TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
A 22-month-old startup that is helping millions of blue- and gray-collar workers in India learn new skills and find jobs has become the youngest firm to join the coveted unicorn status in the world’s second-largest internet market. Apna announced on Thursday that it has raised $100 million in a round led by Tiger Global. The new round — a Series C — valued Apna at $1.1 billion.
O'Reilly Media - Ideas
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
In June 2021, we asked the recipients of our Data & AI Newsletter to respond to a survey about compensation. The results gave us insight into what our subscribers are paid, where they’re located, what industries they work for, what their concerns are, and what sorts of career development opportunities they’re pursuing. While it’s sadly premature to say that the survey took place at the end of the COVID-19 pandemic (though we can all hope), it took place at a time when restrictions were loose
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TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
One of the biggest problems in the world of e-commerce is the predicament of shopping cart abandonment: when shoppers aren’t getting to what they want fast enough — whether it’s finding the right item, or paying for it in a quick and easy way — they bounce. That singular problem is driving a wave of technology development to make the experience ever more seamless, and today one of the companies closely involved in that space is announcing some funding on the back of healt
TechBeacon
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
Since the 2018 release of the book Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps , the “DORA metrics" it introduced have grown in popularity as a way to measure software development.
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.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
CoderSchool, a Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam-based online coding school startup, announced today $2.6 million in pre-Series A funding to scale up its online coding school platform. This round was led by Monk’s Hill Ventures, with participation from returning seed investors Iterative, XA Network and iSeed Ventures. CoderSchool raised a seed round led by TRIVE Ventures in 2018.
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TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
Building credit history can be difficult if you are a consumer that is having trouble getting access to credit in the first place. Enter TomoCredit , which has developed a credit card focused on building credit history for first-time borrowers. The San Francisco-based startup is announcing today that it has raised $10 million in a Series A funding round co-led by Kapor Capital and KB Investment Inc.
Nathan Magnuson
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
Stress and resilience have been my most requested leadership topics for over a year now. Just recently, I received another request. ( You can join this one on 9/23! ) Leaders want to know: how can I lead my team when they’re at a breaking point? And even though they may not say it, many leaders are stressed to the max as well. How are we supposed to learn to manage stress effectively?
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
In order to support a buildout of renewable energy, which tends to over-generate electricity at certain times of day and under-generate at others, the grid is going to need a lot of batteries. While lithium-ion works fine for consumer electronics and even electric vehicles, battery startup EnerVenue says it developed a breakthrough technology to revolutionize stationary energy storage.
Confluent
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
GraphQL and Apache Kafka® are sometimes troubled with misconceptions. One of the reasons for this is that people are often familiar with one but not the other. GraphQL is mostly […].
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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.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
E-commerce has undoubtedly seen a huge boost in growth in the last year and a half of COVID-19 living, with people turning to the web and apps to shop for essentials and not-so-essentials to keep their social distance, and using delivery services to receive their goods rather than picking things up in person. Today, a Dutch startup called Sendcloud that has built a service to help retailers with the latter of these — providing a cloud-based platform to easily organize and carry out shippin
Cloudera
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
Leveraging the Internet of Things (IoT) allows you to improve processes and take your business in new directions. But it requires you to live on the edge. That’s where you find the ability to empower IoT devices to respond to events in real time by capturing and analyzing the relevant data. Edge computing relies on squeezing the power and functionality of a data center into a micro site as close to data sources as possible to enable real-time tasks.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
Bryan Dsouza. Contributor. Bryan Dsouza leads product marketing at Grammarly, and previously led various product management and product marketing roles across B2C and B2B at Microsoft. A startup is a beautiful thing. It’s the tangible outcome of an idea birthed in a garage or on the back of a napkin. But ask any founder what really proves their startup has taken off, and they will almost instantly say it’s when they win their first customer.
DevOps.com
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
In this episode of DevOps Unbound, hosts Alan Shimel and Mitch Ashley are joined by Helen Beal of the DevOps Institute, Viktoria Praschl of Tricentis, Frank Ohlhorst, principal analyst with Accelerated Strategies Group and Alex Hidalgo of Nobl9 to discuss how to use DevOps metrics effectively to improve delivery performance and help teams become high-performing […].
