The Tech Talks Daily Podcast

InfoCV uses Artificial Intelligence to help improve content and layout of your existing CV and produce a digital interactive (mobile friendly) format with a personal URL. An easy to use online editor can be used on any connected device, means you can easily update additional information, your picture or company logos to visually enhance your basic CV. Anthony Rose, shares The Bootstrapping Tech Startup Story Behind InfoCV in Manchester, England.

Netsils tech startup story began at the University of Pennsylvania, where the CEO was getting his Ph.D. He met the co-founder who was an engineer at Twitter who was having a tough time keeping all of Twitter’s apps and microservices running. Together they realized that what IT and DevOps teams needed was a map of their cloud app environments. The rest is history, so to say.   Netsil provides observability and monitoring for cloud apps. DevOps teams use Netsil's auto-discovered maps & analytics.

Venzee recently announced “Mesh,” the first Middleware Solution to help businesses connect to blockchain networks With Years of Experience Bringing System Connectivity and Interoperable Data to Retail and Supply Chain, at Venzee they believe that Mesh will solve a huge problem for the burgeoning blockchain industry. Blockchain is to be the most disruptive force in business in generations by establishing a new level of trust, accountability & transparency in any kind of electronic transaction.

For almost 20 years, Retail Tech company CommerceHub has been providing cloud-based technologies and services that enable retailers to radically expand their product offering without inventory risk. In the past year, their stock price has a lot doubled and they are rapidly growing. Their clients include: Walmart, QVC, Best Buy and Toys"R"Us to name just few. CEO, Frank Poore talks about how AI and robots are the future of retail disrupting the e-commerce ecosystem future of retail

Up And Vanished, one of the biggest podcasts of 2017 with more than 140 million downloads and hundreds of media stories and recently announced season 2 is coming in April 2018 with the addition of live events and traditional radio in partnership with Cadence13. Cadence13 is building a podcast empire that is becoming known as the Netflix of podcasts. The media company currently develops and distributes the biggest podcasts such as Pod Save America, The Vertical Podcast with Woj, Origins etc.

Apparently, a 10-year-old child was able to use their face to unlock their mother's iPhone X. There are also stories about twins being able to do the same with their siblings iPhone and facial recognition. Although, these quick headlines ensure a viral hit for tech websites with thousands of people hitting the share button, they do not tell the full story. Most hacks occur on the other side of authentication after you have entered your pin or unlocked your phone using facial recognition.

Although the Samsung and Apple X offer superior HD video for vloggers to live stream their creations around the world. The inbuilt microphones on smartphones are not up to demands required by creatives. In our quest for visual perfection, it seems that audio quality has been neglected. Mikme is the world’s first fully wireless recording microphone that captures studio-grade audio at the push of one button. The device was built to enable musicians, filmmakers, journalists & podcasters

Eno is a chatbot that helps Capital One customers manage their money by texting in a conversational way. It leverages artificial intelligence to understand what users need. Regular listeners of the show will remember that in 2016, Ken talked about being the first bank to offer an Amazon Alexa skill to provide customers with financial account access. Here in 2017, I invited Ken back onto the show to discuss the launch of the first natural language SMS chatbot from a U.S. bank.

We have all heard about wearable tech fitness trackers that count steps etc. But Bodytrak is a new hearable solution that combines traditional audio functionality with biometric monitoring. Bodytrak uniquely measures, accurately and in real time, core body temp (CBT) and heart rate (HR) . It also obtains values for heart rate variability, VO2  and motion metrics, which all help provide information for their embedded algorithms. I invited Leon Marsh, Founder & CEO, Bodytrak onto the show.

The inspirational story of a Lithuanian tech startup story that is transforming fishing through sonar technology and went on to win awards at CES in Las Vegas. Deeper’s first product, a smart wireless sonar for anglers, revolutionized fishing, receiving numerous awards and widespread praise from the angling community. In 2016, the Deeper Smart Sonar Pro + won the Innovation Award for best Wireless Handset Accessory at the at CES, the world’s biggest consumer electronics trade show in Las Vegas.

SAP Ariba is rethinking how work gets done in this new, digital economy. It is more critical than ever that your business adapts. How you manage your supply chain – your supplier relationships, your transactions, the business you need to do with your suppliers – is no exception. Tech Podcast Interview With Alex Atzberger, President at SAP Ariba Simplifying business processes and systems to concentrate on accelerating innovations and driving transformation as a purpose-Driven company.

Alice provides one system for guests, front-of-house workers, and back-of-house staff to communicate and track requests. The unified system means that a guest's request via a text message for, say, more linens, is conveyed to the right worker. Guests can also order services through mobile apps and other methods too. As a Top Travel Startups to Watch in 2017, The company has already raised $26 million in a Series B funding round led by online travel giant Expedia.

Biometric authentication is promoted as a secure method to access our accounts. Rather trying to remember a password, we have become the password as new tech devices use fingerprints, facial recognition, eye scans and even voice recognition. With the launch of the highly anticipated iPhone X and it's use of facial recognition for users to unlock their smartphone. I found myself asking, just how secure is biometric authentication? Can biometric databases leak our data?

Recruitment Tech Startup Story From Australia on todays tech podcast Vervoe is reinventing the recruiting experience for startups, and small to medium businesses. Vervoe's task-based simulations evaluate an applicants' skills and style rather than their past employment experience. Employers can then easily rank them through the platform, and only meet the very best at the end. No more tedious résumé screening and time-consuming interviews. Vervoe hires the right people in 4 days, not 40.

10,000ft is a software company that builds tools for innovative organizations and the creative thinkers they employ. They have two products in the market, 10,000ft Plans and 10,000ft Insights. Both tools are grounded in simplicty and help teams collaborate more effectively. The company is on a mission to continue to refine and add to our product portfolio to meet the needs of an ever-evolving workforce. Today's guest is an inventor & former award-winning Microsoft designer who created 10,000ft