Author: TFT

When Less Tracking Means More Trust No cookies. No invasive tracking. Just simple, accurate, privacy-first data. And their bounce rate didn’t spike. In fact, engagement improved. This real-world shift underscores a broader trend: as regulators tighten data laws and consumers push back on surveillance capitalism, site owners are abandoning heavyweight trackers for streamlined, GDPR-compliant alternatives. At the top of that list is Plausible Analytics. Web Analytics Is Broken and Plausible Is Rewriting the Script Google Analytics still dominates the analytics space, powering over 70% of all websites. But its complexity, consent banner issues, and dependence on third-party cookies are becoming…

From Zero to Network in 90 Days: The New MVNO Playbook MVNO&GO, unveiled by Amdocs in mid-2024, is a cloud native SaaS platform that allows mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) to launch, manage, and scale operations with a subscription-based model. It combines network orchestration, CRM, billing, self-service portals, analytics, and partner integration all in one turnkey offering. For the telecom industry, which often lags behind in cloud adoption and agile operations, this marks a significant shift. MVNO&GO offers virtual carriers a way to focus on brand, audience, and differentiation without reinventing the infrastructure wheel. Why MVNOs Are Booming and Why…

From Calendar Chaos to Seamless Coordination TEN Events Pro wants to deliver an end-to-end Event Management SaaS platform built to simplify complex event operations. Now available through its early access program, the platform is designed for organizers managing everything from local business meetups to international expos. By weaving together AI, real-time dashboards, and streamlined workflows, TEN Events Pro is trying to do what Asana did for project management or HubSpot did for marketing automation: bring sanity and scale to a chaotic process. The Events Industry Needs Better Tech and Fast Event planning is a multi-billion dollar industry that still runs…

A Missed Update That Became a Missed Goal Most teams use clunky OKR tracking methods buried in spreadsheets, disconnected tools, or quarterly review rituals that feel more like chores than check-ins. Tability, a startup backed by Blackbird Ventures and part of the Antler portfolio, is aiming to change that by building an OKR tracking platform with built-in AI nudges. It doesn’t just document your goals. It reminds, prompts, and nudges you to actually engage with them. Goal Setting Is Easy, Follow-Through Is Not Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) have been adopted widely by startups and enterprise teams thanks to early…

When a Budget Laptop Becomes an AI-Powered Productivity Machine Using Google’s new AI-powered Magic Editor, exposure can be fixed, shadow can be removed, and background can be filled automatically and all of this can happen in under 20 seconds. No Photoshop. No GPU. Just a cloud-powered Chromebook. This moment captures the quiet revolution Google is rolling out. Chromebook Plus, once seen as a budget education device, is transforming into an AI-powered productivity platform for creators, students, and knowledge workers alike. Google’s latest update brings Gemini integration, generative editing tools, and smart writing assistance natively to Chromebook Plus devices. For many…

When AI Becomes Your Research Assistant, Editor, and Teammate Across the country, a venture capitalist creates a market landscape slide deck with real-time data. No team. Just prompts and AI. This is not a glimpse into tomorrow. It’s what Perplexity Labs Pro is enabling today. Built atop the acclaimed Perplexity AI search engine, Labs Pro combines real-time search, AI copilots, document analysis, and collaborative research into a single unified workspace. Unlike generic chatbots, this AI productivity platform is designed to work with enterprise-level data complexity, academic citations, and research-grade insights. For professionals who work in knowledge-heavy environments, think analysts, researchers,…

From Bollywood Dialogues to Bill Payments: AI Gets Truly Indian India’s first agentic AI assistant built from the ground up by Krutrim, the AI startup launched by Ola founder Bhavish Aggarwal. Unlike chatbots that merely answer questions, Kruti performs actions. It books, pays, schedules, sends, and translates, all while speaking more than 10 Indian languages. In a country of over 1.4 billion people with hundreds of dialects and billions of micro-tasks to automate, Kruti is not just an AI assistant. It is a national experiment in redefining the human-machine interface for a culturally and linguistically complex society. India Is Ready…

When Wall Street Gets a Copilot. It is “GS AI Assistant” At Goldman Sachs’ Lower Manhattan headquarters, a junior analyst recently spent under 30 seconds generating a summary of 15-page market research. It wasn’t magic. It was the GS AI Assistant in action Goldman’s in-house enterprise AI tool, now reshaping how one of the world’s most powerful banks handles everything from research to reporting. The GS AI Assistant is Goldman Sachs’ answer to the age of large language models. Built atop OpenAI’s GPT infrastructure and fine-tuned with the firm’s proprietary data, it functions as a highly secure internal chatbot for…

From Labs to Lockers: A Wearable You Won’t See Coming At a fitness center in San Diego, a personal trainer reviews a client’s health data not on a smartwatch or chest strap, but from a sensor no larger than a key fob clipped discreetly onto a waistband. The device is the Amazfit Helio Strap, and it’s making waves for one reason: it works, without being seen. Once the domain of medical trials and elite athletes, biometric wearables are quickly shrinking in size and growing in intelligence. The Amazfit Helio Strap is the latest entry in this evolution, quietly turning heads…

From Memphis to Modern Hi-Fi: A Sonic Tribute to Rock ’n’ Roll In 1952, a small Memphis studio captured the raw spark of what would soon ignite into rock ’n’ roll. Sun Records became the launchpad for legends like Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, and Jerry Lee Lewis setting the tone for a cultural revolution that changed music forever. More than 70 years later, that same spirit lives on through the McIntosh MTI100 “Sun Records” Limited-Edition Turntable. It’s not just an audio device, it’s a collector’s tribute that fuses precision analog engineering with rich musical heritage. Released in partnership with Sun…