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Product-based IT fuels Lufthansa’s digital CX transformation

CIO

Like many airlines, Lufthansa Group had its business upended by the COVID-19 pandemic. By April 2020, with travel bans proliferating, the airline suffered losses of €1 million per hour. Thomas Rückert, senior vice president and CIO of Lufthansa Group, says those early days of the pandemic laid bare that the airline’s digital solutions were not scalable.

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Rebuy is out to change the customer buying experience, one personalization at a time

TechCrunch

The number of Shopify live websites grew a whopping 201% between March 2020 and January 2022 with the shift to e-commerce during the global pandemic. With all of those stores going after customers it’s difficult for individual merchants to cut through the clutter. That problem has given rise to startups eager to offer their no-code or low-code technology to help Shopify merchants build their businesses.

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Securing 5G for 2023 and beyond

CIO

By Anand Oswal, Senior Vice President and GM at cyber security leader Palo Alto Networks While mobile technology has been around for decades, the current generation, 5G, is increasingly being recognized for the exciting new benefits it brings to enterprises, SMBs, and public sector organizations. Specifically, when properly secured, 5G capabilities such as ultra-high speeds, high availability, massive network capacity, and ultra-low latency will support breakthroughs in digital transformation fo

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When do we reach the unicorn death cliff?

TechCrunch

Concerns about high burn rates among tech startups are not new; they did not spring into being suddenly in the fourth quarter of 2021, the final three-month period of the most recent startup boom. If you rewind the clock to 2014, investors were worried about tech startups losing too much money. Comments from Bill Gurley and Marc Andreessen from the period could be shared on Twitter today, and you probably wouldn’t notice that they are nearly a decade old.

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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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5 measures to gauge your digital portfolio maturity

CIO

The motivations to digitize client-facing solutions vary but are often both push and pull: a push from your organization to grow revenues, gain competitive advantage, and further differentiate products and services, and a pull by the market looking for the latest technologies such as AI/ML, AR/VR, and digital twins for immediate business benefit. When WGI and Columbia Universities’ Global Leaders in Construction Management polled over 570 end users about strategic technology trends they saw havi

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Coding for the Future of U.S. National Defense

CIO

By Hock Tan, Broadcom President & CEO Since we announced our intent to acquire VMware last year, customers have expressed to me their excitement about VMware’s momentum around cloud-native apps in its Tanzu business. Tanzu is a central part of VMware’s software portfolio and its multi-cloud strategy, and will remain that way after Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware closes.

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Daily Crunch: Falling short of analysts’ estimates, Warner Bros. Discovery posts $2.1B net loss for Q4 2022

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. Folks, we’ve got some really sad news for you. The weekend is here, which means that you have to stop working for a couple days. We know, it’s a tragedy. But don’t worry, Monday is only two short weekend days away, and then you can get back to the grindstone.

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Enterprises aren’t using data to make business decisions: Salesforce survey

CIO

Enterprises worldwide are not tapping the potential of their data when making critical business decisions and navigating uncertain macroeconomic conditions, according to a Salesforce survey. Nearly 67% of 10,000 business leaders polled globally are not using data to set pricing in line with economic conditions such as inflation, according to the Untapped Data Research survey.

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5 questions emerging managers should ask before selecting LPs

TechCrunch

Linda Greub Contributor Share on Twitter Linda Greub is the co-founder and managing partner of Avestria Ventures. When most people think of venture capitalists, they often think of investors, the people writing checks to fund startups. But that image is only one part of venture capital. In order to make those investments, venture firms must first have the money, which means they’re not only just the funders, they’re fundraisers, too.

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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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Aligning security and business strategies

CIO

By Sean Duca, vice president and regional chief security officer for Asia Pacific and Japan at Palo Alto Networks Some economists predict that we could soon face a global recession. Looking at history, this does not bode well for levels of cybercrime. However, there is some evidence that macroeconomic conditions can impact cybercrime. In times of economic downturn, for example, cybercrime may increase as people turn to illegal activities to make money.

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Modernizing 911 calls with Michael Chime from Found

TechCrunch

Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. This week Darrell and Becca are joined by Michael Chime , the co-founder and CEO of Prepared , a startup that allows 911 callers to stream video to emergency dispatchers. Michael discussed how a nearby tragedy in high school helped inspire the company, how the startup has grown from its initial focus on improving emergency response at schools, and what demand has looked like since.

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How Do I Change My Reputation as a Leader? (Asking for a Friend)

Let's Grow Leaders

To Change Your Reputation Set Human-Centered Goals and Stick With It It can be super challenging to move beyond the stories of the past that affect your leadership reputation. We all have mishaps from the past that haunt us. Leadership is never handled. We’re always in progress. If you’re looking to change your reputation, today’s Asking for a Friend is a start.

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Hear from Oort and.406 Ventures on why cybersecurity companies thrive in Boston

TechCrunch

Did you hear? The TechCrunch Live crew is taking a virtual trip to the Northeast. On Monday, February 27 (that’s in a couple days!), we’re hosting a special, extended TechCrunch Live event focused on Boston, and you’re invited to participate. Register for the free event right here. The event starts with a conversation with Matt Caulfield , founder and CEO of Oort , and one of his investors, Greg Dracon , partner at.406 Ventures.

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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 Outsource Website Development?

