TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

While there’s been plenty of recent debate around the gig economy, Jarah Euston argued that it’s time to rethink a bigger part of the workforce — hourly workers. Euston, who was previously an executive at mobile advertising startup Flurry and a co-founder at data operations startup Nexla , told me that although 80 million Americans are paid on an hourly basis , the current system doesn’t work particular well for either employers or workers.

Advertising 300

Advertising Mobile Trends System 300

Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Whether affected by the pandemic or some other unforeseen and monumental setback, to lead, you have to find a way to move beyond anger, guilt, emptiness or pain. It’s not only possible to overcome adversity, but it’s imperative. In this episode, retired […]. The post Overcoming Adversity – Interview with Jason Redman appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

Leadership 177

Leadership 177

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Zomato has raised $660 million in a financing round that it kicked off last year as the Indian food delivery startup prepares to go public next year. The Indian startup said Tiger Global, Kora, Luxor, Fidelity (FMR), D1 Capital, Baillie Gifford, Mirae and Steadview participated in the round — a Series J — which gives Zomato a post-money valuation of $3.9 billion.

Marketing 298

Marketing Research Report 298

DevOps.com

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Growth continued this year as even the COVID pandemic could not slow down the cloud The rise of COVID-19 defined 2020 for nearly every industry. Cloud computing is no exception, though growth in the sector continued this year. Gartner estimates that $257.9 billion will be spent on public cloud services in 2020, up 6.3% from […]. The post Cloud Growth and Other 2020 Trends appeared first on DevOps.com.

Trends 126

Trends Cloud Industry Serverless 126

Advertisement

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

Network

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Today Bumble, a popular dating-focused startup, was reported by Bloomberg to have filed IPO documents, albeit privately. The news that Bumble is pursuing an IPO is not a surprise. TechCrunch covered the story in September , noting the huge revenues that its rival Tinder has managed to accrete, possibly indicative of a sufficiently large market to support two public dating players.

Report 274

Report Marketing Company 274

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

V7 Labs , the makers of a computer vision platform that helps AI teams “automate” and future-proof their training data workflows as advances in AI continue, has picked up $3 million in funding. Leading the seed round is Amadeus Capital Partners, with participation from Partech, Nathan Benaich’s Air Street Capital and Miele Venture. Founded in 2018 by Singularity University alumnus Alberto Rizzoli and former R&D lead at RSI, Simon Edwardsson (the same team behind “seeingR

Training 263

Training Data Healthcare Video 263

IDC

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Explore IDC's top 10 predictions for IT and Business Services in 2021 and beyond, straight from the latest IDC FutureScape.

Trends 131

Trends Marketing 131

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

The rest of the world may be slowing down as we prepare for Christmas and the new year, but we are not taking our foot off the gas. Alex Wilhelm keeps a close watch on the public markets in his column The Exchange, but this week, he branched out to look at some of the metrics underpinning soaring cryptocurrency prices and turned his gaze on StockX , the consumer reseller marketplace that just raised $275 million in a Series E that values the company at approximately $2.8 billion. “Selling

Retail 263

Retail CTO Coach Windows Report 263

TechBeacon

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Because of changes in how your employees and customers access your applications, the network perimeter is now defined from the outside in, not the inside out. In other words, access to applications and services usually starts from users and devices located outside of traditional on-premises network perimeters.

Strategy 105

Strategy Network Applications 105

Advertisement

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

Compliance

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Mobile travel app Hopper has been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic as consumers canceled their trips and airlines dropped their flights. But the complications around getting airline credits and refunds have since turned into a customer service crisis for the airfare prediction and ticket booking startup, which had been valued at $750 million back in 2018 before reaching unicorn status thanks to an undisclosed round it closed amid COVID lockdowns this year.

Travel 261

Travel Airlines Technical Review Systems Review 261

Dataiku

DECEMBER 18, 2020

When we were looking ahead to 2020 at the end of last year, everything was about scale and becoming bigger, better, and bolder. After a tumultuous year, teams are undoubtedly more focused on retooling, finding creative ways to collaborate efficiently, and working in a new (and ever-evolving) world. When things return to status quo, that need to collaborate isn't going to go away.

Trends 105

Trends Data 105

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Tap Network is providing a new approach to loyalty rewards programs that it describes as “rewards as a service.” You may recognize the Tap Network name, as well as its co-founder and CEO Lin Dai, from Hooch, a startup that offered a drink-a-day subscription service before shifting focus to a broader rewards program. Dai told me he “learned a lot from the Hooch experience” but ultimately “decided that Tap is a much bigger opportunity, we’re really looking at re

Programming 261

Programming Network Travel Banking 261

CEO Insider

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Networks are under unprecedented demand when it comes to performance and uptime. This is largely due to the rise of emerging technologies like AI, cybersecurity deployment, hyperscale architectures and cloud services – but it’s also been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic because people are on the network more than ever before. This is where SmartNICs, […].

Network 105

Network Technical Review Architecture Cloud 105

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.

Artificial Inteligence

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

I was made aware of Surrogate.tv’s work earlier this year when the site released a Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit tournament. Nintendo’s IRL take on its popular racing title was a great showcase for the technology — though, admittedly, there was enough lag in the remote operation to make control something of an issue. Of course, Mario Kart is just one of the experiences the platform offers.

Games 260

Games Course Technology Enterprise 260

DevOps.com

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Todd Dorsey joins as CRO and Rachel Firestone is promoted to COO to drive Maven’s revenue and operational growth PITTSBURGH –– December 17, 2020 — Maven Machines, a premier fleet management and telematics software company in the commercial trucking and transportation industry, today announces the appointment of Todd Dorsey as chief revenue officer and the […].

