CIO

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Historically, our jobs as infrastructure and security professionals have involved installing the “plumbing” that ensures organizations remain connected through traditional networking and security practices. Those who have been successful have done those things the same way. Our networking and security methods have been successful.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The first 30 days are about listening more than speaking, engaging my business stakeholders and IT team, and identifying people who will be trusted advisors on our transformational journey. During that time, I also learn the dynamics of the business and evaluate our overall technology capabilities.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2023

Three years after stepping down as GoFundMe’s chairman and CEO , Rob Solomon is returning to the industry he calls his “first love,” digital commerce , as co-founder and CEO of Kite , a commerce company focused on investing in, acquiring and operating high-potential, digital-first consumer product brands.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Summer International stays ahead of the game by identifying the most influential content creators, and working with them to incubate new brands. NYX founder and Bespoke Beauty Brands CEO Toni Ko will also join Summer International as a strategic investor. NYX was acquired by L’Oreal in 2014 for about $500 million.

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CIO

OCTOBER 24, 2023

After VMware was certified as a carbon neutral company in 2018, we knew we wanted to do more,” says Nicola Peill-Moelter, Ph.D., Recently we had the opportunity to connect with E. If we do nothing, our kids won’t be able to enjoy the lives we dream of for them.

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CIO

MARCH 28, 2024

Karenann Terrell served as an executive at big brands like Baxter, Walmart, and GSK. Afterward, we talked about their lessons learned once the dust settled. Dan Roberts: I find that those who thrive in the next chapter of their career journeys gain new perspectives through these experiences.

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CIO

DECEMBER 1, 2023

In our rapidly advancing digital era, where our lives seamlessly merge with the vast online realm, the trust we place on websites to safeguard our sensitive data and personal information becomes increasingly critical with every click. Any points of vulnerability on the website must be identified.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

Now, the 33-year-old entrepreneur is betting she can bring together another underrated duo — consumer brands and crypto. Haney joined TechCrunch’s Chain Reaction podcast this week to talk about her latest venture, Try Your Best (TYB). Since we recorded the episode, TYB has closed on the $9.8

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CIO

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Since 1998, the brand has evolved and grown in step with technology, and today, the size of its network and consumer use has made it a household name in digital payment systems. Over time, we became an email-based payment solution, so just by having an email address, you could receive money,” says Sri Shivananda, PayPal EVP and CTO.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The optimistic outlook posits that AI is our virtual assistant, taking care of mundane, task-oriented activities so we have time to conjure up new business ideas. On the other hand, the fearful outlook paints a dystopian picture where robots take over society and AI replaces all our jobs. Maybe, eventually.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Kenyan startup Wowzi has secured new funding to expand the reach of its platform, which turns social media users into brand influencers, to West and Southern Africa — as it taps the increasing usage of social sites across the continent driven by the proliferation of smartphones and a deepening internet penetration. It is a lot of work.

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CIO

JANUARY 11, 2023

Headquartered in Adelaide, it operates 13 brands and experiences spanning the country. The remaining brands in the company’s portfolio were using basic phone functionality for customer enquiries and reservations. For instance, our train journeys get sold out a year prior to their launch.

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CIO

MARCH 25, 2024

But for true recognition, you have to have a presence beyond your company,” says Balaban, who has had multiple senior-level IT positions and was most recently a director in the Office of the CIO at waste management company Covanta. It’s not about seeking the limelight. Others can learn from Balaban’s insights.

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CIO

JULY 10, 2023

As we all know, content is becoming easier to create, manipulate and disseminate. For retailers and brands, striking a balance between personalisation and security is the ultimate challenge. It all relies on a much needed value exchange to occur between brand and consumer – and for this to happen trust is key.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

There’s significant debate about the future of the CIO role , but one thing is clear: Digital leaders who want to be successful must look beyond the firewall and link up with an ecosystem of vendor partners, startups, and other organizations to ensure the enterprise thrives. What are we doing about cybersecurity?

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CIO

JULY 13, 2023

As Seth Dobbs, CTO at Bounteous, explains, “We do creative work. We need people who think differently.” I spoke to tech leaders, technical recruiters, and CIOs about how they have cracked this nut to hire the top-tier tech talent they need. We also give people so much flexibility to do what they want to do,” he says.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2023

Yet, today it’s become one of the hottest topics for consumers, brands and investors alike with a record ~$6 billion of venture capital funding pouring into recommerce companies in 2021 and the market projected to reach $250 billion+ by 2027. We waste a lot of … everything. We can do better.

