Thu.Mar 03, 2022

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MyPlace raises $5.8M to scale its private home-sharing social network

TechCrunch

New York-based MyPlace , a social network designed to help friends share their private homes, has raised $5.8 million in seed funding led by Freestyle Ventures. The platform was originally launched in 2019 by entrepreneurs Zach Bell and Rameet Chawla as a way for them to share their private homes with their friends. Since then, the platform has grown into a social network used by thousands of people in 86 countries.

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VPS Hosting – Uses, Advantages, and Disadvantages

The Crazy Programmer

Web hosting is serious business, and if you are new to the game, getting your website up and running on the Internet can come with all sorts of unique challenges. The established industry standards like dedicated or shared web hosting are hard to ignore. Even the latest addition to the team – cloud computing – has a hidden allure that’s hard to resist, especially if you like to test the latest technologies offered.

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B2B e-commerce platform Chari is acquiring the credit line of Axa Assurance in Morocco for $22M

TechCrunch

Moroccan B2B e-commerce and retail startup Chari has acquired Axa Credit, the credit branch of Axa Assurance Maroc, for $22 million, the company confirmed to TechCrunch today. The news comes off the back of Chari’s recently closed seed extension round that saw it valued at $100 million and begin offering BNPL services to its customers. It is one of the few African startups to publicly disclose its valuation.

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Monetization: What SaaS platform builders need to know to prepare for growth, Part 2

CloudGeometry

When developing a SaaS product plan, it’s important to recognize two foundational principles. First, SaaS is a business strategy, not a technology strategy. Second, there is no one-size-fits-all SaaS architecture (the second principle is a corollary of the first). The challenge is to build common ground between business and architecture so as to translate business assumptions into critical technical solution inputs.

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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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Corporations are scrambling to get into the venture game

TechCrunch

The venture capital boom of 2021 was not built from merely traditional VC money. A host of other capital sources played a role in the global trend , from new methods of disbursing angel and seed capital to crossover funds pouring into late-stage startups. And amid all the noise, record-setting totals, and rapid-fire dealmaking, corporate venture investors were busy, investing gobs of parent-company cash into far-smaller concerns.

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Microsoft partners with VCs, accelerators to back 10,000 startups in Africa

TechCrunch

Microsoft has today announced plans to support 10,000 startups in Africa over the next five years through a series of initiatives including partnerships with accelerators and incubators across the continent. It also announced plans to partner with venture capital investors to increase funding access for startups in Africa by unlocking $500 million in “potential” investment.

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Privilege Escalation from Node/Proxy Rights in Kubernetes RBAC

Aqua Security

One of the side effects of Kubernetes’ rich API and extensive functionality is that sometimes there are security implications to granting users permissions. Security architects should be aware of these side effects when designing platforms that use Kubernetes. In recent research with Iain Smart of NCC Group, we looked at how granting rights to node/proxy resources in Kubernetes could allow for audit logs and other security controls to be bypassed.

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Shares raises $40 million for its social investment app

TechCrunch

Shares has closed a $40 million Series A funding round led by Valar Ventures. The company has been working on a mobile app that lets you easily buy and sell shares, but with a social twist. You can follow your friends’ moves and talk with other users directly from the app. Today, the company is also launching its app on the App Store and Google Play.

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The 6 Most Frequently Asked Digital Marketing Questions Answered

TechSoup

Marketing is a key component of any organization's business strategy. It is how a company's value is shown to the unique audiences it serves. It is the voice of an organization. Marketing ultimately answers the questions of what is offered, who it is offered to, where one can obtain it, and how much of an investment is required.

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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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Decipad wants to help everyone do data modelling

TechCrunch

Decipad , a no-code startup that’s aiming to disrupt spreadsheets with accessible tools that empower people to play around with numbers, has nabbed $5 million in seed funding. Put simply, it’s building an interactive notebook to help non-technical people do data modelling. “We are building for people that lack the technical skill to do cool things with data and numbers but have ideas and expertise that they want to bring to life and share with the world,” says co-founder

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Fostering Technology Adoption Through Small Wins

Dataiku

There is a global push for digital transformation and taking an “innovation first” approach, but, up to 80% of these initiatives will fail. Organizations approach data science and analytics platforms with the expectation of large projects that provide large returns on investment. However, the success of small projects can have a much broader impact on company-wide technology adoption.

