Dataiku
AUGUST 29, 2022
Many business analysts, when thinking about their career progression, ask themselves the question: Can I become a data scientist? Or perhaps more importantly: Should I become a data scientist? Upskilling into a citizen data scientist role or fulfilling the additional educational requirements to become a formally trained data scientist are certainly viable career options for a business analyst.
CIO
AUGUST 29, 2022
For the past forty years CIOs have labored to retrofit, rearchitect, and ultimately replace underfunded and underappreciated legacy infrastructures in hopes of delivering the full benefits associated with periodically occurring waves of transformative emerging technologies. Debate now rages in IT and digital communities regarding what will be the seismic technological shift of the 2020s.
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TechCrunch
AUGUST 29, 2022
Andrew Chan. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Andrew Chan is a senior associate at Builders VC , investing in early-stage companies that are transforming pen and paper industries. In the eternal words of Kanye Omari West: “Scoop-diddy-whoop, Whoop-di-scoop-di-poop, Poop-di-scoopty.”. Now that we have that out of the way, let’s get to the meat. Objectively speaking, and much to my chagrin, I’m a Gen Z.
CIO
AUGUST 29, 2022
Board directors like Jean Holley can be a CIO’s best friend or worst nightmare. A former CIO herself, Holley always reaches out to the CIO before board meetings to offer her advice on how to handle inevitable questions. “It’s amazing how many times they don’t take me up on it,” Holley says. These CIOs, especially those new to the role, often come off as overly techie, out of touch with the business, or worse, out of their depth in the position, she says.
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TechCrunch
AUGUST 29, 2022
Pakistani fintech PostEx has acquired logistics service provider Call Courier , creating what it describes as the largest e-commerce service provider in the country. PostEx will now serve 1.3 million users with over 8,000 merchants across 500 cities in Pakistan, and is on track to having a monthly loan book of more than $12 million. The acquisition means that Call Courier will become a wholly-owned subsidiary under the group name.
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TechCrunch
AUGUST 29, 2022
Millions around the world suffer strokes every year, and millions more are in recovery from one they’ve suffered. Regaining the use of affected limbs and capabilities is a long road, but one that can be shortened by intensive rehabilitation efforts — which Neurofenix has shown can take place in the home rather than during frequent trips to the hospital.
CIO
AUGUST 29, 2022
Becoming a sustainable enterprise is no longer a “nice to have” priority – reducing a company’s carbon footprint and fighting climate change is now mainstream. In fact, more than 3,200 companies have set science-based carbon targets , and thousands of companies from around the world are pledging to reach net-zero emissions by either 2040 or 2050. While CIOs and CTOs play critical roles in a company’s digital transformation efforts , only about half of them are part of their organization’s sustai
TechCrunch
AUGUST 29, 2022
The provision of virtual foreign bank accounts has become a common strategy for fintechs to enable Nigerians and Africans to facilitate international transfers. In the latest development, Grey , a fintech in this category that provides virtual international bank accounts to African freelancers and remote workers, is announcing that it has raised $2 million in seed funding.
Let's Grow Leaders
AUGUST 29, 2022
Better Recognition Starts With More Strategic Contribution. You care about your team and the work they’re doing. They’re working hard. And if they’re like so many teams we work with, they yearn for better recognition. They want to know their work matters and that you (and your boss) appreciate all they do. So how do you help your team’s performance stand out?
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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
AUGUST 29, 2022
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Good morning, you crunchy ol’ pirates. Good to see you again, and hope you had a swell weekend. On Wednesday, we’re hosting a healthcare-focused TechCrunch Live. It’ll be fun! Tune in here , and if you want to be part of the 2-minute pitch practice , Haje will be on the lookout for your applications.
David Walsh
AUGUST 29, 2022
Despite having worked on the very complex Firefox for a number of years, I’ll always love plain old console.log debugging. Logging can provide an audit trail as events happen and text you can share with others. Did you know that chrome provides monitorEvents and monitor so that you can get a log each time an event occurs or function is called?
TechCrunch
AUGUST 29, 2022
In 2015, the emergence of fintechs such as Flutterwave and Paystack changed the game for online businesses in Africa by making it easier to integrate payments into customer interfaces without building those features from the ground up or merging with tacky foreign software. Amplify was another payment platform that launched during that period. However, it differentiated itself by committing to payments on social media platforms, which Nigerian digital bank Carbon was interested in when it acquir
Dzone - DevOps
AUGUST 29, 2022
In this episode of the Future of Observability video series, Chronosphere co-founder and CEO Martin Mao shares his insights with Technical Writer Chris Ward about the importance of central observability teams across an organization. Chris: What is a central observability team, and why might companies need one?
