TechCrunch
OCTOBER 21, 2021
Parking can often feel almost laughably old-fashioned, with some lots still hiring an attendant to collect fees and check for valid tickets. Even when parking lot owners try to modernize — using an app, for example, or a credit card machine to take payment — they must deal with a whole array of providers to manage hardware, payment processing and marketing, all separately.
Let's Grow Leaders
OCTOBER 21, 2021
How do you tap into the grit and tenacity when you are exhausted? In this week’s Asking for a Friend I speak with World Class Ultra Triathlete, Kurt Madden, who is also CEO of The Collaborative, about leadership tenacity and grit. What is tenacity? And where does it come from? I love this definition of tenacity : “The state of holding on to an idea or thing very strongly.” Because if you’re a leader, who really believes in the “ the idea or thing” you’r
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TechCrunch
OCTOBER 21, 2021
Founded by entrepreneur Parker Conrad in 2013, the HR company Zenefits was quickly anointed one of the fast-growing companies in Silicon Valley, with a valuation that soared to $4.5 billion within three years. Then it began to fall apart. The company was discovered to face compliance issues. Conrad was forced to resign. And Zenefits’s valuation was slashed in half, with more than 60% of the company’s employees laid off over numerous rounds afterward.
CEO Insider
OCTOBER 21, 2021
Two significant challenges exist for leaders in maintaining the trust of their employees. One is the reality of the old saying, “The only constant is change.” The second is effective performance management in the midst of constant change. For example, in the international school setting, where schools experience a high percentage of staff turnover, the […].
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IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 21, 2021
When it comes to the digital world, many professional service firms are still working to get caught up — especially the smaller players. Today, B12 , a startup that is focused on helping those smaller professional service organizations such as law and accounting firms or mortgage brokerages more easily accept online payments and build a digital presence in general, announced it has raised $15.7 million in funding led by Tola Capital. .
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TechCrunch
OCTOBER 21, 2021
Mahendra Ramsinghani. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Mahendra Ramsinghani is the founder of Secure Octane Investments , investing in cloud infrastructure and security startups. When he is not investing, he is busy writing blogs and books. His third book “The Resilient Founder” will be released in 2022. More posts by this contributor. Pandemic reset leads investors to focus on resilience, adaptability.
TechBeacon
OCTOBER 21, 2021
Do a Google News search on “cybersecurity” and you'll get tens of millions of results. Of course, that doesn’t mean there were that many cybersecurity incidents in the last week or so, but it sure does feel that way. The application supply chain is a prime target for this onslaught of cyberattacks, which is what makes DevSecOps—building app security into development from end to end—so critical.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 21, 2021
Just over five months after raising a $9 million seed funding round , Latin American fintech Pomelo announced today that it is raising $35 million in Series A financing led by Tiger Global Management. The startup was founded earlier this year to build a fintech-as-a-service platform for Latin America. Its infrastructure aims to allow fintechs and embedded finance players to launch virtual accounts and issue prepaid and credit cards via “compliant” onboarding processes. .
Dataiku
OCTOBER 21, 2021
Ever wanted to know more about the people behind your favorite Everyday AI platform? You're in luck — every few weeks, meet some of the humans at Dataiku working to ensure customers and users find success as they systemize the use of data and AI in their organizations. This week, we spoke with three sales leaders: Doreen, RVP Inside Sales EMEA; Natália, RVP UK&I; and Rachel, VP Sales and General Manager Central Europe.
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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.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 21, 2021
Small and medium-sized exporters in India struggle to communicate their designs with buyers. They can’t list those designs publicly on their website or sell through popular business-to-business platforms such as Alibaba and IndiaMart, as doing so would risk giving away the proprietary property to rivals. So they have traditionally showcased their work to potential buyers — who in this equation, depending on the category, could be anyone from Zara to Armani — in PDF and PowerPoint pre
DevOps.com
OCTOBER 21, 2021
Blockchain-based applications are growing in popularity and underscore the decentralized Web3 movement. Simultaneously, web APIs are helping port data and reusable functionality across application types and are driving microservices development practices. So, how do we bring these two paradigms together? There are many cases where a blockchain-based smart contract may require data updates that only […].
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 21, 2021
If I went to Stanford and worked with some YC-backed startups, chances are that I’ll find it relatively easy to find one or two co-founders, get millions in funding and build a billion-dollar company. However, as someone who grew up in Lagos, Nigeria, and studied at the University of Nigeria, those chances are much slimmer, and it’ll be hard to find the same resources to build a successful company.
Darktrace
OCTOBER 21, 2021
The once notorious Ryuk ransomware has returned in new hands. Discover how small-time criminals are getting hold of cyber-crime’s most malicious tools, and what organizations can do to protect themselves.
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As a SaaS leader, you know that the more metrics, insights, and analytics you add to your products, the more engagement you’ll have – and the stickier your product will become with customers. At what point do you decide to keep building your analytics in-house or invest in an embedded analytics solution? Read our Build vs. Buy Analytics guide to learn: Top 4 benefits of embedded analytics A quick cost comparison of in-house analytics development vs embedded analytics 10 considerations to help yo
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 21, 2021
Three months after announcing a $4 million seed round , Venezuelan delivery super app Yummy is back with an $18 million Series A round that will accelerate the company’s proposed expansion throughout Latin America. Anthos Capital led the latest round, with additional participation from JAM Fund, whose founder Justin Mateen was an investor in the seed round.
