TechCrunch
OCTOBER 4, 2022
For the average individual living in Lagos — Nigeria’s most populous city, with over 20 million people — apartment hunting is an extreme sport. Not only is rent expensive — low- to middle-income housing can cost between $1,000 and $5,000 yearly — but renters must also pay a year in advance, sometimes even two before moving in.
CIO
OCTOBER 4, 2022
By Bryan Kirschner, Vice President, Strategy at DataStax. From delightful consumer experiences to attacking fuel costs and carbon emissions in the global supply chain, real-time data and machine learning (ML) work together to power apps that change industries. New research co-authored by Marco Iansiti, the co-founder of the Digital Initiative at Harvard Business School, sheds further light on how a data platform with robust real-time capabilities contribute to delivering competitive, ML-driven e
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TechCrunch
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Rhys Spence. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Rhys Spence is head of research at Brighteye Ventures, a European edtech-focused fund. More posts by this contributor. Despite creaky markets, European edtech is showing its resilience. European, North American edtech startups see funding triple in 2021. Carla Napoleão. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Carla Napoleão is an edtech analyst at Dealroom, where she is responsible for producing custom research related to edtech and global startup ecosystems.
CIO
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Parting may be a sweet sorrow, but it can be inevitable when a CIO detects a tell-tale sign that a quick and clean employment departure represents the best course of action. Most CIOs at one time or another have found themselves working at an enterprise that has seriously altered course, lost its focus, neglected competitiveness, or changed in some other significantly detrimental way.
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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.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Euler Motors, an Indian startup that designs and builds commercial electric vehicles, has raised $60 million in a new funding round as it works to ramp up its production capacity and broaden its offerings. Singapore’s sovereign fund GIC led the New Delhi-headquartered startup’s Series C funding. Blume Ventures, Athera Venture Partners, QRG, ADB Ventures and Moglix also participated in the funding, which values Euler Motors at $200 million.
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TechCrunch
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Highnote launched to the public today, allowing musicians, podcasters, and other creators to collaborate on audio files by recording voice notes directly over a track, making timestamped reactions, and creating polls to get opinions. Highnote also announced its pre-seed funding round of $1.7 million. The new platform aims to be a space for musicians, podcasters and their collaborators to listen to audio files and have conversations all in one place.
CIO
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Par les temps qui courent, il fait bon être un professionnel des TI à la recherche d’un emploi au Québec. Pour les entreprises en quête de talents, c’est une tout autre histoire. Fin 2021, le comité sectoriel TECHNOCompétences recensait quelque 13 000 postes disponibles en TI. Dont environ 4 000 attendaient « des gens qui n’existent pas », dit Stéphanie Carle Tavera, directrice générale de l’organisme.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 4, 2022
It might be a little early to say ‘look out Cloudflare!’ especially given it’s $20B valuation, but a Slovenian startup thinks the web security giant has missed a trick in the market, as developers become more ignored in favor of large corporate clients. Bunny.net has now raised a $6 million funding round led by Runa Capital and Capital Genetics to prove that if companies relying on only one provider is a mistake.
CIO
OCTOBER 4, 2022
The end of the Great Resignation — the latest buzzword referring to a record number of people quitting their jobs since the pandemic — seems to be nowhere in sight. “New employee expectations, and the availability of hybrid arrangements, will continue to fuel the rise in attrition. An individual organization with a turnover rate of 20% before the pandemic could face a turnover rate as high as 24% in 2022 and the years to come,” says Piers Hudson, senior director in the Gartner HR practice.
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IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 4, 2022
The combination of rapid data growth and expanding data regulations like GDPR and CCPA is putting a lot of pressure on companies to figure out just what they have and provide the necessary controls that the evolving body of law requires. Enter Securiti , a startup launched in 2019, originally with the idea of focusing on one aspect of data control, data privacy.
DevOps.com
OCTOBER 4, 2022
A lesson I have learned over my 30 years in the tech world is that technology and frameworks never truly die—they evolve and they grow. When I read a recent article proclaiming, “DevOps is dead!” and that we should all be embracing platform engineering, I had a chuckle. No, DevOps isn’t dead, and rumors of […]. The post Is DevOps Dead?
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Google is spinning up a new, online-only startup accelerator centered around the elusive circular economy. The effort is Google’s latest to help environmentally focused startups grow while potentially hooking them on its cloud products in the process. In the broadest of strokes, the circular economy represents a colossal shift in how humanity makes and uses stuff.
TechBeacon
OCTOBER 4, 2022
In the last several years, organizations have been forced to evolve their IT solutions at breakneck speed. Regardless of industry, IT developments such as cloud migration, digital platform enhancement, and data-management tools have become necessities—not options. A McKinsey report from early in the pandemic stated that consumer and business digital adoption "vaulted five years forward. in a matter of around eight weeks.".
