Invid Group
JUNE 9, 2021
Power Automate: The best way to automate manual process BY:Carlos Feliciano-Misla Microsoft 365 comes with many powerful tools to make people’s work lives better. Power BI gives us insights into data, Outlook makes emails, meetings, and appointments more manageable, and Excel is the defacto tool for complex spreadsheets and other calculations.
TechCrunch
JUNE 9, 2021
The startup investing market is crowded, expensive and rapid-fire today as venture capitalists work to preempt one another, hoping to deploy funds into hot companies before their competitors. The AI startup market may be even hotter than the average technology niche. This should not surprise. In the wake of the Microsoft-Nuance deal , The Exchange reported that it would be reasonable to anticipate an even more active and competitive market for AI-powered startups.
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Toptal
JUNE 9, 2021
Agile project management strives for adaptability, while Waterfall strives for predictability. A hybrid approach that marries the two can be challenging to implement but beneficial for some projects.
TechCrunch
JUNE 9, 2021
After co-founding Insomnia Consulting, Stacey Abrams and Lara O’Connor Hodgson started Nourish to address a personal problem. “We were at a meeting, I think for one of my campaigns,” explains Abrams, the Georgia-based lawyer and politician whose voting rights work became a focal point for the country in 2020. “[O’Connor Hodgson] needed to put together a baby bottle and had to trust the waiter to take the bottle back and wash it.
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Dialogview is revolutionizing VoIP services with its AI-powered platform, which is now available for white labeling. Our solution autonomously resolves over 68% of customer queries in more than 40 languages, dramatically reducing your team’s workload. With advanced conversational AI, Dialogview understands customer sentiments and queries in real time, without any button presses needed by users.
DevOps.com
JUNE 9, 2021
It is no secret that web APIs have become increasingly important to the operation of modern businesses. According to RapidAPI’s Developer Survey and Insights report, 61% of developers used more APIs in 2020 than 2019, with 71% planning to use even more in 2021. We are no longer tied to a small number of monolithic […]. The post Why API Quality is Top Priority for Developers appeared first on DevOps.com.
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David Walsh
JUNE 9, 2021
Writing good code is important — writing code that’s easily human readable is a next level skill. It’s not often that APIs are introduced whose seemingly only useful function is making code more readable, but let me introduce you to JavaScript numeric separators: an API that lets developers use underscores to make numbers more readable!
TechCrunch
JUNE 9, 2021
Contentstack , a startup that offers a headless content management system (or a “content experience platform” in marketing-speak), today announced that it has raised a $57.5 million Series B round. The round, which the company says was oversubscribed, was led by Insight Partners , which also led its Series A round. New investor Georgian and existing investors Illuminate Ventures and GingerBread Capital also participated.
CEO Insider
JUNE 9, 2021
As you read the title of this article, I know this may feel somewhat counter intuitive. We have used the word when leading and managing “change” for decades. When instigating a project we expect things to develop from one place to another or introducing something new to a system or process and maybe to take […]. The post Change the word, “CHANGE.” appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.
TechCrunch
JUNE 9, 2021
Rachel Blank has a history with hormones. The entrepreneur left her investment job at General Catalyst to join a portfolio company they had been backing since its seed round: Ro. Blank was tasked with growing Rory, a product line for menopausal women. But Blank left her director position at the health tech unicorn, last valued at $5 billion, to start her own company in women’s hormonal health.
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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
JUNE 9, 2021
This morning Terra , a recent Y Combinator graduate building an API for fitness and health data, announced that it has closed a $2.8 million round. The investment includes capital from General Catalyst , Samsung Next , and NEXT VENTURES. The company intends to hire with its new capital, from a team of four today — the co-founders and two other engineers — to seven this month.
Daffodil Software
JUNE 9, 2021
According to the ergonomics of human-system interaction, User Experience (UX) is a person’s perceptions and responses that result from the use or anticipated use of a product, system, or service.
TechCrunch
JUNE 9, 2021
BukuWarung , a fintech focused on Indonesia’s micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), announced today it has raised a $60 million Series A. The oversubscribed round was led by Valar Ventures, marking the firm’s first investment in Indonesia, and Goodwater Capital. The Jakarta-based startup claims this is the largest Series A round ever raised by a startup focused on services for MSMEs.
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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.
Dots and Bridges
JUNE 9, 2021
Pete is the guy to know in Washington DC. As a previous CTO for the Department of Education as well as the CTO and Deputy CIO at the Department of Energy, not to mention countless boards he sits on, it is a wonder he has time for his own company, Dots and Bridges. Pete and I share a passion for helping government make good choices and find the right solution for the job.
TechCrunch
JUNE 9, 2021
Many of the highest-profile English tutoring platforms focus on children, including VIPKID and Magic Ears. Ringle created a niche for itself by focusing on adults first, with courses like business English and interview preparation. The South Korea-based startup announced today it has raised an $18 million Series A led by returning investor Must Asset Management, at a valuation of $90 million.
