TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

“Headless commerce” is a phrase that gets thrown around lot (I’ve typed it several times today already), but Vue Storefront CEO Patrick Friday has an especially vivid way of using the concept to illustrate his startup’s place in the broader ecosystem. “Vue Storefront is the bodiless front end,” Friday said. “We are the walking head.” In other words, while most headless commerce companies are focused on creating back-end infrastructure, Vue powers

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 26, 2021

In this inspiring conversation with Elle Marc-Charles, Director of Inclusive Culture for Belden Corporation you’ll get practical insights into how to guard yourself and your leaders from losing their humanity, how your human resource professionals can help you achieve your strategic results, […]. The post Transform Your HR Relationships and Your Leadership appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

If you browse Instagram, you are probably familiar with the term “link in bio.” Links aren’t allowed in post captions, and users are only allowed one URL in their bios, so many create a simple website with multiple links for their followers. Linktree , one of the most popular “link in bio” services with more than 12 million users, announced today it has raised $45 million in Series B funding.

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Dzone - DevOps

MARCH 26, 2021

How is management software for oil and gas plants and platforms built? How many people are working on it? What programming languages do they use? How does white label software work for a variety of different customers, with different needs and whims?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

Robotic process automation platform UiPath added its name to the list of companies pursuing public-market offerings this morning with the release of its S-1 filing. The document details a quickly growing software company with sharply improving profitability performance. The company also flipped from cash burn to cash generation on both an operating and free-cash-flow basis in its most recent fiscal year.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

When TechCrunch covered UIPath’s Series A in 2017 , it was a small startup out of Romania working in a little known area of enterprise software called robotic process automation (RPA). Then the company took off with increasingly large multibillion dollar valuations. It progressed through its investment rounds, culminating with a $750 million round on an eye-popping $35 billion valuation last month.

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Altexsoft

MARCH 26, 2021

The hospitality industry was among those that suffered the most because of the COVID-19 pandemic. In April 2020, the hotel occupancy in the US dropped to its lowest level ever — the bewildering 24.5 percent. The annual average was roughly 44 percent, which means that more than half of hotel rooms were empty during the whole year. To survive the crisis, hoteliers have to take measures, i.e., prioritize cleaning procedures, adopt contactless technologies — and reconsider their distribu

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

Google’s latest investment in India is a startup that is helping businesses come online. One-year-old DotPe , a Gurgaon-based startup, said on Friday it has raised $27.5 million in its Series A financing round. The round was led by PayU, with participation from existing investor Info Edge Ventures and Google. The young startup, now valued at about $90 million, helps brick and mortar stores sell to customers online and collect payments digitally.

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TechSoup

MARCH 26, 2021

Twitter has evolved significantly since it launched in 2006 as a simple, short messaging service. Twitter is no longer simply a platform to "microblog," as it was initially designed. Twitter is now a powerful platform to know, understand, and segment your community.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

Chainalysis , a blockchain analysis company, announced Friday it has closed on $100 million in Series D financing, doubling its valuation to over $2 billion. The round comes just four months after the company secured a $100 million Series C round at a $1 billion valuation. Paradigm led the latest funding event while existing backers Addition and Ribbit doubled down on their investment in the company.

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DevOps.com

MARCH 26, 2021

It’s an old story: DevOps’ need for speed and agility clashes with IT’s need for security and control. Striking the right balance between control and agility is key to fostering a smooth relationship between DevOps and IT. Many enterprises have achieved this balance by implementing a self-service IT model. In a self-service environment, IT creates […].

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

Vibrant, a medical technology company that’s developed a disposable vibrating pill to treat chronic constipation, today announced its Series E for $7.5 million. The company is based in Tel Aviv and is lead by Lior Ben-Tsur, a startup veteran. Since its founding in 2007, the company has raised a total of $25 million. This round is being led by Unorthodox Ventures, with participation by Sequoia.

