TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2021

When brands sell through social media and other third-parties, they often spend millions of dollars to advertise on those platforms, yet have little or no knowledge of who their customers actually are. Social commerce startup Social Chat is out to change that. Frost Li, the former head of growth at Wish, founded the company in May to create software that leverages machine learning and artificial intelligence for personalization, recommendations and live customer service — all to enable brands to

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The Crazy Programmer

OCTOBER 29, 2021

There are several important steps to become a pro video game developer in 2021. Since the COVID-19 outbreak, video game revenue has surged over 20%. Indeed, consumers are to video games on web, mobile, and console formats to stay entertained through the pandemic. Even with the coronavirus vaccine rollout, growth is projected to increase. As an individual with an innovative game idea, you need to know the proper steps to break into the video game industry.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Zeit Medical , which makes an early warning system for strokes during sleep, has raised $2 million in a seed round just after leaving Y Combinator’s Summer 2021 cohort. The company’s work suggests the brain-monitoring headband could save lives by alerting people to possible strokes hours before they might otherwise be noticed, and the new funding will help propel them toward commercial availability.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Is there any industry that’s been disrupted more at a global level over the past twenty years than the cruise lines? In this episode, David Giersdorf, a former senior executive in the global cruise, travel, and marketing services industry, gives the roadmap for leading through disruption. It’s optimistic, encouraging, and full of opportunities to help you navigate your company, career, team, and life through the fog of disruption.

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Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Hello, and welcome to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. And have a good time. This week Mary Ann and Natasha and Alex (along with our amazing production team Grace , Chris , and Kell ) took on a host of topics from the public and private markets alike. In our wheelhouse this week: An IPO rush : Sure, IPOs are still not keeping up with unicorn births, but the current pace of public offerings has us nattering.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2021

When online shopping, you’ve probably come across photos that spin around so you can see a product from all angles. This is typically done by taking a number of photos of a product from all angles, and then playing them like an animation. Luma — founded by engineers who left Apple’s AR and computer vision group — wants to shake all of that up.

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CEO Insider

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Do you feel disconnected from the people you work with? You’re not alone. Nearly 70% of workers surveyed by Front Page in 2020 said that they felt disconnected from their teammates, a problem made worse by more and more companies going remote. When employees feel alone or disconnected, they’re more likely to jump ship and […]. The post Break the Ice: How Difficult Conversations Build Trust At Work appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Jim Mann. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Jim Mann is director of acquisitions at Thrasio , a consumer goods company reimagining omnichannel commerce and consumer products. The toughest questions most entrepreneurs face will involve international expansion. Whether to, when to, where to and how to expand all involve a wealth of complex considerations.

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Confluent

OCTOBER 29, 2021

At the recent Kafka Summit, Confluent announced the general availability of Stream Governance–the industry’s only governance suite for data in motion. Offered as a fully managed cloud solution, it delivers […].

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2021

David Karandish. Contributor. Share on Twitter. David Karandish is founder and CEO of Capacity , an enterprise artificial intelligence SaaS company headquartered in St. Louis, MO. The global help desk automation industry is expected to grow to $11 billion by 2023 as support automation empowers companies to serve their customers more effectively. By automating repetitive tasks and FAQs, companies give employees more time to spend on more human tasks that involve building relationships and generat

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Dzone - DevOps

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Have you ever had to manually book 50,000 flights because you rushed to deliver new features on your product? In this episode of the Dev Interrupted podcast, we asked some of our favorite engineering leaders if they could share memorable stories of professional mistakes with our audience.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2021

There’s a new venture studio in the world that looks rather different from earlier venture studios from a structural standpoint. Unlike renowned outfits like Atomic or Science or Expa that create companies that then sell equity to VCs who expect that equity to rise in value, this new studio, SuperLayer , plans to spin up consumer projects then instead of sell equity to VCs, it will invite the communities that use these products that invest in them by acquiring tokens, which can then be bought or

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TechBeacon

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Because programmers need to specialize, they have to choose a language to concentrate on. If your choice becomes the darling of enterprise managers, demand for it will grow, and it will be easier to ride the wave of popularity to the top of your career.

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Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Edtech unicorn Udemy priced its IPO at $29 per share, the upper end of its IPO range. Using a simple share count, the company was worth around $4 billion at its IPO price and a few hundred million more if a full -diluted share count is employed in our valuation calculations. For edtech, the Udemy IPO might seem like good news. After all, the company sold more than $420 million worth of its stock while going public at a price that surpassed its final private-market price.

