thoughtLEADERS, LLC

MARCH 15, 2021

Will Big Data and artificial intelligence ever make CEOs obsolete? Which human leadership traits, if any, are irreplaceable? Today’s post is by Gerald Sindell, partner of The Identity Dynamics Institute It seems like a ridiculous question to ask, somewhat like wondering whether cars really need drivers. Just imagine all the things a driver does every second in order to reach a specific destination: taking in vast amounts of inputs about current conditions of the vehicle’s motion, receiving thous

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

It is nearly impossible for businesses in some African countries to receive money from PayPal. While the payments giant has not given reasons why this is so, speculation hints at factors like insufficient regulation and poor banking security in said countries. . That might be a thing of the past for some businesses as African payments company Flutterwave today is announcing a collaboration with PayPal to allow PayPal customers globally to pay African merchants through its ‘Pay with PayPal&

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The Crazy Programmer

MARCH 15, 2021

Programming languages are constantly and rapidly evolving in the current world of technology. The year 2021 brings in new hope and changing trends in many industries across the world. The technical world is no exception to this trend. In this article, we will explore the top programming languages, their scope, market demand, and the expected average income when using these languages.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

Airtable , the no-code relational database that has amassed a customer base that spans 250,000 different organizations, has today announced the close of a $270 million in series E funding. The valuation comes out to $5.77 billion post-money, more than doubling its valuation from September, when it raised $185 million in Series D funding. This latest round was led by Greenoaks Capital, with participation from WndrCo, as well as existing investors Caffeinated Capital, CRV, and Thrive.

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Agile Alliance

MARCH 15, 2021

Over the past few years, diversity and inclusion have become increasingly important around the world. And the Agile Community is no exception. While there has been some focus on racial diversity, we can do more. Inspired by the Agile Alliance Growing Racial Equity initiative, passionate South African Agilists gathered around a common cause – … Continued.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 15, 2021

To Lead Highly Productive Teams: Keep Them Focused on What Matters Most If you want to increase productivity at work, maintain a relentless focus on what matters most in three areas. First, ensure your team understands their big strategic priorities. Next, give […]. The post Productivity at Work: How to Lead Highly Productive Teams appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

Well, it happened. Over the weekend, Stripe announced the closure of its widely reported new round of capital. The $600 million round values the payments and banking software company at $95 billion, near the top end of the valuation range at which the company was said to be raising funds back in November 2020. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

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Agile Alliance

MARCH 15, 2021

(This is Part 3 in a 5-part series.) In Part 1, we discussed how when we focus on lean thinking, we can accomplish more, reliably and consistently. In Part 2, we discussed these ideas: Local variation can enhance the work and create a learning organization. Consider how you use standups. Focus coaching on the environment … Continued. The post Looking at Systems to Enhance Outcomes first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

A new nanocoating from Curran Biotech could dramatically improve air filtration to prevent the spread of COVID-19 indoors. Their Capture Coating technology acts as a supplement to any household or commercial HVAC system by bonding to the filter fibers , giving them greater hydrophobic properties. This combined effect prevents virus-carrying droplets from traveling through the filter fibers, which, without the treatment, only prevent some viral transmission. “ ‘Capture Coating’ is des

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DevOps.com

MARCH 15, 2021

Many industries are struggling with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and the IT industry itself and the broader trend of transition to remote work over the last year revealed many areas where traditional approaches to managing businesses created unnecessary waste. Data science and its counterpart, machine learning, revealed that expansion in the ways technology can facilitate […].

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

Bangalore’s fintech startup ecosystem is inching closer to delivering a new unicorn: CRED. Two-year-old CRED is in advanced stages of talks to raise about $200 million at about $2 billion valuation, three sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. The new funding round, like this January’s Series C , will be largely financed by existing investors, the sources said, requesting anonymity as talks are private.

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David Walsh

MARCH 15, 2021

Git is an amazingly powerful tool. It can keep track of all the code you write, let you organize your work into different branches, help you seamlessly work with other developers, and even let you time travel and make changes. But wouldn’t it be awesome if Git could do more ? What if you could customize it with your own commands, making it do anything you can imagine?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

Sherpa , a startup from Bilbao, Spain that was an early mover in building a voice-based digital assistant and predictive search for Spanish-speaking audiences, has raised some more funding to double down on a newer focus for the startup: building out privacy-first AI services for enterprise customers. The company has closed $8.5 million, funding that Xabi Uribe-Etxebarria, Sherpa’s founder and CEO, said it will be using to continue building out a privacy-focused machine learning platform b

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The buzz around generative AI shows no sign of abating in the foreseeable future. Enterprise interest in the technology is high, and the market is expected to gain momentum as organizations move from prototypes to actual project deployments. Ultimately, the market will demand an extensive ecosystem, and tools will need to streamline data and model utilization and management across multiple environments.

