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Live video shopping startup Talkshoplive brings in another $6M

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million raised to date and enables it to scale its product management and technical teams. Now, the company is looking at food, beauty, fashion, and sports. In fact, sales so far this year have surpassed all of the company’s 2020 revenue, growing 85 percent month over month, he said.

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SAP poaches Microsoft exec as its new global head of AI

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As part of Microsoft’s development team, Sun created Bing Predicts, the inference engine that provides the “favored to win” forecasts beneath search results for sporting fixtures and attempted to predict the 2016 US presidential election winner. She joined the company in 2020, after a three-year stint in a similar role at Lenovo.

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Insurtech goes niche

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Boundless Rider was founded specifically to serve riders of motorcycles, e-bikes and power sport vehicles. If it’s built in a factory — and this includes modular homes, tiny homes and ADUs — we help insure it,” former LinkedIn product manager Adarsh Rachmale told me in an interview.

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Agile vs Scrum: Differences & Similarities?—?The Complete Review [2020]

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The Complete Review [2020] From the desk of a brilliant weirdo #1 : If you are using Scrum it’s safe to say that you are also using Agile. The exam material ranges roughly 8 different books / guides and leans a lot on the PMBOK (Product Management Body of Knowledge) textbook. CEO & Founder at Kicking It Sports.

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Investors prove that insurtech isn’t dead, thanks to e-bikes and pre-fab homes

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Census Bureau estimated in 2020 that there were currently 22 million Americans living in 6.8 Boundless Rider is a new insurance company founded specifically to serve riders of motorcycles, e-bikes and power sport vehicles. billion in 2021. . Meanwhile, the U.S. million manufactured homes across the U.S.

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The NBA’s digital transformation is a game-changer

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The NBA’s full-court press on digital technologies has revolutionized the fan, player, and team experience, thanks to accelerated deployment of cloud, analytics, AI, and computer vision technologies since the association launched its digital transformation in 2020. Craig Powers, an analyst at IDC, sees no end in sight to that trend.

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What Happens to Managers in Scrum? – Episode 1 of ScrumCast

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What Happens to Managers in Scrum? . by Tom Bullock , Dave Slaten , Avi Schneier | April 23, 2020 | Blog. Here’s how Avi and Dave define that term: AVI SCHNEIER: “I think we want to distinguish the fact that product managers are not always middle managers.

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