CTOvision
JANUARY 28, 2021
AI is notoriously difficult to explain, and some deep learning algorithms can be too complex for even their creators to understand their reasoning. This makes it hard to trust what […].
TechCrunch
JANUARY 28, 2021
The venture potential of a startup that caters to individual students — instead of a slow-moving, small-pocketed institution — has a bullish aura that attracts investors. Add in a pandemic that forced many to embrace remote learning overnight, and it makes sense that we have seen companies like Outschool and ClassDojo turn first profits while startups like Quizlet and ApplyBoard reached $1 billion valuations.
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Agile Alliance
JANUARY 28, 2021
The team working on the Agile Alliance Agile Coaching Ethics Initiative has been working steadily over the last six months, and we have now published a draft Code of Ethical Conduct for Agile Coaching (Code) and a set of supporting Ethics Scenarios. The volunteer team started by examining existing codes of ethics from other industries … Continued.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 28, 2021
Catalyst Fund , a global accelerator managed by BFA Global , announced the 8th cohort for its Inclusive Fintech Program today. The accelerator, backed by the JP Morgan Chase and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, runs the flagship program annually. With a focus on Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Mexico and India, selected startups receive £80,000 (~$100,000) in grant capital, six months of support and connections with follow-on investors.
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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.
Martin Fowler
JANUARY 28, 2021
When people think of code reviews, they usually think in terms of an explicit step in a development team's workflow. These days the Pre-Integration Review , carried out on a Pull Request is the most common mechanism for a code review, to the point that many people witlessly consider that not using pull requests removes all opportunities for doing code review.
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CTOvision
JANUARY 28, 2021
Instead of winding down at the end of the year, already strapped security teams were scrambling over the last week to ensure their organizations are safe in the wake of […].
TechCrunch
JANUARY 28, 2021
An early Snapchat employee who once architected the “Our Stories” product, Chloe? Drimal, has now launched her own social app, Yoni Circle. Described as a membership-based community, the app aims to connect womxn using storytelling — including through both live video chat sessions as well as with pre-recorded stories that are available at any time.
CTOvision
JANUARY 28, 2021
Editor’s note: We frequently encounter people who think of Palantir as a high end analytical tool. It certainly transforms and improves analysis. But for years Palantir has been doing far […].
TechCrunch
JANUARY 28, 2021
Indian startup Shopalyst has officially launched a new platform that it calls the Discovery Commerce Cloud, which it says can help brands take full advantage of digital advertising. Co-founder and CEO Girish Ramachandra told me that Shopalyst was created to allow for “one seamless journey for the shopper” across advertising and e-commerce — something he said current systems are not currently designed to support.
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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
CTOvision
JANUARY 28, 2021
Everlaw, the cloud-based ediscovery and litigation platform, today announced the launch of Storybuilder by Everlaw, the industry’s first free narrative building toolkit that provides legal teams with a fully collaborative […].
TechCrunch
JANUARY 28, 2021
After enduring a day’s worth of taking a beating across social media , government and the various app stores of the mobile world, Robinhood took to its own blog and CEO’s Twitter account to explain why it had halted trading of some stocks earlier today. That Robinhood had restricted trading in a number of securities was bombshell news after the consumer trading platform had become synonymous with not only a rise in retail investing, but also a risky wager by some individual investo
InfoQ Culture Methods
JANUARY 28, 2021
Mental illness is a topic that does not get discussed openly very often. Many people concerned hide their own history for fear of being stigmatized, especially in the workplace. This is a story about how speaking openly about mental illness, even with your boss and co-workers, can help yourself and others. The author shares with you what she has learned from breaking the taboo.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 28, 2021
Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture-capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. Natasha and Danny and Alex and Grace hopped online for our weekly show, sans GameStop news (which you can find here ) to talk about all the other busy news happening in startup world right now. Here’s a taste of what we got into: Qualtrics IPO pricing , and the future of major acquisition pricing schemes.
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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.
CTOvision
JANUARY 28, 2021
Ping Identity, the Intelligent Identity solution for the enterprise, has been honored with a Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award, recognizing it as a Best Place to Work in 2021. The annual […].
TechCrunch
JANUARY 28, 2021
William Kilmer. Contributor. Share on Twitter. William Kilmer is managing partner with C5 Capital , a venture capital fund investing in the secure data ecosystem. He was formerly an operating partner at Mercato Growth Partners and served as CEO and Chairman of PublicEngines (acquired by Motorola), and Avinti (merged with M86 Security) and served as Chief Marketing Officer/Chief Strategy Officer of M86 Security (acquired by Trustwave).
