Agile Alliance
MARCH 1, 2021
This interview is in Spanish. However, you can read a summary in English below. In this interview I had the opportunity to talk with Erich Bühler, an Uruguayan by birth who moved to Spain many years ago and from there has been helping several companies in several countries in their transition towards Agility. Erich wrote … Continued. The post Organizational Change first appeared on Agile Alliance.
TechCrunch
MARCH 1, 2021
Known for its innovations in the payments sector, Square is now officially a bank. Nearly one year after receiving conditional approval , Square said Monday afternoon that its industrial bank, Square Financial Services, has begun operations. Square Financial Services completed the charter approval process with the FDIC and Utah Department of Financial Institutions, meaning its ready for business.
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Agile Alliance
MARCH 1, 2021
(This is Part I in a five part series.) As the two of us compared notes about clients and their ability to use agile approaches, we realized something that surprised us. Although agile approaches owe their history to lean principles, we see very little lean thinking in many supposedly agile endeavours. We decided to explore … Continued. The post How Much Lean is in Today’s “Agile”?
TechCrunch
MARCH 1, 2021
Commitments to carbon neutrality keep coming from all corners of the business world — over the past few weeks, companies ranging from the fast-casual restaurant chain Sweetgreen to the security-focused networking IT company Palo Alto Networks to the online craft retailer Etsy committed to net-zero carbon emission plans. As the companies look for ways to reduce their energy consumption, they’re turning to carbon offset programs as a stopgap measure until the energy grid decarbonizes,
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Let's Grow Leaders
MARCH 1, 2021
When You Coach Employees, Make Every Conversation Count You want to coach employees to improve performance, but there’s just so little time. Make every coaching conversation count, by focusing on what each team member needs most. Effective Coaching Techniques Coaching employees to […]. The post How to Coach Employees to High Performance When Time is Limited appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
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The Crazy Programmer
MARCH 1, 2021
In this article, we will look at the difference between Binary Tree and Binary Search Tree. These topics are very important because these act as an underlying data structure for various other data structures. So, we will look at the description of each with examples and compare their properties. Binary Tree. A Binary tree is a type of Tree data structure, Non-Linear (data is not contiguous or in sequence) in nature.
TechCrunch
MARCH 1, 2021
Remote work has become the norm for many businesses in the last year, and today a startup that has built a cybersecurity platform to help manage all the devices connecting to organizations’ wide-ranging networks — while also providing a way for those organizations to take advantage of all the best that the quite fragmented security market has to offer — is announcing a major round of funding and a big boost to its valuation after seeing its annual recurring revenues grow ten-fo
Aqua Security
MARCH 1, 2021
What were you doing four years ago? Perhaps in 2017 you were, like many people, entirely unaware of the way that containers and cloud computing would take the world by storm. Back then, there were companies just taking baby steps towards containerization – don’t feel bad if you were running one container per virtual machine, because many people were.
TechCrunch
MARCH 1, 2021
Klarna , the Swedish buy now, pay later behemoth and upstart bank, has raised $1 billion in new funding at a post-money valuation of $31 billion. That sees the company retain the crown as the highest valued private fintech in Europe. Backers of this round are said to be combination of new and existing investors, while Klarna claims it was 4 times oversubscribed.
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David Walsh
MARCH 1, 2021
The landscape of security is changing quite a bit. We’ve gone from basic username and password to 2FA, facial recognition, fingerprint recognition, and so on. Hell, my Mac unlocks simply when I have my Apple Watch near by. In the end, I probably use the Mac fingerprint key the most. One functionality that still requires manually typing a password is using sudo from command line.
TechCrunch
MARCH 1, 2021
A startup by an Apple alum that has become home to millions of low-skilled workers in India said on Tuesday it has raised an additional $12.5 million, just five months after securing $8 million from high-profile investors. One-year-old Apna said Sequoia Capital India and Greenoaks Capital led the $12.5 million Series B investment in the startup. Existing investors Lightspeed India and Rocketship VC also participated in the round.
DevOps.com
MARCH 1, 2021
It feels like DevOps principles are permeating every discipline, creating new buzzwords by the minute. DevSecOps. DatabaseOps. SalesOps. FinOps. MarketingOps. This “JargonOps” is clearly encouraged by marketing campaigns (and bloggers, wink, wink). Yet, the phrases do depict a real trend: all industries are getting an efficiency overhaul in the wake of increased automation.
TechCrunch
MARCH 1, 2021
Compass , the real-estate brokerage startup backed by roughly $1.6 billion in venture funding , filed its S-1 Monday. The move comes just under one year after the New York-based company laid off 15% of its staff as a result of the shifting economic fortunes created by the global response to the novel coronavirus pandemic. Prior to the IPO, SoftBank’s Vision Fund holds slightly more than a one-third stake in the company.
Speaker: Shreya Rajpal, Co-Founder and CEO at Guardrails AI & Travis Addair, Co-Founder and CTO at Predibase
Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT offer unprecedented potential for complex enterprise applications. However, productionizing LLMs comes with a unique set of challenges such as model brittleness, total cost of ownership, data governance and privacy, and the need for consistent, accurate outputs. Putting the right LLMOps process in place today will pay dividends tomorrow, enabling you to leverage the part of AI that constitutes your IP – your data – to build a defensible AI strategy fo
DevOps.com
MARCH 1, 2021
The cloud has been getting a lot of press in the past few years—and with good reason. The elasticity and flexibility of resources are transformational for businesses. However, there are also drawbacks. For most enterprises, it’s a significant undertaking to migrate on-premises applications into a public cloud environment. Modern applications today are rarely self-contained entities. […].
