TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

Yubo , a social livestreaming app popular with a Gen Z audience, announced today it’s becoming one of the first major social platforms to adopt a new age verification technique that uses live image capture technology to identify minors using its app, in order to keep them separated from adult users. The app doesn’t run ads.

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CIO

MARCH 13, 2023

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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Today Juniper Networks announced it was acquiring smart wide area networking startup 128 Technology for $450 million. This marks the second AI-fueled networking company Juniper has acquired in the last year and a half after purchasing Mist Systems in March 2019 for $405 million.

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CIO

JULY 4, 2023

If you don’t join board meetings often, preparation is paramount, starting with learning about the directors’ backgrounds and reviewing minutes from previous meetings. Be prepared to answer common board questions about cyber readiness, technology roadmaps, and plans to hire and retain a diverse team.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Sonder is a tech-driven hospitality company. million, and, in the post-pandemic world where the population has become far more movable due to remote working, similar businesses are raising funds to attend to the needs of this global, nomadic workforce. Based out of the U.S., It’s raised $529.6

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

VCs are also increasingly looking for what biotech startups can do with AI beyond just R&D and are wary of companies that use the technology as a marketing tool. We also see AI being used in the biologics space, although the technology is used there far earlier. Where else can AI play a role in health tech?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” Here’s another edition of “Dear Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies.

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The Hustle

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

While the TSA has used facial recognition tech since 2019, the “tipping point” for air travel biometrics could come in 2024, per The New York Times. With TSA facial screening verification already used at ~30 airports and expanding to 400+ more in the coming years, biometric tech looks like it’s here to stay.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

As Italy reinstates many COVID-19 restrictions, the country’s tech ecosystem is watching and waiting to see what the wider effects of the emergency will be. Italy’s ecosystem for tech venture capital and startups has been in development for years and has made decent strides in the last decade.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

The API-based tool, dubbed Grow, has so far been integrated with 22 tech entities across Africa including Topship, Barter by Flutterwave, Float, Fingo and Payhippo, enabling them to either bundle their main products with insurance packages or offer insurance as a standalone service. without the outsized market of South Africa.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

No merchant likes a bad customer review and Okendo , a customer marketing platform, announced $26 million in Series A funding today to continue developing its customer review tools for e-commerce brands. Base10 Partners led the funding round and was joined by Craft Ventures and existing investor Index Ventures.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

When Chijioke Dozie, the CEO, spoke to TechCrunch in 2019, he cited recruitment purposes and clientele trust as reasons why the company made its financials public — an exercise it has done every second quarter for two years. It’s a tradition Dozie hopes the company will keep this year. billion (~$241.35

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OverOps

MARCH 26, 2019

Report: Technical Debt is Costing You More Than You Think [link] pic.twitter.com/MHIGkKrXk6. — OverOps (@overopshq) March 26, 2019. What is Technical Debt? Technical debt , like most terms in the technology sector, has a different meaning depending on who you ask. So, what is technical debt?

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

So in 2019 she founded Eano , a San Francisco-based startup that aims to walk a homeowner through a renovation and help connect individual contractors with new clients. Construction tech startups are poised to shake up a $1.3-trillion-dollar Construction tech startups are poised to shake up a $1.3-trillion-dollar

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

“As software developers ourselves — working in health tech and fintech, where even minor bugs could have an outsized impact on people’s lives — we know firsthand how critical robust end-to-end testing is for all software businesses,” Perl said. Neither, obviously, are very desirable scenarios.

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CIO

DECEMBER 9, 2022

A recent report from Korn Ferry Institute predicts that by 2030 the tech industry labor-skill shortage will reach 4.3 The traditional answer would be your hiring competitors, which, with every company becoming in some sense a technology company, is just about every business out there. trillion in unrealized annual revenues. Employees?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Now, investors see New Zealand as a country with a track record of building companies with global exits in SaaS, health tech and deep tech. That said, the signs are all pointing to technology being New Zealand’s next export industry, as long as everyone keeps pushing in the same direction. billion, from Q1 2020 to Q4 2021.

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Altexsoft

JULY 3, 2020

The hospitality industry evolved into various businesses that propose different customer experiences by adopting new technologies, practices, and cultural trends. Technologies that form back offices and hotel management systems consist of various tools and structures. foster the adoption of new technologies.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

“We seek out exceptional founding teams whose business plan is centered on the strategic utilization of technology to gain a competitive advantage. By 2019, Kaszek had closed on its fourth fund, raising $375 million and its first Opportunity Fund, reserving $225 million for later-stage investing in existing portfolio companies.