Leadership 102

Leadership Transportation Industry Software 102

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

When an accident on a building site resulted in the death of their friend, the founders of Safesight were inspired to launch the platform to digitize safety programs for construction. The data from that gave birth to a new insurtech startup this year, Foresight , which covers workers’ compensation. The startup has now released, for the first time, news that it raised a $15 million funding round back in May this year, with participation from Blackhorn Ventures and Transverse Insurance Group

Construction 259

Construction Insurance Policies Small Business 259

Praxent

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Praxent Senior Software Architect Eric Wilson Accepted to AWS Community Builders Program. AWS (Amazon Web Services) Community Builders is an exclusive cloud community membership for technical building experts worldwide. We’re thrilled to announce that Praxent Senior Software Architect, Eric Wilson , was recently accepted to Amazon Web Services’ AWS Community Builders , a worldwide cloud community and AWS developer program launched in July of 2020.

AWS 98

AWS Programming Disaster Recovery Software 98

Advertisement

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.

Analytics

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Creditas , the Brazilian lending business, has raised $255 million in new financing as financial services startups across Latin America continue to attract massive amounts of cash. The company’s credit portfolio has crossed 1 billion reals ($196.66 million) and the new round will value the company at $1.75 billion thanks to $570 million raised in outside financing over five rounds.

Fintech 198

Fintech Company Retail Marketing 198

Honeycomb

DECEMBER 18, 2020

On behalf of Honeycomb, I’m delighted to announce that Jo Ann Sanders has joined us as our new VP of Marketing. Jo Ann is poised to help usher in our next phase of growth as the observability market continues to expand. As two engineers turned co-founders, Charity and I have found that we often have a much harder time talking about the value of observability, compared to simply building that value.

Marketing 96

Marketing Google Cloud Leadership Authentication 96

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Space Force’s Lt. Gen. John Thompson spoke at TC Sessions: Space earlier this week. Throughout the wide-ranging interview, General Thompson explained the various ways and means for how private companies like startups should interact with Space Force. Gen. Thompson knows what he’s talking about. As the commander of the Space and Missiles Systems Center, he oversees research, design, development and acquisition of satellites and their associated command and control systems for the U.S.

Small Business 182

Small Business Government Games Innovation 182

CircleCI

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Continuous Delivery vs. Continuous Deployment. What is the difference between continuous delivery vs. continuous deployment ? The biggest difference is that continuous delivery requires a manual step to deploy and continuous deployment does not. (This is part four of a four-part series. Read parts Part I: Waterfall , Part II: Agile Development , and Part III: Automated Testing.).

Continuous Delivery 85

Continuous Delivery DevOps Continuous Integration Testing 85

Advertisement

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.

Open Source

CloudZero

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Earlier this year, Gartner published “ How to Manage and Optimize Costs of Public Cloud IaaS and PaaS ,” by analysts Marco Meinardi and Traverse Clayton.

Cloud 87

Cloud How To 87

Dzone - DevOps

DECEMBER 18, 2020

The quick proliferation of smart devices, mostly phones, has been due to the app stores. Both Apple and Google offer millions of applications or apps that allow you to access information instantly, order online, book a flight, watch movies, and do much more. As the owner of a business, you have to sooner or later decide on launching an app. It may be that you wish to tap into a new market or because your rivals have moved ahead in this direction and you are trying to catch up.

Development 81

Development Applications Marketing Mobile 81

DevOps.com

DECEMBER 18, 2020

The free analytics tool for developers launched at Open Core Summit Digital SAN FRANCISCO, CA / Merico is announcing the launch of Merico Build at Open Core Summit. Merico Build is a powerful analytics dashboard that provides developers with a solution to articulate strengths and achievements directly from their code, empowering skill and career growth from signals […].

Analytics 70

Analytics Development Tools 70

Dzone - DevOps

DECEMBER 18, 2020

As IT becomes an integral part of organizations, it is ever more important that companies improve their ability to innovate at scale and safely. DevOps aims to transform the way businesses deliver software, with an emphasis on delivering value to end users. However, while solely focusing on implementing changes and improving complex processes, it’s easy to forget that your company's improvements must provide actual improvements.

DevOps 75

DevOps Metrics Innovation Software 75

Advertisement

“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.

Generative AI

TechSoup

DECEMBER 18, 2020

2020 was a wake-up call for many nonprofits seeking to modernize their digital communications as the pandemic permanently disrupted our sector. As we aim to kick off a successful new year in this new normal, it's time for nonprofits to set their communication goals for 2021 and beyond. It may be technologies you need to update on your website, communication processes you can automate, or new channels you need to explore to enhance your marketing efforts.

Nonprofit 63

Nonprofit Marketing Technology Education 63

Battery Ventures

DECEMBER 18, 2020

This season of the Powered by Battery podcast features portfolio executives representing companies from various geographies and technology sectors. The views expressed here are solely those of podcast guests, not Battery. If you’re interested in learning more about these companies, or others in the Battery portfolio, you can access more information here.

Applications 59

Applications How To Software Review Technical Review 59

Cloudera

DECEMBER 18, 2020

When running any performance benchmarking tool on your cluster, a critical decision is always what data set size should be used for a performance test, and here we demonstrate why it is important to select a “good fit” data set size when running a HBase performance test on your cluster. The HBase cluster configurations and the size of data set can vary the performance of your workload and the test results on the same cluster.

Performance 58

Performance Testing Storage Comparison 58