TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Ximena Aleman. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Ximena Aleman is co-founder and chief business development officer at Prometeo , an open banking platform that serves Latin America. More posts by this contributor. Fintech regulations in Latin America could fuel growth or freeze out startups. Year-in, year-out, the gender gap in venture capital investment continues to be a problem women founders face.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Collaborative modelling is not only an essential practice in Domain-Driven Design for creating a shared understanding of the domain. I believe it is vital in building sustainable and inclusive quality software. Covid-19 has constrained us to move collaborative modelling sessions online, and for almost everyone, this is uncharted territory and can be quite overwhelming.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Based in Hong Kong, Coherent helps insurance providers go digital. With their services more relevant than ever during the COVID-19 pandemic, the startup announced it has raised $14 million in new funding. The Series A round, led by Cathay Innovation with participation from Franklin Templeton, will be used to grow Coherent’s client base in Asia, including insurers who want to add more digital services to their usual sales processes because of the pandemic.

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CTOvision

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The future is one with more product integration vice systems integration. This story shows a clear example of that point: UiPath and eSentire have announced a strategic partnership to deliver […].

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Stock markets worldwide are soaring on news that a vaccine candidate is 90% effective at preventing COVID-19, and could start coming to market in a matter of months. This is upending the stock market, sending futures shares shooting higher in pre-market trading. But while the euphoria is helping sectors that have taken punishment during COVID-19, not all companies are catching the same updraft.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Xpressbees, an Indian logistics firm that works with several e-commerce firms in the country, said on Monday it has raised $110 million in a new financing round as online shopping booms in the world’s second largest internet market. The Pune-headquartered startup’s Series E financing round was led by private equity firms Investcorp, Norwest Venture Partners and Gaja Capital, the five-year-old startup said.

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DevOps.com

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Despite the evident evolution of the software industry, many enterprises continue deploying testing practices that require intensive time and effort, while also facing increased pressure to do more and work faster. I like to call this phenomenon “scattered islands,” as it describes the disconnect in maturity and capability across the testing landscape.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

A number of healthcare disparities exist for Black people in America, but they can oftentimes go unaddressed due to the lack of education and understanding among medical professionals. Spora Health , which launches today for patients in Virginia, Tennessee, Pennsylvania and Florida, aims to fix that. “An equitable healthcare system has never existed in America, especially for Black folks and that is the goal,” Spora Health founder and CEO Dan Miller told TechCrunch.

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DevOps.com

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

A survey of 250 developers working at leading technology companies paints a bleak picture of the current state of application security with 85% admitting applications on average have 10 or more vulnerabilities, with nearly half saying they have on average more than 20 per application. Conducted by Contrast Security, a provider of an observability platform […].

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Riveside.fm is a new startup with an easy-to-use platform for recording professional-quality video podcasts. In fact, although the company only recently came out of stealth , it already has a number of high-profile customers including TechCrunch’s parent company Verizon Media and Hillary Clinton, who’s using Riverside.fm to record her new podcast “You and Me Both With Hillary Clinton.” “Just imagine, we needed a recording platform that could help us make a podcast d

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CTOvision

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

After spending a month in a trial held via Zoom, Cisco was found guilty of copyright infringement. The patents belong to the Virginia-based cybersecurity company Centripetal Networks. This is actually […].

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Great Jones is expanding into a new area of the kitchen tomorrow, with what co-founder and CEO Sierra Tishgart described as the startup’s biggest launch since it released its first products two years ago. Ahead of launching the new bakeware line, Great Jones is announcing that it has raised $1.75 million in new funding. The money comes from notable figures in the e-commerce world — Fellow founder Jake Miller and Very Great founders Eric Prum and Josh Williams — along with restauranteurs i

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CTOvision

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

DataTribe, a startup foundry that invests in and co-builds next-generation cybersecurity and data science companies, today announced that John Funge, currently Chief Product Officer (CPO) at DataTribe, will be promoted […].

