-based C9 also gave InsideSales its first physical presence in Silicon Valley, as well as a bevy of enterprise clients including LinkedIn, ZenDesk and Yahoo. Those two purchase perks should not be understated, especially as competition in the predictive analytics space heats up, with everyone from legacy software vendors to big data startups gunning for a piece of the action.
My T-Mobile SIM card finds its way back into the iPhone 6 Plus more than ever due to my pleasure using the Apple Watch Sport edition. There have been many reports of scratches on the sides (bezel) and on the glass display when bumping or using the Apple Watch in various situations.
Speck Products developed the CandyShell Fit for the Apple Watch to provide full bezel protection. I've been using it for more than a week while out running, working in the yard, and surveying ships and my Apple Watch remains flawless today.
The CandyShell Fit is availble for just $29.95, which is a fair price to protect a very expensive wearable device. Currently only the black/slate grey model is available, but Speck Products will soon have white, red, and blue models to match the Apple Watch Sport bands. The black and grey one looks fine with my blue Sport band, as you can see in my product gallery below.
The product is fairly simple with a dual-layered design made of thermoplastic urethane (TPU) that includes an inner layer that fits against your Apple Watch with an outer hard glossy different color piece on top. The sides of the cover add 2mm to the width. The raised bezel offers side protection while adding 1.5mm to the top for some display protection as well. There is no screen protector on the cover.
There are openings on the left for the speaker and mic with an opening on the right for the digital crown. A raised button covers the right side button, making it fully usable when the CandyShell Fit is in place.
To install the CandyShell Fit, you simply place the right side over the digital crown, the opening fully circles the digital crown, and side button and then snap the left side down and into place. The CandyShell Fit remains securely in place, even when bumped. I intentionally bumped mine a few times to test it out and it performed well at protecting my Apple Watch and staying in position.
The CandyShell Fit 42mm model weighs in at just 2.9 grams while the 38mm model is 2.6 grams. I never even noticed the change in weight and the added dimensions are also barely noticeable.
The CandyShell Fit looks great on the Apple Watch with your Sport band and I am now placing it on my Apple Watch whenever I run or work outside in the yard. It comes with a one-year warranty against defects and workmanship.
Speck Products stated that it went through a rigorous testing program for the development of this case, including submergence in artificial sweat and sunscreen oils/lotions, testing in 98 percent humidity, salt spray testing for 72 hours, extreme high temperature of 160 degree Fahrenheit and a low of -20 degree Fahrenheit for 72 hours. It should stand up to all the conditions you might expose yourself and your Apple Watch to.
The largest mobile provider in the Phillipines unveiled two Windows 10 Mobile phones at Computex this week. The Alpha Prime 4 and 5 will be mid-range phones for the Phillipino market.
It is expected the phones will be launched later this year shortly after the release of Windows 10 Mobile.
Windows Phone enthusiasts will be disappointed that a new Nokia phone unveiled by Microsoft this week does not run Windows. The Nokia 105 comes in two variants starting at $20 and are very low-end phones aimed at emerging markets.
The phones run Nokia's Series 30+ OS and have an ancient candy bar form.
The folks in Redmond continue their monumental push into mobile with the purchase of 6Wunderkinder, the developers of Wunderlist. Wunderlist is a popular to-do list that is strong in the mobile space in this category.
This can only be a good thing for Windows Phone, as Microsoft is building a well-rounded mobile software library that should make it to Windows 10 Mobile once released.
POMONA, California — Pepper is one sweet-hearted robot – if you consider silicon, metal and plastic a heart.
A year ago, Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son, introduced Pepper to the world. The cloud-based, emotion-sensing humanoid robot was equal parts extraordinary and creepy. Since then, Softbank acquired Pepper’s developer, Aldebaran, ousted the company’s CEO and founder Bruno Maisonnier and basically stopped talking about when the Pepper would arrive in the U.S.
The robot is still not officially for sale, but there were, to my astonishment, three (!) working Peppers at the DARPA Robotics Challenge robot Expo in Pomona, California. Robot Challenge competitors have to complete eight disaster scenario tasks in under an hour at the Fairplex fairgrounds in Pomona. Pepper is not competing.
found the intentionally cute-looking robots early Saturday morning, sitting in a nondescript tent outside the Fairgrounds, all apparently in sleep mode. James Dietrich, Aldebaran’s strategic partnership developer program manager for the Americas, was sitting just behind the robots. I was incredulous.
