TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

Last April, Google launched Grow with Google Career Readiness for Reentry, a program created in partnership with nonprofits to offer job readiness and digital skills training for formerly incarcerated individuals. As a part of an expansion, Google today announced that it’ll invest just over $8 million in organizations helping “justice-impacted” individuals, including the formerly incarcerated, enter the workforce.

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DataRobot

JUNE 1, 2022

Join DataRobot and leading organizations June 7 and 8 at DataRobot AI Experience 2022 (AIX) , a unique virtual event that will help you rapidly unlock the power of AI for your most strategic business initiatives. Showcasing the industry’s most innovative use of AI, this global event offers you the opportunity to learn from DataRobot data scientists—as well as AI pioneers from retailers like Shiseido Japan Co., Ltd., financial services and healthcare leaders, and the McLaren Formula 1 Team.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

LA-born startup TRIPP doesn’t want the metaverse to be a mere “shopping mall for virtual consumers,” its founder Nanea Reeves told TechCrunch. Instead, Reeves’ company is envisioning a metaverse experience that can “deepen connection to self, facilitate mental well-being and enable personal and collective transformation.” TRIPP’s vision for a mindful metaverse is already a (virtual) reality: Its wellness-centered experience can be accessed through multip

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JUNE 1, 2022

Pipedrive would not have become a unicorn company by using a standard off-the-shelf agile framework. Instead, the company created its own framework. It makes a distinction between Mission Teams versus Launchpads and relies heavily on dynamic reteaming. In Pipedrive's Agile Framework, the Product Managers pitch new ideas and Software Engineers volunteer to lead their Mission Teams.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

Novoloop , a plastic upcycling startup, said Wednesday it has raised a $10 million Series A extension round co-led by South Korean chemical firm Hanwha Solutions and Taizo Son’s Mistletoe. This follows a first raise of $11 million in February and brings the Series A to $21 million and its total funding to $24 million. Other investors in the extension include Valo Ventures, SOSV, Far Eastern Group’s corporate venture arm Drive Catalyst, Alante Capital and S Cap.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

We’ve long documented the challenges that DevOps and operations teams in specific areas like security face these days when it comes to data observability: a wide range of services across the landscape of an organization’s network translates into many streams of data that they need to track for performance, security and other reasons. That’s leading to the rise of a wave of startups building tools to improve how to manage this.

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Tenable

JUNE 1, 2022

A year after the ransomware attack against the Colonial Pipeline, what can we do to further harden the IT and OT systems of power plants, fuel pipelines, water treatment plants and similar critical infrastructure facilities? The Colonial Pipeline’s shutdown after a ransomware attack in May 2021 put a massive spotlight on the importance of protecting the IT and OT systems of critical infrastructure providers. .

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

Fintech startups are taking the downturn harder than most other sectors, data indicates. So much so that even the largest and best-known private fintech companies are suffering from embarrassing revaluations. Data collected by Andreessen Horowitz, a well-known venture capital firm with a history of investing in financial technology — most recently, crypto — shows that public fintech companies are suffering from greater valuation declines than other technology categories.

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Daffodil Software

JUNE 1, 2022

If you’re leading the marketing campaigns of an organization, you could relate to this! The prospect data received from website forms, surveys, web browsing, a list of event attendees, or advertising is not enough to create opportunities and convert a lead.

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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.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

Poparazzi , the anti-Instagram social app that hit the top of the App Store last year, is today, for the first time, detailing the growth stats for its business, its future plans and its previously unconfirmed Benchmark-led Series A round. The L.A.-area startup now reports its iOS-only has seen over 5 million installs in its first year, with users primarily in the Gen Z demographic.

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Cloudera

JUNE 1, 2022

Imagine you’re the superintendent of a school district and you discover that your district has a problem with bullying. How do you go about enacting an informed policy that will help stem that problem? Where would you find the data to support your decision? Even if you could collect all the data around bullying incidents in the district over the past several years, do you have the time and knowledge to analyze that data?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Extra, extra, read all about it — Sheryl Sandberg surprised us this afternoon and said she was stepping down as Meta COO. We’re still figuring out the details, so stay tuned for more. And oh Hai! Or rather, Ohio — more specifically, Columbus, Ohio.

