thoughtLEADERS, LLC
JULY 20, 2022
Building a prioritization process for your organization can help you eliminate distractions and focus your efforts on the most meaningful projects. A consistent and regularly-scheduled prioritization process helps eliminate distractions and focus your efforts on the most meaningful projects. Some processes are formal while others are simply frequent conversations about priorities.
CIO
JULY 20, 2022
As technology continues to take a larger role in corporate sustainability practices, CIOs can play a key role in driving both business value and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance. In fact, creating and implementing a comprehensive sustainable technology strategy must now be the core mission of a purpose-driven CIO. Every executive in Accenture’s recent sustainable technology survey agreed that technology is critical for achieving sustainability goals.
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TechCrunch
JULY 20, 2022
Crypto infrastructure provider Blockdaemon has acquired Danish startup Sepior , a digital asset security company providing key management services for institutional clients, for an undisclosed price. The deal marks the startup’s fourth acquisition in two years, the latest of which was Blockdaemon’s purchase of NFT aggregator Gem in March of this year.
CIO
JULY 20, 2022
With an undergraduate degree in political science and time spent as a Peace Corps and AmeriCorps volunteer, Lain McGrath hardly envisioned a career in software engineering. Yet after onboarding at HR SaaS provider Gusto in a customer experience (CX) role, exposure to coding sparked McGrath’s interest in shifting professional tracks. The problem: She had no formal training and experience in computer science.
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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
TechCrunch
JULY 20, 2022
Conversational commerce isn’t exactly a new phenomenon, with countless companies using live chats, messaging apps, chatbots, voice assistants and more to encourage consumers to part with their cash. As part of that broader movement, the mighty WhatsApp, a dominant force in the messaging world, has been pushing deeper into the business arena with myriad tools to connect retailers with customers — from product catalogs and collections , to shopping carts and Instagram Shops integration
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TechCrunch
JULY 20, 2022
While the pandemic prompted companies to digitize much of the way they do business, not every brand made the pivot successfully. In some cases, it cost them dearly. According to Couchbase, enterprises wasted on average $4.12 million on failed, delayed or scaled-back projects in 2020. The same survey found that over four-fifths of companies — 82% — were prevented from pursuing digital transformation projects due to the staffing, resources and expertise required.
CIO
JULY 20, 2022
The digital transformation of the Middle East’s retail sector in the last five to seven years has brought immense value in crafting more agile supply chains that accommodate demand. In a recent PwC study, retail CEOs in the region cited key factors to achieve this being their ability to manage faster delivery times, support easier product returns, and balance stock volumes.
TechCrunch
JULY 20, 2022
Tedooo , a Tel Aviv-based social network marketed towards the trade world, has raised $3 million in seed funding led by Stardom Ventures. The platform is designed to help boost and create global trade communities via partnerships between sellers and buyers. Tedooo’s current main focus is the handmade crafts and DIY industry in English-speaking countries.
CIO
JULY 20, 2022
In an effort to minimize grant fraud, the Swedish government is establishing a new authority to consolidate all payments from several agencies and services, and CIOs and IT leaders are central to its mission and success. Due to an estimated $1.8 billion being paid out erroneously every year, the need for the government to act has become urgent, highlighting this payments channel and its robust oversight as an important weapon against organized crime.
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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.
TechCrunch
JULY 20, 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. Oh hey, and welcome to the Daily Crunch for Wednesday! Today, the whole office is proverbially abuzz with robotics. Proverbially, because we’re not sure we actually have an office at this point, and if we do, we don’t know who’s there.
DevOps.com
JULY 20, 2022
Remember when ransomware was the main security threat that DevOps teams needed to worry about? Those days are over. Ransomware attacks are certainly still happening, but API security breaches—which increased by a whopping 600% in 2021—are now poised to become the top attack vector for threat actors, according to Gartner. That’s the bad news. The […].
TechCrunch
JULY 20, 2022
Calling all early-stage founders. There is only one way that you can attend, exhibit for three days and possibly compete in the Startup Battlefield — for free — at TechCrunch Disrupt. You have to apply to the Startup Battlefield 200 (SBF 200), and your time is running out. Disrupt takes place in San Francisco on October 18–20, but the SBF 200 application window closes on July 31 at 11:59 p.m.
TechBeacon
JULY 20, 2022
With resources stretched and margins getting thinner, application programming interfaces and the API economy will continue to play a critical role in connecting services, applications, and clouds.
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As a SaaS leader, you know that the more metrics, insights, and analytics you add to your products, the more engagement you’ll have – and the stickier your product will become with customers. At what point do you decide to keep building your analytics in-house or invest in an embedded analytics solution? Read our Build vs. Buy Analytics guide to learn: Top 4 benefits of embedded analytics A quick cost comparison of in-house analytics development vs embedded analytics 10 considerations to help yo
TechCrunch
JULY 20, 2022
Arrenda , a Mexico City-based fintech company, is offering digital financial services to the real estate market of Latin America and closed on $26.5 million in a pre-seed round of equity and debt. The funding round was a mix of $1.5 million in equity and $25 million in debt financing. Fasanara Capital led the investment and was joined by Kube Ventures, ODX, Toehold Ventures, Wharton Fintech, Lightspeed Venture Partners Scout Fund, PRMM Inmobiliaria and a group of angel investors.
