TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

The Latin America startup ecosystem is having a great year, with mega-rounds being announced at breakneck speed and new unicorns minted almost monthly. This is mostly due to the clearly maturing startup scene in the region, with proven successes such as Nubank, Cornershop, Gympass and Loggi helping to bolster LatAm’s credibility. Interestingly, many of the region’s rounds are led by or saw participation from investors based elsewhere.

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Aqua Security

AUGUST 24, 2021

A key element in building secure containerized applications is to ensure that the base image that you use is well-maintained and secure. A common piece of advice is to use the Docker Official Images for this purpose. However, our research reveals that you need to be careful when using these images, as some are no longer fully maintained.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Less than five months after raising $115 million, spend management startup Ramp announced today it has raised $300 million in a Series C round of funding that values the company at $3.9 billion. That’s more than double the $1.6 billion that New York-based Ramp was valued at in April at the time of its Series B. Founders Fund led the latest round, which brings the fintech’s total equity and debt raised to date to over $625 million since its March 2019 inception.

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TechBeacon

AUGUST 24, 2021

A dramatic increase in remote work, expanded use of the cloud, and a continuing shortage of security professionals continue to challenge companies as the world begins to emerge from the coronavirus pandemic.

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Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Crop steering turns growing carrots or cannabis from an art into a science. Indoor growers have long turned to this practice to improve yields, which involves precisely controlling and manipulating three variables: light, climate and irrigation. If tweaked properly, growers can force taller plants, larger flowers and quicker grow times. Today Trym is announcing it’s adding crop steering analytics to its seed-to-sale software product.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Imagine typing out a series of steps in plain English that would reflect a list of actions a human QA tester would undertake to test an app, then turning that list into an automated testing script. That’s exactly what testRigor , a member of the Y Combinator Summer 2021 cohort, has done. Today the early-stage startup announced a $4.1 million seed round.

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CEO Insider

AUGUST 24, 2021

As a leader, when is it important to speak up? When should you listen? Some of the biggest problems people create for themselves involve speaking versus listening, (i.e. speaking when you shouldn’t, and not speaking when you should). Ironically, you can get into as much trouble by what you don’t say as opposed to what […]. The post Leadership Lessons: Knowing When to Listen Versus When to Speak appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

With the promise of an interconnected virtual world coming into focus and user-crafted gaming content exploding, Infinite Canvas is looking to apply to the metaverse lessons learned in the esports boom. “Metaverse” is the hot buzzword right now, but it’s not an empty term. Ten different people would probably define the metaverse in 10 different ways, but it’s generally used as shorthand for the web of emerging virtual spaces full of personalized avatars, games and digital goods that

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Dataiku

AUGUST 24, 2021

Not everyone has the same level of technical expertise, and it can be easy to get intimidated by the processes and seemingly never-ending nuances of data science. Getting bogged down on necessary but tedious tasks — or complex ones in which you don’t have expertise — can consume valuable time.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Developing new packaged foods and consumer goods can take a couple years as companies research, prototype and test products. In a society that runs on social media, however, people expect to see trends land on store shelves much more quickly. Founded in 2018, Ai Palette uses machine learning to help companies spot trends in real time and get them retail-ready, often within a few months.

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DevOps.com

AUGUST 24, 2021

So many language/framework options, so little testing time, that is. Recently, two projects I was working on drove me to check out a breadth of languages and/or frameworks to handle cross-platform development. While Unity and Unreal have traditionally been my game platforms of choice and I typically use Xamarin for cross-platform (though native development is […].

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

“In order to become a better writer, read your written words out loud.”. That’s one of the first, and best, writing tips I ever received. I always found the advice ironic because it required me to change the medium of my writing to become a better writer. Still, all these years later, it’s true: vocalizing your words helps identify typos and incomplete thoughts, but also notice more subtle things like awkward turns of phrases or a weird rhythm in your sentence structure.

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Arista

AUGUST 24, 2021

In the past decade, the emergence of cloud networks has blurred the line between switching and routing versus traditional routers. Today the industry is at an inflection point, where the adoption of cloud principles for routing intersects the rapidly expanding capabilities of the merchant silicon feature set and scale, creating a disruption of legacy routing architectures.

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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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Earlier today, spend management startup Ramp said it has raised a $300 million Series C that valued it at $3.9 billion. It also said it was acquiring Buyer, a “negotiation-as-a-service” platform that it believes will help customers save money on purchases and SaaS products. The round and deal were announced just a week after competitor Brex shared news of its own acquisition — the $50 million purchase of Israeli fintech startup Weav.

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Confluent

AUGUST 24, 2021

Sometimes you’d like to write your own code for producing data to an Apache Kafka® topic and connecting to a Kafka cluster programmatically. Confluent provides client libraries for several different […].