“It’s Pepper!” I exclaimed.
Dietrich smiled back at me and said, “Yes, it is.”
“This is the first time they’re in the U.S.,” I added.
Dietrich considered this, looked at the sleeping robots and then at me, “Yes, I guess it is.”
One by one, the robots slowly started to wake up.
The 4-foot-tall robot, which features a three-wheel rolling base, elegant arms and fully articulated fingers, raised its head. Its large black eyes seemed to look at me for a second. But it just continued what I assume is a routine, stretching its body from side to side and back and forth as it looked around. I couldn’t tell if it was checking out itself or its surroundings. The Pepper stopped, raised one hand up in a hello and then seemed to gesture for me to come closer.
Pepper is described as an “emotional robot” because it will eventually be able "read" human emotions by judging facial expressions and tone of voice. Pepper uses cloud-based face and voice recognition to accomplish these tasks. As it learns more about you and programmers learn more about how to read these emotions programmatically, Pepper will get smarter. Softbank and Aldebaran are also working with IBM’s Watson to teach Pepper how to understand the meaningand context of languages like English and Japanese. That skill should help Pepper more effectively answer questions.
Pepper robot has 5 articulated fingers.
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For the purpose of this event, Dietrich said, Pepper was programmed to be proactively engaging. Sure enough, Pepper asked to shake my hand. It extended its arm and opened its hand. I automatically reached out for it. Peppers fingers gripped my hand and then it started vigorously pumping up and down. The robot then playfully fist-bumped me, with a big flourish at the end to indicate an explosion. Pepper asked for a hug, but I didn’t realize that was permitted, so Dietrich took it instead.
Pepper was intentionally designed to be cute so it doesn't scare people, especially children.
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Pepper features a tablet screen on its chest and though it talks, it uses the screen to illustrate points. Pepper told me about its robot family, the smaller NAO education robot and the larger Romeo. It also asked me if I knew of them. I told Pepper, yes, but it didn’t hear me. I had to get pretty close and almost shout for Pepper to pick up my voice. But, in all fairness, Pepper is designed to be an indoor robot.
The Aldebaran team also showed me how the robots could work together. For example, as one robot told me about the company, the other interjected with a few humorous remarks.
Pepper will officially go on sale in Japan by the end of June and will cost $2,000 up front with a $200-a-month fee for cloud-based support. The company is not talking about when Pepper will come to the U.S. or other countries.
I asked Dietrich how Pepper would fare in the DARPA competition. He joked that Pepper, which is not intended to even handle household chores, would just stand there and stare at the car it’s supposed to drive and then tell another robot to do it. “It would be the supervisor robot.”
Even so, seeing Pepper in person is a sort of other-worldly experience. I told Dietrich I’d take two.
At the playground, Rothschild met other moms who were planning to take five to seven years away from their careers to raise their children.
"There is this untapped intellectual talent sitting on the sideline, and the world has pressing issues they could be solving," Rothschild says. "I dreamed up this space where I could get my best work done and show the world I was a productive member of society, and my daughter would still be on-site."
But it was really two businesses — coworking and childcare — merged into one; neither has the highest margins. So she approached an existing coworking space in San Francisco called NextSpace, and the team there loved her childcare partnership idea. Now she's the CEO of NextSpace, and credits the right time, location and partnership to the success of the program, called NextKids.
Rothschild's NextKids has become the gold standard in coworking spaces with childcare. Not only is it a full-service coworking space with "everything you can think of," but it also offers top-notch care for babies and toddlers, complete with organic snacks, compostable diaper service, music classes and full documentation of a child's activities each day.
"Everything is covered for you and your child for the entire month in one fee," she says.
The director of the best Fast & Furiousmovies recently made another action blockbuster — but you won't find it in theaters or on VOD. It's called Help! and it's only available on Android for now, but the bigger deal is that it's a live-action Spotlight Story. That's Google's format for 360-degree video, which lets you point your phone in any direction as a story unfolds in real time around you. The first Spotlight Story, Windy Day, won accolades for being innovative and the next one, Duet, was created with famed animator Glen Keane. But Lin's take on the format is much more ambitious and much more fun to watch than what came before.
