Thu.Apr 01, 2021

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The Need for Speed in Cybersecurity

CTOvision

Read why Gaurav Banga, CEO and founder of Balbix, Inc. says that speed should be the most relevant composition of cybersecurity strategy on Security Boulevard : Friday is my favorite day of the week. This is the day I set aside to connect with CISOs in Balbix’s advisory council, in our customer base, and in […].

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Startups must curb bureaucracy to ensure agile data governance

TechCrunch

Jon Loyens. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Jon Loyens is chief product officer and co-founder of Data.World. By now, all companies are fundamentally data driven. This is true regardless of whether they operate in the tech space. Therefore, it makes sense to examine the role data management plays in bolstering — and, for that matter, hampering — productivity and collaboration within organizations.

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Thriving in the New Abnormal: How to Support Your Team (With Video)

Let's Grow Leaders

There’s Nothing Normal About Where We’re Headed Next- Time to Embrace the New Abnormal Your team is looking to you for guidance on what happens next. As you’re making plans think beyond the new normal, and focus on helping your team thrive […]. The post Thriving in the New Abnormal: How to Support Your Team (With Video) appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Collabio lets you co-edit documents without the cloud

TechCrunch

Meet Collabio Spaces : An office suite app with a cloudless co-authoring twist that looks helpful if you need to collaborate on documents without having to worry about losing control of your data or the thread of changes. The p2p software lets multiple people co-edit a document locally — from a mobile device or desktop computer — without A) the risk of uploading sensitive information to the cloud (i.e. as you must if you’re using a shared document function of a service like Goo

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Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d

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coinlayer API Review – How to Add Crypto Rates to Your Website

The Crazy Programmer

The launch of coinlayer , an API that integrates real-time crypto rates on websites and applications, has made it easier for developers to provide exchange rates for over 385 cryptocurrencies. One of the most-watched markets globally is the cryptocurrency market, and the rising interest of investors has made it crucial to provide reliable cryptocurrency data in real-time.

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Palo Alto Networks latest security giant accused of patent infringement

CTOvision

A company is suing Palo Alto Networks for patent infringement, alleging that proprietary technologies were demonstrated to the cybersecurity giant, then used in a number of its major security products and systems. The episode highlights the peril that some companies face in the preliminary stage of business discussions before any formal agreements are reached and in […].

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Next Insurance raises $250M, doubling its valuation to $4B in under a year

TechCrunch

Next Insurance recently announced that it has raised a $250 million round, valuing the SMB-focused insurance provider at $4 billion. The company last raised another $250 million in September 2020, at a valuation of $2 billion. This funding also comes after Next Insurance acquired Juniper Labs in December, and AP Intego more recently. Next sells small-business coverage across a number of categories (workers’ comp, commercial auto, general liability, etc.) for different classes of workers.

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Goldman close to offering Bitcoin to private wealth clients

CTOvision

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is close to offering investment vehicles for Bitcoin and other digital assets to clients of its private wealth management unit. ?We are working closely with teams across the firm to explore ways to offer thoughtful and appropriate access to the ecosystem for private wealth clients, and that is something we expect to […].

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Kintent nabs $4M seed to automate compliance questionnaire process

TechCrunch

Every tech vendor has to pass security muster with customers, typically a tedious activity involving answering long questionnaires. Kintent , a new startup that wants to automate this process, announced a $4 million seed today led by Tola Capital with help from a bunch of tech industry angel investors. After company co-founder and CEO Sravish Sridhar sold his previous startup Kinvey , which provided backend as a service to mobile app developers, he took a couple of years off while he decided wha

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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What's Erik up to?

Erik Bernhardsson

I joined Better in early 2015 because I thought the team was crazy enough to actually change one of the largest industries in the US. For six years, I ran the tech team, hiring 300+ people, probably doing 2,000+ interviews, and according to GitHub I added 646,941 lines of code and removed 339,164. But I also got married, had two kids, bought an apartment and renovated it!