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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.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
Ash Fontana. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Ash Fontana, a managing director at Zetta Ventures , is the author of “The AI-First Company: How to Compete and Win with Artificial Intelligence.”. More posts by this contributor. Growing up in the intelligence era. Investors in AI-first technology companies serving the defense industry, such as Palantir, Primer and Anduril, are doing well.
DevOps.com
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
Sonatype today released a report that finds there has been a 650% year-over-year increase in supply chain attacks aimed at upstream public repositories. Cybercriminals hope to compromise these repositories by injecting malware into software components that many organizations might be using, according to the report. The seventh annual State of the Software Supply Chain Report […].
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
This morning, Goldman Sachs announced plans to acquire B2B2C lender GreenSky in a deal worth $2.24 billion. The acquisition, which is still subject to regulatory approval and is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2020 or the first quarter of 2021, is positioned to bolster the firm’s consumer business and offer new products and new ways to attract consumers to its Marcus by Goldman Sachs brand of finance products.
Dzone - DevOps
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
It’s hard to believe it’s that time of year again, but DevOps World 2021 is quickly approaching! This year’s conference is going back to virtual on September 28-30 and is filled with exciting sessions, speakers, and networking opportunities for every member of the DevOps community. Last year, we had attendees “show us their world” as they attended (for the first time ever) DevOps World from thousands of locations across the globe.
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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.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
Jonathan Martinez. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Jonathan Martinez is a former YouTuber, UC Berkeley alum and growth marketing nerd who's helped scale Uber, Postmates, Chime and various startups. More posts by this contributor. Early-stage brands should also unlock the power of influencers. In growth marketing, creative is the critical X factor. Unlike a weak phone signal solely causing a grainy sound, in growth marketing, it can mean the difference between a successful program or a massive cas
Dataiku
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
Now, we know we would be nowhere without our 450+ customers around the globe who leverage Dataiku to systemize their use of data and AI, making it everyday behavior for everyone and powering collective success. But, today, our gratitude for our diverse customer base takes on a whole new level of meaning.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
French startup Skello has raised a $47.3 million funding round (€40 million). The company has been working on a software-as-a-service tool that lets you manage the work schedule of your company. What makes it special is that Skello automatically takes into account local labor laws and collective agreements. Partech is leading today’s funding round. Existing investors XAnge and Aglaé Ventures are also participating.
CloudZero
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
Many organizations are considering migrating to Kubernetes, and while it certainly has advantages, it’s not for everyone. In this article, we’ll explain why you might use Kubernetes, what you should ask yourself before embarking on a Kubernetes migration, and tips to keep in mind as you make the switch.
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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
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
Delegate Connect founders Jordan Walsh and Jacob Thomas. Delegate Connect is the latest virtual/hybrid events platform to land funding. The Melbourne-based startup announced today it has raised $10 million AUD (about $7.3 million USD) in seed funding led by AirTree Ventures, which wrote Delegate Connect the biggest seed check in the fund’s history so far.
The Accidental Successful CIO
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
Image Credit: Debra Roby. If you’ve been watching TV or reading a newspaper (online) lately, you’ve probably started to see all of the 5G wireless network ads that the major service providers have been running. It sure looks like when 5G arrives, the world is going to change. However, one of the big questions that CIOs need to find the answer to is just exactly how is it going to change.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
Customer communication platform Front is holding an event today to introduce three new features. These new features focus on showing you more information about your customers right from Front’s user interface. If you’re not familiar with Front, the company started as a shared email inbox product so that you can interact with incoming emails as a team.
Flexagon
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
Flexagon has released FlexDeploy 5.6.0.1 which includes enhanced platform features and plugins, and user experience improvements. This release includes ongoing investments to solve complex challenges with enterprise software platforms such as Salesforce and Oracle. In this blog, we’ll cover some release highlights. For more detailed information, be sure to check out the Release Notes for.
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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.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
Doccla , a health tech startup with a platform that can monitor patients on hospital wards and in the home, has secured a $3.3 million seed funding round, led by Giant Ventures and Speedinvest. The company allows hospitals to predict when beds will be freed up by monitoring patients remotely via wearable medical devices, thus helping to alleviate bottlenecks in the system.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
Nagaraj Nadendla. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Nagaraj Nadendla is SVP of development at Oracle Cloud HCM , where he leads the development of cloud recruitment solutions including Oracle Recruiting and Taleo. Social media has served as a launchpad to success almost as long as it has been around. The stories of going viral from a self-produced YouTube video and then securing a record deal established the mythology of social media platforms.
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