Help! is ambitious because it's a live-action video, which means that the characters and special effects have to play out in real time and without many of the tools that usually hang from a filmmaker's belt: edits, camera moves, cuts, and framing specific shots for the camera were all off the table. It also required that Google's skunkworks R&D division ATAP come up with an entirely new camera rig.
At Google I/O last week, we sat down with Lin to ask him about the experience of crafting the story behind Help! and to see how a traditional director tackles the challenge of shooting in an entirely new format. Google is promising that there will be more Spotlight Stories to come and Lin himself might even be interested in making more of them — but not, unfortunately, based of his next directing effort, Star Trek 3.
This interview has been edited for clarity and length.
Dieter Bohn: How did you think about imposing the narrative in Help! — or were you not thinking about narrativity? Because, obviously, in a 360 degree video, you don't get to tell us where to look.
Justin Lin: Right. When I was in film school I had this great professor, Jerzy Antczak, a Polish filmmaker, and Joe Russo of the Russo Brothers were in my class. It was this kind of Easter European philosophy of motivating camera only through character and motions, and just exploring with lenses. That was the best year of my education in my life. And so when I first saw Windy Day, it just kind of blew me away. And I know that a lot of times when you see [360 degree video], people think that it’s like "Choose Your Own Adventure."
So I felt like the best thing to do is to have a shared narrative. When I go on set every day I feel like my identity as a filmmaker grows with my work, but it's [about] where I choose to place a camera or not place a camera, the lenses I choose. And that's something that I felt like I could share with the viewer. At first I didn't know how to feel, but as we were doing it it felt very liberating.
The best example I could give is when I was a kid and I saw La Femme Nikita. There was a scene, an assassination or something, and the camera just stayed on her and there was an explosion. You never saw it. I loved it. Of course, in the American remake, they showed the big explosion. It's not for me to judge which one is better, but I always felt like that's what a filmmaker is: you decide where you're going put your edit.
So do you translate the idea of a camera edit to trying to turn all those edits into the narrative?
In many ways, we were learning as we were going. I think that the idea of actually imposing some sort of action element organically into this idea made it a bigger challenge. When I was going in, I had certain lenses that I wanted to use. Ideally I wanted to have a 40 millimeter and the widest I wanted to go was maybe 27, but I ended up having to go wider because of the storytelling, of the dance that needed [to replace traditional edits]. It’s not just a camera setting. When the camera moves, it has to be motivated through character. It was also kind of breaking down character beats and using an element of dramaturgy.
Was there a particular moment where you feel the camera movement was really based off of a character beat?
I think when they get in the subway and they're not quite sure what is happening, and the camera is kind of floating towards the characters — it's trying to connect with them. And I try to do that for every beat.
The subway moment for me was the most tense experience I have had watching anything on my phone and it was more tense than most experiences I’ve had in a theater. Because I want to watch them and see how they're reacting, but I hear the sound behind me and I want to turn around. That tension, of wanting to know which direction to point the camera, was that intentional?
Yeah, very much. Because that's my job as a director, when I go in the cutting room. Deciding what coverage I want to use and what I choose to share or not share, that defines a movie.
Again, I didn't know how to feel before we started. But doing it, even on the day we were doing it, that dance [made it clear]. You can prep. We did pre-viz. We built the sets. We built it in the computer and I was doing all the moves. But then once you get the actors in there you're now doing this dance, and trying to make that come to life. I mean, it's the scariest ... I've never [been on a shoot] where you show up in the morning, you're rehearsing, rehearsing, rehearsing because it's a one shot, and by about 10PM you're like, "Holy crap, I don't think we have it." And in that one moment where the camera moves, [you see the] character motivations, everything clicks and it comes to life. It was such a unique and special experience. I've never had that in filmmaking.
Did it feel like theater more than filmmaking at that moment?
Theater — and I probably can relate it most to maybe my experience on Community. You can't cheat comedy. You know, it either is going to be there on the day you capture or it's not.
Do you think you ever want to do another Spotlight Story?