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TechBeacon

MARCH 26, 2021

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) give security teams the ability to catch bad guys with the power of math. Through the use of effective analytical methods, organizations can become more cyber resilient.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

This morning, well-known robotic process automation (RPA) unicorn UiPath has filed to go public. The company’s S-1 filing comes after it raised billions of dollars while private, making it amongst the best-funded startups in history. Over the last year, for example, the company’s rapid-fired fundraising included its Series E and Series F rounds of capital, both of which came inside the last 12 months.

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Daffodil Software

MARCH 26, 2021

“A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures.”. Design-led businesses swear by the principles and processes that have a human-centered core. Design thinking, which is a creative problem-solving approach enables businesses to focus on the people they are creating for. This, consequently, leads to better products, services, and internal processes.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

Tim Kopp. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Tim Kopp is the chairman and CEO of Terminus , an ABM platform that powers high-performing go-to-market teams. There’s certainly no shortage of SaaS performance metrics leaders focus on. While all SaaS companies do, and must, home in on acquisition metrics, there’s also massive revenue potential within your current customer base.

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CTO Academy

MARCH 26, 2021

Creativity has helped many people through the pandemic but what's the science behind when that creative moment arrives? The post Creativity : It’s What Makes Us Shine appeared first on CTO Academy.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

Since the pandemic began, I have been pushing the limits of my imagination to try to picture what cities will look and feel like in the coming years. If your town looks like San Francisco, where I live, it’s a pressing question: Our once-bustling financial district is a ghost town, but even in outer neighborhoods, the number of vacant storefronts is unsettling.

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Agile42

MARCH 26, 2021

What do chickens, defensiveness and collaboration have in common? I think that was a question which certainly peaked our audiences interest. Our latest webinar on. Continue reading 50 Ways to Wreck Collaboration and What to do About it at agile42.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

While new headless commerce platforms are emerging all the time, Swell CEO Eric Ingram told me that it remains “really hard to do something new in e-commerce.” Specifically, he told me that most headless platforms (which offer back-end infrastructure separate from the front-end shopping experience) allow businesses to build a faster shopping experience, but they’re largely designed for marketplaces where you search, browse and purchase from a traditional product catalog. “

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IDC

MARCH 26, 2021

The global pandemic demonstrated the need for a new kind of business resiliency. Explore digital resiliency and how it powers the Future Enterprise with IDC.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

Hub , a productivity platform for technical pre-sales, has formally launched with $1 million in seed funding. CEO Freddy Mangum and CTO Karl Gainey founded Hub in 2020. The pair both had experience in technical sales and recognized the challenges of using spreadsheets to manage their business. They researched and surveyed sales engineers at big and small companies alike, discovering that many of these professionals were spending a lot of time doing things like “ wrangling data to report to manag

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Battery Ventures

MARCH 26, 2021

It’s no secret the pandemic decimated areas of the hospitality industry—think hotels, clubs, gyms and restaurants–in 2020. Back-end tech companies servicing those businesses got hurt, too. But now, a year after the start of Covid lockdowns, a handful of nimble tech-hospitality companies have smartly rebounded–in large part by leveraging a broader digital shift that’s transforming both consumer and business behavior.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

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CloudZero

MARCH 26, 2021

In the Software as a Service community (SaaS), benchmarking is crucial for any business that wants to succeed. Without benchmarking, it can be very difficult for a business in this space—especially in the early stages—to know whether they are moving in the right or wrong direction.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 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 were all here to chat through the week’s biggest tech happenings. News was right back up to a dull roar this week, so we did our best to trim and hone and just bring you the most important things.

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Confluent

MARCH 26, 2021

I previously showed how to install and set up Apache Kafka® on Windows in minutes by using the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL 2). From there, it’s only a […].

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

Homebase co-founders Phillip An and Junyuan Tan. The home ownership rate in Vietnam is about 90% , but many millennials are struggling to join that number. Rising property prices in cities, coupled with a lack of financing options, mean more people have to delay buying their first homes unless they have family support. Part of Y Combinator’s latest batch, Homebase was founded in 2019 to give prospective buyers in Vietnam an alternative to traditional financing.

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