KitelyTech
MAY 12, 2022
Artificial intelligence (AI) has reshaped a number of global industries over the past several years, mostly for the better. This is partially due to the pandemic-induced adoption of technology in most workplaces, allowing everyday people to see firsthand how AI can be leveraged for growth. But regardless of the reason, it is undeniable the way AI has propelled technology.
TechCrunch
MAY 12, 2022
Michael Broughton was the first in his family to go to college. But he almost didn’t, when he had trouble securing the necessary financing to pay his tuition. The experience stuck with him, and when he met Ayush Jain at the University of Southern California, the pair bonded over their belief that credit access should be free. They came up with the idea of helping people build credit through recurring payment forms such as digital subscriptions to Netflix, Spotify and Hulu.
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Xebia
MAY 12, 2022
Union of FinOps & GreenOps. How we do business and create value is evolving. There is an ever growing focus to make the technologies and practices involved sustainable in an effort for a positive impact overall. Governments, for example, are implementing policies and creating laws for a better and sustainable future. This already is acting as a catalyst in the adoption of sustainability practices.
TechCrunch
MAY 12, 2022
More consolidation is apace in the world of payments: Nexi , the Italian fintech that scooped up rivals Danish-based Nets and then Italy’s SIA to create a $12.5 billion European payments giant, has made another acquisition, this time to dig deeper into financial services for small and medium businesses in the region. It has fully acquired Orderbird , a startup out of Germany that provides point of sale products and related services for restaurants and other businesses in the hospitality in
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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.
DevOps.com
MAY 12, 2022
Progress this week extended its DevSecOps portfolio—built atop the Chef automation framework it acquired in 2020—to now include the ability to programmatically address compliance mandates. At the same time, Progress has updated the Progress Chef InSpec framework for automating the discovery of compliance issues to add support for SAP ASE, IBM DB2, Mongo, Cassandra, Oracle, […].
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Confluent
MAY 12, 2022
Internet connectivity is something we sometimes take for granted. For many, most places we visit, work, or reside have some form of connectivity whether it be cellular, Wi-Fi, fiber, etc. […].
TechCrunch
MAY 12, 2022
During the pandemic especially, it’s become overwhelming for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to answer all of their customer service requests. A Freshworks survey found that companies experienced a 71% increase in overall contact volume between February 2020 and January 2021, and expect it to increase further. At the same time, customers — while empathetic — have become more demanding.
Altexsoft
MAY 12, 2022
We live in the world of sounds: Pleasant and annoying, low and high, quiet and loud, they impact our mood and our decisions. Our brains are constantly processing sounds to give us important information about our environment. But acoustic signals can tell us even more if analyze them using modern technologies. Today, we have AI and machine learning to extract insights, inaudible to human beings, from speech, voices, snoring, music, industrial and traffic noise, and other types of acoustic signals
TechCrunch
MAY 12, 2022
Rachel B. Goodman. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Rachel B. Goodman is a partner at Foley & Lardner and is a member of the firm’s national telemedicine and digital health industry team. Nathaniel M. Lacktman. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Nathaniel M. Lacktman is a partner at Foley & Lardner and chair of the law firm’s national Telemedicine & Digital Health Industry Team.
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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.
DevOps.com
MAY 12, 2022
Nobl9 has released version 1.0 of an open specification for defining service level objectives, dubbed OpenSLO, and, in addition, has defined a repeatable SLO methodology. Kit Merker, Nobl9 COO, said the Service Level Objective Development Lifecycle (SLODC) methodology represents an effort to create a set of best practices for achieving and maintaining SLOs that are […].
TechCrunch
MAY 12, 2022
The customer experience is one of the most important focus areas for businesses. According to PwC, among all customers, 73% point to experience as an important factor in their purchasing decisions, behind price and product quality. But the pandemic increased the workload of support teams, making it more difficult to hire customer service agents and keep the attrition low while maintaining a high bar for customer experience.
Aqua Security
MAY 12, 2022
The rise in software supply chain attacks presents a profound challenge to the cornerstone of DevOps practices: the heavy use and reuse of open source software (OSS). Aqua Security extends visibility into risks across the software stack – and helps teams maintain a clear view into their software bills of materials (SBOMs) with the integration of our OSS container image vulnerability scanning findings with Sonatype’s Nexus IQ policy engine.
TechCrunch
MAY 12, 2022
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. Tackling touchpoints on your customer’s path to purchase. 5 growth marketing predictions for 2022. In 2021, more than $329.5 billion was invested in startups across all stages, per Crunchbase.
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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.
DevOps.com
MAY 12, 2022
The DevOps world is ripe for a storage paradigm change, both in how it operates within the enterprise and how it implements applications. NVMe, especially NVMe-over-fabrics (NVMeoF), is both a tool and a host target that can provide such a change—especially in the new world of microservices and containerization. NVMe can drastically improve application performance […].
TechCrunch
MAY 12, 2022
As wind energy gains ground in the U.S., SkySpecs is using drones and AI to detect future equipment failures before they grind those giant turbine blades to a halt. The company, which works with wind farms to monitor the health of turbine blades from above, has locked down a fresh $80 million Series D round led by Goldman Sachs to expand its “geographic footprint” and software tools. .
