TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

It’s been a wild couple of years for Oura. Last year, in particular, proved to be a major driver for the wearable fitness manufacturer. With the pandemic bringing professional sports to a screeching halt in 2020, a number of major leagues have adopted the ring, including the NBA, WNBA, UFC and NASCAR. The company has also been making a major push into health research courtesy of UCSF, which has published peer-review studies around the ring’s temperature monitor.

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MAY 4, 2021

Read why Craig Adeyanju says that Palantir Technologies, Inc is poised to win more commercial clients in near term on Nasdaq Blog : Shares of Palantir Technologies have shed over 27% of their value since Feb. 12 when I last wrote about the artificial intelligence company. You might be wondering if this is a good […].

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

HoneyBook, which has built out a client experience and financial management platform for service-based small businesses and freelancers, announced today that it has raised $155 million in a Series D round led by Durable Capital Partners LP. Tiger Global Management, Battery Ventures, Zeev Ventures, 01 Advisors as well as existing backers Norwest Venture Partners and Citi Ventures also participated in the financing, which brings the New York-based company’s valuation to over $1 billion.

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MAY 4, 2021

Software repositories are specifically designed as the storage location for software packages. Vaults are used as the storage locations, and at times the contents tables with the metadata are stored, and software repositories managed mainly by repository managers. The managers are responsible for any installation and updates of a repository without manually handling the installations and updates.

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While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.

TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

Personalized nutrition startup Zoe — named not for a person but after the Greek word for ‘life’ — has topped up its Series B round with $20M, bringing the total raised to $53M. The latest close of the B round was led by Ahren Innovation Capital, which the startup notes counts two Nobel laureates as science partners. Also participating are two former American football players, Eli Manning and Ositadimma “Osi” Umenyiora; Boston, US-based seed fund Accomplice; he

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

In March 2020, Tame had a digital event suite for offline corporate events. But with the pandemic hitting, it did a hard pivot into providing a highly customizable virtual events platform, primarily used by companies for their sales events. The result is that it has now raised a seed round of $5.5 million, a large round for its native Denmark, led by VF Venture (The Danish Growth Fund), along with byFounders and three leading angels: Mikkel Lomholt (CTO and co-founder, Planday); Sune Alstrup (Ex

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CTOvision

MAY 4, 2021

David Lee interview Bryson Bort, CEO and founder of SCYTHE. Topics discussed include Bryson’s journey from serving the US Army to becoming a two-time security company founder, how the security industry has evolved from its IT origins, and some of the interesting innovations SCYTHE has made in threat emulation. For more see : Scythe.io.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

NurseFly, the healthcare jobs marketplace owned by IAC , has rebranded to Vivian Health as it expands its range of services. Originally launched for traveling nurses (or nurses willing to travel for short-term positions), Vivian Health now includes listings for permanent positions, per diem shifts and local openings. It also added employer reviews and a pay database that uses information gathered from the 1.7 million jobs that have come through its system.

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MAY 4, 2021

Read why Jude Lopez says that there is a change in the way Chainlink price movements have emerged during the recent price correction on Amb Crypto : Akin to many in the altcoin market, Chainlink too witnessed a substantial price correction in the past week, after having shed over 27 percent of its trading price […].

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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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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

Africa is the last frontier for basically anything. Mobile gaming is no exception. For a continent that is home to more than 1 billion millennials and Gen Zers, mobile gaming has never really picked up, despite the continent witnessing rapid economic growth and smartphone adoption. Two issues have proved detrimental to this growth: distribution and payments.

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DevOps.com

MAY 4, 2021

More often than not, there seems to be friction between DevOps and security teams. Despite having the same end goals of creating the most secure code and preventing any potential security pitfalls, these groups of professionals often lack the unity needed to accomplish these end goals effectively and efficiently. In the interview below, Naomi Buckwalter, […].

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

Many publishers are focused on converting visitors to subscribers, but there’s another important bracket: people who want to view a premium article or video, but not enough to sign up for a subscription. Fewcents , a Singapore-based fintech startup that enables publishers to take “micropayments” for individual pieces of content, announced today it has raised $1.6 million in seed funding.

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DevOps.com

MAY 4, 2021

Open source technology thrives during times of mass disruption, and this pandemic has been no different. Across the board, companies are accelerating their digital transformation and DevOps strategies, looking to open source technology as a way to streamline operations. While deploying open source software (OSS) in DevOps can help organizations lower costs and avoid vendor […].

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In the rapidly-evolving world of embedded analytics and business intelligence, one important question has emerged at the forefront: How can you leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance your application’s analytics capabilities? Imagine having an AI tool that answers your user’s questions with a deep understanding of the context in their business and applications, nuances of their industry, and unique challenges they face.

TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

Mental health, and how it is getting addressed, has been one of the major leitmotifs of the past year of pandemic living. COVID-19 not only has led to a lot of people getting ill or worse; it has increased isolation, economic uncertainty and led to a lot of other kinds of disappointments, and that all has had a knock-on effect on our collective and individual state of mind.

