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Making Smarter, Faster Trades with AI and HPC

Dell EMC

Financial firms draw on the power of artificial intelligence and high-performance computing to make smarter, faster trades.

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Shells Review – Best Personal Cloud Computer

The Crazy Programmer

Cloud technology is the new normal for tech-savvy people who consider themselves Digital Nomads. With the rise in a shift towards cloud technology, especially IT people, have changed the way they work. Besides, it has made it easier for professionals and even ordinary people to access the data on any device from anywhere. Shells is one such platform for hosting a Virtual Desktop/ Computer on the cloud.

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Slice raises $40M to power ordering and marketing for independent pizzerias

TechCrunch

Slice , a startup that helps independent pizzerias build an online business, has raised another $40 million in Series D funding. The round was led by Cross Creek, with participation from KKR, GGV Capital and Primary Ventures, as well as Twitter’s former CEO Dick Costolo and former COO Adam Bain (through their firm 01 Advisors). Last spring, the startup announced a $43 million Series C.

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Upcoming Agile Community Events in April, May, and June

Agile Alliance

While we’re all really excited about the big events on the horizon, I want to give a quick shout out to some upcoming Agile community events which are sponsored by Agile Alliance. Community is what we do. APRIL April 22: If you’re looking for ideas about how to find a new job or … Continued. The post Upcoming Agile Community Events in April, May, and June first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

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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Outschool is the newest edtech unicorn

TechCrunch

Outschool , a marketplace providing small-group, virtual after-school activities for children, has raised a $75 million Series C led by Coatue and Tiger Global Management. TechCrunch first learned of the round from sources familiar with the transaction; the company confirmed the deal to TechCrunch. The new funding values Outschool at $1.3 billion, around four times higher than its roughly $320 million valuation set less than a year ago.

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Vanadium ion battery startup Standard Energy raises $8.9M Series C from SoftBank Ventures Asia

TechCrunch

Standard Energy , a vanadium ion battery developer, announced today it has raised a $8.9 million Series C from SoftBank Ventures Asia. The South Korea-based company says its batteries’ advantages over lithium ion include less risk of ignition and the ease of sourcing vanadium. The latter is an important selling point, as electric vehicle makers face a potential shortage of lithium ion batteries.

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Survey Shows Mounting DevOps Frustration and Costs

DevOps.com

A survey of 400 developers and DevOps team members in the U.S. and Europe found, on average, 15 hours a week are being spent managing tasks such as debugging pipelines and waiting for tests and builds to complete. Conducted by the market research firm Vanson Bourne on behalf of Garden, a provider of a platform […]. The post Survey Shows Mounting DevOps Frustration and Costs appeared first on DevOps.com.

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How Pilot charted a course of not raising too much money

TechCrunch

A few weeks ago, we wrote about fintech Pilot raising a $100 million Series C that doubled the company’s valuation to $1.2 billion. Bezos Expeditions — Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ personal investment fund — and Whale Rock Capital joined the round, adding $40 million to a $60 million raise led by Sequoia about one month prior. That raise came after a $40 million Series B in April 2019 co-led by Stripe and Index Ventures that valued the company at $355 million.

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Is Open Source More Secure Than Closed Source?

DevOps.com

There’s no getting around the fact that security is one of the most essential factors in day-to-day operations for most software developers. From proprietary code to sensitive customer data and everything in between, there are hundreds – if not thousands – of crisis scenarios that can result from gaps in security. Data security is an […].

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Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

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

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Sunday raises $24 million seed round to build a fast restaurant checkout flow

TechCrunch

Meet Sunday , a new startup that is going to attract some headlines as it has raised a $24 million seed round at a $140 million post-money valuation. That’s a lot of money for a company that started just a few months ago but that’s because Sunday wants to move quickly. Sunday is getting noticed because it is founded by Victor Lugger, Tigrane Seydoux and Christine de Wendel — Lugger and Tigrane have been working together for several years as they’re the founders of Big Mamma.

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How Do I Deal With a Jerk at Work? (With Videos)

Let's Grow Leaders

Strategies For Dealing With the Most Difficult Co-Workers. Today on Asking For a Friend, I interview Peter Economy the Inc. Leadership Guy on how to deal with a jerk at work. Peter and I are kindred spirits and have been passionately connected on this topic of dealing with jerks at work for some time. Here’s a very early Inc. interview on being a jerk at work, after my very first book on Overcoming an Imperfect Boss came out in 2014.

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Creator monetization and CRM startup Pico raises $6.5M

TechCrunch

Pico , a New York startup that helps online creators and media companies make money and manage their customer data, announced today that it has launched an upgraded platform and raised $6.5 million in new funding. In a statement, the startup’s co-founder and CEO Nick Chen said Pico helps creators with their two biggest problems — “how to make money more easily and how to get to know your audience better” — while also giving them control over their two most important assets, nam

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CipherTrace Introduces Compliance Solutions for DEX and DeFi Protocol Using Chainlink Network

CTOvision

CipherTrace, a leading crypto intelligence company has launched its new compliance solution CipherTrace DeFi Compli that helps decentralized exchanges (DEXs) and DeFi applications to abide by the rules and regulations of the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). This is a big step towards bringing legitimacy to the fastly evolving DeFi space. The CipherTrace DeFi Compli […].