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TechSoup

MARCH 15, 2021

Leah Lizarondo has always had an interest in applying technology to social good. A native of the Philippines with a background in technology, her commitment to helping others led to her to develop an app that harnesses the power of collective action to address food insecurity.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

Fondeadora , a fintech startup based in Mexico City and building a challenger bank, has extended its Series A funding round. I covered the company’s original round back in August 2020. And now, Fondeadora is adding $14 million on top of the original $14 million it had already raised — it now represents a $28 million funding round. Portag3 is investing in the extension.

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DevOps.com

MARCH 15, 2021

IBM today extended its effort to enable IT organizations that have mainframes to embrace DevOps best practices by updating the analytics tools it provides. Tom McPherson, vice president for IBM Z Software, said a version 6.0 update to the suite of IBM application discovery and delivery intelligence (ADDI) for IBM Z tools surfaces more granular […].

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

It’s a busy day in IPO-land: Olo has raised its IPO range and DigitalOcean is giving us a first look at what it may be worth when it debuts. That Olo raised its IPO price is not a huge surprise, given the software company’s rapid growth and profits. In the case of DigitalOcean, we have more work to do as its approach to growth is a bit different.

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Dzone - DevOps

MARCH 15, 2021

The global DevOps market is set to hit $9.4 billion by as early as 2023. Yet, 78% of the organizations have failed to get it right. Why? DevOps celebrated its 10-year anniversary in 2018. In the technology industry, that’s a lifetime! Despite its relative maturity, the DevOps philosophy continues to evade even the most prominent and resourceful organizations.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

DeepSee.ai , a startup that helps enterprises use AI to automate line-of-business problems, today announced that it has raised a $22.6 million Series A funding round led by led by ForgePoint Capital. Previous investors AllegisCyber Capital and Signal Peak Ventures also participated in this round, which brings the Salt Lake City-based company’s total funding to date to $30.7 million.

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Netlify

MARCH 15, 2021

Chances are, if you’ve used Next.js on Netlify, you’ve encountered either the next-on-netlify npm package, or the Next.js Build Plugin to enable some of its Node-driven features. Today, we’re happy to announce that the two have become one, to form the Essential Next.js Plugin ! With this plugin, you enable features like: Support for getServerSideProps and getStaticProps with fallbacks (via Netlify Functions ).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

UpCodes , a startup that develops building-code compliance tools, announced today it has raised $3.36 million in pre-Series A funding. This brings its total raised so far to $4.15 million. The new funding was led by Berlin-based Point Nine Capital, which focuses on SaaS and online marketplaces. The company also recently won a legal victory when United States District Court Judge Victor Marrero granted UpCodes its motion to dismiss a false advertising and unfair competition lawsuit filed against

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As technology transforms the global business landscape, companies need to examine and update their internal processes for innovation to keep pace. Ultimately, organizations will have to improve the velocity of innovation by creating repeatable processes that support ideation, exploration, and incubation, essential to capturing an idea’s full value.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

MARCH 15, 2021

The book Zombie Scrum Survival Guide by Christiaan Verwijs, Johannes Schartau, and Barry Overeem aims to support teams that are stuck in Zombie Scrum. It helps them to understand why things are the way they are and provide them with experiments to get out of this state of Zombie Scrum by enabling collaboration with stakeholders, working increments, autonomy for teams, and continuous improvement.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest private market news, talks about the coming week, digs into some recent funding rounds and mulls over a larger theme or narrative from the private markets.

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DevOps.com

MARCH 15, 2021

Investment fuels company’s leadership as the most advanced AI-powered Knowledge Process Automation platform “Executives need business outcomes, not science projects,” says CEO Shillingford March 15, 2021 (Salt Lake City) – DeepSee.ai, the leader in AI-powered Knowledge Process Automation, today announced it has closed $22.6 million in Series A funding led by ForgePoint Capital, with participation […].

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

Dominic Yap, chief operating officer and co-founder, and Ben Pfisterer, chief executive officer and co-founder of Zeller. Image Credits: Zeller. Zeller , a payment and financial services startup founded by former Square executives, quietly raised a $25 million AUD (about $19.4 million USD) Series A last year, it announced today. The funding was led by Addition, the investment firm founded by former Tiger Global partner Lee Fixel, and included participation from returning investors Square Peg and

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Dzone - DevOps

MARCH 15, 2021

WebDriverIO: Next-generation Automation Framework. WebDriverIO is an open-source next-generation automation framework, that allows us to automate modern web and mobile applications. It has an extended set of built-in and community plugins that help in designing robust, scalable tests and easily integrate with third-party applications including cloud services (BrowserStack, Applitools, Sauce Labs), Docker, Jenkins, Bamboo, GitHub, and many more.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

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The Daily WTF

MARCH 15, 2021

Sometimes, it really is the comment which makes the code. Sometimes, the comments make simple (but still more complex than it needs to be) code less clear. For example, Thomas provides this code, and comment, which… I understand what is happening here, despite the comment: ///. /// A class file for find the mid value. ///. public class a. { string [] s2 = null ; ///. /// mid function is to cut the some values from the text which we had given. ///. /// The offset number. /// Number of chars to re

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