The Crazy Programmer

Building a website can be an exciting prospect for businesses and individuals alike. However, it can also be a daunting task, especially if you don’t have the necessary technical expertise. Many challenges exist, from designing the site to ensuring its functionality and security, which is where outsourcing website development comes in. Outsourcing website development allows you to avoid the headaches and challenges of building a website yourself.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Finding the right LPs, ocean conservation, inside Uber’s pre-seed deck

TechCrunch

Will your startup go public and grab a giant slice of your market, or is it a value-add that will be gobbled up by a hard-charging unicorn? “When you can’t quite make it to product-market fit, there’s a third choice that too many entrepreneurs, and their investors, overlook: selling out,” says Kittu Kolluri, founder and managing director of Neotribe Ventures.

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Equifax CTO Bryson Koehler on the CIO as product chief

CIO

Bryson Koehler, Chief Product, Data, Analytics and Technology Officer at Equifax, joins host Maryfran Johnson for this CIO Leadership Live interview, jointly produced by CIO.com and the CIO Executive Council. They discuss “decision intelligence” vs. data overload, advancing ethical AI, cloud native operations and more.

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Scooters and social media companies are surprising IPO candidates

TechCrunch

Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This week Natasha Mascarenhas, Mary Ann Azevedo and Rebecca Szkutak were joined by the returning Alex Wilhelm, back from paternity leave. Yes, we had the whole gang back together today to dig through the week’s pile of news — and you can definitely tell how exciting it was by how fast we all talked through the news (sorry to our dear producers!).

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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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What Executives Should Know About Shift-Left Security

CIO

By Zachary Malone, SE Academy Manager at Palo Alto Networks The term “shift left” is a reference to the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) that describes the phases of the process developers follow to create an application. Often, this lifecycle is depicted as a horizontal timeline with the conceptual and coding phases “starting” the cycle on the left side, so to move any process earlier in the cycle is to shift it left.

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Announcing the startups pitching at TechCrunch Live’s (virtual) Boston event!

TechCrunch

I’m thrilled to announce the three startups to pitch at TechCrunch Live’s special event in Boston. This virtual event start at 2:00 pm EST/11:00 am PST on Monday, February 27 and is free to attend. The event will feature leaders in the Boston startup scene and concludes with a pitch-off. The following startups were picked by TechCrunch editorial staff to participate.

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Six Mainframe DevOps Predictions for 2023

DevOps.com

DevOps, or the automation of application development and hand-off to operations, is more prevalent than ever on the mainframe. As we begin 2023, below are six predictions for what the coming year will bring. The composite themes will undoubtedly be speed, alignment and experience. 1. Enterprise DevOps Will Break Down Silos Across Core Systems DevOps […] The post Six Mainframe DevOps Predictions for 2023 appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Article: Moving towards a Future of Testing in the Metaverse

InfoQ Culture Methods

In this article, Tariq King describes the metaverse concept, discusses its key engineering challenges and quality concerns, and then walks through recent technological advances in AI and software testing that are helping to mitigate these challenges. To wrap up, he shares some of his thoughts on the role of software testers as we move towards a future of testing in the metaverse.

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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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Leading for Courage and Hope 200th Episode

Let's Grow Leaders

Here we are! I have been looking forward to this episode for months, seeing it on the editorial calendar. Why? Because it is the 200th episode of Leadership Without Losing Your Soul! In this episode, we highlight several guests who have really inspired courage and hope by sharing their practices, insights, and practical tools that we can use in our everyday work life.

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Revenue Generation for Nonprofits: Part One

TechSoup

By nature, nonprofits rely on others in order to fund their work. While individual donations often provide the initial backbone for organizations, it's important to diversify funding streams as you grow.

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3 Steps to Increasing your Development Release Velocity

Flexagon

Every organization needs to be responsive to changing business needs and market dynamics. While we have seen agile adoption resulting in higher development velocity, it has often resulted in too little business value due to other constraints in the form of bottlenecks. The adoption of agile practices and the initiative to increase development velocity while enabling faster feedback loops reminds me that addressing the development backlog often increases the flow only to bottleneck the next phase

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Cyber Engineers and Architects Saw Salaries Spike in 2022

Tenable

Find out how much of a pay bump cybersecurity architects and engineers got. Plus, a powerful AI cybersecurity tech is nearing prime time. Also check out the long-awaited security algorithms for IoT devices. Then dive into SaaS governance best practices. And much more! Dive into six things that are top of mind for the week ending Feb. 24. 1 - Study: Salaries go up for cyber architects and engineers Employers are showing cybersecurity architects and cybersecurity engineers the money.

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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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Kubernetes-Native Development With Quarkus and Eclipse JKube

Dzone - DevOps

This article explains what Eclipse JKube Remote Development is and how it helps developers build Kubernetes-native applications with Quarkus. Introduction As mentioned in my previous article , microservices don’t exist in a vacuum. They typically communicate with other services, such as databases, message brokers, or other microservices. Because of this distributed nature, developers often struggle to develop (and test) individual microservices that are part of a larger system.

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The Most Secure Server is the One that Does Not Exist

Netlify

Uncover how the most secure web server is one that does not exist! Learn what to use in place of a server to continue serving the best web experiences.

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Commonly Occurring Errors in Microsoft Graph Integrations and How To Troubleshoot Them (Part 4)

Dzone - DevOps

In addition to the third article of the series, this article covers some more case studies related to To Do Tasks. For this use case, I used the MS Graph Java SDK 5.42.0.