TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Big-data analytics unicorn Databricks is back in the news, disclosing a new revenue figure and its 2021 growth rate. TechCrunch has been tracking the company for years, curious about its growth and what its rising worth said about its market. Today we’re revisiting its last private round measured against its most recent financial data. But to do that, we have to do a little background work first.

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Agile Alliance

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Does your product team find the time to improve as a community of practice? Or does your team schedule every available moment for status meetings? Do you fail to create feedback loops that grow an individual's capabilities? When a team does eventually prioritize learning, does it end up being boring and ineffective? This is because … Continued.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Imagine staying at an Airbnb and becoming so attached to a particular chair or tea set that you want to buy it. Instead of asking the property owner where it’s from and tracking it down, Minoan Experience lets you order the product by scanning a QR code. Then it’s delivered to your home in a few days. The “native retail” startup announced today that it has raised $5 million in seed funding led by Accel.

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Agile Alliance

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

This session is called "The Pencil Challenge." Can you pass your pencil to other team members on a Zoom chat? Watch to see what problems a simple exercise such as this presents to teams. MEMBER? PLEASE LOG IN. To view the content on this page, you must be a Member of the Agile Alliance. Learn … Continued. The post The Pencil Challenge first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

What’s the next step beyond Zoom calls and FaceTime? How about beaming yourself from one device to another in real-time using augmented reality? That’s the premise behind a startup called Beem , which is today announcing its first consumer app, $4 million in seed funding, and its longer-term plan to become a communications technology for the AR glasses of the future.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Voltron Data was launched last year by former employees from NVidia, Ursa Computing, BlazingSQL and the co-founder of Apache Arrow. The group came together to build a company on top of Arrow to help companies that don’t want to deal with the headaches of managing an open source project on their own. Voltron Data co-founder and CEO Josh Patterson said that at its heart, the startup is a standards company that aims to spread the word on the power of data and analytics standardization via Apa

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Agile Alliance

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

If you’re interested in Business Agility, here is some upcoming news, and an event that you will want to keep an eye out for. The post Interested in Business Agility? first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Blair Silverberg. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Blair Silverberg is co-founder and CEO of Hum Capital , a financial services company using technology to accelerate the fundraising process. More posts by this contributor. Know your startup’s value so you can communicate it to investors. For companies raising capital in the coming year, news of rising interest rates, market volatility and falling valuations paints a daunting picture.

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Agile Alliance

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The following post is about an Agile Alliance-sponsored non-profit event. You can see all our sponsored community events here. As a part of the Agile for Humanity 2022 Virtual Conference, one panel should be especially interesting to educators, students, and anyone interested in learning about Agile in education. Agile educators use adaptive skills to introduce … Continued.

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Analytics

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Virtual veterinarian care platform Dutch has raised $20 million in Series A funding led by Forerunner Ventures and Eclipse Ventures. The San Francisco-based company’s latest round comes seven months after its market launch and brings its total funding raised to $25 million. Dutch utilizes licensed veterinarians and provides a digital health platform for pets and their families to make pet care more accessible.

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Agile Alliance

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Agile software development methods have been increasingly adopted by many organizations at different organizational levels. Whether named agile adoption, agile transition, agile transformation, digital transformation or new ways of working, the success of embracing this change process mostly remains uncertain. This is primarily because there are many ways of evaluating success.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Amanda Milligan. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Amanda Milligan is head of marketing at Stacker Studio , a newsroom and newswire that partners with brands to create and distribute content to high-quality news publications, earning brand authority and links. More posts by this contributor. 3 strategies for elevating brand authority in 2021. 6 reasons why reporters aren’t interested in your content marketing.

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Agile Alliance

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

This experience report outlines five tech transfer strategies that I developed over a period of 25 years at four Global 1000 companies (HP, Cisco, Qualcomm, and Nortel) to mitigate R&D innovation challenges associated with duplicated effort, product quality, and time-to-market. I continue to refine and use these strategies as an Innoxec consultant.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Along comes Metriport , which aggregates all of your quantified-self data in one place, and adds clever features like mood tracking, medicine tracking and journaling. All your data lives locally on your device to protect your privacy, and the app can find correlations in your data to help you become a better you. Counting calories, summing steps, measuring your mood, proportioning your purchases, sizing your sleep span and enumerating the extent of your exercise — the quantified-self movem

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Agile Alliance

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

We are familiar with the unconscious bias we have about others based on where they are from, the university they graduated from, their social circles, their gender, religion, sexual orientation, age or race. We make continuous efforts to be aware of this bias and try by all means to prevent it, through repetitive conscious decisions … Continued.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Cryptocurrency company Circle has announced that it has terminated its previous agreement with Concord Acquisition Corp, a publicly traded blank-check company — a SPAC. At the same time, it has reached a new deal with Concord Acquisition Corp for a new merger. If the transaction goes through, Circle would become a public company at a $9 billion valuation.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The process of sourcing, interviewing, hiring, and onboarding an executive continues to evolve at a rapid pace. Many corporations are overhauling their approach to hiring executives and are more open-minded to change than ever before. I recently had coffee with a newly retired HR executive for a Fortune 500 healthcare company and learned The Great Resignation had worked its way up to the executive shelf.

