TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2023

GDR measures retention of an existing book of revenue before expansion, whereas NDR incorporates expansion: Image Credits: Index Ventures Image Credits: Index Ventures GDR and NDR are well-known and widely used metrics, often discussed in the context of growth.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

That concern might have been tempered by the company’s earnings call , which included a note from the company’s CFO that it is “seeing acceleration in January relative to our order growth in December as well as in Q4.” Finally, two notes from earnings calls. That’s encouraging. Various and Sundry. But then today its shares are off 16%.

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CIO

OCTOBER 26, 2023

In this past quarter, we saw good revenue growth in software and consulting,” IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said during an earnings call. Big bets on generative AI In the quarter ended September, IBM placed several large bets on generative A I after seeing demand from its customers, Krishna said during the earnings call.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

Glose has been building iOS, Android and web apps that let you buy, download and read books on your devices. Sure, there are social platforms that let you talk about books, such as Goodreads. There are also some gamification features that help you stay motivated as you read difficult books — you get streak rewards for instance.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The pandemic has been terrible for many industries, but the book industry has gotten a rare reprieve in an otherwise dismal past decade. That surge in interest in books has also led to a surge in interest from founders to rethink aspects of the reading experience. No boring book clubs. The first rule of BookClub?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 8, 2021

million in seed funding for its platform that simplifies the booking process for podcasts. Founder and CEO Travis Chappell said users can go on the platform and book guests for their shows at the click of a button in all kinds of topics and with shows big or small. He launched Guestio in 2020 as a booking marketplace.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Despite the uncertainty in the tourism sector from the Covid pandemic, the PEV team didn’t slow down but instead went on to launch two startups — Elephant Bookings, a software as a service (SaaS) product, and Nomad.Africa, a content-to-commerce magazine. Bookaway books $35M to scale up its ground transportation booking platform.

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CIO

MARCH 19, 2024

Now Atos faces the challenge of bringing the two halves back together with what Saleh calls a coordinated go-to-market strategy while it considers other strategic options. Another buyer? Saleh hasn’t ruled out looking for another buyer. Managed IT Services, Mergers and Acquisitions, Technology Industry

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 15, 2024

When you calmly call attention to someone’s behavior and ask, “What’s happening for you?” A note on GOATs: Goats are our “Greatest of All Time” Powerful Phrases in our new book: Powerful Phrases for Dealing with Workplace Conflict (the book has over 300 phrases, the GOATs are the top twelve). How about a timeout?”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

FunNow is a booking app for spontaneous people. For example, in Malaysia, it talked to food and beverage merchants and discovered that customers prefer to pick up food instead of waiting for deliveries, so it added takeaway bookings. Some users, tired of WFH, booked hotel rooms to work. Image Credits: FunNow. “We

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Martin Fowler

JANUARY 4, 2024

Micheal Feathers coined the term “seam” in the context of legacy systems in his book Working Effectively with Legacy Code. This we need to introduce a seam around the call to calculateShipping , something that will allow our test to redirect the call to the stub. Here's an example of where a seam would be handy.

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Henrik Warne

MARCH 22, 2020

Here are the ideas from the book that I liked the most. For example, say that you want to represent the number of books ordered. Instead of using an integer for this, define a class called Quantity. Or for a user name, instead of just using a string, define a class called UserName. Domain Primitives. ” Validation.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

Over on TC+ , I just launched a new series called Pitch Deck Teardowns! They let me write a book about this stuff, so that means I know what I’m talking about. Oh, and I wrote a book about how to create a great pitch. You can submit your deck for review here. Who the hell are you to review my pitch deck?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

It plans to use the funds to continue expanding its product, hiring more talent and taking Peek to more places, after passing some $2 billion in bookings from some 35 million customers, mostly in North America. But offline businesses were faced with needing to suddenly make what she calls “a 10-year leap” to catch up.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

In particular, Amenitiz takes care of three important bricks in the hotel industry — it’s a property management system, it acts a channel manager and it let you accept direct bookings more easily. A channel manager can manage your listings across dozens of booking sites at once. So far, Amenitiz has attracted 3,000 properties.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

Besides seeking to snag market share from incumbents such as Concur, Brex is also taking on startups such as Navan (formerly called TripActions) — which actually started its business focused on travel expense management before broadening its offering — and also Ramp, which itself expanded into travel last year.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2023

Dolma, as the dataset is called, is intended to be the basis for the research group’s planned open language model, or OLMo (Dolma is short for “Data to feed OLMo’s Appetite). Language models like GPT-4 and Claude are powerful and useful, but the data on which they are trained is a closely guarded secret.

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CIO

DECEMBER 20, 2023

For example, Uber and Zomato use a deep learning algorithm that considers driver location and overall ratings while mapping them to particular orders/bookings. Call confirmation to the back-end team. #5 For example, Uber offers premium services to customers based on their booking record of accomplishment.

