Insurtech Coterie Teams Up with Intuit QuickBooks

CINCINNATI, Oct. 22, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Coterie, the technology company that makes buying business insurance easy, today announced that it has teamed up with Intuit QuickBooks to deliver quick, easy, and affordable business insurance to QuickBooks customers through the QuickBooks Online small business platform. The integration presents small businesses with a streamlined purchase process, getting personalized business insurance to business owners in just minutes.

"Working with tech-focused companies like Coterie helps us to further serve small businesses and keep them focused on what's important: growing their businesses," said Mauricio Comi, Head of SMB Insurance at Intuit. "Customers now have the opportunity to access more of the tools required to help run their businesses that extend beyond our core offerings."

"With data-driven systems, we're able to provide extremely accurate insurance protection for small businesses using QuickBooks," said David McFarland, CEO and co-founder of Coterie. "This unique offering takes the guesswork out of the entire process for millions of small business owners across the country."

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MomentFeed Brings Four Major Proximity Marketing Innovations

MomentFeed, the leading provider of Proximity Search Optimization, today announced the release of four fully-integrated platform enhancements that enable multi-location marketers to improve brand performance and win the proximity “near me” search battle.

MomentFeed’s best-in-class Customer Sentiment Analysis solution analyzes and classifies everything being said about a brand on the most popular review platforms including Google, Facebook, Yelp, and Tripadvisor. Powered by a Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) model that was built on Google’s AI model, MomentFeed is able to present a very accurate picture of customer sentiment so marketers can pinpoint trends and opportunities for improved service, business operations, and revenue.

“Artificial intelligence has advanced exponentially over the past couple of years,” said Nick Hedges, CEO of MomentFeed. “Our top priority when developing this capability was to make sure we brought the very best Sentiment Analysis tool to market that could truly discern the context of consumer feedback. Our model applies contextual accuracy and industry-specific logic to know when ‘cool soup’ is cold or if it tastes good. This level of sophistication is what digital marketers have been missing and what they need to monitor issues and successes at a glance, at all of their locations — ultimately improving their customers’ experience.”

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Amava Teams up with Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island to Promote Safe Volunteering and Keep Members Socially Connected

MENLO PARK, Calif., Oct. 13, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Amava, Inc., the leading platform connecting a new generation of empty nesters and active retirees with opportunities to stay vital and socially connected throughout their lives, today announced  a new program to safely help Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island (BCBSRI) members stay active and socially engaged. At the heart of the program is volunteering, bringing members safe and meaningful opportunities to volunteer with leading local charitable organizations and virtual opportunities with national organizations during the pandemic and beyond. 

BCBSRI members have access to opportunities such as being a Big Brother/Big Sister, helping the American Red Cross during hurricane season, supporting American Red Cross biomedical staff virtually, mentoring in the new normal, making blankets for shelter pets and more. In addition, the program includes engaging opportunities for connecting with new people, continuing education, mentorship, teaching and pursuing hobbies.

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The Doctor Can Virtually See You Now

Americans love change.  Except when it applies to their own lives.  The nation’s medical community feels the same way.  

There are, of course, innovations in healthcare happening all the time.  But for the most part, those innovations take place within the discipline of mainstream medicine, administered in a hands-on fashion at hospitals, clinics and doctors’ offices, under provisions consistent with the arcane stipulations of health insurance policies, and in ways compatible with the extensive business ecosystem that supports providers of healthcare.  Changes which threaten to disrupt that comfortable pattern are deeply suspect.

But for an industry involving trillions of dollars a year, the attraction of new players into the lucrative healthcare market is easy to understand.  So it’s no surprise that some of the nation’s biggest and most technologically sophisticated companies are elbowing their way into different areas of medicine – particularly those that involve big data.  

Predictive analytics, imaging analytics, genomics, precision medicine, financial analytics and risk assessment tools are all in high demand right now.  By aggregating masses of health-related data, analyzing them with artificial intelligence, and then moving them around the globe as needed, these non-traditional players are shaking the foundations of modern medicine.  Beyond that, the greatly elevated role of digital assets in medicine comes at a time of already tremendous disruption created by Covid-19. 

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‘Lumberjanes’ Animated TV Series Based On Boom! Comics From Noelle Stevenson Eyed By HBO Max

An animated series adaptation of BOOM! Studios Eisner Award-winning Lumberjanescomic books and graphic novels is headed to HBO Max. I hear the WarnerMedia streamer landed the rights to the books in a competitive situation in July; according to sources the deal is still in negotiations.

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power developer Noelle Stevenson, one of the co-creators of the Lumberjanes comic books, is set to adapt and executive produce the project, which I hear has a script-to-series commitment. I hear the idea is to launch Lumberjanes with an hour-long special, to be written and directed by Stevenson.

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