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Atomic lands $40M in funding, just five months after its Series A, to connect banks and fintechs to consumers’ paychecks

TechCrunch

Atomic, a provider of payroll APIs, has raised $40 million in Series B funding just five months after announcing its Series A financing. Mercato Partners and Greylock co-led Atomic’s latest round, which the company described as “preemptive,” meaning that it was not technically seeking to raise but rather was approached by investors. It has now raised just under $80 million in total equity.

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4 Reasons Software Developers Need a Bill of Materials

DevOps.com

The recent Log4j/Log4Shell vulnerability was a wake-up call that threats aren’t going to wait until the industry gets up to speed on software supply chain security. While the Log4j open source component vulnerability caught us all off guard, it did highlight the need for software vendors to be more proactive in disclosing the composition of […].

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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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Daily Crunch: Thousands of Google Play users download Android banking trojan

TechCrunch

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PST, subscribe here. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Thursday, March 3, 2022. We have the latest from how the technology world is responding to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a review of the Theranos show, notes from New Zealand venture capital and more.

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Why Data Governance Is Crucial for All Enterprise-Level Businesses

Cloudera

Whether the enterprise uses dozens or hundreds of data sources for multi-function analytics, all organizations can run into data governance issues. Bad data governance practices lead to data breaches, lawsuits, and regulatory fines — and no enterprise is immune. . Everyone Fails Data Governance. In 2019, the U.K.’s Information Commissioner’s Office fined Marriott International over £99 million ($136 million) for violating the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a European law govern

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How Lido raises the stakes for crypto and DeFi investors

TechCrunch

The world’s most-used blockchain, Ethereum, is switching to a new validation system this summer called proof-of-stake (PoS). PoS, favored over its predecessor for its relative energy efficiency, lets users validate transactions on the network by temporarily depositing, or staking, a certain amount of their tokens in return for rewards. But ETH holders have been hesitant to stake their coins, with only 8% of eligible tokens in the Ethereum ecosystem staked to date, according to StakingRewar

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Article: Using Emergence and Scaffolding to Address Complexity in Product Development

InfoQ Culture Methods

The use of scaffolding and emergence has utility in delivery, supporting the bootstrapping of knowledge and close collaboration with the customer which in turn supports a more organic approach to delivery. Their use is poorly understood but they can be used as part of existing agile practices by tweaking them, avoiding the need for wholesale change By Greg Brougham.

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How Embedded Analytics Helps Product Managers Exceed Their KPIs

Embedded analytics can help you deliver cutting-edge analytics experiences to your end-users that align with KPIs that are critical to the growth and success of your business. Read this eBook to learn how an embedded analytics platform, like Qrvey, can help PMs exceed the following KPIs: Growing revenue while improving customer retention rate Delivering rapid time to value Earning a high net-promoter score Increasing Gross Margin / Profitability Conversion rate from trial to paid Don’t just meet

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YC-backed Blocknom wants to become the ‘Coinbase Earn of Southeast Asia’

TechCrunch

Blocknom , a crypto-earning platform in Y Combinator’s current batch, has aspirations to become the “Coinbase Earn for Southeast Asia.” Today the company announced it has raised $500,000 in pre-seed funding from Y Combinator, Number Capital and Magic Fund. Blocknom’s co-founders, Fransiskus Raymond and Ghuniyu Fattah Rozaq say the app gives users a secure way (it partners with crypto infrastructure company Fireblocks) to get stable, high-yield interest of up to 13% per annum.

