Creating content has become increasingly important for businesses of all kinds, and this is especially so with the ever-growing need for more. Consumers want more than just a product description or an About Us section on your website: They want to engage and feel like they are part of something. That means you and your company are going to have to deliver. For instance, you might have a podcast or video series that you've created to help customers understand how a product works. Once you've created those video and/or audio files, you upload them to your site and share them with social media.

We asked some of TechRepublic's contributing writers to offer their expertise on software, networking solutions and hardware. They weighed in on the usefulness and standout features of some of the best technology for remote work, cybersecurity, collaboration and DaaS; in addition, Matt Asay compiled a list of the most innovative artificial intelligence and machine learning companies. The following tech products and companies were deemed the best of its category. In Matt Asay's article about the eight AI and machine learning companies, he ranked Hugging Face as the most innovative. Here's what he had to say: "Hugging Face, which started as a chatbot and evolved to offer a registry of NLP models used to deliver those chatbots, is now on track to become the GitHub of ML. More than 10,000 companies use Hugging Face to privately collaborate on ML applications."