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Pair Eyewear raises $12M to bring more personality to your glasses

TechCrunch

Pair Eyewear has raised a $12 million Series A to help glasses-wearing kids and adults turn those glasses into what co-CEO Sophia Edelstein called “a form of self-expression.” After all, Edelstein (who founded the company with her co-CEO Nathan Kondamuri) noted that “you’re spending a lot of money on [glasses], and then you’re stuck with that choice, unlike everything else you wear.” Pair Eyewear provides more flexibility by turning a pair of glasses into a two-piece ense

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The American company helping Israeli startups scale-up to the next level

CTOvision

It is no secret that the main destination targeted by Israeli tech startups is the U.S. market. However, it isn’t just one-way traffic. Take Aerospike, for example, an American company founded in 2009 that provides solutions to help companies build data-intensive apps or scale-up by boosting performances of existing databases. Aerospike boasts as clients Israeli […].

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What’s on deck today at TC Early Stage 2021

TechCrunch

Who’s ready for bootcamp? Today’s the day new founders get down to the business of, well, building a better business. TechCrunch Early Stage 2021: Operations & Fundraising provides early-stage founders with access to top founders, investors and subject-matter experts across the startup realm. The goal? Learn and develop the skills essential for startup success, avoid common mistakes, expand your network and discover new opportunities.

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Top 5 Challenges in Designing a Data Warehouse for Multi-Tenant Analytics

Multi-tenant architecture allows software vendors to realize tremendous efficiencies by maintaining a single application stack instead of separate database instances while meeting data privacy needs. When you use a data warehouse to power your multi-tenant analytics, the proper approach is vital. Multi-tenant analytics is NOT the primary use case with traditional data warehouses, causing data security challenges.

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Chainlink Hits $30 as Grayscale Adds 115,570 LINK to Its Reserves

CTOvision

Chainlink prices climbed higher on Thursday, rising by as much as 5.10 percent on the prospects of higher institutional adoption. The LINK/USD exchange rate reached its previous week’s high of $30 before correcting lower during the early London session. Its uptrend majorly came as a part of a broader bullish trend across the altcoin market. Meanwhile, […].

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Coinbase to direct list on April 14th, provide financial update on April 6th

TechCrunch

Today Coinbase, an American cryptocurrency trading platform and software company, said that it will begin to trade via a direct listing on April 14th. In a separate release the company also said that it will provide a financial update on April 6th, after the close of trading. Coinbase’s impending public debut comes at an interesting market moment.

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Qlik Partners with Snowflake to Unlock SAP Data for Cloud Analytics

CTOvision

Qlik has deepened its partnership with Snowflake, the Data Cloud company, with the launch of a new joint solution that enables faster ingestion and on-boarding of analytics-ready SAP data to Snowflake through accelerated data pipeline creation and ongoing data streaming with Qlik Data Integration. Reinforced by Qlik’s status as a Snowflake Elite Partner and 2020 […].

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Kaltura puts debut on hold. Is the tech IPO window closing?

TechCrunch

The Exchange just yesterday discussed a downward revision in the impending Compass IPO and the disappointing Deliveroo flotation as signals that market demand for high-growth, unprofitable tech shares could be slipping. Recent news underscores the possibly chilling conditions. This morning, Kaltura, a technology company that provides video streaming software and services, delayed its IPO.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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Announcing the launch of TFTs

The Daily WTF

Totally Fungible Tokens. NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, are an exciting new application of. Blockchain technology that allows us to burn down a rainforest every. time we want to trade a string representing an artist's signature. on a creative work. Many folks are eagerly turning JPGs, text files, and even Tweets into NFTs, but since not all of us have a convenient rainforest to destroy, The Daily WTF is happy to offer at alternative, the Totally Fungible Token.

