TechCrunch
MAY 31, 2021
German startup Wefox has raised a $650 million Series C funding round led by Target Global. Following this funding round, the company has reached a post-money valuation of $3 billion. Wefox is a digital insurer focused on personal insurance products, such as household insurance, motor insurance and personal liability insurance. “It’s much more than we wanted to raise initially.
Let's Grow Leaders
MAY 31, 2021
How to Draw out Better Ideas from Every Member of Your Team. You’re a human-centered leader working to create a courageous, speak-up culture filled with psychological safety. A culture where employees feel invited and encouraged to speak up and share their ideas and express their concerns. Even if you’re a rock star human-centered leader, doing all the right things to encourage micro-innovation and problem solving, it’s also likely that you have a few team members who still hav
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TechCrunch
MAY 31, 2021
Meet June , a new startup that wants to make it easier to create analytics dashboards and generate reports even if you’re not a product analytics expert. June is built on top of your Segment data. Like many no-code startups, it uses templates and a graphical interface so that non-technical profiles can start using it. “What we do today is instant analytics and that’s why we’re building it on top of Segment,” co-founder and CEO Enzo Avigo told me.
David Walsh
MAY 31, 2021
There are scores of developers who hate CSS; don’t get it, don’t want to get it, etc. Most of that is either down to inefficiencies within the language or misunderstanding of how to properly construct a website structure. I mostly love CSS but there are some parts of the language that I always hated, like having to repeat very similar selectors.
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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.
TechCrunch
MAY 31, 2021
Zenyum , a startup that wants to make cosmetic dentistry more affordable, announced today it has raised a $40 million Series B. This includes $25 million from L Catterton, a private equity firm focused on consumer brands. The round’s other participants were Sequoia Capital India (Zenyum is an alum of its Surge accelerator program ), RTP Global, Partech, TNB Aura, Seeds Capital and FEBE Ventures.
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TechCrunch
MAY 31, 2021
Thousands of electric vehicle charging stations will be built around the country over the next decade. ChargerHelp! , founded in January 2020 by Kameale C. Terry and Evette Ellis, wants to make sure they stay up and running. The idea for the on-demand repair app for EV charging stations came to Terry when she was working at EV Connect , where she held a number of roles including director of programs and head of customer experience.
Xebia
MAY 31, 2021
While browsing the Netlify configuration site for my account (in a more or less panicky attempt to find some config item I’d lost track of), I stumbled on an option named split testing. I know this concept as A/B testing, where you try out different versions or options of a site and check analytics to find out which version yields the highest revenue.
TechCrunch
MAY 31, 2021
The world of professional services has long relied on contractors to fill in for assignments and projects that might not be a part of the course of daily work, but are essential work nonetheless. Today, a startup that’s built a marketplace to make it easier for freelance developers, designers and others with technical skills with those job opportunities is announcing a significant round of funding to expand its business.
InfoQ Culture Methods
MAY 31, 2021
Inspecting and adapting are fundamentals in agile practices. Yet, there are wide interpretations of how either is done well. It is a matter of our heart and soul – but the answer lies between our ears. In this article, we invite you to dip your toe into the deep waters of the internal inspect & adapt mechanisms. This article can be summarised in four words: Think.
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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.
thoughtLEADERS, LLC
MAY 31, 2021
Follow these 3 simple rules to address team dysfunction Today’s post is by Carlos Valdes-Dapena, author of Virtual Teams: Holding the Center When You Can’t Meet Face-to-Face (CLICK HERE to get your copy). In my work in collaboration and team effectiveness, I am sometimes approached about helping with a “dysfunctional team.” People use the word “dysfunction” liberally and can mean various things by it.
Xebia
MAY 31, 2021
Find out how to set up A/B testing with Netlify. The post A/B Testing with Netlify appeared first on Xebia Blog.
Flexagon
MAY 31, 2021
The benefits of bringing DevOps tools into your IT Organization are many and well documented. Regardless of the technologies in play, continuous delivery and release automation help teams deliver higher quality software faster, and with less cost and risk by reducing or eliminating manual and scripted processes and adding repeatability and consistency.
Beyond B2B
MAY 31, 2021
Imagine if the Covid-19 pandemic had occurred five years ago, before cloud adoption really took off. What would have been different?
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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.
Dataiku
MAY 31, 2021
On the heels of the devastating economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the fashion industry is beginning to pick up the pieces and build a path forward. Machine learning and AI had already been gaining momentum within the industry and, in order to keep up in today’s increasingly competitive climate, it’s crucial for fashion retailers to take a look inwards to identify potential efficiency gaps in order to remain competitive.
