TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

On the heels of Heroes announcing a $200 million raise earlier today, to double down on buying and scaling third-party Amazon Marketplace sellers, another startup out of London aiming to do the same is announcing some significant funding of its own. Olsam , a roll-up play that is buying up both consumer and B2B merchants selling on Amazon by way of Amazon’s FBA fulfillment program , has closed $165 million — a combination of equity and debt that it will be using to fuel its M&A s

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Agile Alliance

AUGUST 31, 2021

Shakespeare knew what he was talking about when he wrote, “Some are born great remote workers, some achieve great remote work, and some have great remote work thrust upon them.” Ok, maybe that’s not exactly what he wrote. Whether you love working remotely or you were forced to work remotely due to stay-at-home orders, this … Continued.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

Amsterdam-based startup VanMoof has raised a $128 million Series C funding round. The company designs and sells electric bikes that are quite popular in some markets. It now wants to become the world’s leading e-bike brand by iterating at a faster pace. Asia-based private equity firm Hillhouse Investment is leading the round, with Gillian Tans , the former CEO of Booking.com, also participating.

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Agile Alliance

AUGUST 31, 2021

Agile originated, in part, as a reaction to twentieth century bureaucratic excesses. The Agile principles and values were created when Agile was in its infancy; they were more aspiration-based than experience based at that time. Twenty years later, the Agile principles and values remain unchanged, despite the fact that we now have thousands of times … Continued.

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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

AUGUST 31, 2021

Maricel Saenz, founder and CEO of Compound Foods , is among the over 80% of Americans who love a cup of coffee daily. And she also loves the environment. However, when the Costa Rican-born entrepreneur, now living in the Bay Area, saw how climate change was affecting coffee growers around the world — coffee is the fifth-most polluting crop in the value chain — she wanted to create a coffee product that tasted good, but was also sustainable.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

Even as hundreds of millions of people in India have a bank account, only a tiny fraction of this population invests in any financial instrument. Fewer than 30 million people invest in mutual funds or stocks, for instance. In recent years, a handful of startups have made it easier for users — especially the millennials — to invest , but the figure has largely remained stagnant.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

AUGUST 31, 2021

If you are a recruiter or a hiring manager, the first thought that pops into your head when you think ‘tech hiring’ would most likely be ‘it’s complicated,’ just like the movie! What if we were to tell you that it doesn’t have to be? Our aim of making tech hiring simple, fair, and unprejudiced began over eight years ago. Since then, we have been adding carefully designed products for each phase of the hiring lifecycle to our kitty and rounded off by launching HackerEarth for Enterprises earlier

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

Can reading glasses actually be cool? A new eyewear company called Cheeterz Club thinks so. The startup is working to change the perception of reading glasses from being just cheap, disposable items you pick up from a rotating display rack at your local drug store to being something you’d actually be proud to wear. To do so, the company is designing its glasses with quality lenses and frames in range of styles, while still keeping the pricing affordable.

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Agile Alliance

AUGUST 31, 2021

How I built a Joy Dojo in the land where Kaizen was born. A 8-year journey to transform our culture of the company. Around 2013, we experienced many problems within our company, and I felt we were at rock bottom both in our corporate culture and employee satisfaction. I decided to launch a variety of … Continued. The post Joy, Inc. in Japan! first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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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

AUGUST 31, 2021

If you’re in India, the Philippines, Russia or Vietnam, Amazon Prime and Gorillas are probably not that much use to you. Comparable to DoorDash Drive or Lalamove (Malaysia), Dostavista is a “crowdsourced” same-day delivery service. Founded in Russia, the startup initially figured out a way to appeal to gig economy workers in countries such as the ones above by creating a game where players would be asked to deliver virtual items, before pivoting to the real thing.

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TechBeacon

AUGUST 31, 2021

If your enterprise is like most others, the pandemic took your CloudOps work remote and spread it over a widely distributed team. Everyone collaborates using a series of web-delivered AIOps dashboards that report issues with your applications and data in the cloud and provide interfaces to most systems and infrastructure to remotely fix the issues. Could things be any better?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

Tech employees build amazing consumer-facing apps for the world. But for their internal communications, they are stuck using applications that don’t play well with one another. This is a problem, as most employees at a mid-sized or large-sized firm spend a fourth to a third of their days on internal communication applications. Now a San Francisco-headquartered startup is attempting to build software that makes it much more convenient to engage with business services.

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Confluent

AUGUST 31, 2021

Today, as part of our expanded partnership with Elastic, we are announcing an update to the fully managed Elasticsearch Sink Connector in Confluent Cloud. This update allows you to take […].