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Tech in Mexico: A confluence of Latin America, the US and Asia

TechCrunch

Kevin Xu. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Kevin Xu is an early-stage investor and founder of Interconnected , a bilingual newsletter covering tech, business and U.S.-Asia relations. Mexico has been known as an up-and-coming tech hub and a gateway to the Latin American market. As an investor focused on developer-centered products, open-source startups and infrastructure technology companies with a particular interest in emerging market innovation, I have been wanting to do some firsthand learning

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10 experts advise aspiring test automation engineers

TechBeacon

Talk to 10 test automation experts on how to get started (or get better at your job), and you're likely to get 12 different answers. We know, because we tried, asking not for general, vague advice such as "Learn to code," but for specific websites, books, videos, and other resources to study.

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Spain’s Glovo picks up $528M as Europe’s food delivery market continues to heat up

TechCrunch

On the heels of Deliveroo raising more than $2 billion ahead of its debut on the London Stock Exchange this week, another hopeful in the food delivery sector has closed a super-sized round. Glovo , a startup out of Spain with 10 million users that delivers restaurant take-out, groceries and other items in partnership with brick-and-mortar businesses, has picked up a Series F of $528 million (€450 million).

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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One Year of Graviton2 at Honeycomb

Honeycomb

A year ago, we wrote about our experiences as early adopters of Graviton2 , and how we were able to see 30% price-performance improvements on one dogfood workload from switching to the arm64 architecture. In those initial experiments, we validated running 20% fewer shepherd ingest workers, using the m6g instance type, which cost 10% less per instance compared to c5 instances.

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LINE Ventures merges with YJ Capital, launches $271M fund

TechCrunch

LINE completed its merger with Yahoo! Japan owner Z Holdings last month, and now the two firm’s venture capital arms have also combined. Z Holdings announced today that its subsidiary, YJ Capital, has merged with LINE Ventures to form Z Venture Capital. The new firm also announced the launch of a 30 billion JPY (about $271 million USD) fund, which it claims makes it one of the largest corporate venture capital funds in Japan.

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Red Hat Survey Reveals More Confidence in Open Source

DevOps.com

A recent Red Hat survey revealed how DevOps teams increasingly depend on open source to support their shift to cloud-native environments and digital transformations, and to maintain security in these highly distributed environments. Based on a survey of 1,250 IT professionals, Red Hat maintains that the survey respondents — from organizations that were Red Hat […].

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Collaborative iOS app Craft Docs secures $8M, led by Creandum and a ‘Skyscanner Mafia’

TechCrunch

Launched in only November last year, the Craft Docs app — which was built from the ground up as an iOS app for collaborative documents — has secured an $8 million Series A round led by Creandum. Also participating was InReach Ventures, Gareth Williams (former CEO and co-founder of Skyscanner) and a number of other tech entrepreneurs, many of whom are ex-Skyscanner.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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Scrum Survivor

Agile42

agile42 is proud to present a new TV series format: Scrum Survivor! Three software development teams of 7±2 people will battle it out on reality TV. Who will be the winner? Read on for an exciting behind the scenes interview. Continue reading Scrum Survivor at agile42.

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How SOSV-backed Achiko pivoted from financial services to health tech during the COVID-19 pandemic

TechCrunch

Many companies had to adapt during the COVID-19 pandemic. For SOSV-backed Achiko , this meant shifting its focus from mobile payment services to affordable COVID-19 screening. Achiko’s platform combines an app called Teman Sehat (“Health Buddy” in Indonesian) for payments and keeping test records, and proprietary low-cost testing kits using DNA aptamers, or synthetic strands of DNA, that are cheaper to manufacture than rapid or PCR tests.

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Thriving into the New Abnormal: How to Support Your Team (with Video)

Let's Grow Leaders

There’s Nothing Normal About Where We’re Headed Next- Time to Embrace the New Abnormal. Your team is looking to you for guidance on what happens next. As you’re making plans think beyond the new normal, and focus on helping your team thrive in the new abnormal. Last week I attended the Association of Training Providers conference, where people like us who run training companies like ours gather to talk about industry trends, share ideas, and help one another better serve our cl

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