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Women in tech statistics: The hard truths of an uphill battle

CIO

The employment gap Despite national conversations about the lack of diversity in tech, women are disproportionally missing out on the ongoing boom in IT jobs. In fact, the ratio of women to men in tech roles has declined in the past 35 years, with half of women who go into tech dropping out by the age of 35, according to data from Accenture.

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Astro emerges from stealth to connect Latin American developers with US tech companies

TechCrunch

Before starting Astro, they worked at the same company — OwnLocal — where they found it was tough to compete against top tech firms for talent. based tech companies. Samira and Astro’s second co-founder, Frank Licea, founded Astro after experiencing the effects of the developer shortage firsthand.

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5 Secrets to Outcome-Driven Business Speed

CIO

It’s a common problem for technology departments, in all businesses, to be running in multiple directions, trying to manage multiple projects at once, and struggling to complete the myriad outcomes targeted. We start with explaining and discussing our culture, our ways of working, and how our tools operate, and go on from there.

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Interesting facts about software development: statistics 2018

Apiumhub

is among the biggest challenges tech companies are facing. To be honest, we are very excited to show you interesting facts about software development in 2018. The biggest challenge tech companies are facing is related to capacity: delivering working software while the backlog is full and capacity is limited. Ok, let’s start!

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Executive Leadership in 2024: Skills and Strategies for Leaders

N2Growth Blog

The drive of such evolutions ranges from advancements in technology globalization to shifting demographics, requiring leaders to reshape their thinking and adapt to become more strategically foresighted. Technology is undeniably playing a pivotal role in the new executive leadership paradigm.

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Why You Should Be Adopting a DevOps Culture in 2020?

Dzone - DevOps

The year 2020 has arrived, and its arrival brings a lot of innovations and transformations in the Information and Technology (IT) sector and especially to DevOps technologies. The adoption of DevOps practices rose 17% in 2018 as compared to 10% in 2017, according to Statista. billion USD by 2025.

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Nigerian startup Taeillo raises funding to scale its online furniture e-commerce platform

TechCrunch

Founded in 2018 by Jumoke Dada , the online furniture seller sources raw materials from local suppliers and manufactures furniture pieces from sofas and beds to chairs and tables, which it sells to individual customers and businesses. When Dada launched the platform, its target audience was solely businesses.

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