TechBeacon
JANUARY 28, 2021
Companies continue to demand skilled software developers, with the US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimating that the profession will grow 22% over the next decade, much faster than the average 4% growth rate across the job market as a whole.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 28, 2021
Storetasker is an online marketplace focused on connecting Shopify merchants with developers and other experts who can help grow their business. The product is now owned by the startup previously known as Lorem. Co-founder and COO Charlie Fogarty explained that while Lorem originally had a broader mission of connecting small businesses and developers, “We realized that Shopify and e-commerce was by far our best customer segment … so we basically acquired our main competitor, Storetasker, a
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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.
TechBeacon
JANUARY 28, 2021
North Korean state-sponsored hackers are targeting and attacking white-hat security researchers. They’re using a combination of zero-day exploits, Trojan-laced VS project bundles, and good old social engineering.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 28, 2021
Amidst all of the the sturm und drang of l’affaire GameStop , Qualtrics went public today. After pricing its stock above its raised IPO range , the company received a warm welcome from public investors. After starting its trading life worth $41.85, Qualtrics closed the day worth $45.50, up some 51.67%. Qualtrics did everything that it said it was going to.
CTOvision
JANUARY 28, 2021
As the U. S. Navy envisions its future force strength, the number one priority is placed on maintaining undersea dominance. The new Columbia Class ballistic submarine is critical to the […].
TechCrunch
JANUARY 28, 2021
Last night, Qualtrics priced its IPO at $30 per share, selling 50.4 million shares in the process. Notably, the company’s IPO price was harder to chase down than usual, with a formal press release in scarce supply. SEC filings indicate that the company “anticipate[s]” a price of $30 per share, and reports from media and IPO-watching entities cite the $30 figure as well.
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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.
DevOps.com
JANUARY 28, 2021
Advanced Systems Concepts Inc. (ASCI) announced today it plans to build a self-healing workflow automation platform based on an artificial intelligence (AI) cloud service and a Super REST API Adapter that can establish a connection with any application or platform that exposes an application programming interface (API). The company also announced today it has acquired […].
TechCrunch
JANUARY 28, 2021
Workday started the work day with some big news today. It’s acquiring employee feedback platform Peakon for $700 million in cash. One thing we have learned during the pandemic is that organizations need to find new ways to build stronger connections with their employees, and that’s precisely what Peakon provides. “Bringing Peakon into the Workday family will be very compelling to our customers — especially following an extraordinary past year that has magnified the import
DevOps.com
JANUARY 28, 2021
SAN FRANCISCO – January 28, 2021 – Cribl, the leading Observability Pipeline company, today announced that it has achieved the Amazon Linux 2 Ready designation, part of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Service Ready Program. This designation recognizes that Cribl LogStream has been validated to run on and support Amazon Linux 2. Achieving the Amazon Linux 2 […].
TechCrunch
JANUARY 28, 2021
Cybersecurity startup CybSafe , a “behavioral security” platform, has raised $7.9 million in a Series A funding round led by IQ Capital with participation from Hanover Digital Investments (HDI) GmbH and B8 Ventures. The investment round will be used to focus on expanding its enterprise and midmarket client base. CybSafe is a SaaS product with a per-user-based, subscription licensing model.
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Steve Farber
JANUARY 28, 2021
Adjusting from one leadership to another is certainly hard for employees, but so much so for the leaders themselves. Inheriting a workplace culture calls for courage and patience, particularly if it is a horrible. Read more. The post From Failure To Success: The Trailer Bridge Turnaround Story With Mitch Luciano And Indie Bollman first appeared on Steve Farber.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 28, 2021
Buy now, pay later services — which let consumers finance the purchase of goods online by paying back the total in installments over time — have been growing in ubiquity this past year. Today, Scalapay , one of the companies that’s building a platform to enable buy now, pay later (BNPL) and related features, has raised a round to boost its position in the race for customers against competitors like Klarna, Afterpay and Affirm.
Tenable
JANUARY 28, 2021
Adopting consistent tagging practices can help to quickly identity resources, ensure change control efforts, and reduce security risks within your cloud environments. Many organizations use the cloud to quickly deliver and scale applications across multiple cloud platforms. While engineering teams often work in parallel to build, test and deploy code across production and development environments, security teams are also working to continuously monitor and assess their cloud security posture.
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