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LiveKit co-founder believes the metaverse needs open infrastructure

TechCrunch

He dug into how the app was being powered by Agora and began developing a desktop app for his idea. D’Sa and his team, which includes co-founder David Zhao, developed a free, open source infrastructure for building and scaling real-time audio and video experiences, aka WebRTC, in applications. That’s how LiveKit was born.

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Dutch startup hub Utrecht emerges from Amsterdam’s shadow

TechCrunch

While Amsterdam garners the lion’s share of attention in the Netherlands tech ecosystem, the not-so-far-away region around Utrecht has its fair share of tech startups and investors, as is evidenced by our latest survey of locals, below. We surveyed: Jorg Kop , investment manager, ROM Utrecht Region. What is it weak in?

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A year on from Russia’s invasion, Ukrainian startups show astounding resilience

TechCrunch

TechUkraine and Emerging Europe also published the results of a survey looking at the country’s start-up ecosystem. While some Ukrainian start-ups have relocated, the vast majority have kept at least a part of their operations or team in Ukraine. The company continued hiring developers and marketers and raised the team by around 10%.

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Why Low-Code Doesn’t Have to Be Awful

Progress

Low-code tools tend to have a negative connotation among developers—but it doesn't have to be this way. I liked working there, but at some point, our executive team decided that the development team wasn’t creating apps fast enough. No development skills needed! There's a right way to do low-code.

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Patient Portal Software: How to Build a Platform that Engages

Altexsoft

And some things like usability, limited functionality, or simply a bad fit for your customer base might prove a product completely ineffective. Here, a provider teams up with a healthcare technology partner on the design and development of a portal. There are many reasons why businesses choose to develop custom applications.

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What Are the Required Skills for Today’s Digital Workforce?

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Looking at the state of the digital workplace today, which I’ve been mapping for years now , and we can see from sources of hard data about what’s happening such as Jane McConnell’s terrific surveys , that “most organizations are just starting their journey to an effective digital workplace.”

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The Good and the Bad of Ionic Mobile Development

Altexsoft

Traditionally, you would develop an app for two main platforms, Android (using Java or Kotlin) and iOS (using Swift or Objective C ), natively. Native development offers high performance, easy access to hardware controls, API integration, and full functionality. Ionic isn’t new to the market of mobile applications development.