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What’s Going to Happen Next?

Let's Grow Leaders

What’s Going to Happen? – It Will Be Predictably Unpredictable. If only you had a crystal ball to know what’s going to happen. The planning, the decisions, the choices would be so much easier. But you don’t. And those decisions and tradeoffs aren’t easy. Will office work remain fully virtual, or move to a hybrid model? Is that project still realistic with all this uncertainty?

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Sony announces investment and partnership with Discord to bring the chat app to PlayStation

TechCrunch

Sony and Discord have announced a partnership that will integrate the latter’s popular gaming-focused chat app with PlayStation’s own built-in social tools. It’s a big move and a fairly surprising one given how recently acquisition talks were in the air — Sony appears to have offered a better deal than Microsoft, taking an undisclosed minority stake in the company ahead of a rumored IPO.

Games 306
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Allison Pollard, Conscious Capitalism and Social Justice Conversation

Agile Alliance

For a very long time I'd loath the fact that I'd been born a girl. I was like I should have been born a boy then I would be able to have more rights and I could do more stuff because that was what I had been exposed to. So I've always been in essence a feminist, right? I'm going to fight for the female voice, so this was great, it was a cause. Yes. I'm going to make another female, go on the CST cut.

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How Duolingo became fluent in monetization

TechCrunch

As its meandering route to monetization will demonstrate, Duolingo isn’t mission-oriented, it’s mission-obsessed. Co-founders Luis von Ahn and Severin Hacker never wanted to charge consumers for access to Duolingo content, a purpose imbued throughout the company’s culture. For years in order to work at Duolingo, you had to be comfortable with joining a company in Pittsburgh that was in no rush to make money.

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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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Doing Well By Doing Good With Darrin Williams, CEO Southern Bancorp

N2Growth Blog

Darrin Williams , CEO of Southern Bancorp, may have been a little surprised when a world-class business school professor came knocking at his door. He wasn’t used to that kind of attention deep in the heart of Arkansas. Yet, he could no longer fly under the radar. Professor Rebecca Henderson , an esteemed professor of management at Harvard Business School and a world-leading expert in reimagining capitalism, was interested in the Bank’s trajectory and purpose.

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Codecov Breach: Lessons Learned from the CI Poisoning Attack

Aqua Security

A recent security incident disclosed by Codecov has again placed the spotlight on supply chain attacks. Looking at the details of the incident and how the system operated, it’s clear that organizations should make changes to how they use third party services as part of their Continuous Integration (CI) pipelines. So what can you do to reduce the risk of this occurring?

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Duolingo can’t teach you how to speak a language, but now it wants to try

TechCrunch

Duolingo has been wildly successful. It has pulled in 500 million total registered learners, 40 million active users, 1.5 million premium subscribers and $190 million in booked revenues in 2020. It has a popular and meme-ified mascot in the form of the owl Duo, a creative and engaging product, and ambitious plans for expansion.There’s just one key question in the midst of all those milestones: Does anyone actually learn a language using Duolingo?

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Live Fireside Chat with Christopher Krebs: How to Combat Disinformation

DevOps.com

We live in a digital world where most information is now found online. This makes it increasingly difficult to verify the veracity of information. Threat actors have been taking advantage of the digital landscape to spread disinformation, propaganda and conspiracy theories to manipulate the public and sow doubt, discord and chaos. How can we distinguish […].

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Path Robotics raises $56M Series B for automated welding

TechCrunch

Columbus, Ohio-based firm Path Robotics today announced the completion of a $56 million Series B. The round, led by Addition (featuring Drive Capital, Basis Set and Lemnos Lab) brings the robotic welding company’s total funding to $71 million. Adding another piece to the broader automated manufacturing puzzle, the company is focused on robotic welding.

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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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How Cloud Backups Help Keep Teachers Teaching and Students Learning

Arcserve

It’s gotten so bad that’s it’s at the top of the national news. Recent CBS News coverage of the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Agency’s alerts makes it clear: K-12 schools are clearly in the cross-hairs as targets for ransomware attacks. And it doesn’t stop at K-12.

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The product-led growth behind edtech’s most downloaded app

TechCrunch

Duolingo CEO and co-founder Luis von Ahn was tired of the gray and dreary design aesthetic edtech companies used to emulate universities. Instead, he and the company’s early team sought inspiration from games like Angry Birds and Clash Royale, looking to build a class that screamed more cartoon anarchy than lecture hall. From that frenetic creativity came the company’s distinctive mascot: a childish and rebellious evergreen-colored owl named Duo.

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Why security and IT Ops need to learn how to share

TechBeacon

Since the dawn of the digital age, IT's overarching operational goal has been built around availability and performance: Keep the systems running fast and with 100% uptime, or close to it, no matter what it takes. The situation looks a bit different today.

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Gatheround raises millions from Homebrew, Bloomberg and Stripe’s COO to help remote workers connect

TechCrunch

Remote work is no longer a new topic, as much of the world has now been doing it for a year or more because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Companies — big and small — have had to react in myriad ways. Many of the initial challenges have focused on workflow, productivity and the like. But one aspect of the whole remote work shift that is not getting as much attention is the culture angle.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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Taking IT to the Next Normal with Future IT

IDC

Discover how CIOs must reinvent their IT organization to deliver the capabilities of a successful, competitive, and adaptable future enterprise.