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The Hustle

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and, apparently, a video call with an uber-successful entrepreneur is worth a thousand dollars. But that time comes with hefty price tags: A 30-minute call with Tiny founder Andrew Wilkinson costs ~$5k. A 15-minute call with entrepreneur Nikita Bier starts at $1.4k. from 95 bookings.

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Agile Alliance

MARCH 4, 2020

During the last few years we have witnessed the amazing revival of an almost 50 year old management idea called “Objectives and Key Results” (OKR). The former Intel CEO Andy Grove introduced the concept in this company in the seventies, as described in his 1983 book “High Output Management”.

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Modern CTO

MARCH 25, 2024

For booking inquiries, email booking@proseriesmedia.com About Jim Harris Jim Harris is one of North America’s foremost management consultants, public speakers, authors and thinkers on change and leadership. His most recent book, Blindsided! All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast! Let us know here.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

So its latest step is to find renters a place, which they can also list on the travel booking platform. Today, the company introduced a new program called “Airbnb-friendly apartments” in the U.S. Airbnb really wants you to Airbnb an apartment.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

That meant customers came to your website drawn by the content on the blog without a sales team explicitly having to call and ask them to buy something. That book, “ The New Rules of Marketing and PR ,” was published in 2007 and proved to be a seminal work in the field. The deal included a free newsletter with 1.5

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Martin Fowler

JANUARY 25, 2024

I’ve been using Emacs for many years, using it for any writing for my website, writing my books, and most of my programming. I wrote a command to remove the domain from a URL, I call it mf-url-remove-domain and can invoke it with M-x mf url. Exceptions have been IntellJ IDEA for Java and RStudio for R.) ivy-switch-buffer) ("C-x b".

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The German startup tells TechCrunch travel and booking patterns have now largely returned to resembling the pre-pandemic picture, from 2019, with a rise in international (vs domestic) travel bookings. And Holidu and its investors are banking on that increased demand sticking around.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

When May’s service launches Wednesday, anyone within the 17-square-mile service area, which covers much of the small, rural city of Grand Rapids, will be able to book a free, on-demand, shared ride from one of five Sienna AVs using the May Mobility app. Riders who don’t have smartphones can also book a ride by calling 211.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

In addition to providing physicians training, She Matters allows individuals to access what they call “ The Pink Book ”, making a reference to “The Green Book” used by Black motorists in the Jim Crow era. Image Credits: She Matters.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

In particular, Doctolib acts as a booking platform that connects doctors with patients; 60 million people have used it in France, Germany and Italy. The company plans to create a suite of products and expand beyond appointment booking. The company wants to help them tackle admin tasks.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2023

With the new rideshare program, called Bandwagon, SpaceX is going after this slice of the market. According to SpaceX’s website , it currently has two Bandwagon missions booked for 2024 and two for 2025. Right now, companies must often purchase a dedicated launch from Rocket Lab if they want to position a satellite in MIO.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Nigeria-based health tech startup Helium Health has acquired Meddy , a Qatar-headquartered and UAE-based doctor booking platform for an undisclosed amount. But we can provide a full suite where you can do your appointments booking, marketing solution, EMR, hospital management information system, and have everything in a one-stop shop.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2023

In a session called “Making Money Move with Embedded Finance,” our panel will talk about how a new breed of finance infrastructure companies have the potential to turn any company into a fintech company. Book your room today. Buy your pass now and save $400 before prices go up at the door. More hotel raffle details here.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 8, 2024

Doing conflict at work well when you’re not in the same room, in different time zones, when you’re dealing with what Phil, our IT guy, would call “a crap ton” of rapid change is even harder. We call this conflict cocktail, The “Wedge Driver. Splash the team across time zones and geographies 3.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

In their book, they share some of the masterful methods they wish they had known earlier in their careers – specifically for women. In their book, Kathryn and Brenda share their career advice for woman leaders…and here are a few: 1. In their book they call it “reputationality” and it includes all things YOU.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Pakistani fintech PostEx has acquired logistics service provider Call Courier , creating what it describes as the largest e-commerce service provider in the country. million users with over 8,000 merchants across 500 cities in Pakistan, and is on track to having a monthly loan book of more than $12 million. PostEx will now serve 1.3

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2023

Open source password management platform Bitwarden has made its first known acquisition, snapping up a fledgling Sweden-based startup called Passwordless.dev , which specializes in helping developers integrate passwordless authentication technology into their software. Image Credits: Passwordless.dev.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In other words, if you’re a reporter, who also podcasts, wants to write a book and would love to one day help teach at a university, Polywork wants to give you, well me in this case , a place to express that. The call to action, Johnston explains, soon became helping people find opportunities to collaborate with each other. “If

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

He recently published a book of essays called, Tomorrow Together: Essays of Hope, Healing, and Humanity. His book is filled with meaningful, personal stories that will make you think, laugh, and possibly cry. These are “Asking for a Friend” questions I receive after almost every keynote.

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