InnovationM
MAY 12, 2022
What is Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)? Step by step process of developing an application is known as SDLC. SDLC is a process used by the software industry to design, develop and test high-quality software. Purpose of SDLC It aims to produce quality software that meets customer expectations and reaches completion within time & budget. SDLC Phases Requirement collection Feasibility study.
TechCrunch
MAY 12, 2022
The first quarter was a hot time for crypto-focused startups. According to a recent dataset from CB Insights , crypto startups raised more capital than ever before in Q1 2022 and set records across a host of other metrics. If you closely watched the first-quarter venture capital cycle, this should not come as a surprise. As The Exchange noted, the crypto startup economy — blockchain technology upstarts, trading platforms, web3 more generally, etc. — was busy partying while the rest o
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The possibilities for embedded analytics to drive real value for businesses, end users, and society are as fascinating as they are limitless. No matter the industry, brand after brand is finding that analytics can be the solution to a multitude of business challenges. Go deep with five insightsoftware customers as they share the details of their analytics journeys and discuss the transformative power of data.
SecureWorks
MAY 12, 2022
COBALT MIRAGE Conducts Ransomware Operations in U.S. The Iranian threat group blurs the line between financially motivated attacks and espionage. Learn how the Iranian threat group blurs the line between financially motivated attacks and espionage.
TechCrunch
MAY 12, 2022
I’m an absolute sucker for a well-designed pitch deck, and as an animal lover, it’s hard not to immediately fall in love with that adorable dog on the cover slide. Call me ludicrously biased, but first impressions count, and so I picked this deck in part so I would have an excuse to look at totes adorbz animals for a few hours. Today’s pitch deck teardown is the deck tele-veterinarian company Dutch used to raise its $20 million Series A that Aisha reported on earlier this year.
DevOps.com
MAY 12, 2022
In this age of sweeping digital transformation and accelerated change, organizations are recognizing that depending solely upon the drawn-out process of waterfall methodology is no longer sustainable if they are to remain competitive and relevant. Enterprise infrastructure must incrementally embrace evolution from monolithic architectures in response to the escalating pace of technological innovation, ever-changing consumer […].
TechCrunch
MAY 12, 2022
African payments company Interswitch has secured a $110 million joint investment from LeapFrog Investments and Tana Africa Capital to scale its digital payment services across the continent , the two private investment firms said in a statement Wednesday. Interswitch didn’t confirm the amount it received from the firms. “The exact terms of the transaction haven’t been disclosed.
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As contact centers navigate the challenges of delivering excellence within budget constraints and adapting to evolving employee expectations, optimizing agent tasks becomes crucial. Discover a holistic approach across three pillars - people, process, and technology - that is essential to excel in this dynamic landscape, and explore how next-gen technologies such as generative AI, performance analytics, and process intelligence play a pivotal role in transforming contact centers into advanced CX
The Daily WTF
MAY 12, 2022
This week's edition of Err'd gets off to a flying start with one that came in "over the transom" as t'were. Ordinarily, expired certs are a bit mundane for this column, but in this case, where this foible fetched up is at least worth a chuckle. Jim M. wrote directly to the editor with this explanation. "If you're looking for compliance reports to prove that your cloud provider has solid security practices, be wary of this WTF with Azure.
TechCrunch
MAY 12, 2022
Bubbles , a startup that pitches its platform as the “anti-Zoom” for video messaging, today announced that it closed an $8.5 million funding round led by Khosla Ventures, Craft Ventures, Streamlined Ventures, 468 Ventures and Bain Capital. Co-founder and CEO Tom Medema said the money will be used to further develop Bubbles’ platform while ramping up the company’s customer acquisition efforts. .
thoughtLEADERS, LLC
MAY 12, 2022
Our reader poll today asks: How willing is your organization to put profits over people? Extremely: Profit comes first, no matter the cost 11.68% Very: Money is almost always the first consideration 33.95% Somewhat: We strike a good balance between people and profit 29.20% Not very: We value our people pretty highly 16.78% Not at all: People truly do come first in our organization 8.39% People first… barely.
TechCrunch
MAY 12, 2022
Most of the time no one has to think about how the mobile networks we all rely on work. But it won’t surprise many to hear that, as is often the case with infrastructure, some pieces are the latest tech and others haven’t changed in decades. Eridan is a well-funded startup aiming to replace one of the latter with fundamentally different hardware approach could make mobile networks an order of magnitude more efficient.
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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
Dell EMC
MAY 12, 2022
Businesses need to be "always on". The rise in cybercrime is forcing IT to look more closely at their infrastructure’s security and resiliency.
TechCrunch
MAY 12, 2022
If there’s one area that has thus far felt insulated from the global venture downturn, it’s infrastructure. Companies that offer banking as a service and help other businesses offer their own financial services and products in particular continue to rake in the dollars. The latest such company in Latin America is São Paulo-based Dock , which operates a full-stack payments and digital banking “platform” across the region, where demand for financial infrastructure that can help boost inclusion is
LaunchDarkly
MAY 12, 2022
In this post, I'll explore the innovations of Astro and how you can integrate LaunchDarkly within the application.
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