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

The global startup community is currently enjoying a period of fundraising success that may be unprecedented in the history of technology and venture capital. While this is happening around the world, few startup hubs in the world are reveling in a greater boost to their ability to attract capital than Boston. The well-known U.S. city is a traditional venture capital hub, but one that seemed to fall behind its domestic rivals Silicon Valley and New York City in recent years.

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Dzone - DevOps

AUGUST 24, 2021

Every developer has been there before: You release a new feature expecting a smooth ride, only to have something go awry in the back end at the last minute. An event like this can derail a launch, letting down customers and leaving you scratching your head wondering what went wrong.

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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.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Ken Babcock and his co-founders, Dan Giovacchini and Brian Shultz, were in the midst of Harvard Business School in March 2020 when they felt the call to start Tango , a Chrome extension that auto-captures workflow best practices so that teams can learn from their top performers. “This window of opportunity was driven by the pandemic as we saw a lot of companies become distributed and go remote,” CEO Babcock told TechCrunch.

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Coding Dojo

AUGUST 24, 2021

Pre-Dojo : Worked as an airplane mechanic for a local flight school. Was furloughed due to COVID-19 and decided to. … Read more >>. The post From Mechanic to Mobile Developer | How Silicon Valley Alumni Timothy Foltz Turned His Furlough Into A Future-Proof Career appeared first on Coding Dojo Blog.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Linktree, the popular “link in bio” service with more than 16 million users, is partnering with PayPal to expand its recently launched “Commerce Links” tools for direct payment on Linktree globally. The Melbourne-based startup says creators in over 200 countries where PayPal operates can now accept payments through the transaction tools. Launched in March, Commerce Links allow users to take payments directly on their Linktree profile without opening a new browser or tab.

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Radixweb

AUGUST 24, 2021

React.JS is one of the developer’s choice frameworks for robust frontend development. But what makes it stand out, and why is it preferred over its predecessors? Here’s a lucid explanation of all that you need to know about React JS Development.

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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.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Cora , a Brazilian digital lender to small-and-medium-sized businesses, has raised $116 million in a Series B round led by Greenoaks Capital. This is a large Series B by any standards, but particularly so for a Latin American startup. It’s also notable that São Paulo-based Cora only raised its $26.7 million Series A round — led by Silicon Valley VC firm Ribbit Capital — in early April.

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Dell EMC

AUGUST 24, 2021

With an agile infrastructure, faster time to deployment, substantially lower CAPEX, and ease of use that drives down OPEX, SWISS TXT will be able to help its customers navigate their digital transformation.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Greenfly’s latest funding round has a new face: Phoenix Suns point guard Chris Paul joined as a strategic investor and partner in the company, which developed digital media flow management software. Paul’s investment is part of an $8.4 million strategic growth round that also includes Verance Capital, Higher Ground Labs, DD Venture Capital, SW19 Ventures, LinkinFirm and Allievo Capital, as well as existing investors Go4it Capital, Elysian Park Ventures, Alpha Edison and Iconica Partners.

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Palo Alto Networks

AUGUST 24, 2021

The realities of today’s hybrid workforce introduce new remote access challenges for organizations. With the ubiquity of the cloud, data accessed and stored outside corporate offices, as well as users located everywhere, organizations are increasingly moving to a secure access service edge (SASE) model to connect and secure users to the applications, data and services they need.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Aileen Lee is one of the most prestigious and successful venture capitalists of the past decade. Before starting her own firm in Cowboy Ventures, Lee was a partner at KPCB for more than 12 years. Her portfolio includes DocSend, Ironclad, Philz Coffee, StyleSeat and many, many more. So it should come as no surprise that we’re absolutely thrilled to have Lee join us alongside one of her portfolio company founders, Guild Education’s Rachel Carlson, on an upcoming episode of Extra Crunch

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Cloudera

AUGUST 24, 2021

Meet Barnabas Maidics. . Barnabas is a 3 year Clouderan working as a Software Engineer in Hungary. . Having started his journey at Cloudera as an intern and then making his way to the Data In Motion team, Barnabas feels his first experience in the real world of work has allowed him to grow, not only professionally but on a personal level as well. He’s always known this was the career path for him.

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Flexagon

AUGUST 24, 2021

Ascend 2021 was a big hit, combining OATUG and OHUG in an event which included both in-person and virtual attendees. Many customers, sponsors, and exhibitors have been eager to engage after the pandemic eliminated the in-person element of conferences for the better part of the last two years. Although Flexagon decided to forgo the on-site. The post Ascend 2021 Highlights from Flexagon appeared first on Flexagon.

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