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The bright side of fintech funding results

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Welcome to The Interchange! If you received this in your inbox, thank you for signing up and your vote of confidence. If you’re reading this as a post on our site, sign up here so you can receive it directly in the future. Every week, I’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. This will include everything from funding rounds to trends to an analysis of a particular space to hot takes on a particular company or phenomenon.

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Amor Leadership

CEO Insider

During a recent business trip, I spoke at a retreat for two Vistage groups in Medora, North Dakota. It’s not only a beautiful and historically rich part of the state but also about a 30-minute drive to Wibaux, Montana. This proximity was significant for me because, until the other day, I had visited 48 of […]. The post Amor Leadership appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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Kodiak Robotics’ founder explains why autonomous freight could brush off inflation

TechCrunch

If solving the problems of autonomous driving were a question of money, it’d have been solved long before now. That’s the primary argument of Don Burnette, co-founder and CEO of autonomous trucking startup Kodiak Robotics, which has expanded its business and hit milestones with a fraction of the funds that bigger players like Waymo have.

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The Silent Partner

The Daily WTF

Lucio worked as a self-employed IT consultant. His clients tended to be small firms with equally small IT departments. When they didn't know where else to turn, they called on Lucio for help. Over the years, Lucio befriended many of the internal IT employees that he worked with. One of them, Fabio, wisely decided to leave his position at a firm with 30 employees, where everyone's roles changed daily depending on the crisis at hand.

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Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d

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KitaBeli is bringing e-commerce to Indonesia’s small cities

TechCrunch

Complicated supply chains mean that consumers in Tier 1 and Tier 2 Indonesian cities often end up paying more for goods than their peers in large cities, like Jakarta. KitaBeli is on a mission to change that, with its own distribution network and a direct-to-consumer social commerce app. Today the startup announced that it has raised $20 million in fresh funding led by Glade Brook Capital Partners, along with participation from returning investors AC Ventures and GoVentures, and new backer InnoV

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Modsy quietly shut down while some customers were still awaiting refunds

TechCrunch

In late June, Modsy , on online interior design services startup, abruptly ceased offering design services , laid off its designers, and left customers with unfinished renovations and project orders in process. The company returned some service order charges and promised to refund furniture deliveries to those who completed a form. But more than two weeks later, tweets show that many Modsy customers are still awaiting updates.

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Building new value into cloud licensing

CIO

The cloud has become ubiquitous to work in New Zealand. Research from MIT Technology Review shows that New Zealand ranks 14 th in world for its cloud ecosystem, based on factors such as technology, regulations, and the cloud skills within the nation. New Zealand is, therefore, considered a highly digital-orientated economy, and those companies that have been able to shift their systems to the cloud enjoy several competitive advantages, including: Speed up how they develop and launch new solution

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As regulation heats up, will gaming studios’ gamble on loot boxes pay off?

TechCrunch

You’d be hard pressed to find a game that doesn’t include some form of microtransactions these days, especially in mobile games. It just makes sense for gaming companies — an immensely lucrative source of revenue, the microtransactions market was worth at $60 billion in 2021, and projected to hit $106 billion by 2026. Typically offered as in-game collectibles, currencies or chance-based loot boxes, microtransactions are now better received than they were a few years ago.

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