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Coding Dojo

JUNE 1, 2022

The demand for competent full-stack developers is fueled by the world’s growing dependence on apps. That dependence doesn’t look to … Read more >>. The post How to Become a Full-Stack Developer (Step-by-Step Guide) appeared first on Coding Dojo Blog.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

Super , the Indonesian social commerce startup focused on small towns and rural areas, announced today it has raised an oversubscribed $70 million Series C. The round was led by NEA with participation from Insignia Ventures Partners, SoftBank Ventures Asia, DST Global Partners, Amasia, B Capital, TNB Aura, Bain Capital chairman Stephen Pagliuca, Goldhouse, and Xendit CEO Moses Lo.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

JUNE 1, 2022

Changing your approach in the middle of a negotiation is a great way to surprise the other party and drive value for your organization. During a negotiation, you can change your approach. You don’t have to maintain your initial approach or your initial position. You can change it at any time. Your opponent won’t maintain their approach or their position, so throughout the deal, determine your counteroffers and your approach.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

Do you have your mind set on attending TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, California, on October 18–20? Excellent, we can’t wait to see you there. If you’ve put off registering, however, it’s time to change that mindset — and pronto. Why? Prices increase on Friday, June 3 at 11:59 p.m. (PT). We’re talking on the dot, people. Don’t procrastinate — buy your pass before the deadline strikes, and you’ll save up to $1,500.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2022

Developers must avoid falling back on outdated guidelines and keep up with the shifting threshold for accessibility.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

If you’ve ever spent time writing beat poetry about container ships chugging their way into and out of harbors, “nimble” or “fast” will be unlikely to make it into your finely crafted written words. And if your (admittedly increasingly esoteric) poetic bent is more of an air freight persuasion, it’s likely that “affordable” was not in your lexicon.

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Dell EMC

JUNE 1, 2022

Even with everything going on in the world, PRIDE is very much worth celebrating.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

Despite shaky markets, a steady stream of investors continue writing big checks for blockchain infrastructure providers. InfStones , which aims to help clients build applications across a number of blockchain platforms, closed a $66 million round led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and GGV Capital, the company announced on Wednesday. Other investors in the raise include INCE Capital, 10T Fund, SNZ Holding and A&T Capital.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2022

Virtual tools allow for learning to be integrated into executives’ daily work.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

I’m excited to announce SureImpact won today’s City Spotlight: Columbus pitch-off! Winning a free exhibition space at TechCrunch Disrupt 2022 and a spot in TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 200 , the Ohio-based company pitched alongside Skuld and Healia Health on TechCrunch Live earlier today. Founder and CEO Sheri Chaney Jones pitched to two fantastic judges — Anna Mason (Managing Partner, Rise of the Rest Seed Fund at Revolution) and Parul Singh (General Partner, Initialized Ca

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James Shore

JUNE 1, 2022

No matter how effective you are at delivering software, you’re in trouble without the goodwill of your stakeholders and sponsor. Stakeholder trust is essential, but on far too many teams, it’s eroded to the point that it affects teams productivity. which, ironically, degrades trust even further. How can teams create trust with their stakeholders? That’s the topic of this book club session.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

Today, TechCrunch is virtually hosting TC City Spotlight: Columbus — an event shining a spotlight on the innovation, investment and entrepreneurship in the region. The event will feature panels highlighting the successes and challenges facing the massive tech scene. In true TechCrunch fashion, part two is a pitch-off with an amazing group of founders from the Ohio region.

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SecureWorks

JUNE 1, 2022

Unsecured Elasticsearch Data Replaced with Ransom Note Security controls such as MFA can limit access to internet-facing databases. Security controls such as MFA can limit access to internet-facing databases.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

Large construction projects often take a long time to finish, and subcontractors can get caught up in the flow of money, waiting, in certain circumstances, up to 80 days to be paid by general contractors. This not only causes delays, but also means subcontractors are essentially being asked to finance their portion of the project, Constrafor CEO Anwar Ghauche told TechCrunch.

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Dell EMC

JUNE 1, 2022

Dell Technologies is uniquely equipped to navigate any macroeconomic environment, as CFO Tom Sweet explains.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

Peer-to-peer car sharing company Turo is expanding to New York State and France in June, the company said on Wednesday. The expansion comes at a time when post/mid-Covid tourism is beginning to heat up, but renting a car will be difficult and expensive due to ongoing semiconductor shortages and supply chain issues. Turo’s launch in New York follows the state legislature’s passing of SB 6715 in December 2021, a law that provides a regulatory framework for peer-to-peer car sharing oper

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