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CIO

JANUARY 12, 2023

And when technology is added to the mix, opportunities multiply. Our economy is based on agriculture and I believe it should be further supported by technology to increase agricultural productivity,” he says. The same is true for most African countries that need to be supported by technological solutions.” Plus, about 20.4

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Dzone - DevOps

DECEMBER 9, 2019

A look back at DevOps in 2019. Over the period of 2019, a massive wave of new approaches and innovations came to software testing landscape at an exponential way. Along with those new introductions is the continuation of technological improvement, evolution, and reinvention.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

5 investors discuss Boston’s resilient tech ecosystem Boston’s university-to-startup pipeline defies downturn to grow and diversify In order to build a startup culture, a city or region needs some key elements in place – like an innovation engine to drive startup ideas. It also has a long history of innovation and a rich tech legacy.

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CIO

JANUARY 5, 2024

With stints at Procter & Gamble, HPE and DHL, Jaime González-Peralta landed at Radisson Hotel Group four years ago as CIO for EMEA and then became global CIO in April 2020 — a particularly complex moment due to the paralysis that the pandemic inflicted on the world of travel. Are you already working with generative AI?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The company also offers due diligence and acquisition financing from Thrasio-owned Yardline Capital and a new service called Flippa Legal. in 2019, driven largely by the global pandemic as sales shifted online while brick-and-mortar stores closed. Our strategy is verification at the source, i.e. data,” Hutchison said.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

In 2019, InstaDeep raised an $8.5 InstaDeep happened to be quite different from other companies in our pipeline as they were actually into deep tech versus applying technology to a certain sector, where basically, you become an operator in that sector.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Technology has evolved drastically over the last decade and is only expected to continue transforming. With the changing landscape, the skill sets that organizations look for in tech professionals is also changing. At HackerEarth, we have helped thousands of organizations find top tech talent. Software architects .

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CIO

JANUARY 3, 2024

Last year, it announced a plan to execute an IBM/Kyndryl style split, spinning off its infrastructure services business as a company called Tech Foundations, and rebranding as Eviden the more modern remainder of the company, which includes its supercomputing, cloud computing, carbon accounting, and cybersecurity activities.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

The year 2021 saw more and bigger deals closed in Africa, as tech startups across the continent raised close to $5 billion. billion investment that fintechs in Africa raised in 2020, and triple the amount in 2019. This amount was also more than double the $1.35

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TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2023

Constrafor also joined in on the AI trend by launching some initiatives using embedded generative AI related to automating manual reviews, for example, of insurance. New investor Fifth Wall joined existing investors, including FinTech Collective, Clocktower Technology Ventures, Commerce Ventures, FJ Labs and NotreVis, in the round.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

If you follow me on Twitter , you’ve probably noticed that of every three or four tweets, one has me making fun of blockchain tech. I did want to mention it, because as much as I’ll try to be neutral, my disdain for blockchain tech will almost certainly show through in this teardown. Pitch Deck Teardown: Arkive’s $9.7M

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

Startups and VC Shopify last week announced that it would be the latest Big Tech firm to undergo mass layoffs. Also included in the announcement was news that the Canadian e-commerce giant had found a new owner for 6 River Systems, the warehouse automation firm it purchased in 2019 for nearly a half-billion dollars , reports Brian.

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CIO

JULY 26, 2022

The PGA of America is building a world-class resort with multiple golf courses and retail shops near Dallas, due to be complete next year. Many of these next-generation projects are on track due to the organization’s decision to go all-in to the public cloud well before the pandemic hit. It’s a sweet deal for them.”.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

Today, Bosch announced that it would be acquiring Five.ai , the autonomous driving startup that started with big ambitions to build and operate its own fleet of robotaxis but ultimately pivoted to focusing on technology development as a B2B play. Scale matters in building automated driving technology. Headquartered in Cambridge, U.K.,

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

We first emphasized this issue in a 2019 piece: Did African startups raise $496M, $1B or $2B in 2019? From the type of deals reviewed to the definition of an African startup, each factor contributes to the disparities in numbers. African tech took center stage in 2021. billion to $1.5 That number doubled to 62%.

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CIO

OCTOBER 18, 2023

For instance, the company completed its conversion to a 100% Agile company in 2019, an achievement that reinforced its commitment to clients. So since the brand began this journey, the main objective has been to execute a corporate strategy by betting on the possibilities that technology provides in combination with people and data.

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CIO

APRIL 25, 2023

If there are any eternal truths about emerging technologies, it’s that there are always naysayers. The key to navigating these extremes is putting emerging technologies in context. The second possibility is that we are witnessing a once every 50-year technology revolution similar to the arrival of PCs or the semiconductor.

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Modern CTO

MAY 9, 2024

We discuss why treating change as a goal is actually problematic, the psychological stressors that a shifting environment has on people, and why the change being brought on by new technology is being rejected by the masses. All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast!

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