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TechCrunch
AUGUST 29, 2022
Tahem Verma. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Tahem Verma is the co-founder and CEO of Mesha , a smart management tool for web3 startups and DAOs. The crypto bear market shows no signs of letting up, and it has already taken its pound of flesh from more than a few emerging web3 and crypto projects, not counting the ones it has killed altogether. With no clear indication of a meaningful rebound on the horizon just yet, web3 companies that have managed to make it this far need to prioritize not only
DevOps.com
AUGUST 29, 2022
DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted as part of an effort to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers. Of course, the pool of available DevOps talent […].
TechCrunch
AUGUST 29, 2022
For a brief moment earlier in the ongoing pandemic, it appeared that there was a solution for the backlog of richly priced startups that needed to provide their backers with liquidity: SPACs. SPACs, or special purpose acquisition companies, are paper companies taken public with capital attached that then combine with a private entity, effectively bootstrapping startups onto the public markets.
DevOps.com
AUGUST 29, 2022
Enterprise networks are vast, intricate systems with multiple methods for storing configuration and state information. The configurations of those networks are also constantly changing as new applications, services or other updates are added. When you consider the complexity and dynamic nature of an enterprise network, it may be alarming to learn how much data–including most […].
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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
AUGUST 29, 2022
Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This week Alex was back with Grace and our new producer Theresa Loconsolo to kick off the week. This Monday morning we recorded right before Garry Tan announced that he was heading back to Y Combinator as its President.
Toptal
AUGUST 29, 2022
This tutorial explores the mathematical concepts behind two key programming paradigms, functional programming and reactive programming, so you can build long-lasting Android architecture.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 29, 2022
The past few months have hit the startup community where it hurts — the balance sheet. With inflation rates at record highs, a recession on the horizon and threats of a long winter by venture capital giants like SoftBank , VC money is becoming harder to come by. So where does that leave startups relying on that cash to reach their next levels of operations?
Teradata
AUGUST 29, 2022
Teradata's new offerings, VantageCloud Lake and ClearScape Analytics, make it the complete cloud analytics & data platform, with cloud-native deployment and expanded analytics capabilities.
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As a SaaS leader, you know that the more metrics, insights, and analytics you add to your products, the more engagement you’ll have – and the stickier your product will become with customers. At what point do you decide to keep building your analytics in-house or invest in an embedded analytics solution? Read our Build vs. Buy Analytics guide to learn: Top 4 benefits of embedded analytics A quick cost comparison of in-house analytics development vs embedded analytics 10 considerations to help yo
TechCrunch
AUGUST 29, 2022
African genomics startup 54gene has laid off 95 employees, or about 30% of its LinkedIn-sourced 290+ employees. A company’s spokesperson confirmed the news after several sources informed TechCrunch of the layoffs last week. Founded in 2019 by Dr. Abasi Ene-Obong, the three-year-old startup seeks to address the gap in the global genomics market where less than 3% of genetic material used in pharmaceutical research is African.
CloudZero
AUGUST 29, 2022
When you’re operating in the cloud, making the right decisions is not always easy because there’s a lot of ground to cover, especially with regard to cost. The elastic nature of cloud infrastructure means your costs could quickly spiral out of control if you don’t have guardrails in place to help keep costs down.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 29, 2022
Fresh regulations are often met with skepticism from startup founders, but digital lenders in Kenya largely seem to be upbeat about the new Digital Credit Providers law, saying it will bring order to the sector. The chairman of the Digital Lenders Association of Kenya, Kevin Mutiso , sounded optimistic about the impending new regulatory environment, saying that it had already fostered investor confidence and will bolster growth in the sector.
TechBeacon
AUGUST 29, 2022
As customers moved online during the pandemic, company help lines started seeing a massive surge in support requests. This brought call centers to a standstill as it turned seemingly normal tasks—paying a bill, ordering a carryout meal—into complex processes that might take hours. The biggest problem was, of course, the lack of human operators to handle calls.
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Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 29, 2022
Initialized Capital founder Garry Tan will become president and CEO of Y Combinator next year, the two organizations announced today. Tan will be taking over the role from Geoff Ralston, who has been with YC since 2011. Ralston did not say what’s next for him, only writing: “I am leaving YC, but I’m not actually the retiring type and am looking forward to some to-be-discovered adventures.
Coding Dojo
AUGUST 29, 2022
Pre-Dojo : Worked in the higher education industry as an Assistant Director of Operations. Wanted a a safe and constant. … Read more >>. The post From Education to Engineering | How Amanda Torres Risked It All For a New Start appeared first on Coding Dojo.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 29, 2022
Initialized Capital was venture capitalist Garry Tan’s answer to a need first highlighted by Y Combinator. As a partner at the accelerator from 2010 to 2015, Tan spent time working with companies to better understand what they needed from investors after they graduated. “I literally built the seed fund that I wanted to exist for those companies,” he said in an interview over Zoom with TechCrunch.
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