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DevOps.com

MAY 4, 2021

In recent years, implementing AI and IoT technologies has been top priority for many organizations as their leading-edge capabilities have become a requisite for digital transformation – but the speed of their adoption is greatly influenced by the flexibility of supporting software. Enter low-code, no-code programming and truly open APIs. Low-code/no-code platforms are a promising […].

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

An issue every developer faces is dealing with problems on a live application without messing it up. In fact, in many companies such access is restricted. Cased , an early stage startup, has come up with a solution to provide a way to work safely with the live application. Today, the company announced a $2.25 million seed round led by Founders Fund along with a group of prestigious technology angel investors.

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MAY 4, 2021

Cloud data storage company Wasabi today announced that it raised $112 million in series C financing, bringing its total raised to $219 million. The company says that the funding will be put toward expanding its network of resellers, partners, and distributors as it opens new data centers, grows its team, and builds its brand via […].

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

The public markets give, and the public markets take away. Earlier this morning, enterprise cloud storage and productivity company Box got into a more public spat with some of its shareholders upset with its performance and management decisions. But while Box endures the more difficult chapters of being a public company, other companies are racing to join the ranks of the listed concerns of the world.

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MAY 4, 2021

Drew Falkman from @modus-create shares his perspective on Zoom fatigue and the rise of asynchronous collaboration tools. He offers tips for how to get the most out of the tools his team uses -- like Miro, a virtual whiteboard platform, and Trello, a project management tool. He explores the pros and cons of different tools and approaches. By Drew Falkman, Jay Garcia.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

An Indian startup that began its life after the global pandemic broke last year said on Tuesday it has concluded its third financing round as it enables hundreds of thousands of teachers in the world’s second-largest internet market to run classes online and serve their students. Bangalore-based Teachmint said today it has raised $16.5 million in its Series A financing round.

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TechBeacon

MAY 4, 2021

As a test automation consultant and technical trainer, I've helped many testers take their first or next step in the world of test automation. I've seen many testers grow from test automation novices to seasoned veterans in the field. However, I've also seen a lot of them struggle.

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Organizations look to embedded analytics to provide greater self-service for users, introduce AI capabilities, offer better insight into data, and provide customizable dashboards that present data in a visually pleasing, easy-to-access format. To better understand the factors behind the decision to build or buy analytics, insightsoftware partnered with Hanover Research to survey IT, software development, and analytics professionals on why they make the embedded analytics choices they do.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

Their investors call them disruptive innovators. Detractors like North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein call them “ dirty scammers. ” But Leda Health co-founders Madison Campbell and Liesel Vaidya think of themselves as advocates for sexual assault survivors. . Among the feminists leveraging Ethereum for subversive use cases, Leda Health’s do-it-yourself evidence-collecting kit for sexual assault survivors is among the most ambitious projects.

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CloudZero

MAY 4, 2021

AWS provides a number of useful services for managing and deploying containers, three among them being Amazon Elastic Compute (ECS), Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), and Fargate.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

Nathan Beckord. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Nathan Beckord is CEO of Foundersuite.com , a software platform for raising capital and managing investors that has helped entrepreneurs raise over $2 billion since 2016. He is also the host of Foundersuite’s How I Raised It podcast. More posts by this contributor. The lightning-fast Series A (that was 3 years in the making).

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CTOvision

MAY 4, 2021

Read Dennis Fisher explain how RiskIQ security researchers have found the majority of command and control servers used by the SolarWinds hackers on Duo Security Blog : Months after the initial revelation of the intrusion at SolarWinds, researchers have discovered that the footprint of the infrastructure used by the attackers is much larger than previously […].

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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

MAY 4, 2021

It’s only been three years since they hit the streets and Revel’s blue electric mopeds have already become a common sight in New York, San Francisco and a growing number of U.S. cities. However, Revel founder and CEO Frank Reig has set his sights far beyond building a shared moped service. In fact, since the beginning of 2021, Revel has launched an e-bike subscription service , an EV charging station venture and an all-electric rideshare service driven by a fleet of 50 Teslas.

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DevOps.com

MAY 4, 2021

It’s no secret that site reliability engineering (SRE) adoption is growing. The operating model, it seems, is pivotal for digital transformations across the enterprise. According to the Upskilling 2021: Enterprise DevOps Skills Report, 22% of respondents (up 7% from last year) cited SRE as the approach they need to continue automation in 2021. Common Adoption […].

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

It looks like everyone and their mother is trying to reinvent the Brazilian banking system. Earlier this year we wrote about Nubank’s $400 million Series G , last month there was the PicPay IPO filing and today, alt.bank , a Brazilian neobank, announced a $5.5 million Series A led by Union Square Ventures (USV). It’s no secret that the Brazilian banking system has been poised for disruption, considering the sector’s little attention to customer service and exorbitant fee structure that’s left m

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