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CIO

APRIL 8, 2024

Broadcom’s strategy is to drive adoption of our full stack VMware Cloud Foundation as the best subscription-based private cloud platform for our customers’ innovation. We will rely heavily on partners to help customers transform their business with our private cloud infrastructure.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Luxury wholesale marketplace The Main Tab is redesigning its platform following a $1 million pre-seed raise earlier this year from serial entrepreneur Jason Bright, who is now the company’s CTO. We have deployed a significant amount of the funding to the technology side to completely replatform our website from scratch,” she said. “We

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CIO

JANUARY 29, 2024

Back in the day, IT culture was all about the perks. Giving people access to free pizza or dry cleaning is not about building culture — it’s a way of getting people to stay in the building for long hours and to do a hard job,” contends Tim Wenhold, chief innovation officer, COO, and partner at Power Home Remodeling.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

We might not normally pause on this kind of development, especially in a market where dozens of startups are announcing funding every day, but this deal stood out for a few reasons. Her new e-commerce platform sells products from 100 different brands, 90% of which were founded by Black, Indigenous, and people of color.

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CIO

DECEMBER 11, 2023

As AI pilots move toward production, discussions about the need for ethical AI are growing, along with terms like “fairness,” “privacy,” “transparency,” “accountability,” and the big one —”bias.” As for transparency, it’s not just about algorithms, but building trust, he says.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

But LA-based performance marketing agency MuteSix didn’t wait that long to build its business around scaling DTC brands. If you have growth marketing agencies or freelancers to recommend, please fill out our survey !). What can you tell us about MuteSix as an agency? And then bit by bit, we grew the organization.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The lawyer and author grew her side hustle of making activist T-shirts into a behemoth of a brand, Phenomenal , which recently expanded from merchandising to media to entertainment. Now, she wants to invest in those who show that same scrappiness with her next, and literal, venture: Phenomenal Ventures.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2021

Now, a 10-person startup founded by JD Maresco, who previously cofounded the public safety app Citizen, says it plans to make it a lot easier for retailers who sell directly to their customers to make re-ordering their products just as fast and simple through its QR codes. But we’re also expanding to other e-commerce platforms.

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CIO

DECEMBER 18, 2023

By Bryan Kirschner, Vice President, Strategy at DataStax For all the deserved enthusiasm about the potential of generative AI, “ ChatGPT is not your AI strategy ” remains sound advice. That said, it’s still worthwhile to think about how to use large language model (LLM)-powered tools like ChatGPT in more strategic ways.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Behind such transactions is cross-border commerce, where African brands, via personal shoppers, export their items to a global audience. The London-based but Africa-focused platform was founded by CEO Ayotunde Rufai , who had the idea to start Jendaya after repeatedly acting as a personal shopper for luxury items in the U.K.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Gen AI and LLMs will probably transform us as a business and what we can do to data, so we’re absorbing data from third party sources,” he says. “We We would never do that before, but we will if it’s going to help us become more intelligent in what we do because humans can only go so far, and models can only get you so far.

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CIO

DECEMBER 6, 2023

But according to Michael Fagan, chief transformation officer of Australian cinema and theme park company Village Roadshow, the positive change of the role is about being less focused on cost and more around value-added delivery. Fagan has held many senior IT leadership roles for well known brands in Australia, Europe, USA and Asia.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2023

It’s the new venture of Adam Zhang , the hardware co-founder of Lime, the shared e-scooter company that is gearing up for an IPO ; Xiao Xiaotao, who managed Lime’s hardware R&D; and Sun Zhen, former chief designer of Chinese ride hailing giant Didi’s shared-bike program. About 60% of its buyers are from the age of 35-54.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

It’s not restricted to building a personal brand and influencer marketing anymore; also finding quality and targeted candidates. However, before laying off the employees, companies follow a layoff plan and a multi-step approach on who to select for the layoff. Let’s dive in. Trend #1—Recruitment through social media.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 17, 2023

Cure , a functional hydration brand, is entering a new phase of its growth that includes nearly quadrupling its retail presence from 2021, rounding out its leadership team and closing on $5.6 Hydration is not a new concept (who can forget The Right Stuff ?), We feel that we’re just as effective as products like Liquid I.V.,

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The hackathons and coding clubs are targeted at grades six to nine, while the Hackergal Ambassador program is a highly competitive program for high schoolers who have aged out of Hackergal’s middle school coding and hackathon programs. We know that there are certain populations who need our programming a lot and they need the support.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 11, 2021

“Who should my first marketing hire be?” Your first marketer will have an outsized impact on team dynamics as well as the overall strategic direction of the brand, product and company. So much so that when founders ask this question, it immediately prompts multiple new ones: Should I hire a brand or growth marketer?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

A wholesale e-commerce platform based in Kenya, with hubs in the Americas, Asia and Europe, Powered by People , has secured $5 million in seed funding to increase its transaction volume by growing the number of small brands using its B2B online marketplace to reach international buyers. Orders on the platform average $1,200. “We

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

Move over basic customer surveys, EnquireLabs wants to bring speed and scale to zero-party data, which is just a fancy way of saying data that customers give directly to brands. In getting rid of third-party cookies, Apple essentially made it much more difficult for brands to attract conversions and make this kind of post-flywheel work.”.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

There’s a lot of advice out there on how to grab people’s attention, but there’s one aspect of marketing that Robert Katai thinks isn’t talked about as often: maintaining their attention. You can get web traffic, but you can also create a message and build the brand. And is his advice applicable beyond borders?

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