NetBase, the industry leader in social media analytics, announced it will merge with Quid, a leader in AI driven text analytics. The combined company is the next generation consumer and market intelligence platform. The platform will deliver contextual insights that reveal business trends from across all forms of structured and unstructured data. The two companies will join forces under their new collective name, NetBase Quid. In today's age of information overload, NetBase Quid will deliver businesses an unprecedented solution that is faster, more accurate and actionable and with access to billions of indexed resources -- from social media posts, consumer reviews, product reviews, news articles to business filings, to patent applications, and forums – which can be aggregated, analyzed, and visualized in order to discover consumer and market insights.

In recent years, AI technology has seen widespread adoption across a number of key industries--from healthcare and education to finance and security. But as the industry continues to mature, what factors are driving new investment activity and sector growth? Which countries are hotspots for AI innovation and development? And what are the budding trends worth monitoring? Sales Director Kevin Issadore walks through a recent Quid analysis on AI companies and patents to identify opportunities for disruption and innovation within the industry.

In recent years, AI technology has seen widespread adoption across a number of key industries--from healthcare and education to finance and security. But as the industry continues to mature, what factors are driving new investment activity and sector growth? Which countries are hotspots for AI innovation and development? And what are the budding trends worth monitoring? Sales Director Kevin Issadore walks through a recent Quid analysis on AI companies and patents to identify opportunities for disruption and innovation within the industry.

As with most other areas of technology, aviation is experiencing rapid technological shifts which will alter the future landscape of the industry. To better understand disruption in the world of aviation and on-demand mobility, NASA partnered with Quid to analyze over 30,000 research articles and understand the top technologies in AI and Machine Learning, Human-Machine Interaction, Cybersecurity and Energy. Innovations in areas such as visual image recognition, cloud services and augmented reality were surfaced as important tech trends which are beginning to converge with on-demand mobility. Researchers found that current electric propulsion limits are a major barrier to on-demand mobility, indicating future projects should focus on propulsion alternatives that can overcome energy storage and propulsion efficiency barriers. Quid helped NASA create a shortlist of top researchers working on these challenges for invitation to a panel discussion to share their ideas with the organization.

The widely predicted adoption of virtual or augmented reality (VR/AR) in the consumer experience may have yet to be fully realized, but all retailers must look to the future in order to stay competitive. You need only look to the demise of market giants like Toys R Us or The Limited to remember what happens when you don't. These days, innovation comes in many forms. Experimentation with voice-commerce through smart home assistants Alexa, Google Home, and Siri has been one notable area, as have fully automated stores like Amazon Go. Who is really leading the charge in organic innovation?

A team at Quid wrote an analysis on 5 innovation hotspots outside the U.S. which was published on the World Economic Forum. Using Quid, we found London, Paris, Singapore, Munich, and Tel Aviv to be five innovation hotspots and examined what makes them so attractive to entrepreneurs. To do this we analysed every company that has received funding in the last 10 years across these five hotspots. We then used Quid's artificial intelligence (AI) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) to "read" the business descriptions of the companies in order to segment each market by theme and derive further insights into the fastest growing segments, the largest exits and the top investors. We also interviewed Tech Pioneers, members of the World Economic Forum's global community of trailblazing companies, who are based in these hotspots.

Is there a robot doctor in the house? Artificial intelligence is a hot topic in many industries, but particularly healthcare, where doctors and patients are now looking to AI-based apps for help with everything from diagnosing minor ailments to sizing up heart problems. In fact, AI seems set to transform several corners of health and medicine, from cancer prognoses to genomics. At Quid, we analyzed the latest academic research to see exactly where AI is making an impact in healthcare. For this we used data from SCOPUS -- the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed academic literature from around the globe.

What happens when two human political journalists compete against a computer over which can do the best job predicting the issues that will dominate the news in the presidential election? Well, you are about to find out. The two humans and the computers each got to predict five issues per presidential candidate that would get the most coverage in the news and on the blogs between Sept. 12 and Oct. 12. (The time frame covers only a few days of the release of the Donald Trump's lewd comments about women. So the final list isn't dominated by that controversy.) The two humans are Simon Maloy of Salon.com and Jonah Goldberg of the National Review.

Quid, a data analytics firm, uses proprietary software to search, visualize and analyze text. Quid, a data analytics firm, uses proprietary software to search, visualize and analyze text. Predictions are for psychics -- and in this very unpredictable political season they might do a better job than the pundits. I set out to see how well it could predict which controversies around the candidates were likely to re-emerge over the course of a month. And two human pundits have agreed to compete against the machine.