TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

French startup Homa Games has raised a $15 million seed round led by e.ventures and Idinvest Partners. The company has built several in-house technologies that can take a game from a prototype to an App Store success. It partners with third-party game studios and has a few in-house game studios as well. OneRagtime, Jean-Marie Messier, Vladimir Lasocki, John Cheng and Alexis Bonillo are also participating in today’s funding round.

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Agile Alliance

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Why traditional budgeting is the antithesis of Agile – and what to do about it Most organizations are born small and born agile. They are nimble, trusting, collaborative, non-bureaucratic and purpose-driven. But few want to remain small. Most want to grow and become big. Those who make it often have something in common. They discover … Continued.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

IROKO , a Nigerian-based media company, could file to go public in the next 12 months on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) Alternative Investment Market. Founded by Jason Njoku and Bastian Gotter in 2011, IROKO boasts the largest online catalog of Nollywood film content globally. According to this report , the media company will raise between $20 million and $30 million valuing the company at $80 million to $100 million. .

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Agile Alliance

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The Carnival in Rio de Janeiro is world famous! Every year, since 1893, this immense and exuberant spectacle begins 40 days before Easter and it’s celebrated for five days. Millions of Brazilians and visitors travel to the city from all over the world to join in this unusual spectacle. Colourful parades of music and dance … Continued. The post Agile Mardi Gras: A Postcard from Rio de Janeiro first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Discovery and research of new molecular compounds is an expensive business, with development costs exceeding $10 billion per substance in some cases. Part of that comes from the need to closely examine every relevant molecule, studying its chemical composition and interactions as well as its physical structure at the atomic level. Despite advances in software to help model these compounds and molecules, there are still challenges in fully understanding their shapes through a two-dimensional comp

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

SentinelOne , a late-stage security startup that helps customers make sense of security data using AI and machine learning, announced today that it is acquiring Scalyr , the high-speed logging startup for $155 million in stock and cash. SentinelOne sorts through oodles of data to help customers understand their security posture, and having a tool that enables engineers to iterate rapidly in the data, and get to the root of the problem is going to be extremely valuable for them, CEO and co-founde

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

If you were amazed at the moves by MicroStrategy and Tesla into Bitcoin, just wait till the really big companies start shifting part of their assets into this digital store […].

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Finch Capital , the early-stage fintech VC with a presence in London and Amsterdam, has raised a third fund. Targeting a final close of €150 million, the fund has already secured €85 million from LPs ready to deploy. Out of Finch Capital “Europe III,” the VC will invest in fintech startups at the Series A and B stages, deemphasising its previous inclusion of seed.

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DevOps.com

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

A lot of organizations claim to be DevOps-focused because they use specific tools and loosely follow certain practices. But to really be a DevOps-centric organization, there are specific DevOps principles and processes that ensure your organization is as optimized and automated as possible. To ensure that you’re not just using the DevOps title without following […].

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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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Jüsto , an online supermarket based in Mexico City, announced Tuesday it has raised $65 million in a Series A round led by General Atlantic. The amount is sizable for a Series A in general, but supersized for a LatAm startup. In fact, according to PitchBook data cited by General Atlantic, the round represents the largest Series A raised in Latin America in the past decade.

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Honeycomb

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

This is my first week here as the first dedicated SRE for Honeycomb, and in a welcoming gesture, I was asked if I wanted to write a blog post about my first impressions and what made me decide to join the team. I’ve got a ton of personal reasons for joining Honeycomb that may not be worth being all public about, but after thinking for a while, I realized that many of the things I personally found interesting could point towards attitudes that result in better software elsewhere.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Fabric , a startup powering e-commerce for companies like GNC and ABC Carpet and Home, has raised $43 million in Series A funding. The announcement comes less than four months after Fabric announced its $9.5 million seed round. CEO Faisal Masud said Fabric hadn’t intended to raise more funding so quickly, but given its growth and investor interest, he the startup’s leadership team had to ask, “Do we delay the growth or do we just go now?

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DevOps.com

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Over the last 20 years, we have seen the proliferation of open source software and technologies become part of commercial offerings, either as part of the technology stack that powers the product or part of the product itself. Although these two use cases are largely different, both have come to showcase just how useful open […]. The post The Benefits of Open Source Technologies appeared first on DevOps.com.

