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Trace Finance, a Brazilian fintech startup that enables faster and more streamlined cross-border banking for startups, has announced a $4.3 million seed funding round.

/PRNewswire/ -- Trace Finance, a Brazilian fintech startup that enables faster and more streamlined cross-border banking for startups, has announced a $4.3...

Any marketer who makes decisions on what lead-gen programs to run, which events to attend, or how much to spend on paid media, is a professional gambler.

Source: Microsoft Microsoft’s Cortana was a massive failure for the company, and it could never compete with the likes of Google Assistant, Amazon’s Alexa, or Apple’s Siri smart assistants. Cortana seemed like a great idea and a good…

The year was 2011, and Apple had recently launched its own virtual assistant on the iPhone. Paruchuri and his team were inspired, but wondered if a more...

Steve Ballmer, the ex-Microsoft CEO, apparently wanted to name what we know today as Microsoft's Cortana voice assistant as "Bingo" instead. This was revealed by a former Cortana Product Manger.

The name was the idea of former CEO Steve Ballmer

Virtual assistants have become part of our lives. There’s Siri, Google, Alexa, and Cortana. But there almost wasn’t Cortana, as Microsoft’s former CEO Steve Ballmer wanted to name the assistant Bingo.

Steve Ballmer wanted Microsoft’s Cortana AI to be called “Bingo” so it would be more Microsoft-branded, according to the Big Bets newsletter.That’s according to former Microsoft product manager... #alicenewtonrex #aiassistant #sandeepparuchuri #cortanaai #bigbetsnewsletter #steveballmer

A new interview with a former Microsoft project manager has revealed a fun detail about the Cortana assistant’s name: it was almost Bingo, a name come up with by former CEO Steve Ballmer.