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Virtual meeting platform Vowel raises $13.5M, aims to cure meeting fatigue

TechCrunch

His virtual meeting platform is the latest to receive venture capital funding — $13.5 Vowel is launching a meeting operating system with tools like real-time transcription; integrated agendas, notes and action items; meeting analytics; and searchable, on-demand recordings of meetings.

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Ultraleap’s mid-air haptics tempts Tencent to join its $82M Series D fundraising

TechCrunch

It was way back in 2017 that the company that became Ultraleap (Ultrahaptics, as was) demonstrated at TechCrunch Disrupt a technology that pioneered ultrasound to replicate the sense of touch. And as was hinted at back in 2017, automakers are looking to make the ‘in-cabin experience’ a real thing.

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Scoot lands $12M to inject customization into videoconferencing

TechCrunch

In a separate survey , staffers — especially new employees — say that requiring video during virtual meetings increases their work fatigue. “CEOs are dissatisfied with their virtual all-hands platforms and badly need something better.” Ed Stevens thinks he has the answer.

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After 200% ARR growth in 2020, CourseKey raises $9M to digitize trade schools

TechCrunch

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit and forced educational institutions to go virtual, many were scrambling to develop online or blended curriculums. That struggle was particularly challenging for trade schools, many of which were not designed to teach online and were mostly paper-driven. .

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Upgrading and Migrating End of Life SQL Server 2012 Databases on AWS

Datavail

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) most closely mimics the on-premises experience, which can be helpful for legacy, custom, and packaged applications that your organization uses that require operating system access. You have full control over the SQL Server version you use on your virtual machine.

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Snapcommerce raises $85M to make over your mobile shopping experience

TechCrunch

Snapcommerce launched its first, travel-focused product in 2017. But on mobile, it’s virtually impossible.”. Snapcommerce co-founders Henry Shi and Hussein Fazal. Image courtesy of Snapcommerce. It works by using chatbots to interact with customers via messaging apps such as SMS, Facebook and WhatsApp.

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What’s what with WebAssembly?

Xebia

The use of virtualization allows a WebAssembly program to be portable across operating systems and different processor without modification. This is a big difference from containers, which are created for specific operating systems and processor types. This means that WebAssembly can also run outside of a browser.

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