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

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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Boasting menus from chefs at French Laundry, vegetarian meal kit startup Simple Feast hits the US

TechCrunch

Offering a respite from processed foods for the richest 20% of Americans, Simple Feast has landed on U.S. shores with a mission to expand its presence on the back of $45 million in financing from investors. The European startup is looking to take a page from the shouty LIVEKINDLY Collective playbook and take on the U.S. market with gourmet prepared meals that come with a gourmet price tag and a mission to make Americans eat less meat by proffering more tasty and delicious vegetarian options.

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Open-source, cloud-native projects: 5 key questions to assess risk

TechBeacon

Every time your organization uses any technology, open source or otherwise, you take some risks. Thinking about the risks that open source presents reminds me of an xkcd comic showing how all modern infrastructure is precariously built on a project maintained by a random person in Nebraska. This scenario is actually more common than you might think.

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Messaging app Wire raises $21 million

TechCrunch

Wire , the end-to-end encrypted messaging app and service, has raised a $21 million Series B funding round led by UVC Partners. As the company said a couple of years ago, the company is focusing on the enterprise market more than ever. While Wire started as a consumer app, it never managed to attract hundreds of millions of customers like other messaging apps.

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Building the Confluent UI with React Hooks – Benefits and Lessons Learned

Confluent

Updating a fundamental paradigm in your React app can be as easy as search and replace, or at other times, as difficult as convincing your entire frontend engineering to buy […].

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Top 5 Challenges in Designing a Data Warehouse for Multi-Tenant Analytics

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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PlexTrac raises $10M Series A round for its collaboration-centric security platform

TechCrunch

PlexTrac , a Boise, ID-based security service that aims to provide a unified workflow automation platform for red and blue teams, today announced that it has raised a $10 million Series A funding round led by Noro-Moseley Partners and Madrona Venture Group. StageDot0 ventures also participated in this round, which the company plans to use to build out its team and grow its platform.

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Do You Want A Thought Leader’s Perspective on Vision?

CEO Insider

Since the publication of my most recent book, Indispensable: Build and Lead A Company Can’t Live Without, last month, I have had the marvelous opportunity to discuss several of the key questions covered in the book with several fellow thought leaders. This 5-part article series captures the essence of those discussions. Each piece is organized […].

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Connected Cannabis Co. raises $30 million to bring its designer weed strains to more states

TechCrunch

Connected Cannabis Co. was founded in 2009 and has since grown to become a leading cultivator of designer cannabis strains. Today, the company announced $30 million in debt and equity financing. This comes after the company raised a $25 million Series A in 2019. The new round was led by existing investors including Navy Capital and One Tower Group. Emerald Park Capital, an affiliate of Bryant Park Capital, and Presidio View Capital also participated.

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What Is a Technical Project Manager?

Toptal

Surging demand for Technical Project Managers has raised some important questions for PMs in software development. What are the responsibilities and expectations associated with this role? And just how technical is “technical”?

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

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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MIT startup Pickle raises $5.75M for its package-picking robot

TechCrunch

There’s no doubt this past year has been a major watershed moment for the robotics industry. Warehouse and logistics have been a particular target for an automation push, as companies have worked to keep the lights on amidst stay at home orders and other labor shortages. MIT spinoff Pickle is one of the latest startups to enter the fray. The company launched with limited funding and a small team, though it’s recently changed one of these, telling TechCrunch this week that it has raised $5.57 mil

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The Power of Family Business Stories

CEO Insider

Family-owned businesses, more than 32 million strong, are the backbone of the U.S. economy. According to a February 2021 research report, family businesses employ over 83 million people in the U.S., and account for 54 percent of total private sector GDP. The survival and growth of these family firms is critical for our country’s economic recovery […].

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Inside the US’ epic first-quarter venture capital results

TechCrunch

It’s no surprise that the venture capital market was incredibly active in the United States during the first quarter of 2021, but precisely how strong has only recently become clear. This morning, we’re digging into the data. According to a report from PitchBook , venture capitalists unleashed a wave of capital in the first three months of the year.

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Report: Defense Tech Startup Anduril Eyes New Funding Round

CTOvision

Anduril Industries plans a new round of financing that would value the defense technology startup at approximately $4 billion to $5 billion, The Information reported Monday. The Irvine, California-based startup is likely to use the proceeds to further expand development work on drones and other military equipment. The publication cited sources that say the new round […].

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“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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Zeta in talks with SoftBank to raise at over $1 billion valuation

TechCrunch

Banking tech startup Zeta is inching closer to the much sought-after unicorn status as it talks to investors to finalize a new round, sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. SoftBank Vision Fund 2 is in talks to lead a ~$250 million Series D round in the five-year-old startup, the sources said. The investment proposal values the Indian startup, co-founded by high-profile entrepreneur Bhavin Turakhia, at over $1 billion, up from $300 million in its maiden external funding (Series C) in

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Simple Uses of Laravel 8 Routes Group

Php,Mysql,Jquery Tutorial And Interview Question

This tutorial help to understand Laravel 8 group with example. We will create a route group in Laravel 8, bind the similar type of routes into a group. We can also define routes prefix and apply middleware. Routes Groups are helpful in the situation when you want to apply one attribute to all the routes. […]. The post Simple Uses of Laravel 8 Routes Group appeared first on Phpflow.com.

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Coinbase opens at $381 per share, valuing the crypto exchange at nearly $100B

TechCrunch

Today shares of Coinbase began to trade after the company executed a direct listing. From a reference price of $250 , Coinbase shares opened at $381 today, a change of around 52%. At its open Coinbase was valued at $99.6 billion on a fully diluted basis. As of the time of writing Coinbase has appreciated further to just over $400 per share, valuing the company at a touch more than $104 billion.

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