DevOps.com
OCTOBER 21, 2021
New Relic today revealed it has acquired CodeStream as part of an effort to make observability data more accessible to developers. Buddy Brewer, group vice president (GVP) and GM at New Relic said New Relic CodeStream makes application telemetry data collected via the New Relic One platform directly available within an integrated development environment (IDE), […].
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 21, 2021
The edtech boom has focused primarily on students, but teachers are learners, too. Doyobi , a Singapore-based professional development platform, wants to give educators new, more engaging ways of teaching STEM subjects. The startup announced today it has raised $2.8 million in pre-Series A funding led by Monk’s Hill Ventures. The round included Tresmonos Capital, Novus Paradigm Capital and XA Network, along with angel investors like Carousell chief executive officer Quek Siu Rui, Glints co-found
DevOps.com
OCTOBER 21, 2021
Much like many other business sectors, the banking industry has had to accelerate their digital transformation efforts as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Today’s retail banking industry is a far cry from where it was even just five years ago. Consumers no longer have to physically appear in their bank to process payments or […]. The post Developer Challenges in Commercial Banking appeared first on DevOps.com.
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Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 21, 2021
360Learning has raised a $200 million funding round from Sumeru, SoftBank’s Vision Fund 2 and Silver Lake Waterman. And this time, the name of the startup describes quite well what it does. 360Learning lets you learn from your peers with an easy-to-use platform that lets you create and share courses with your peers. Existing investors Bpifrance’s Large Venture fund, XAnge and Educapital are also participating in today’s funding round.
Confluent
OCTOBER 21, 2021
How do you continuously process half a terabyte of data in real-time? That’s the exact question we had to answer. Leadnomics is a digital marketing company that helps companies maximize […].
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 21, 2021
Ishveen Anand grew up in England playing sports all of her life, including during her time at Oxford. She wanted to do something sporty for a career and “fell in love” with sponsorship marketing. However, what she found was that the process was inefficient — the sports world was slow-moving in terms of brands getting contracts with athletes. She thought with the rise of influencers, there should be something like an “Airbnb meets LinkedIn” for the industry, Anand told TechCrunch.
Radixweb
OCTOBER 21, 2021
Before I start the actual discussion, let me clear out the misinterpretation you might have from the blog’s title. I’m not encouraging anyone to choose between these two software testing types as both of them have significantly unique benefits in the development process. A lot of developers might have told you that unit testing is … Continue reading Unit Testing vs.
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The buzz around generative AI shows no sign of abating in the foreseeable future. Enterprise interest in the technology is high, and the market is expected to gain momentum as organizations move from prototypes to actual project deployments. Ultimately, the market will demand an extensive ecosystem, and tools will need to streamline data and model utilization and management across multiple environments.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 21, 2021
Station F , the big startup campus located in Paris, is launching an online component called Launch by Station F. With this new program, entrepreneurs from anywhere can get started and learn all the basics to start a company. Launched in 2017, Station F is a massive building that used to be a rail freight depot. It has become a flagship entity for the tech community in France with hundreds of startups working from there.
CableLabs
OCTOBER 21, 2021
What will our digital future look like? Presented by CableLabs on behalf of the cable industry, the 10G Challenge aims to answer that question, ultimately advancing innovative technologies and inventing a better future for everyone. CableLabs is committing more than $300,000 USD in prize money to six Challenge winners. What is the 10G Challenge? The objective of the 10G Challenge is to inspire people to envision a new, powerful broadband network as a tool to solve real-world problems.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 21, 2021
So Plaid now calls itself a payments company. It was only a matter of time, really. Earlier today, the data and connectivity startup announced a new payments partner ecosystem that will extend its existing payments infrastructure and make ACH bank transfers a more attractive alternative to credit card transactions. But the big winners here are merchants, who now have a low-cost alternative to avoid credit card processing fees that cut into their margins.
Dzone - DevOps
OCTOBER 21, 2021
In announcing the now-complete $1.2 billion megamerger between McAfee and FireEye last week, CEO Bryan Palma slipped in the comment that the way forward with security and modern system management is automation, saying, "There's just no way that people can keep up, and we're seeing that. We've got nation-states now involved in making attacks, and that's very concerning because they obviously have very strong capabilities.".
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Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 21, 2021
Via Separations is a startup from a couple of MIT material science engineers who figured out a way to reduce the amount of energy required in a manufacturing process, resulting in lower carbon creation, lower energy usage and lower costs. Today, the company announced a $38 million Series B. The round was led by NGP ETP, a firm that focuses on investments that lower carbon emissions.
Dzone - DevOps
OCTOBER 21, 2021
This article was p ublished with permission by Michiel Mulders. Have you implemented test data management at your organization? It will surely benefit you if your organization processes critical or sensitive business data. The importance of test data is emphasized by the fact that issues related to test data account for 15% of all software defects. If you’re looking to hiring a test data manager, read on.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 21, 2021
Socratic , an early-stage startup that wants to bring data to bear on a developer-focused task management system, announced a $3 million seed investment today from Unusual Ventures, Overtime.vc and a couple of industry angels. The company is also opening up public beta of the software starting today. It’s worth noting that Socratic received the investment in May 2020.
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