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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.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Duolingo has acquired its first startup, an animation studio that has created art for the language learning app and for Amazon, Dropbox, Spotify and Google. The startup, Gunner, is a Detroit-based business moving from just being a partner with Duolingo to a full-fledged part of the growing language learning business. Duolingo declined to reveal the terms of the deal including the purchase price; but considering the fact that the company went public last year, we’ll likely have the price of the d
Synopsys
OCTOBER 4, 2022
The Code Sight security plugin, available for IntelliJ, makes IDE-based AppSec testing attainable without breaking established development workflows. The post IDE-based application security for developers in IntelliJ appeared first on Application Security Blog.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 4, 2022
It is typical for consumers to purchase more food items than they need and then throw them away because they either forgot about it or the food expired. It is estimated that 1.3 billion tons of food items are wasted yearly, an approximate $1 trillion loss. Recelery , a pantry tracker app and online marketplace, aims to reduce food waste with an array of features.
DevOps.com
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Organizations that embrace multi-cloud services experience real results and a heap of advantages—including greater resiliency, agility and data sovereignty. This is why it’s no surprise the majority of enterprises today are using two or more public clouds, with 81% reporting in a recent survey that they plan to adopt a multi-cloud strategy by 2024. But […].
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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
OCTOBER 4, 2022
As the enterprise device supply chain grows increasingly global and fragmented, it’s becoming more challenging for organizations to secure their hardware and software from suppliers. According to the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity, the EU agency that contributes to the bloc’s cyber policy, 66% of cyberattacks focused on a supplier’s code as of 2021.
DevOps.com
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Dynatrace today announced it has added a data lakehouse, dubbed Grail, to the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform to make it simpler to aggregate all the observability data an IT team collects. Bob Wambach, vice president of product marketing for Dynatrace, said Grail will initially drive analytics of log data but in time will also be […].
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Silly season is out in venture capital land. Today investors and founders alike will bore your ears off with notes about incremental cash flow positivity and their timeline to adjusted EBITDA profitability. Lame. Despite the general boringness of today’s venture capital landscape, replete with conservative valuations, falling deal sizes, and clucking investors sitting atop a mountain of capital, we learned today that at least some folks are having fun.
DevOps.com
OCTOBER 4, 2022
EvolveWare today announced it has added an Agile Business Rules Extraction capability to its Intellisys application modernization platform. EvolveWare CEO Miten Marfatia said the Agile Business Rules Extraction capability eliminates the need to freeze code development while applications are either being shifted to the cloud or refactored. Instead, the Intellisys platform will now keep track […].
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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
OCTOBER 4, 2022
We’re less than a month away from TechCrunch Disrupt on October 18–20 in San Francisco! Imagine a drumroll, folks, because we’re about to announce the last tranche of investors and thought leaders who will choose which outstanding startup takes the title of Startup Battlefield champion, along with the $100,000 prize and serious bragging rights. Improve your pitch: Startup Battlefield isn’t just thrilling to watch; it’s a masterclass in how investors think.
Dzone - DevOps
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Organizations have been attempting to measure software development productivity for decades. Too often, attention has concentrated on easily-quantifiable metrics like person-hours, lines of code committed, function points, or features added per sprint. Sadly, none of these have proven adequate at predicting team productivity. It’s such a complex problem that some have declared it impossible to solve.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 4, 2022
The collective creativity, ingenuity and technical prowess of the Startup Battlefield 200 presented by Capital Connect by JP Morgan is nothing short of amazing. Out of thousands of applications, only 200 early-stage startups made the final cut, and you’ll find all of them — and only them — exhibiting on the TechCrunch Disrupt show floor on October 18–20 in San Francisco.
Confluent
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Confluent’s new Stream Designer is the industry’s first visual interface for rapidly building, testing, and deploying streaming data pipelines natively on Apache Kafka.
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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
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Ridgeline is a new VC firm that invests in B2B companies with a specific goal in mind: helping its portfolio companies sell to complex organizations that are hard to crack, but can be great customers if you break into them. The Memphis, Tennessee-based firm was started in 2020 by Ben Walker, Ryan Clinton and Andrew McMahon — three individuals who each know a thing or two about complicated entities that need better tech solutions from their time working in government orgs.
Dzone - DevOps
OCTOBER 4, 2022
I’m guilty of applying the word " debugging " to practically anything. My kids' Legos won’t fit, let’s debug that. Observability is one of the few disciplines that actually warrant that moniker: it is debugging. But traditional debugging doesn’t really fit with observability practices. I usually call it “precognitive debugging." We need to have a rough idea in advance of what our debugging process will look like for effective observability troubleshooting.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Some purchases provide near-instant time to value (TTV), like buying an umbrella on a rainy day or hiring a glazier to replace a broken window. Cybersecurity startups, however, often experience long TTV, as enterprise customers often require several sales calls and a bespoke onboarding process. To boost adoption and reduce churn, VC Ross Haleliuk shares four steps PLG cybersecurity companies can take to drive growth and reduce churn , along with multiple tactics that will help teams get started.
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