Oh, yeah. I'll tell you what I was thinking about when I first saw Windy Day, two things kind of came to me. One was Help!, and another one was kind of an ensemble film — I kept [being reminded of] Robert Altman. Like ensemble drama and comedy. And I would love to explore that.
And that there's a lot of different genres you can do. Kind of like the way you're explaining the subway sequence, I don’t think it's limited just to action. It could be action, it could be comedy, it could be horror.
It's a shared narrative. I think at the end of the day that's the most exciting thing.
Thinking about this as a new form. Do you think that that narrative is ever going to be more than a couple of minutes?
I think it could go [longer.]
There are a couple of limitations still. The lighting [is hard to figure out]. In film, when you're lighting the closeup, it's a different than when we do the wide shot.
And here you can't. We're doing tricks just to be able to light [the scene]. And again I push the technology because, you know, the best thing to do is shoot it during the day. That's why [most people use] GoPros. But I said no, I want to shoot at night, which means we had to light it and they had to do some special filters into the RED camera. I think once we can shoot with a little bit longer lens and be able to light it, I think you could see feature-length potential.
That's what I'm excited about. I come from old school kind of filmmaking. I love Kubrick. I love films where even if you don't like the film, it doesn't matter. It's about respecting a point of view.
And then coming [to 360 degree video], where you're sharing it and you're letting the viewers [choose their point of view]... You have a world, a narrative, and then the viewer has to decide on that specific viewing what point of view they want to take.
Is it ever frustrating to you? Like, "I really hope they're not looking over here during this scene."
Oh, no, no. I think with any kind of good, creative shared experience, it's hopefully done multiple times. Even when I was playing along with it I would do passes where I'm just looking at the sky. That's part of the fun of this new medium. It's kind of undefined, and we were learning on the fly as we were developing it, shooting it, and as we were going into post-production.
Now I'm interested to see the reaction from the viewer. That's something that's so new and so unique that I don't know what other time in my life I'm ever going to have this experience again.
Do you think that this is fundamentally harder? Both technically, and in crafting the narrative. What sort of stories do and don't work in this format? Do you think that we're anywhere near figuring out this medium?
No. First of all, we went from seeing animation to trying to do live action, and trying to do live action with a [one-shot] with different levels and action. And I'm impressed and humbled by how many people that it took to just come in and figure it out. So I think the technical aspect is growing and evolving.
I think anybody that sees this now, they're going to have an opinion, whether they like it or not. Those opinions are going to be important in the evolution of this medium. Personally, I want to keep pushing it, but I know that other people are going to have strong opinions [on which direction it should go.] And that's going to also help the evolution of this medium.
Life insurance known as "life insurance", is a " life insurance "category. Human life is the object of insurance for insurance. The insured or the insured to the insurer agreed to pay the premium later, when the death of the insured or survival to a certain age in the insurance period, to fulfill insurance money.
The term life insurance in the use of broad and narrow sense. Life insurance is a generalizedlife insurance , life insurance is a narrow life insurance, but does not include accident insurance and health insurance , only based on human life and death for the insurance event, the insurer is responsible under the contract for the insured In the insurance period insurance payment to the time of death or survival within a certain age.
Life insurance from the insurance sense, there are compensatory payments and savings of. Savings category by itself is not insurance, but premiums levelized byproduct . Insurance business to expand banking services to enrich the life saving features. Payment of life insurance life insurance is often considered to be different from the property insurance of the main features. In fact, there is no difference in the nature of compensatory property insurance and life insurance payments on the property.
From an ethical point of view of human life, it is impossible to compensate. Is it possible to compensate it for the articles? Actually not the case, in addition to the time can not be repeated, but also the emotional and objects can not be reconstructed. If you can not reset the items would be no compensation in the strict sense. Life can not be reset to recognize the nature of human life, in order to distinguish the concept of compensation payments made. In this sense, property insurance and life insurance compensatory payment of just terminology difference. Life insurance compensation is absolute, payment is relative. If payment of the agreed compensation out of the paradox in the true sense of the insurance. But life is not like property insurance at the time of exercise of subrogation claims. This is the payment of the decision. The fundamental reason is that the value of life is not a measure of accuracy.
