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Firebase Crashlytics for Flutter

Sunflower Lab

Ridham Desai. Using Firebase Crashlytics for Flutter Firebase Crashlytics can make your life as a developer much easier. Let us show you how! We as developers one thing we hate the most is that error screen. But hey , the good thing is we have developed some skills to debug over the past few years so it won’t bother you at the start ( i f you can’t solve it for few hour s, it’s a completely different story , r ight?

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Bosta raises $6.7M to expand e-commerce delivery business across Africa and MENA

TechCrunch

Per a recent report by Bain & Co., e-commerce is expected to grow to $28.5 billion in MENA by 2022 from a 2019 value of $8.3 billion. Egypt, one of the most active e-commerce countries in the region, is anticipated to grow 33% annually to reach $3 billion by 2022. But for any e-commerce business to thrive, its last-mile delivery arm has to be well figured out.

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The Blight of Soul-Crushing Useless Negative Feedback

Let's Grow Leaders

Don’t let useless negative feedback sap your team’s motivation. Negative feedback is destructive and all-too-common. There are three common problems that erode the power of these conversations. . My phone buzzed with a text message from Amena, a junior manager. “Just had annual eval – most useless ever. Negative feedback that makes no sense.”.

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Sequoia leads $5M pre-seed in Egypt’s 1-month-old digital bank Telda

TechCrunch

Egypt has a population of over 100 million people. The country has a high mobile and internet penetration necessary for a young and tech-savvy population with 61% below 30. But despite its youthful population, two out of every three individuals are currently unbanked in Egypt. It’s the same situation in MENA, where only 40% of the population have access to a bank account.

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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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Will App Dev Become a Normal Competency?

DevOps.com

With a shortage of available developers, companies are considering low-code methods to meet massive application development needs. As a result, by 2024, citizen developers will be responsible for 65% of applications, Gartner predicted. So, if technical ability rises across the board, will application development become an expected skillset for tomorrow’s digital workers?

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Kafka Summit Europe 2021 Recap

Confluent

And that’s a wrap on Kafka Summit Europe 2021, the first of three global Kafka Summits this year. We’ve seen 17,000 registrations from over 7,000 companies and 137 different countries. […].

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Industrial automation startup Bright Machines hauls in $435M by going public via SPAC

TechCrunch

Bright Machines is going public via a SPAC-led combination, it announced this morning. The transaction will see the 3-year-old company merge with SCVX, raising gross cash proceeds of $435 million in the process. After the transaction is consummated, the startup will sport an anticipated equity valuation of $1.6 billion. The Bright Machines news indicates that the great SPAC chill was not a deep freeze.

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WhiteHat Security Allies with BitDefender on Vulnerability Intelligence

DevOps.com

WhiteHat Security, a subsidiary of NTT, has announced an integration with BitDefender to make it easier for developers and cybersecurity teams to discover the extent to which the attack surface they need to defend might be impacted by a vulnerability. BitDefender maintains a database made up of more than five billion internet-connected assets and hundreds […].

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AI-powered Jerry raises $28M to help you save money on car insurance

TechCrunch

When Art Agrawal was growing up in India, a car ride was a rare treat, and car ownership was a dream. When he moved to the U.S. and bought his first car, he was shocked by how much it cost and how difficult it was to maintain a car. In 2012, he co-founded a company called YourMechanic (and won TechCrunch’s Disrupt that year) that provides on-demand automotive mobile maintenance and repair services.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

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.

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Cloud Governance Can Trim Cloud Costs

DevOps.com

The abrupt need to transition to remote work last year caused many companies to migrate to the cloud or accelerate an in-process migration. Cloud has become an essential part of company operations and budgets. Last year, worldwide end user spending on public cloud services was $257.5 billion, making up 9.1% of total global enterprise IT […]. The post Cloud Governance Can Trim Cloud Costs appeared first on DevOps.com.

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BukuKas gets $50M from investors including DoorDash’s Gokul Rajaram and TransferWise founder Taavet Hinrikus

TechCrunch

BukuKas co-founders Krishnan Menon (left) and Lorenzo Peracchione (right) with a BukuKas user. BukuKas , a startup focused on digitizing Indonesia’s small businesses, has raised $50 million in Series B funding. The round included participation from Gokul Rajaram, the DoorDash executive, and Taavet Hinrikus, co-founder and chief executive officer of TransferWise.

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Perforce Acquires 21 Labs to Advance Mobile App Testing

DevOps.com

Perforce Software announced today is has acquired 21 Labs, a provider of a suite of tools that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to provide a no-code approach to testing mobile applications. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Tim Russell, chief product officer for Perforce Software, said the 21 Labs tools complement a set of similar […].

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Flash Sale: Buy an Extra Crunch annual plan, get a free Disrupt pass

TechCrunch

From today until midnight on May 18 (PT), we’re offering a free Disrupt Innovator pass (a $99 value) to anyone who purchases an annual or two-year Extra Crunch membership. Grab an annual or two-year Extra Crunch membership here. . TechCrunch Disrupt is a three-day virtual event with founders and investors shaping the future of disruptive technology and startup experts providing insights to entrepreneurs.

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“Build vs Buy Analytics?” The Question ALL SaaS Leaders Need to Answer in 2024

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

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Five Essential Tips for Successful Mobile Device Management

Kaseya

With more employees performing daily tasks on smartphones and tablets, centralized mobile device management (MDM) is becoming more critical for organizations of all sizes. When it comes to performance, smartphones and tablets are no longer the poor relations of traditional desktop computing, which makes it puzzling that centralized mobile device management is still far from being common practice.