TechCrunch
MARCH 1, 2021
Ethan Eismann. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Ethan Eismann is the Vice President of Design at Slack, leading design and engineering teams to deliver exceptional product experiences. At Slack, every one of our processes and features has been designed with the primary goal of making Slack a workplace tool that feels human. We see ourselves as our users’ hosts, and we want them to feel comfortable and happy every time they’re in Slack.
DXC
MARCH 1, 2021
An emerging way to program, known as low-code application development, is transforming the way we create software. With this new approach, we’re creating applications faster and more flexibly than ever before. What’s more, this work is being done by teams where up to three-quarters of the team members can have no prior experience in developing […].
TechCrunch
MARCH 1, 2021
Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest private market news, talks about the coming week, digs into some recent funding rounds and mulls over a larger theme or narrative from the private markets. You can follow the show on Twitter here and myself here — and be sure to check out our most recent Friday episode , which featured news on Finix a
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Dataiku
MARCH 1, 2021
Organizations often say they want to be data-driven, analytically empowered, or even an AI organization. But what does it actually mean to be an “AI organization?” Have you ever heard anyone say they wanted to be a fax-driven organization or a phone-driven organization? Probably not. And that is exactly how Jeff McMillan, Chief Analytics and Data Officer for Morgan Stanley Wealth Management, explains how it sounds when organizations say they're aiming to become an "AI organization.
TechCrunch
MARCH 1, 2021
Tonal , maker of the smart home fitness trainer, announced it is more than tripling the number of physical locations it sells devices in through a new partnership with Nordstrom. Starting this month, Tonal will have 50-square-foot stations in the women’s activewear departments of at least 40 Nordstrom locations across the U.S., bringing the total number of Tonal physical locations to 60 by the end of 2021.
TechBeacon
MARCH 1, 2021
The hackers who compromised SolarWind's Orion network-performance monitoring software pulled off one of the most thorough compromises of a target that has ever been carried out, and they did this by subverting a vendor's software supply chain.
TechCrunch
MARCH 1, 2021
The impending Coinbase direct listing is a fintech debut to watch. The cryptocurrency-focused consumer trading concern is set to become a public company on the back of a strong 2020, and a particularly strong final quarter. And it appears that the company is also having a strong kickoff in 2021. What Coinbase is worth is therefore hard to guess, though some are trying, as we’ve noticed.
Speaker: Dr. Greg Loughnane and Chris Alexiuk
Technology professionals developing generative AI applications are finding that there are big leaps from POCs and MVPs to production-ready applications. They're often developing using prompting, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), and fine-tuning (up to and including Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF)), typically in that order. However, during development – and even more so once deployed to production – best practices for operating and improving generative AI applications are le
Cloudera
MARCH 1, 2021
This year’s International Women’s Day (IWD) on March 8th comes at a time when global communities, businesses, and governments find themselves continuing to pirouette, pivot, and adapt in the face of a relentless, global pandemic. . COVID-19 has touched every aspect of our lives. As women, overnight we suddenly found that we had a portfolio career – comprising our day jobs, caregiver, school teacher and house cleaner – that we had neither asked for, nor were consulted on. .
TechCrunch
MARCH 1, 2021
Zeta Global , the marketing technology company founded by David A. Steinberg and former Apple CEO John Sculley, is announcing an additional $222.5 million in new debt financing. The company has gone down the debt route before — a Series F raised in 2017 combined $115 million funding with $25 million in debt. BofA Securities served as lead arranger and bookrunner for the new financing, with participation from Barclays, Credit Suisse and Morgan Stanley Senior Funding.
scruminc
MARCH 1, 2021
Scrum Success: Embracing The Ability To Adapt. by Jack Harmening, Kendra West | March 1, 2021 | Blog. For more than a year now, we have been part of a team consulting and coach a large client with multinational operations. During that time we’ve seen a shift at the client that reflects why we care about this work. Our role is not to become a permanent fixture.
TechCrunch
MARCH 1, 2021
According to an amended S-1 filing , South Korean e-commerce leader Coupang expects to price its initial public offering between $27 to $30 per share, potentially raising up to $3.6 billion. After the IPO, Coupang will have a total of 1.7 billion shares outstanding, including Class A and Class B. This means the means the pricing would give Coupang a potential market capitalization between $46 billion to $51 billion, a huge increase over the $9 billion valuation it reached after its last funding
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DevOps.com
MARCH 1, 2021
BELLEVUE, Wash., March 1, 2021 — Core Scientific, a leading infrastructure and software solutions provider for artificial intelligence and blockchain that is led by CEO Kevin Turner, the former COO of Microsoft, announced today that it has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) High Performance Computing (HPC) Competency status. This designation recognizes that Core Scientific has […].
TechCrunch
MARCH 1, 2021
Kaltura , a software company focused on providing video technology to other concerns, has filed to go public. The Kaltura S-1 filing only partially surprised. TechCrunch previously covered the company as part of our ongoing $100 million ARR series focusing on private companies that have reached material scale. (TechCrunch has also covered its product life to a moderate degree.).
DevOps.com
MARCH 1, 2021
Agile organizations are looking for ways to win at security without slowing down their release cycles. That’s where DevSecOps comes in. The days of a hands-off security approach for developers are over. Organizations implementing DevSecOps to integrate security into their DevOps framework are able to release secure software faster. Developers test code for potential security […].
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