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The buzz around generative AI shows no sign of abating in the foreseeable future. Enterprise interest in the technology is high, and the market is expected to gain momentum as organizations move from prototypes to actual project deployments. Ultimately, the market will demand an extensive ecosystem, and tools will need to streamline data and model utilization and management across multiple environments.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Take a look at most subscription-based SaaS pricing strategies and they will often have a free version for a certain number of seats, a pro version for a larger set of seats and an enterprise version for large companies. But what about everything in between — the company that is just above the 10-seat threshold for the free version, but won’t be growing fast enough to make the pro version worthwhile?

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DevOps.com

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

In this week’s The Long View: IBM’s employment practices get held up to scrutiny, IBM z/OSaaS breaks cover, and IBM encourages staff back to the office. The post IBM ‘is Ageist and Sexist’ | IBM Mainframe-aaS | IBM Vaccine Mandate appeared first on DevOps.com.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Earnipay , a fintech that provides flexible and on-demand salary access to income-earners, has raised $4 million in seed financing led by early-stage venture capital firm Canaan. Participating investors include XYZ Ventures, Village Global, Musha Ventures, Voltron Capital, Ventures Platform and Paystack CEO Shola Akinlade. Earnipay, which has been in beta since September 2021 and only launched last month, plans to offer its on-demand salary solution to 200,000 employees by the end of 2022. .

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DevOps.com

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Snyk today announced it has acquired Fugue as part of an effort to embed security within an infrastructure-as-code (IaC) provisioning tool. The Fugue platform combines a unified policy engine with an implementation of the open source Open Policy Agent (OPA) software, dubbed Regula, to ensure security and compliance policies are consistently enforced.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

In 2019, Alex Bouaziz and Shuo Wang founded Deel , a startup that aims to help companies compliantly hire and pay talent remotely all around the world. The pair’s mission was earnest and their vision that remote work was here to stay preceded the COVID-19 pandemic, which only fueled demand for its offering. . Deel claims to allow businesses to hire employees and contractors in less than 5 minutes without needing a local entity.

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The Daily WTF

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Upgrading to a new point release on the Linux kernel isn't the riskiest thing you can do in your infrastructure, but it's not completely without risk. It's not so much that the kernel maintainers are playing fast and loose- they're a very conservative bunch for the most part- but some application code might be making assumptions that become incorrect in the next release.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Trying to deal with the huge amount of data associated with how companies are going to transition to a “net zero” economy is an uphill task. The interface of numbers would tax even the geekiest of CEOs. What if it could all be rendered visually, but also accurately? That’s the germ of the idea behind Actual , a SimCity-like platform designed to render all this data in a manageable interface, but still accurately.

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Cloudera

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

CDP Private Cloud Base is an on-premises version of Cloudera Data Platform (CDP). This new product combines the best of Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub and Hortonworks Data Platform Enterprise along with new features and enhancements across the stack. This unified distribution is a scalable and customizable platform where you can securely run many types of workloads.

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As technology transforms the global business landscape, companies need to examine and update their internal processes for innovation to keep pace. Ultimately, organizations will have to improve the velocity of innovation by creating repeatable processes that support ideation, exploration, and incubation, essential to capturing an idea’s full value.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Retailers have traditionally onboarded their drop-ship, marketplace and wholesale suppliers using electronic data interchange (EDI), which is a fancy way of saying information that is sent from one company to another electronically. However, setting up this process can take months, time most retailers don’t have if they want to get ahead in Amazon’s world.

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Tenable

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Tenable’s recent acquisitions all had the same overarching goal: helping our customers gain better security insights across their cyberattack surface. At our investor day in December 2021, Tenable CEO Amit Yoran and I outlined the vision of where we see Tenable and the vulnerability management market heading over the next few years. We focused on three main areas: the need to extend vulnerability management (VM) everywhere; the need to shift security left; and. the need to transform into a cyber

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Online interior design startup Havenly is acquiring direct-to-consumer home furnishing brand The Inside , the company announced on Thursday. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Under the terms of the deal, Havenly has acquired the key assets of The Inside, including its intellectual property and inventory. The Inside co-founder Danielle Walish will join Havenly to manage the transition and to integrate The Inside assets into Havenly.

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