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Hangry, an Indonesian cloud kitchen startup with plans to become a global F&B company, closes $13M Series A

TechCrunch

Hangry , an Indonesian cloud kitchen startup that wants to become a global food and beverage company, has raised a $13 million Series A. The round was led by returning investor Alpha JWC Ventures, and included participation from Atlas Pacific Capital, Salt Ventures and Heyokha Brothers. It will be used to increase the number of Hangry’s outlets in Indonesia, including launching its first dine-in restaurants, over the next two years before it enters other countries.

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How a cloud-based platform can help banks leverage data for valuable insights

DXC

Banks are finding exciting new ways to turn their data into valuable insights. To succeed in this new data-driven world, banks of all sizes are turning to the cloud. Cloud-based solutions provide the optimal storage and tools needed to manage vast data requirements while making data and insights easily accessible for analytics and the business. […].

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Zoomo raises $12 million to expand e-bike subscription offerings

TechCrunch

Zoomo, the Australian startup with a mission to electrify delivery fleets through e-bike subscriptions, announced a $12 million interim capital raise on Monday. The company made a name for itself through partnerships with Uber Eats and DoorDash to help delivery workers access e-bikes through weekly subscriptions at discounted rates. Zoomo then grew to offer monthly subscriptions to corporate partners in Australia, the U.S. and London for last-mile delivery, with a fleet that has expanded beyond

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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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Why Real-Time Asset Intelligence is a Must

DevOps.com

Complexity breaks correlation. Intelligence brings cohesion. This simple principle is what makes real-time asset intelligence a must-have for AIOps that is meant to diffuse complexity. To further create a context for the user, it is critical to understand service dependencies and correlate alerts across the stack to resolve incidents. Why not just CMDB?

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Will fintech unicorn Flywire’s proposed IPO reach escape velocity?

TechCrunch

It’s a big morning for fintech startups today: Flywire , a Boston-based magnet for venture capital, has filed to go public. Flywire is a global payments company that attracted more than $300 million as a startup, according to Crunchbase , most recently raising a $60 million Series F last month. We don’t have its most recent valuation, but PitchBook data indicates that the company’s February 2020, $120 million round valued Flywire at $1 billion on a post-money basis.

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Monitoring and Governance for AKS Costs With Kubecost

Dzone - DevOps

When running Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), it can be hard to understand and allocate costs in environments with multiple teams, projects, or even departments. With Kubecost , you gain full transparency into your Kubernetes usage and cost within minutes of installation. Officially launched in 2019 and built on open source, Kubecost now monitors over one billion dollars in Kubernetes spend, and enables startups and global enterprises alike to understand their spend and identify cost savings rang

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The Duolingo EC-1

TechCrunch

Education may well be the most important activity we conduct as a society — and it may also be the hardest space to build a startup in. Selling to school districts and universities is notoriously difficult, but enticing consumers is even harder. Learning takes focus, patience, tenacity and resources, and most consumers would prefer to watch some lip-sync videos on TikTok than stare at math equations (not to mention that such entertainment is free).

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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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3 Counterintuitive Tips For More Effective Brainstorming

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Avoid these three behaviors to improve your next brainstorming session. Today’s post is by Samuel Sanders, author of Your Next Big Idea (CLICK HERE to get your copy). We’ve all heard of brainstorming, but what exactly is it? In a business sense, brainstorming is the process of coming up with creative ideas and solutions to problems using rapid freethinking.

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As companies prioritize diversity, startups are trying to productize diverse hiring

TechCrunch

When the iconic American power tools company Stanley Black & Decker began looking for ways to improve the pipeline of diverse candidates that the company was reviewing for potential roles, it turned to an Israeli-based startup called Talenya for help. The company wasn’t alone in looking to startups for support in new hiring initiatives. Last year’s social reckoning that occurred in the wake of nationwide protests against systemic racism triggered by the murder of George Floyd pushed companie

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FlexDeploy 5.5.0.3 Highlights

Flexagon

FlexDeploy 5.5.0.3 includes new plugins, platform and existing plugin enhancements, usability improvements, and bug fixes. Here are some highlights. New Plugins – There are new plugins for PeopleSoft, OpenShift, and JFrog Xray and are examples of the breadth and depth of the FlexDeploy support for technologies such as COTS/packaged applications, containerization, and static code analysis.

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Equity Monday: TechCrunch goes Yahoo while welding robots raise $56M

TechCrunch

Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest private market news, talks about the coming week, digs into some recent funding rounds and mulls over a larger theme or narrative from the private markets.

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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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Biden on cyber security after 100 days: A good start, but now comes the hard part

Synopsys

Cyber security experts weigh in on what we’ve learned about President Biden’s cyber security strategy in his first 100 days in office. The post Biden on cyber security after 100 days: A good start, but now comes the hard part appeared first on Software Integrity Blog.

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DevOps Practices Gap Assessment

DevOps.com

Using DevOps to continuously deliver software has proven value for organizations that are on a path towards digital transformation and continuous improvement. To get the maximum value from DevOps, it is important to use recommended best practices, inclusive of people, processes and technologies. A gap assessment is a great way to efficiently evaluate an organization’s […].

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The Barbarians Are Inside the Gate: Least Privilege and Zero Trust

Symantec

Once hackers penetrate your access defenses, everything in the enterprise is at risk. The second tenet of Zero Trust, least privilege, is the only real-world solution.