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SlideSharefans onLinkedIn, today is good news for you. The two companies are taking their partnership a step deeper, with more native-style integration for SlideShare content inside of LinkedIn. SlideShare, in case you’ve missed it, has managed to get itself quite the following. It is one of the top 200 sites on the Internet in terms of traffic, clocking in at 55 million monthly visitors who view 150 million pieces of SlideShare content....

Startup Britain– a new initiative by a group of the UK’s most successful entrepreneurs – has launched this morning, assisting Britain’s small businesses in what is a response by the private sector to the Government’s call for an ‘enterprise-led’ recovery. The Startup Britain platform will see established businesses provide millions of pounds worth of support to Britain’s entrepreneurs and small businesses, with Barclays, Microsoft and Virgin Media backing the venture....

“Failure is success if we learn from it.”Malcolm Forbesoncesaid. But how can we learn from something no one wants to talk about? This is one of the key problems the Brazilian startup community needs to tackle. So why is startup failure still a taboo in Brazil? Failure, an unspoken reality The Brazilian entrepreneurFabio Seixasis an exception. While San Francisco has a whole conference to discuss failure, there is no such thing asFailConin Brazil....

Speech recognition systems struggle to understand African American Vernacular English (AAVE). Ina 2020 study by Stanford University researchers, the software performed so poorly for AAVE that some leading systems made correct transcriptions for barely half the words spoken. The researchers speculated that the systems had a common flaw: “insufficient audio data from Black speakers when training the models.” A startup called Speechmatics has developed a technique that appears to reduce this data gap....

It was onlylast weekwe were recommendingSprouteras a place to go for advice and inspiration for your startup idea, and now its founder and CEO has announced that it is to close. In an email to users, Sarah Prevette blames capital constraints for the move, adding “We’ve simply run out of options”. Sprouterlaunchedin 2009 as a way for entrepreneurs to connect with each other and get advice from experienced peers and experts....