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Fresh out of YC, Houm raises $8M to improve the home rental and sales market in LatAm

TechCrunch

As a longtime real estate developer based in Chile, Benjamin Labra was able to spot gaps in the buying and renting markets in Latin America. To meet demands, he started Houm , an all-in-one platform that helps homeowners rent and sell their properties in the region. Fresh out of Y Combinator’s W21 cohort, today Houm announced an $8 million seed round. .

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Dell Technologies Online Support Usability Webinar

Dell EMC

Join our team of usability research experts on May 27 at 11:00 AM CST for a demonstration of Dell Technologies Online Support Websites and the opportunity to share your feedback on how we can improve your online support experience.

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Ankorstore raises another $102 million for its wholesale marketplace

TechCrunch

French startup Ankorstore has raised a $102 million Series B funding round (€84 million). Tiger Global and Bain Capital Ventures are leading today’s funding round with existing investors Index Ventures, GFC, Alven and Aglaé also participating. This is a significant funding round as it comes just a few months after the company raised €25 million. If you’re not familiar with Ankorstore, the company is building a wholesale marketplace for independent shop owners.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

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.

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It matters not the wording of any agreement but more the form.

General Leadership

Often, the loan-to-value ratio and the Appraisal Contingency Addendum are seen as being the same thing and at their basic level, they do the same thing. However, they are not the same and more importantly, as they are built into the PAR forms, they function very differently. Beginning July 1, all of the agreements should have the following elements to them, where applicable: fixtures and personal property, inspection limitations and reports and the Internet of Things and recordings.

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Merge raises $4.5M to help B2B companies build customer-facing integrations

TechCrunch

Merge , a startup that helps its users build customer-facing integrations with third-party tools, today announced that it has raised a $4.5 million seed round led by NEA. Additional angel investors include former MuleSoft CEO Greg Schott, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince, Expanse co-founders Tim Junio and Matt Kraning, and Jumpstart CEO Ben Herman. Launched in 2020, the core focus of Merge is to give B2B companies a unified API to access data from what is currently about 40 HR, payroll, recruiting

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What’s new in CDP Private Cloud 1.2?

Cloudera

CDP (Cloudera Data Platform) Private Cloud 1.2 was recently released and builds on the success of CDP Private Cloud Base (see the 7.1.6 release blog ). While Private Cloud Base is the ideal modernization of both CDH and HDP deployments for traditional workloads, Private Cloud adds cloud-native capabilities. In this blog, we’ll cover the complete range of new capabilities and updates for CDP Private Cloud as a whole (the platform) as well as for both the CDW (Cloudera Data Warehouse) and CML (Clo

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Should startups build or buy telehealth infrastructure?

TechCrunch

Digital health in the U.S. got a huge boost from COVID-19 as more people started consulting physicians and urgent care providers remotely in the midst of lockdowns. So much so that McKinsey estimates that up to $250 billion of the current healthcare expenditure in the U.S. has the potential to be spent virtually. The prominence of digital health is undoubtedly here to stay, but how it looks and feels from provider to provider is still a debate among sector startups.

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Addressing Top Enterprise Challenges in Generative AI with DataRobot

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.

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What’s new in the 2021 ‘Open Source Security and Risk Analysis’ report

Synopsys

As the use of open source has grown, so has the number of vulnerabilities. Uncover the latest findings from the 2021 OSSRA report. The post What’s new in the 2021 ‘Open Source Security and Risk Analysis’ report appeared first on Software Integrity Blog.

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8 investors and founders highlight Valencia’s potential as a fintech and cybersecurity hub

TechCrunch

While Madrid and Barcelona tend to attract the buzz when it comes to tech startups in Spain, Valencia is slowly and surely making a name for itself as a growing tech ecosystem. The country’s third-largest city, Valencia features great beaches, sunny weather all year, and affordable housing and healthcare. And with a population of only around a million people, it’s a little more manageable compared to its bigger cousins.

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DAOPS Meetup 2021: Software Engineering, DevOps and DevSecOps

DevOps.com

DAOPS Foundation—a non-profit organization committed to accelerating global digital transformation through technical standardization—is hosting the first ever DAOPS Meetup on May 18. The virtual meetup will bring together DevOps leaders from Sonatype, DevOps Institute, TARS Foundation and DAOPS Foundation to discuss the latest in software engineering and the latest DAOPS developments.

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Want to double your rate of return? Seek counsel from experienced executives

TechCrunch

Rob Olson. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Rob Olson is a partner and head of data strategy at M13 , a venture engine focused on investing in the core technologies that are going to drive and change consumer behavior over the next decade. Does it really take an average of seven to eight years for a successful startup to exit? What can early-stage founders do to accelerate outcomes?

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How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics

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.

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Scale-Out Architectures in the Age of Machine Learning

Dell EMC

Learn how PowerScale’s capability for data consolidation can manage data for several Hadoop distributions simultaneously, enabling us to offer phased migration services.

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Balancing Teacher Well-Being To Accelerate Learning Gains, Part 1

PowerSchool

Dave Edwards brings over 26 years of public education experience to his role as Education Solutions Director for PowerSchool. With expertise in edtech systems, online learning, school operations, and professional development, his current focus is as a thought leader in the development of PowerSchool Unified Talen t and Unified Administration solutions.

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Top 4 Reasons Nonprofits Join TechSoup

TechSoup

Over the past year, technology became more crucial to the nonprofit sector than ever before. As many organizations pivoted to entirely online operations due to COVID-19, many organizations were forced to reevaluate their status quo and adapt new ways of doing things across the board.