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With fresh capital, Symend aims to build a better debt collection system

TechCrunch

According to a September 2021 survey from Bankrate.com, 42% of U.S. adults with credit card debt increased their balances since the pandemic began in March 2020. ” With fresh capital, Symend aims to build a better debt collection system by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch. trillion, $2.36

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Hottest tech skills to hire for in 2020

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Here are some of the hottest tech skills (a mix of programming languages, tools, and frameworks; in random order) to hire for in 2020, which will help you thrive in the workplace of tomorrow. The Stack Overflow developer survey results show that about 69.7% The same survey reveals that JavaScript is one of the most desired languages.

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MSP Benchmark Survey Results Provide Roadmap to Growth

Kaseya

There were more systems, more endpoints, and increased security threats to worry about as increasing numbers of everyday functions depended on technology. At the same time, SMBs are facing enormous financial pressures due to the economic crash that has accompanied COVID-19. Much of that isn’t going to change because of this pandemic.

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Nerdio lands $117M to build management tools on top of Azure Virtual Desktop

TechCrunch

Recognizing an opportunity for further growth, Vladimirskiy and Nerdio’s co-founder, former Microsoft exec Joseph Landes, decided to spin-off Nerdio as a separate company and sell Adar to a private equity firm in January 2020. Survey data illustrates the dramatic shift.

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Accenture buys supply chain firm to expand Oracle business

CIO

In October 2018, it acquired DAZ systems along with its 300 employees to bolster its Oracle Cloud ERP services business. In 2021, Accenture acquired Canadian Oracle Cloud Partner, Cloudworks—a startup with 100 employees—to focus on delivering Oracle systems to its customers. billion in 2020. billion by 2030 from $3.91

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Lilt raises $55M to bolster its business-focused AI translation platform

TechCrunch

Green is a former Northrop Grumman software engineer who later worked as a research intern on the Google Translate team, developing an AI language system for improving English-to-Arabic translations. San Francisco, Calfornia-based Lilt was co-founded by Green and John DeNero in 2015. A robust market. A robust market.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: How VC really works, longevity investor survey, choosing your angel

TechCrunch

“You could claim the system is broken. years, but by 2020, that figure shrank by 2 years and 3 months. The decline was due to COVID-19, but reporter Anna Heim interviewed five investors who are backing startups developing technology that may allow us to live longer, healthier lives. In 2019, it was 78.86

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