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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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Fintech startup Klarna is turning its mobile app into a banking app in Germany. Customers living there can now open a consumer bank account and get a Visa debit card. For now, Klarna is launching bank accounts for a limited number of users. The company expects to roll it out more broadly in the coming months. What you get is a full-fledged bank account with a German IBAN to receive money, set up direct deposits and debits.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Data scientist has been one of the superstar IT roles of recent years, with the promise of spinning data into gold with the application of AI and machine learning. Using cutting-edge […].

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

There’s been a profusion of startups emerging in the last year around the concept of rolling up smaller e-commerce businesses — operations that mainly sell and distribute their products on marketplace platforms like Amazon’s — using economies of scale to bring them together to run and grow them more efficiently. Today, one of the latest of these, Branded Group , is coming out of stealth with a significant round of funding.

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Apiumhub

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Apiumhub team has interviewed Patrick Kua – seasoned technology leader with almost 20 years of experience, leading, managing and improving complex organisations and software systems as the CTO and Chief Scientist of N26 (Berlin, Germany) and as a Technical Principal Consultant at ThoughtWorks. He is a frequent keynote and conference speaker, author of three books including The Retrospective Handbook , Talking with Tech Leads and Building Evolutionary Architectures and runs the free popula

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Four years ago when Zach Jones went to do due diligence on C-Zero , a startup out of Santa Barbara, California commercializing a new approach to producing hydrogen, for the small family office he was working for, he had no idea he’d wind up as the company’s chief executive officer. Or that the company would wind up raising money from Breakthrough Energy Ventures, the billionaire-backed investment vehicle focused on financing companies developing technologies to reduce greenhouse gas

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Bitcoin is the most famous crypto currency, with good reason. It was the first to leverage the new concept of a blockchain to enable a distributed, but trusted ledger, which […].

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The pandemic has upended many aspects of urban life but perhaps the most visible upheaval is to citydwellers’ social lives, with curfews calling time on traditional night life across much of the Western world and social distancing putting a chilly spin on opportunities for getting together with people outside your usual circle. Who knew leaving the house was going to seem like such a mission?

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TechBeacon

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

I've been in application security for more than decade, and during that time, software development has changed. Open source has become the dominant contributor to applications, with 99% of tested applications using some open-source components, and open source code accounting for 70% of the code from tested applications. Meanwhile the number of vulnerabilities has skyrocketed to more than 17,300 in 2019, up from 5,700 a decade ago.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

LiveRamp has acquired DataFleets , a fresh young startup that made it possible to take advantage of large volumes of encrypted data without the risk or fuss of decrypting or transferring it. LiveRamp, an enterprise data connectivity platform itself, paid more than $68 million for the company, a huge multiple on DataFleet’s $4.5 million seed announced just last fall.

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Teradata

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Everyone knows that data is vital for success in retail. But without a clear data strategy, retailers often eat up resources fighting small-scale battles, whilst gradually losing the war.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Emergency response services have been one of the unsung heroes of the last chaotic year, providing essential and urgent medical and other assistance during a period that has faced not just the usual run of natural and man-made disasters, but a global health pandemic to boot. Today, a startup that is building tools to make it easier for emergency response teams to do their jobs by providing them with more immediate data about callers and their circumstances is announcing a big round of funding as

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David Walsh

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Git is one of those tools that I’ve always known just enough about to be dangerous, and usually tend to learn new skills when I’m in a position to truly need them. Shockingly enough it has taken me roughly 15 years of using git for me to encounter the need to push to a remote branch name whose name is different than my local branch. Of course, you can thank gh-pages for this occurrence.

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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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The pandemic-fueled economic uncertainty of the last year has led many to project that the rate of credit defaults among consumers will continue to wobble into 2021. Today a startup that has built a platform to help consumers mitigate that situation is announcing some funding on the back of more demand for its services. Symend , which builds behavioral analytics that integrate with customer engagement products to help identify customers having trouble paying bills and suggests payment alternativ

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

FireEye announced that Bryan Palma has joined the company as Executive Vice President of FireEye Products. In this role, Palma will lead the FireEye product team to further develop the […].

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Just over a year ago in our coverage of the 2019 venture capital market , we noted that “United States-demarcated angel and seed deals dipped in 2019.” Our reporting concerning the Q1 2020 venture capital market had a similar tone, noting that “domestic seed rounds, in slow decline since peaks in 2017, have sharply fallen since Q3 2019.” The same theme continued in the second quarter.

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