Cloudera
JULY 20, 2022
This month, Cloudera Cares is excited to spotlight Burt Wagner, senior solutions engineer from Alexandria, Virginia. Burt — who joined Cloudera earlier this year — volunteers regularly with the Boy Scouts of America. He started Scouting as an eight year old; it has always been an integral part of his life and something he now enjoys sharing with his son.
TechCrunch
JULY 20, 2022
Cannabis is now legal in a number of U.S. states, but because it isn’t federally legal, this “legal” status only does so much for cannabis businesses. While dispensaries can sell cannabis products legally in many states, they don’t have access to the same banking facilities that any other retail business would. As a technology platform for cannabis commerce, Oregon-based startup Dutchie is cognizant of the complexity of the problem it is trying to tackle. “We are fr
Daffodil Software
JULY 20, 2022
When it comes to seeking app-based medical solutions, physical health is often given precedence over cognitive or mental health. However, millions of people suffer silently from unseen, yet debilitating effects of mental illnesses. That is the pain area that the creators of the research-backed mental wellness app Wysa have chosen to address.
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Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.
TechCrunch
JULY 20, 2022
Stripe has been in the news this past week for lowering its own valuation to around $74 billion from $95 billion, a 28% decline that made waves in startup-land. Given the company’s size and its status as one of the most richly valued startups in history, the payments giant carries significant weight in the private markets. It’s worth taking the time to make sense of this internal valuation cut, especially to understand if the move is as bearish as the big numbers might lead some to
DevOps.com
JULY 20, 2022
We are tired. Information overload is a problem in the modern world. We hear instantly about events we never would have known about otherwise, or that we would have learned about months after the fact. Today, moments after an event, we have thousands of “professionals” analyzing it for us, a millions-strong army of amateurs telling […]. The post Filter the Firehose appeared first on DevOps.com.
TechCrunch
JULY 20, 2022
Did no one tell European venture capitalists and startup founders that we’re supposed to be on the cusp of a global recession? With startups and VCs all heralding the doom of investment activity across the world, you’d think a market as large as Europe would be affected quite a bit. But European venture capital activity fell only slightly in the second quarter from the preceding three months.
DevOps.com
JULY 20, 2022
Oracle today extended its alliance with Microsoft to include a managed service that makes it simpler for IT organizations to embrace hybrid cloud computing. Oracle Database Service for Microsoft Azure integrates Windows applications with Oracle databases running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Leo Leung, vice president of products and strategy for Oracle, said the managed service […].
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The buzz around generative AI shows no sign of abating in the foreseeable future. Enterprise interest in the technology is high, and the market is expected to gain momentum as organizations move from prototypes to actual project deployments. Ultimately, the market will demand an extensive ecosystem, and tools will need to streamline data and model utilization and management across multiple environments.
TechCrunch
JULY 20, 2022
In the past few months, both Stripe and Instacart have seen their internal valuations updated in a 409A appraisal process. The startups saw their valuations being slashed by 28% and 38%, respectively, as a result of the appraisals. What do these re-pricings signal to other late-stage, pandemic-spurred startups? And how seriously should we be taking them?
Tenable
JULY 20, 2022
Oracle July 2022 Critical Patch Update Addresses 188 CVEs. Oracle addresses 188 CVEs in its third quarterly update of 2022 with 349 patches, including 66 critical updates. Background. On July 19, Oracle released its Critical Patch Update (CPU) for July 2022 , the third quarterly update of the year. This CPU contains fixes for 188 CVEs in 349 security updates across 32 Oracle product families.
TechCrunch
JULY 20, 2022
Tortoise is partnering with hospitality giant Sodexo to bring a mobile smart store — which is basically a fancy vending machine with wheels — to Comic Con this year. One of Tortoise’s robots, laden with Sodexo’s carne asada burritos and 20-ounce bottles of Gatorade, will roam around the main Pavilion at the San Diego Convention Center to service Comic Con’s estimated crowd of 135,000 attendees.
The Daily WTF
JULY 20, 2022
Managing datasets is always a challenging task. So when Penny 's co-worker needed to collect a pile of latitude/longitude positions from one dataset and prepare it for processing in a C++ program, that co-worker turned to the tools she knew best. Python and C++. Now, you or I might have dumped this data to a CSV file. But this co-worker is more… performance minded than us.
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Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.
TechCrunch
JULY 20, 2022
Michael Redd. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Michael Redd spent 12 seasons playing in the NBA and on the U.S. Olympic team. He is now co-founder and chairman of 22 Ventures. More posts by this contributor. 2 reasons why demo days are dead. 3 warning signs that your investor will leave you on the sidelines. A dark cloud is forming on the horizon for startups and investors.
CloudZero
JULY 20, 2022
Kubernetes, or K8s, is an open-source, portable, and scalable container orchestration platform. With K8s, you can reliably manage distributed systems for your applications, enabling declarative configuration and automatic deployment.
Dzone - DevOps
JULY 20, 2022
Microservices are the most scalable way of developing software. But that means nothing unless we choose the right way to run them: processes or containers? Run on my servers or use the cloud? Do I need Kubernetes? When it comes to microservice architecture, there is such an abundance of options, and it is hard to know which is best. As we’ll see, the perfect place to host a microservice application is largely determined by its size and scaling requirements.
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