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Hottest tech skills to hire for in 2020

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

The benefits of honing technical skills go far beyond the Information Technology industry. Strong tech skills are essential in today’s changing world, and if your employees consistently and proactively enhance their IT skills, you will help them improve both personally and professionally. Yes, it may feel overwhelming.

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How a CIO’s approach to cloud, AI and ML is transforming Nigeria’s Dangote Industries

CIO

His endeavour to get into the technology space led him to learn about enterprise application platforms and he eventually started his ERP career at IBM. Later he joined SAP Labs in the US where he was immersed in product management for cloud technology. Can you describe the importance of cloud technologies across Africa today?

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So much fintech M&A

TechCrunch

Jason Furtado and Stephan Richter founded Boston-based Shoobx in 2013, according to Crunchbase. As reported by Life Insurance International: “Level has created a tech-driven underwriting process for early-stage fintech startups that is claimed to have brought new efficiency and speed to the debt-raising process.

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Vanadium ion battery startup Standard Energy raises $8.9M Series C from SoftBank Ventures Asia

TechCrunch

Founded in 2013 by researchers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Standard Energy expects one of its main customers to be the energy storage systems (ESS) sector, which the company says is expected to grow from $8 billion to $35 billion in the next five years. “A

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Book Review

taos

Book Review?—?The The Phoenix Project First Published: January 29, 2013, By Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford The short version: The Phoenix Project is to IT what the best of the Harvard Business Review cases are to a business. For Parts Unlimited, the Phoenix Project is a make-or-break IT project for the company.

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India’s advisory on LLM usage causes consternation

CIO

India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has caused consternation with its stern reminder to makers and users of large language models (LLMs) of their obligations under the country’s IT Act, after Google’s Gemini model was prompted to make derogatory remarks about Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

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Contentstack raises $80M to grow its headless CMS platform for the enterprise

TechCrunch

The market for enterprise content management systems (CMS) is steeply growing as the need to organize and manage documents, images and other forms of digital content increases. Headless CMS systems act primarily as content repositories, managing back-end infrastructure while affording plenty of customization on the front end.