TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
Discord , the communications service that’s become the 21st century’s answer to MUD rooms, is close to closing a new round of financing that would value the company at up to $7 billion, according to sources with knowledge of the round. The new funding comes just months after a $100 million investment that gave the company a $3.5 billion valuation.
The Crazy Programmer
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
2020 has been an eventful year, but what if we tell you that events are not all the same? What if there was an event for developers with no dress code, no small talk, no limits – only genuine connections? What if there was no endless list of speakers with boring topics, but only the premium minds of the industry with the real tech knowledge and insights?
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TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
U.S. challenger bank Current, which has doubled its member base in less than six months, announced this morning it raised $131 million in Series C funding, led by Tiger Global Management. The additional financing brings Current to over $180 million in total funding to date, and gives the company a valuation of $750 million. The round also brought in new investors Sapphire Ventures and Avenir.
CTOvision
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
MemSQL is re-branding to SingleStore, according to a press release on the company’s website. Though MemSQL is a well-recognized name among data architects and performance engineers, the company’s flagship data […].
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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.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
After raising $215 million from SoftBank to double down on the surge of interest in online learning, Kahoot has made an acquisition to expand the scope of subjects that it covers. The popular startup, which lets people build and share educational games, has picked up Drops, a startup that helps people learn languages by way of short picture and word-based games.
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TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
Metromile , the pay-per-mile auto insurer that earlier this year laid off a third of its staff due to economic uncertainties caused by COVID-19, is taking the SPAC path to the public markets. The company, which was founded in 2011 and is led by CEO Dan Preston, said it has reached a merger agreement with special purpose acquisition company INSU Acquisition Corp.
CTOvision
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
Read Shristi Deoras take a look at why FireEye acquired Respond Software and how it will help FireEye in long term on Analytics India Mag: In one of the costliest […].
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
Marie Ekeland has unveiled her next act — and it’s a new fund called 2050. But it’s not your average French VC fund as it’s going to be an evergreen fund focused on building a better world. It sounds ambitious, but Ekeland isn’t just daydreaming as she has a detailed action plan. If you’re not familiar with Marie Ekeland, she used to be an investor at French VC firm Elaia.
CTOvision
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
With this post we initiate our coverage of Nokia. We track Nokia in our directory of disruptive technologies in the categories of infrastructure and mobility, and have also placed them […].
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TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
Caura , the U.K. startup that wants to take the hassle out of car ownership, is launching car insurance — unveiling its insurtech ambitions. Dubbed “Caura Protect,” the new insurance product claims to reduce the cost and time taken to insure a car, building on the app’s existing car management features. Launched earlier this year by Sai Lakshmi, who previously co-founded medication management service Echo, Caura is a mobile app designed to manage all of the vehicle-relate
David Walsh
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
Have you ever felt like you’ve been a professional developer or designer forever, and somehow not known something basic, and borderline hate yourself? That’s me with a trick that was introduced to me by Miguel Piedrafita: You can submit forms from a button outside of the form tag by using the form attribute pic.twitter.com/72pjoWu5Ll — Miguel Piedrafita (@m1guelpf) November 22, 2020.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
The Netherlands’ ecosystem has been flourishing; more than $85 million was invested in regional startups in 2019 alone. The nation’s proximity to the U.K., Belgium, France and Germany makes Amsterdam a natural gateway to those markets. Long ago the savvy Dutch realized this, and built up Schiphol to become the world’s twelfth-busiest airport.
DevOps.com
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
Successful digital transformations are not possible without successful data transformation. After all, it’s data—and the ability to analyze that data—about an organization’s customers, employees, infrastructure, market dynamics, supply chain, business-technology systems and more that make digital transformation possible. However, last year Gartner said that “information as an asset” is still in its infancy.
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.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
JoomPay , a startup with a similar product to PayPal-owned Venmo in the U.S., is set to launch in Europe shortly after being granted a Luxembourg Electronic Money Institution (EMI) license. The app allows people to send and receive money with anyone, instantly and for free. “ Venmo me” has become a common phrase in the U.S., where people use it to split bills in restaurants or similar instances.
DevOps.com
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
Continuous delivery (CD) and all the other continuous things—continuous integration (CI), continuous testing, continuous deployment—have become the new mantra of DevOps. CI/CD adoption typically starts with agile development teams working on new or well-funded systems. But what about the rest of the world and all of those “other” applications, under-funded IT teams are responsible for […].
