CIO

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

As enterprises increasingly look to artificial intelligence (AI) to support, speed up, or even supplant human decision-making, calls have rung out for AI’s use and development to be subject to a higher power: our collective sense of right and wrong. One such entity weighing in on the need for AI ethics is the Vatican, which exactly three years ago, on Feb. 28, 2020, brought together representatives from Microsoft and IBM to first sign the Rome Call for AI Ethics, a commitment to develop AI that

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

On a recent winter morning in New Delhi, Rajan Anandan and Pieter Kemps were pacing on the floor of a five-star hotel, quizzing a group of over two dozen young startup founders about their goals. One founder set eyes on getting the most downloads in the mobile gaming category. Another pledged to reach an annual recurring revenue of $100 million in a few years.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

How can we get our IT teams to be viewed as more consultative partners to the business? It’s one of the big questions I continue to hear from CIOs. While technology has changed dramatically over the past decade and become increasingly intertwined with the business’s success, many IT teams remain in order-taking mode, responding to requests and then scrambling to address the issues that arise after the fact.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Una Brands , a Singapore-based e-commerce aggregator, has raised $30 million in pre-Series C financing just five months after announcing its $30 million Series B funding that was raised in September of last year. Northstar Group, a regional private equity firm, is the sole investor in Una Brands’ latest round, which involves a mix of equity and debt, though Una Brands declined to break out how much equity versus debt the newest round involves.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In 2022, with the pandemic subsiding, the National Museum of African American History and Culture at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, once again served more than 1 million visitors. But thanks to an inventive digital offering, called Searchable Museum , the museum has been able to reach even more. The searchable replica of the museum, which launched in November 2021, allows anyone around the globe to experience all elements of the museum, even with low-latency internet and inexpens

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CIO

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The world is experiencing an onslaught of economic uncertainty, and the IT industry is facing headwinds just like any other. Gartner recently lowered their expectations for IT budgets to increase by just 2.2% in 2023 on average – lower than the projected 6.5% global inflation rate. But the economic turmoil doesn’t mean your competitors are going to stop investing in technology – CIOs still need to spend to improve operational excellence.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Mammoth, a recently launched Mastodon app that’s trying to make it easier on users who want to join the decentralized social web, has a notable financial backer. The company confirmed that its leading pre-seed investor is Mozilla, a proponent of the open web, who invested in the company’s first general round alongside others, including Long Journey Ventures and Salesforce’s Marc Benioff.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

By Thomas Been, DataStax Building data-driven, high-growth businesses takes a certain kind of roll-up-your-sleeves, determined, and smart builder who understands the importance of building a unified, foundational data architecture. We call these people Digital Champions. They’re visionaries in using real-time data and the cloud to deliver unprecedented value to their organizations and, in turn, to their customers.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

While the global pandemic was still in full force, Dipti Desai, who had been building data platforms at Uber at the time, started working with a nonprofit selling masks on Shopify. As she helped them build out their digital storefront, Desai began talking to other brands about their challenges with regard to data. “It was really hard for them to understand what was going on in their business,” Desai told TechCrunch.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

GSMA’s Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2023 in Barcelona—the largest and most influential event for connectivity—is expected to attract over 80,000 attendees from 200 countries and over 2,000 exhibitors. This year’s event will explore themes of 5G acceleration, immersive technology, open networks, fintech, and ‘Digital Everything’, encompassing intelligent solutions, Internet-of-Things, Industry 4.0, and how every industry and enterprise stand to benefit from these immense opportunities in the digit

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Klarna, a well-known private tech company working in the consumer credit and e-commerce market, dropped its 2022 annual report today. The document contains a wealth of information about its financial performance and recent operating philosophy. We care about both. The former startup has had a publicly difficult few quarters. From seeing its valuation cut sharply to layoffs , the news around Klarna has been negative for some time.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The year ahead is likely to be characterised by recessionary pressures in key global economies, increasing borrowing costs, unpredictable supply chains, oil price uncertainty, and volatile demand. Regardless of the challenges of the past few years and the hurdles ahead, digital transformation investments in the Middle East, Türkiye, and Africa (META) are set to more than double across the 2021–2026 period, according to the latest forecast from IDC.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Typeface , a startup developing an AI-powered dashboard for drafting marketing copy and images, emerged from stealth this week with $65 million in venture equity backing from Lightspeed Venture Partners, GV (Google Ventures), M12 (Microsoft’s Venture Fund) and Menlo Ventures. Founded by former Adobe CTO Abhay Parasnis, Typeface attempts to combine generative AI with a brand’s tone, audiences and workflows to — as Parasnis rather aspirationally puts it — “reimagine”

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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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FEBRUARY 28, 2023

What happens when you have been consistently ordering a Margherita pizza and a Choco lava cake every time you visit Domino’s Pizza? Well, you know the exact order you want to place. You know the crust and toppings you want over your pizza. You don’t waste much time thinking about what to order. Isn’t it? That’s what happens with lateral hiring too. Lateral hiring is nothing but hiring specialists in your organization for a particular job role instead of investing time in training entry-level emp

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In 2013, Irma Olguin Jr. — a third-generation Mexican American and the first in her family to go to college — was working on making coding instruction available to disadvantaged members of her community. During her work, she met Jake Soberal, an intellectual property lawyer, who shared Olguin’s desire to leverage the tech industry to effect change at the local level.