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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

AUGUST 31, 2021

In the customer service industry, your accent dictates many aspects of your job. It shouldn’t be the case that there’s a “better” or “worse” accent, but in today’s global economy (though who knows about tomorrow’s) it’s valuable to sound American or British. While many undergo accent neutralization training, Sanas is a startup with another approach (and a $5.5 million seed round): using speech recognition and synthesis to change the speaker&#

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Toptal

AUGUST 31, 2021

Neumorphic design is a visual trend that has gained traction with UI/UX designers and become a popular aesthetic choice for contemporary software, websites, and mobile apps.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

After a 17-hour marathon through nearly 200 startup pitches, the Equity team was fired up to get back on Twitter and chat through some early trends and favorites from the first day of Y Combinator’s demo party. We’ll be back on the air tomorrow, so make sure you’re following the show on Twitter so you don’t miss out. What did Natasha and Alex chat about?

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DevOps.com

AUGUST 31, 2021

In the private sector, an automation explosion is underway. One major retailer, for example, is using a new automated system to increase speed and accuracy in how freight is handled at its regional distribution centers. Another retail giant is relying on new automated processes to replenish store shelves more efficiently, reduce excess inventory and free […].

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“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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

Independent restaurants don’t typically have the luxury to create their own online food ordering and delivery capabilities or negotiate for lower rates from legacy ordering platforms like the large restaurant chains do. Here’s where Owner.com comes in. The Palo Alto-based company provides a free online ordering, delivery and marketing platform for independent restaurants that puts them on similar playing fields with the big guys.

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Dzone - DevOps

AUGUST 31, 2021

I’ve worked in IT for a long time, and my secret collection of shell and Python scripts has made a lot that works easier. I remember having a repository full of scripts to install this, automate that… you get the idea. Some of these have been my pride and joy, full of witty remarks, inside jokes, and pop culture references. And I’ve handed these down to teams that succeeded me with pride.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

Osana Salud , which aims to transform the healthcare infrastructure in Latin America, has closed on a $20 million Series A round of funding led by General Catalyst. The Argentina-based, yet fully remote, startup was founded in 2019 — just a few months before the pandemic. Since launching less than a year ago, Osana says it has secured contracts with health insurance firms and providers that collectively serve more than 6 million patients in the region.

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The Daily WTF

AUGUST 31, 2021

When moving from one programming language to another, it's easy to slip into idioms that might be appropriate in one, but are wildly out of place in another. Tammy 's company has some veteran developers who spent most of their careers developing in COBOL, and now' they're developing in C#. As sufficiently determined programmers, they're finding ways to write COBOL in C#.

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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.

TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

Kevala , the startup that collects and analyzes energy grid infrastructure data for utility companies, renewable energy providers, EV charging companies, regulators and other energy industry stakeholders, has raised $21 million in a Series A round. The company says it will use the funds to grow its team from 60 employees to around 100 by the end of 2021 and increase the deployment of its grid analytics tools. .

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Radixweb

AUGUST 31, 2021

Software prototyping is a process to test, evaluate, and validate your product idea. In this blog we will discuss about software prototyping process with its major pros and cons.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

Fundraising is a huge part of building a successful startup, and whether you’re looking for information about the latest trends, alternative funding or how to fine-tune your pitch to attract investors, you’ll find that and a whole lot more at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 on September 21-23. Disrupt always taps the top experts, visionaries, founders, investors and makers to share their insights, tips and actionable advice.

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Lacework

AUGUST 31, 2021

Cybercriminals Demand for Cloud Access Grows In new research from the Lacework Labs Team, it’s clear organizations should start thinking of cybercriminals as business competitors. Thanks to more than three months of exhaustive monitoring and tracking malicious cloud activity, the team has uncovered evolving attack techniques and campaigns originating from across the globe, mostly characterized [.].

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

Amsterdam-based challenger bank Bunq is updating its service with a handful of new features. In addition to Dutch, German and French bank account numbers, existing and new users in Spain can now get a Spanish IBAN. European IBANs are supposed to work across Europe. Your employer or internet provider can’t force you to get a local IBAN. And yet, that’s rarely the case.

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Dzone - DevOps

AUGUST 31, 2021

In May 2021, DZone surveyed 700 software developers, architects, site reliability engineers, platform engineers, and other IT professionals to better understand how the way software is built relates to the way software is delivered. The main focus centered on topics near and dear to our hearts: continuous integration, continuous delivery (CI/CD), and release automation.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

Founded in 2012, Whoop is far from a household name in the world of fitness trackers. But over the years, the company has attracted its share of converts. It hasn’t had any issue attracting venture capital over the years, either. Last time we checked in on the Boston-based company was in late-2019, when it raised $55 million. Now it’s back with a massive $200 million raise.

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