The Accidental Successful CIO
JUNE 9, 2021
CIOs are forgetting about their employee experience. Image Credit: Sjoerd Wijn. Right now every CIO seems to be talking about the customer experience (CX). What CIOs have been told is that if you don’t get customer experience right, you may leave yourself vulnerable to competitors who do. However, CIOs who focus only or mostly on customers are forgetting something just as important: the employee experience (EX).
TechCrunch
JUNE 9, 2021
A bat-shaped organic photovoltaic module from Dracula Technologies. Internet of Things devices are proliferating, making daily tasks more convenient for many people—but that comes at cost. The United Nations expects the amount of e-waste created globally to reach 52.2 million metric tons this year, and a sizable portion of that are dead batteries. Dracula Technologies , a French startup that is currently exhibiting virtually at Computex , wants to help with its inkjet-printed organic photovoltai
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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.
Mentormate
JUNE 9, 2021
When it comes to Agile software development, there are several different frameworks that teams adopt. Two of the most common are of course Scrum and Kanban. While each has its own set of advantages, they also have shortcomings that the other addresses. That’s where Scrumban comes in. Scrumban is a new and interesting concept that lies halfway between Scrum and Kanban.
TechCrunch
JUNE 9, 2021
Community has never felt louder in startupland. Bringing people together over a shared interest is innate to human nature, and coming out of a lonely, draining pandemic, every startup is looking to cultivate community, conversation and camaraderie. Last week, though, the outside world got a look at how Y Combinator, one of Silicon Valley’s most famed and feared accelerators, deals with the intricacies of a scaled, yet still ultra-exclusive, community after the accelerator kicked out two founders
Aqua Security
JUNE 9, 2021
In my previous post, I covered how you can secure your CI/CD pipeline with Tracee from potentially malicious code executions. We’re now releasing Tracee GitHub Action, which makes using Tracee a plug-n-play experience and doesn’t require any prior knowledge of eBPF or Docker. We’re also introducing a new capability to profile the normal behavior of workloads to automatically detect any unexpected code execution drifts in your pipeline.
TechCrunch
JUNE 9, 2021
While electric vertical take-off and landing passenger aircraft startup Joby Aviation is targeting North America for its initial commercial launch, founder and CEO JoeBen Bevirt expects the company to have an early presence in Asia and Europe as well. Bevirt, who joined the TC Sessions: Mobility 2021 on June 9, didn’t give away the first location; although recent announcements suggest it is narrowed down to Los Angeles, Miami, New York and the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Flexagon
JUNE 9, 2021
Have you ever been in the middle of development and had to open FlexDeploy to manually initiate a project build, slowing down your process? There’s a new solution to automate this and prevent some of the back and forth between applications that might be needed today. Flexagon offers a browser extension for sending webhooks to. The post Increase Developer Productivity with FlexDeploy Browser Extension appeared first on Flexagon.
TechCrunch
JUNE 9, 2021
Yin Wu. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Yin Wu, a three-time YC alum, is founder of Pulley , which offers cap table management tools that help companies better understand and optimize their equity. Running a startup can be a complicated, difficult process fraught with pitfalls and ample opportunities to make mistakes. But the logistics of setting up a startup should be simple, because over the long run, complicated equity setups and cap tables cost more money in legal fees and administration time
TechBeacon
JUNE 9, 2021
Every 50 to 60 years, a paradigm shift occurs that affects the social, business, and economic order. The digital age is ushering in a new one.
TechCrunch
JUNE 9, 2021
Commit , a Vancouver, Canada-based startup that has a unique approach to matching up engineers looking for a new job to early-stage startups that want to hire them, today announced that it has raised a $6 million seed round. Accomplice led the round , with participation from Kensington Capital Partners, Inovia and Garage Capital. . The company, which focuses on working with remote-first startups, launched in 2019, with co-founders Greg Gunn (CEO) and Beier Cai (CTO), who met as early employees a
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TechSoup
JUNE 9, 2021
Our members know and depend on TechSoup for our work to bring them donated and discounted high-tech products and services plus the know-how to use them. There are a lot of things that we do that are behind the scenes and not so well known to help those in desperate need. Here is an example of a highly engaged board member, a marketing team, and thousands of members who pitched in to get free broadband to low-income Alabama families last fall.
TechCrunch
JUNE 9, 2021
Aserto , a new startup from a couple of tech industry vets who want to build an Authorization as a Service solution, announced a $5.1 million seed round today from Costanoa Ventures, Heavybit Industries and several industry luminaries. The company’s two founders, Omri Gazitt, CEO and Gert Drapers, CTO, have decades of experience building some of the industry’s identity building blocks including SAML, OAuth 2.0 and OpenID.
DevOps.com
JUNE 9, 2021
With technology evolving in leaps and bounds, AI is shaping the future of digital transformation for every business seeking speed, scalability, quality and flexibility. Since DevOps is on the verge of delivering exceptional software development environments, DevOps in AI is undeniably the next breakthrough in technology. We’ve witnessed every industry racing toward the adoption of […].
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