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TechBeacon

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) is experiencing exponential innovation. ChatGPT, DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, and other AI models have captured popular attention, but they have also raised serious questions about the issue of ethics in machine learning (ML).

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Amazon has struck a deal with embattled online mortgage lender Better.com to offer up a new benefit to employees. Better.com is launching Equity Unlocker , a program that allows employees to use their vested equity as collateral for a down payment when trying to buy homes. Amazon employees in Florida, New York and Washington State will be the first to try the tool.

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DevOps.com

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Developer experience (DX) has become essential to modern enterprise software development. As more companies become software companies, more are opening up their software both for internal reuse and externalized consumption. As part of this process, making developer-facing tools consumable and friction-free becomes more necessary to both perform well and stand out in the market.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PST, subscribe here. TikTok just can’t dodge the watchful eyes of the watchmen: Earlier this year, Taylor reported that a string of universities banned TikTok from devices. Last week, Paul reported that the European Commission threw the kibosh on having TikTok on work devices , and today, Amanda reported that Canada followed suit for its government devices.

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DevOps.com

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

An analysis of more than 494,000 interview requests for software engineers coupled with a survey of more than 1,300 software engineers and 120 hiring professionals found a lot more employers prefer to hire DevOps professionals who work in the office—but resistance to working in an office (rather than working remotely) remains high. The survey also […] The post The Economic Downturn and DevOps Hiring Trends appeared first on DevOps.com.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

StudentFinance , a European fintech that funds educational programs for individuals through so-called income share agreements , has raised €39 million ($41 million) in a Series A round of funding. Founded out of Spain in 2019, StudentFinance partners with educational institutions such as Ironhack and Le Wagon to help finance those looking to upskill into disciplines like software development, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence, serving as an alternative to traditional bank or student lo

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DevOps.com

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Vercel today announced it has added a suite of observability tools to its platform for building web applications using Next.js, an instance of the open source React framework based on a JavaScript library. Vercel CTO Malte Ubl said the Vercel Monitoring tools make it simpler for developers to troubleshoot applications without relying on a DevOps […] The post Vercel Adds Observability Tools to Web Application Framework appeared first on DevOps.com.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The good times are starting to roll in the New Orleans startup ecosystem. TechCrunch spoke to local founders and investors for a vibe check: How is the city emerging as a tech hub? A flood of both founders and capital is entering the market; that, coupled with tax and business incentives to keep them there, makes NOLA an attractive place to start a business.

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TechSoup

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The amount of available data about your website, your users, and your mission area is growing by the minute. If you have a website, you can access all sorts of information about how people are finding it, where they're navigating to, and whether they are engaging in a continued relationship with your organization. You can also use information about the changes in your sector to understand the impact your work is having and where it can expand in order to meet the most urgent needs.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

When developers are building software with API access, they need to figure out how to bill users fairly for hitting the API gateway. A flat fee probably wouldn’t cover the heavy users and would be unfair to the lighter ones. Archetype , an early stage startup, has created a metering solution, so developers can bill on a usage basis. Today the company announced a $3.1 million seed investment to get the company off the ground.

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

As a Lead Technical Consultant, Sandeepkumar Gupta delivers excellent experiences to our clients and is always working for the betterment of his team. Sandeepkumar came to Perficient in 2022 and is incredibly valued for his Sitecore knowledge and blogging contributions. Sitecore recently announced six Perficient colleagues have been awarded Sitecore MVP status for 2023.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Last fall, Voyantis CEO Ido Wiesenberg shared a TC+ post with several tactics for reducing customer acquisition costs via predictive modeling. In a follow-up, he explains how to use predictive lifetime value (LTV) to create “more targeted, effective acquisition strategies that focus on acquiring and retaining customers.” Adding predictive LTV to decision flows does more than just identify lucrative customers early in the sales cycle — you can also use it to set performance targets and help teams

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KitelyTech

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Cloud computing has revolutionized the way businesses operate, and banks are no exception. As more organizations move to the cloud, it is essential for any bank to understand the implications of cloud computing in banking. Cloud computing offers a range of advantages such as scalability, cost savings, and increased agility. However, there are also risks that need to be addressed before taking the leap.

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