Regular life insurance , also known as the customary term life insurance . Is a kind of death of the insured accident occurred within the period prescribed by the insurer and is responsible for payment of insurance insurance contract . The risk for a period not longer, sometimes shorter than a year, mostly to protect the insured person has served a short term temporary work is likely to endanger the life or safety of a period of time due to the insured person and affect the interests of policyholders. Because of term insurance insurance accident not occurred before the insurance expires, the premium is no longer refundable, and regular insurance does not include the savings factor, thus regular insurance premiums lower than any kind of life, so long as the cost is extremely insured cheap insurance you can get great insurance, so this person insurance affordability for low and in need of protection is most appropriate.
Because of these characteristics, the current regular life insurance has been widely used, this risk can also be mixed with other types of life insurance, joint combined into various types of new types to meet the needs of multi-level. For life insurance is an occasional death insurance, also is not attached to the living conditions of a survival insurance, the insurer must have been responsible for the death of the insured person up to. For life insurance rates than regular insurance and below endowment insurance , in fact, close to the long lifetime of the endowment insurance premium rates , which contains savings rates constitute a factor.
Survival is insured within the period specified as the payment of insurance conditions, but also refers to the insured when the bottom up to the agreed period, the payment of insurance, such as during this period was the death of the insured, the premium paid no refund, will provide for all survive until the expiration date of the person's insurance. This contains the premium paid without repayment of those who died.
Survival insurance primarily to enable the insured to a certain period, you can receive an insurance payment to meet their daily needs, most general insurance combined with other types of insurance to survive handling, such as survival insurance and annuity combined into the existing pension survival insurance and life insurance combined into endowment insurance. Because of this combination of life insurance to meet various needs, helped to popularize and develop the life insurance business.
Refers to whether the insured in the insurance period, death, or survival when insurance expires, the agreement could receive insurance payments insurance. Such insurance from the same insurance death benefit merge to survive into the surface, so called endowment insurance.Endowment insurance is not attached to the survival of the insurance death benefit, but both are the same, the merger consideration factors of survival and death. Therefore, regardless of endowment insurance in the amount of insurance or insurance premiums, these two factors are in mutual growth and decline.
First, pure endowment insurance premiums is included in the hazard insurance and savings insurance, hazard insurance premiums which relatively speaking is rising year by year.
Second, due to the increased year after year to make insurance premium savings into reserve accumulation partly responsible rising every year, so that the amount of insurance in the relative risk of declining insurance, hazard insurance amounted to zero eventually to expire when the insurance period.
Usually in the endowment insurance, savings far outweigh the risks factors premium factor, then the insurer in the design of new types of life insurance, in order to increase the proportion of the risk of security, there is a guaranteed pension times, so the insurance death benefit can 10-year expiration times or times for payment of insurance money to survive, both to protect the fear of an early death in the dangerous consequences of people, but also to protect the old fears in later life. So endowment insurance is one of the most popular life insurance.
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4. Life itself is conducive to the development of the planned economy , the one person as long as there is a unit of work, then it is good shade tree, birth, old age, sickness, disability, death and other personal risk can rely on the unit to solve. With the market economy systemgradually established, the functions of the government and enterprises transition, especially the employment system and social security systemreform, individuals are increasingly becoming the main bearer of risk. As long as there is an appropriate business insurance backing, more security, threw many people can freely choose their own career, to seize every possible opportunity to develop their talent, which is truly their own talent.
5. Life insurance is an investment with the canada financial markets improve, people raise income levels, buying life insurance, stocks ,bonds , treasury bills , commercial and other people will also become the currency hedge the value of options. Insurance fees are generally composed of three parts: accident insurance, sickness and death insurance premium value. Before the main function is to protect both of premiums insurers losses due to accident, illness or death and other accidents caused by high residual is, can be seen as a consumer; appreciation Department reinsurance costs mainly in accordance with the role of policy interest rates to book value, satisfy pension income people, education and other needs, with investment functions. Our insurance market life insurance insurance, fully functional, the majority were comprehensive insurance, from risk, supportability, reliability and profitability point of view, with investment functions. Also participating in the individual insurance will also enjoy some preferential policies, such as tax exemption , etc., compared with other investment vehicles, it is quite excellent.
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