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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

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Quartz is going private, with co-founder and CEO Zach Seward buying the business news site from its current owner Uzabase. In his post announcing the deal , Seward described the move as a management buyout that will also see Editor in Chief Katherine Bell and the rest of the Quartz staff taking equity in the new company. “Most of the time, I hope, Quartz’s finances and our corporate parentage are irrelevant, as long as we’re doing our job well,” he wrote. “But this is an import

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TechBeacon

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

For organizations getting ready to move beyond Security Operations with their security approach and improve the cyber resiliency of their systems, some excellent startup tools exist. And, equally important, best practices are emerging.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Jason Buhle. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Jason Buhle is a professor in the online Master of Science in the Applied Psychology program at the University of Southern California and Director of UX Strategy at AnswerLab, the largest independent consultancy exclusively focused on UX research. A recent article in Entrepreneur magazine listed “inadequate testing” as the top reason why startups fail.

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CTOvision

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

FireEye, a top cybersecurity company, has released a new pre-configured virtual machine (VM) that was specifically set up to help threat intelligence analysts hunt down adversaries. Named the ThreatPursuit VM, […].

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

As part of its latest stunt, MSCHF, a venture-backed creative studio that’s smarter and more audacious than most, is poking a little fun at the venture industry itself — and perhaps publications like TechCrunch, too. The startup has spun out a rather simplistic app into a separate company and raised an undisclosed amount of seed funding from a very real venture capital firm at an eye-popping $200 million valuation.

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DevOps.com

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Constantly testing the cloud in systematic and chaotic ways will help companies avoid cloud failures in a time when downtime means disconnect Professionals fortunate enough to shelter in place and work from home can thank cloud for their ability to shift over so seamlessly during the COVID-19 pandemic. Imagine a lockdown without the cloud. Availability […].

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Qumulo , the Seattle-based data storage startup, announced a bunch of updates today including support for NvME caching, an approach that should enable customers to access faster flash storage at a lower price point. NvME flash storage development is evolving quickly, driving down the price with higher performance, a win-win situation for large data producers, but it’s still more expensive than traditional drives.

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DevOps.com

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Atlassian today extended its footprint in IT service management (ITSM) with the launch of Jira Service Management, a cloud-based platform designed to bridge the divide between DevOps and ticket-based approaches to managing IT. Edwin Wong, head of product for IT at Atlassian, said Jira Service Desk builds on Opsgenie, an IT incident management platform.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Could there be a tech sector more thrilling and daunting than space? We think not. If that’s your orbit, don’t miss TC Sessions: Space 2020 on December 16-17. It’s where you’ll find the industry’s greatest thinkers, makers, shakers and investors. More on that in a minute. Right now, a reminder that the $125 admission price remains in play for just five more days.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

How dance makes you a better leader with interviews with CEOs and leaders of industry. Today’s post is by Megan Taylor Morrison, author of Dance Adventures(CLICK HERE to get your copy). Boardrooms and bachata? Lindy hop and LinkedIn? Merengue and meetings? Business and dance seem like uncomfortable bedfellows, but dancing can inform leadership, making your interactions with clients, employees or business partners more effective and fulfilling.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

So much can change in a day. This morning, news that a trial COVID-19 vaccine candidate had an effective rate of more than 90% shook the financial world. The Pfizer vaccine is reportedly so effective, the company “will have manufactured enough doses to immunize 15 to 20 million people” by the end of the year, according to the New York Times , appears to have given investors the green light to pile back into companies harmed by the pandemic.

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Synopsys

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The shift from DevOps to DevSecOps poses a number of problems for developers. Learn how to overcome the most common challenges in DevSecOps adoption. The post Three DevSecOps challenges and how to mitigate them appeared first on Software Integrity Blog.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Event modeling has always been a pain point in organizations. From figuring out the standard format of your schemas, processing said data models effectively, and finally testing before you deploy […].

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DevOps.com

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

New Capabilities Simplify, Secure and Lower Operational Costs SEATTLE, Nov. 9, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Qumulo, the leading file data platform that helps organizations easily store and manage file data so they can build and scale their applications with unrivaled freedom, control and real-time visibility, today announced a new suite of data services that radically simplify managing massive amounts […].

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CTOvision

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Some people love public speaking. Others dread it. But absolutely no one gets excited about presenting over Zoom. Why would they? Presenting over video generally means speaking at your computer […].

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