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
Dija, a new U.K. based startup founded by senior former Deliveroo employees, is closing in on $20 million funding, TechCrunch has learned. According to multiple sources, the round, which has yet to close, is being led by Blossom Capital , the early stage venture capital firm founded by ex-Index and LocalGlobe VC Ophelia Brown. It’s not clear who else is in the running, although I understand it was highly contested and the startup had offers from several top tier funds.
CTOvision
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
Tibco Software and Information Builders announced a deal Oct. 22 under which Tibco, based in Palo Alto, Calif., will acquire the New York-based developer of business analytics and data management […].
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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.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
With $90 million in deposits and $18.25 million in new financing, HMBradley is making moves as the Los Angeles-based entrant into the challenger bank competition. LA is home to a growing community of financial services startups and HMBradley is quickly taking its place among the leaders with a novel twist on the banking business. Unlike most banking startups that woo customers with easy credit and savvy online user interfaces, HMBradley is pitching a better savings account.
CircleCI
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
Testing APIs has come a long way from the time cURL was the only available tool. Postman improved the end-to-end testing experience by allowing developers to easily make requests from a user-friendly interface. You can use Postman as a full-featured collaboration platform for API development and testing. In this tutorial, you will learn how to perform and automate tests against your APIs using Postman’s command-line utility, Newman.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
The-Wolfpack’s co-founders, Toh Jin Wei, Tan Kok Chin and Simon Nichols (Image Credit: The-Wolfpack). The COVID-19 pandemic has hit the consumer, leisure and media companies hard, but a new venture firm called The-Wolfpack is still very upbeat on those sectors. Based in Singapore, the firm was founded by former managing directors at GroupM, one of the world’s largest advertising and media companies, and plans to work very closely with each of its portfolio companies.
DevOps.com
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
Can you outsource DevOps? And if you can, what are the keys to doing it successfully? In the fifth episode of DevOps Unbound streaming broadcast on TechStrong TV and DevOps.com’s sister site Digital Anarchist, Mitchell Ashley of ASG and Alan Shimel are joined by Ming Gong of UST Global, Chris Rolls of TTC and Robina […]. The post DevOps Unbound: Outsourcing DevOps, Oxymoron or Truth?
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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.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
Building tech startups takes cash — and lots of it. But when you’re talking space startups, you’re talking galactic-level money. Costs blast right through Earth’s exosphere and become, literally, astronomical. If space is your jam, you’re going to need financial help, and you’ll learn where and how to access it at TC Sessions Space 2020 (December 16-17).
DevOps.com
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
In the third episode of our DevOps Unbound streaming broadcast on TechStrong TV and DevOps.com’s sister site Digital Anarchist, Alan Shimel is joined by Kevin Dunne of Tricentis, Tracy Miranda of Cloud Delivery Foundation and Alon Girmonsky of UP9 to answer the question: Can we have DevOps without open source? The video is immediately below, […].
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
The end-of-year IPO wave continues , this time with C3.ai moving closer to its own formal debut by updating its S-1 filing with third-quarter data. The new data provides the market with a much better look into how the unicorn AI company’s business has progressed during the COVID-19 era, and should help public investors price the company’s equity as it looks to float.
CTOvision
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
Many companies used to talk about speeding up development and delivery of digital services. Then COVID-19 disrupted traditional ways of doing business, and the talking turned action. But much of […].
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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.
DevOps.com
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
Company recognized as an innovative leader in software development for its next generation test automation platform powered by Visual AI SAN MATEO, Calif., November 24, 2020 – Applitools ([link] provider of a next generation test automation platform powered by Visual AI and Ultrafast Test Cloud, today announced it won the 2020 Red Herring Top 100 North America […].
The Daily WTF
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
Is it that time of year already? Here in the US, we're prepping for the Thanksgiving holiday, so let's take a trip way back into the archives, and learn about the life of a moderately-paid-consultant. Original -- Remy. Paul B always thought of himself as a moderately -paid consultant. With no real overhead, a policy against ties when meeting with prospective clients, and a general pickiness about the projects he'll take on, his rates tend to be pretty low.
InnovationM
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
Apache JMeter is a tool that can be used for load testing to analyse and measure the performance of web applications, mobile applications, HTTP requests, web services, database etc. JMeter simulates the number of users to send requests to the target server and records the stats in various available formats to analyse the performance. Simply open the Jmeter and following interface will open: Here.
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