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DevOps.com

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Couchbase Inc. has unfurled a revamped database-as-a-service (DBaaS) platform dubbed Couchbase Capella hosted on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. Scott Anderson, senior vice president for product management for Couchbase, said that as application development continues to evolve, it’s becoming apparent more organizations prefer to have providers of databases manage those platforms on their behalf. […].

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2021

As startup funding increases around the world, The Exchange has poked its head into markets as far-flung as Southeast Asia , Europe , Africa , Latin America and elsewhere. Wherever we looked, we’ve found venture capital flowing in record quantities. The story has been largely the same inside the United States, with Boston having a solid year, along with the Midwest and Atlanta.

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Dataiku

OCTOBER 29, 2021

We've recently published an ebook on AI Governance. Focused on AI regulations, it provides perspective on new rules that will be rolling out across the world that will impact AI developers, users, and the wider public.

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Multi-tenant architecture allows software vendors to realize tremendous efficiencies by maintaining a single application stack instead of separate database instances while meeting data privacy needs. When you use a data warehouse to power your multi-tenant analytics, the proper approach is vital. Multi-tenant analytics is NOT the primary use case with traditional data warehouses, causing data security challenges.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Is Southeast Asia about to hit an inflection point for tech startups? Four hundred million people in the region already use the internet, but by year’s end, one estimate suggests that 80% of the population over the age of 15 in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam will be digital consumers. “As per Jungle Ventures’ calculations, the total value of the region’s digital companies is around $340 billion today and is estimated to grow to $1 trillion by 20

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InfoQ Culture Methods

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Most people don’t realise how their use of technology, both socially and in the workplace, is responsible for an increasingly significant volume of the world's Co2 emissions. In this article, you will learn how our use of technology is having a severe impact on our climate and what we can do about it. By Barry Chandler.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Salted , a Los Angeles-based startup creating digitally native quick-service restaurant brands, brought in a new round of $16 million in Series A funding to continue its nationwide expansion. The company was founded seven years ago by CEO Jeff Applebaum, but a focus on providing healthy QSR brands and going after the $325 billion food delivery space came about three years ago.

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Tenable

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Are you leaving treats on the table for attackers? Understand the current treat landscape and how to reduce your exposure. Background. The threat landscape is like a bowl of candy, full of options for ghouls and goblins to pick. Attackers have many treats from which to choose when targeting organizations. In observation of the Halloween season, let us explore attackers’ tricks and treats and what organizations can do to defend targets.

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Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Gone are the days when your A/C and washer/dryer were the movers and shakers (electrically speaking) in your house. These days, electric vehicle chargers, solar power and battery storage solutions set more electrons a-dancin’ Span is one of the companies running point on adding some smarts to the process. The company today launched the Span Drive, an EV charger that is making it possible to further empower your EV based on various rules.

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CloudZero

OCTOBER 29, 2021

To explain how cost anomaly detection works in AWS, let’s first look at an analogy. Imagine you strategically propagate, cultivate, harvest, and replenish trees for a thriving forest products company.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Kurly , a South Korea-based online grocery startup that provides next-day delivery services across the country, will go public by June next year. . The startup, which declined to comment on how much it plans to raise via IPO, said it estimates the company valuation at approximately $5.9 billion after it goes public. . The announcement comes after its $200 million Series F at a $2.2 billion valuation in July. .

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Cabot Solutions

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Read more details on the digital development process comparison of a prototype and an MVP its benefits to test your product in the early stage of its development

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“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Matt Bivons. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Matt Bivons is CEO and co-founder of Canopy Servicing , an API-first platform for personalized and transparent lending. He previously served as VP and GM at GreenSky, and head of growth at Earnest and VaycayHero. Buy now, pay later (BNPL) is an old form of payment that is new again in a big way. And that could mean trouble for BNPL fintechs that are just getting to know the world of lending and the pitfalls associated with traditional banking infrastru

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Palo Alto Networks

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Australia's Ransomware Action Plan. On October 13, the Australian Government released its Ransomware Action Plan , which identifies initiatives to address the rise of ransomware across key themes of prepare and prevent, respond and recover, as well as disrupt and deter. This Action Plan sits alongside the Australian Government’s 2020 Cyber Security Strategy , which saw a record investment of more than AU$1.6 billion dollars committed to cyber security over 10 years.

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TechSoup

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Now that we're well into the final quarter of 2021, many nonprofit fundraisers are working to find a fundraising strategy that is flexible enough to respond to COVID and the delta variant while also drawing in donors who are feeling some major Zoom fatigue.

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