Beyond B2B
MAY 31, 2021
Data may be king; but collecting it from dozens of sources – internal and external – and making it available for your users and systems can be a headache.
Arcserve
MAY 31, 2021
With ransomware now the most significant risk to businesses, it’s time to fight back. A ransomware attack will occur every 11 seconds in 2021. That’s just one of the reasons that Arcserve and StorageCraft have merged.
The Cipher Brief
MAY 31, 2021
Bottom Line Up Front: There are indications that the Taliban have no intention of reaching a compromise and believe they can take over Afghanistan shortly after the US withdrawal. Comparisons with the survival of the Najibullah government may be misleading. An eventual evacuation of the international community should be manageable but would have its hazards.
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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.
Dataiku
MAY 31, 2021
It has officially been one year since the launch of Dataiku Academy , our very own online learning and certification platform, and we have more than a few reasons to celebrate. In the past 12 months, the Academy has released over 90 courses and issued over 3,500 certificates to a total of 16,000 users!
Darktrace
MAY 31, 2021
This blog discusses the consequences and challenges associated with compliance, and how Darktrace’s AI not only defends against double extortion ransomware, but also builds internal mechanisms that help enforce compliance across the workforce.
Capgemini
MAY 31, 2021
Continuous Touchless Demand Forecasting is defined by Capgemini Invent as a capability that capitalizes on Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning to “ recognize historical patterns, select best-fit statistical models, and draw on a variety of inputs and forward-looking variables, (.) to create more accurate demand forecasts with less manual effort. ” In other words, it is an automated, data-led approach to intelligent Demand Forecasting.
The Daily WTF
MAY 31, 2021
Virginia N ( previously ) needed to maintain some authentication logic. The actual rules for authentication weren't actually documented, so her choices were to either copy/paste some authentication code from a different project, or try and refactor the authentication method in this one. It was a hard choice. We'll dump the whole block of code, but I want to pull out a few highlights, starting with the opening condition: if (LDAP == "O" && txtPassword.Text.ToUpper() !
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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.
The Agile Manager
MAY 31, 2021
Last year I wrote a piece on legacy modernization initiatives. Among the points I made was that legacy modernization is at best a break-even proposition: modernization is simply trading something old for its modern counterpart, getting the same capabilities in return. Of course, there are first order benefits to legacy modernization. Additional or more comprehensive capabilities that come standard with a new COTS product; lower labor intensity and less dependency on costly knowledge workers requ
Exadel
MAY 31, 2021
Companies have long relied on a few traditional ways of maximizing employee productivity. Up until recently, the only options were essentially manual attendance management systems. Employees had to fill in paper timesheets which recorded their work hours. Although this tracking system was widely used, it lacked flexibility, led to inaccuracies and timesheet tampering, and often resulted in human error.
Mobilunity
MAY 31, 2021
Choosing a Nearshore software dev provider , similarities between yourself and your Vendor should make be enough for you to succeed in future. This time, however, I aim to speak about DIFFERENCES that must exist, too. A Business coming Nearshore for its remote software development team should try to scale its corporate culture to the new, nearshore team of theirs, yet, one must also be aware of local specifics that may not be touched, without an impact to outcome.
Teradata
MAY 31, 2021
Learn about the capabilities and benefits of NOS WRITE -- the latest offering within the Native Object Store feature, which was released in early 2020.
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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.
Mobilunity
MAY 31, 2021
An Application Programming Interface (API) is a set of tools that helps programmers build and integrate software applications. Its main role is to allow applications to communicate with each other, request information, and receive it instantly. With this technology, API programmers can deliver new applications faster and reuse the existing software to make them more functional and powerful.
The Cipher Brief
MAY 31, 2021
On 25 September 2017, the board of UK-based Imagination Technologies, founded in 1985 (and listed on the LSE in 1994), agreed to a take-over by a Palo Alto-based, Cayman Island-registered private equity firm named Canyon Bridge. The UK’s Guardian newspaper described Imagination as a global leader in designing graphics processors found in Smart phones and other electronic devices.
Strategy Driven
MAY 31, 2021
When we are talking about the value of something in an economy and all over the world then the main factors which determine the value of something are the demand and supply. Here when the demand rises for something, it also leads to the rise in price for the same. And if the supply increases for something then it eventually results in the decline in the price for the same.
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