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Secure Software Summit Series: Focus on Preventative Readiness

DevOps.com

The connected world economy and the COVID-19 pandemic forced companies to accelerate digital transformation. Sophisticated cybercriminals have seized this forced acceleration to lay the groundwork for cyberwarfare. In reaction to recent attacks ranging from the SolarWinds breach to the recent Log4Shell exploits, many companies have quickly isolated and patched their systems.

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Archive back with fresh funding as it builds community marketing space

TechCrunch

Now that a lot of transactions take place in e-commerce, tapping into the community is something merchants are finding is a necessity to continue engaging with customers. However, that community can live in a bunch of different places online, and Archive is working to harness that community, wherever it is, and provide insights on how the merchant can use that data to grow.

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5 strategies for leaders to celebrate Employee Appreciation Day

CEO Insider

With the emergence of the Great Resignation, the turnover rate at companies nationwide has spiked. This creates a workplace climate where many employees are willing to leave their jobs if they don’t feel valued—and Employee Appreciation Day (March 4), presents an opportunity for employers to ensure their teams feel heard and appreciated at a time […].

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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To achieve enterprise sales success, tailor your approach to CIOs

TechCrunch

Yousuf Khan. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Yousuf Khan is a partner at Ridge Ventures. Prior to joining Ridge, he was the first CIO of Automation Anywhere, CIO and vice president of Customer Success at cloud-based AI platform Moveworks, as well as CIO of Pure Storage, Qualys and Hult International Business School. More posts by this contributor. Hiring is just the first step when building an early-stage comms team. 3 keys to pricing early-stage SaaS products.

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Pulumi Adds Business Critical Edition to Infrastructure Management Platform

DevOps.com

Pulumi today added a Business Critical edition of its Cloud Engineering Platform that provides large enterprises with additional security and compliance features, premium 24×7 support, training, professional services and a self-hosting option. In addition, the company announced that Pulumi Enterprise and Business Critical editions are now available via the online marketplace run by Amazon Web […].

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4 basic elements required for running production OSS smoothly

TechCrunch

Shaun O’Meara. Contributor. Shaun O’Meara, global field CTO at Mirantis , has worked with customers designing and building enterprise IT infrastructure for 20 years. More posts by this contributor. The end of open source? The use of open source software (OSS) has exploded, and many companies are using it as the cornerstone of their infrastructure. When buying commercial vendor-supported software, you can expect the vendor to be in charge of the products’ upgrades, maintenance, integration

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How comfortable is your organization with making decisions in the face of uncertainty?

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Our reader poll today asks: How comfortable is your organization with making decisions in the face of uncertainty? Very: Uncertainty doesn’t deter us at all from taking action now 24.22% Somewhat: We tend to try to resolve big uncertainties before acting 39.91% Not very: We’re really hesitant to act until we have a clear picture 27.80% Not at all: We won’t act until the vast majority of the uncertainty has been resolved 8.07% Uncertainty is always certain.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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Owner.com whips up new tools for independent restaurants following funding

TechCrunch

Six months after taking in its initial funding to provide independent restaurants with online ordering tools, Owner.com is back with an expanded suite of offerings around delivery and marketing automation after securing $15 million in fresh funding. Aiming to manage a restaurant’s entire digital presence, the company has relaunched itself to offer new tools for its users to do everything from create and update their websites, email marketing and leverage features like recruiting and reputation m

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Social Engineering Tactics: Why LinkedIn is as Dangerous as it is Useful

SecureWorks

Social Engineering Tactics: Why LinkedIn is as Dangerous as it is Useful It's where people go to find their next job. It's also where threat actors go to find their next victim. This blog covers just one of the countless ways we test the security posture of our customers to ensure their employees are aware of social engineering techniques used by the bad guys.

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Agile Book Club: User Stories (with Bill Wake)

James Shore

User stories. Possibly more ink has been spilled on this topic than any other aspect of Agile. In this session, we take a close look at user stories: how to create, split, and use them. We’re joined by Bill Wake, an agile coach who is known for the INVEST acronym for user stories, the Arrange-Act-Assert TDD pattern, and for articles at xp123.com. Reading: ??

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