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Venture Capital Trends and Outlook for 2024

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Heading into the second half of 2024, venture capital investors remain cautious as they acknowledge persistent challenging dynamics in the landscape. While dry powder reserves have reached record highs, investors are wary about deploying capital with certain recent macroeconomic factors still fresh in mind.

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Decoding Salesforce’s plausible $11 billion bid to acquire Informatica

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However, the possible acquisition of Informatica by Salesforce would be against expectations as consolidation if the iPaaS market was expected to occur among relatively smaller vendors, said Maribel Lopez, principal analyst at Lopez Research.

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Venture Capital in the Age of AI: Transforming Due Diligence

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Over the last 12-18 months, both venture capital investors and start-up firms have felt the aftershocks of ongoing economic volatility. Following a ‘dry powder’ run in 2021, venture capital investment in the US nearly doubled from 2020. Similar to other asset classes, venture capital deal patterns mirror macroeconomic sentiment.

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10 most in-demand generative AI skills

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The recent AI boom has sparked plenty of conversations around its potential to eliminate jobs, but a survey of 1,400 US business leaders by the Upwork Research Institute found that 49% of hiring managers plan to hire more independent and full-time employees in response to the demand for AI skills.

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Microsoft can’t keep up with demand for AI in the cloud — for now

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We expect capital expenditures to increase materially on a sequential basis driven by cloud and AI infrastructure investments,” Hood said. This balancing act, according to Dylan Patel, chief analyst at semiconductor research firm Semianalysis, can be seen in the company’s phased rollout plan for AI copilots across various service offerings.

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Inside Nasdaq’s AI-fueled pivot to SaaS provider

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Exchange expands into SaaS, AI For many, the word Nasdaq conjures images of opening bell ceremonies, a stock trading floor, and the Bull of Wall Street sculpture, traditional symbols of American capitalism. To power its pivot, Nasdaq restructured into three divisions: Market Platforms, Capital Access Platforms, and Anti-Financial Crimes.

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Technology and AI

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The capital of Upper Austria, Linz, is the perfect example. At the core of the Linz AI ecosystem is the Artificial Intelligence Lab at the Linz Institute of Technology (LIT) , where Austrian AI pioneer Sepp Hochreiter and his team conduct research in the field of deep learning, thus facilitating the industrial use of AI.