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NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Maxim Kharchenko. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Maxim Kharchenko is the director of fintech products at Rakuten Viber and is an expert in product leadership in the financial technology sector. Data is a company’s most powerful asset. Yet, many businesses cannibalize this valuable asset by selling it to third parties when they should be using it to make their businesses stronger and more sustainable.

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Agile Alliance

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

"I thought social justice, the idea of social justice is such a funny idea because it’s this need to seek out justice only because injustice have been socially acceptable until recently.". The post Angela (Yazzie) Marquez – Diné Education and Social Justice first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

What is a startup? It’s a question so picked over at this point that it feels like the only answer is it depends. That’s fair. In the past, we might have said that once a private-market company earns a $1 billion valuation, it is no longer a startup. But with venture capitalists and crossover investors turning an ever-increasing number of less mature startups into unicorns, that demarcation line has lost its rigidity.

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The Crazy Programmer

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

PHP is known as Hypertext Preprocessor. It is an open-source, server-side scripting language embedded in HTML used to manage databases, development of web applications, session tracking, build e-commerce sites, etc. It is kind of a programming language that is used for writing automated tasks. Many databases such as PostgresSQL, Oracle, Informix, MySQL can be integrated with PHP.

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Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

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

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Travel and tourism are slowly starting to move again in the wake of COVID-19 crashing over the world and sending us to shelter in place. Today a company focused on experiences — museum visits, skydiving, local cooking classes and more — is announcing a round of growth funding on the back of seeing its own business bounce back. Peek , which provides a marketplace for consumers to discover and book experiences, a platform for businesses to book team building and other internal events a

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

As more of the world shifts to doing everything from their smartphones, the ability to build better iOS and Android apps has to move with it. Bitrise aims to be the go-to company closing the gap between that mobile demand and a company’s ability to get apps out faster while also balancing all of the moving parts and complexities. Today, mobile DevOps company Bitrise announced it secured $60 million in Series C funding, led by Insight Partners, with participation from existing investors Partech,

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Agile Alliance

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

"I have been motivated to focus on black representation in thought leadership specifically in the Agile community.". The post Nicole Spence-Goon: Finding Reflective Mentorship and Sponsorship first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Last year, fintech API infrastructure players came into the African tech scene, ushering in Plaid-like services to businesses and developers. And the attention on these companies, particularly from venture capitalists, spiralled into this year, with each significant player raising large seed to Series A rounds. OnePipe , a fintech API company with a different play from the lot, joins the list today, raising $3.5 million seed to double down on its embedded finance offering.

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Agile Alliance

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Learntor is built on the premise of a quote that I love so much. “True greatness is not in being great, but in the ability to make others great.” That’s what drives me. The post Mercy George-Igbafe: LEARNTOR Founder, Maximize Black Opportunities first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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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

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Robert Falck used to work at a Russian trucking factory by day, and by night, he built a nightclub guest list startup. He also collects old books, and once guessed that Chinese author Gao Xingjian would win the Nobel Prize in literature. He grew up on a farm, but has degrees in finance, economics and mechanical engineering. No, this isn’t a game of two truths and a lie — indeed, these are snippets from the life of a serial entrepreneur who harbors a vendetta against the carbon emissions pr

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TechBeacon

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Many teams have moved their software delivery pipelines to some form of continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD). Some are moving to a fully automated delivery process, while others are still considering and planning for the switch.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Less than six months after raising a $157 million Series D round, AI-powered transcription and captioning platform Verbit announced today it has closed $250 million in a Series E round that values the company at $2 billion. The latest funding brings its total raised to more than $550 million. . The new capital was led by Third Point Ventures , with participation from existing investors Sapphire Ventures, More Capital, Disruptive AI, Vertex Growth, 40North, Samsung Next and TCP. .

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DevOps.com

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

WhiteSource has added a software bill of materials (SBOM) tool to its portfolio that, in addition to capturing the components of an application, also surfaces vulnerabilities that should be addressed. Many organizations are becoming more rigorous about making sure SBOM are attached to every software development initiative in the wake of an executive order issued […].

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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

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Kenya’s economy is powered by informal businesses, which contribute 33.8% to the country’s GDP and provide 83.4% of the total employment outside of small-scale agriculture, data from the country’s bureau of statistics shows. The contribution of these enterprises is pivotal to the country’s economy yet they remain underserved by traditional banking institutions making it hard for them to access the financing needed to grow.

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Dzone - DevOps

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Software testing is a vast field, however, it may be divided into two categories: automation testing and manual testing. Both automatic and manual tests have drawbacks and benefits. Testing is an important part of any successful software development project. The type of test (automated or manual) is determined by a number of factors, including the budget, project needs, suitability, expertise, and deadline.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

U.S. consumers now have the choice to use Klarna’s “Pay Now” service to pay immediately and in full at any online retailer where Klarna is available. This adds to the global retail bank, payments and shopping giant’s stateside offerings, where Klarna has doubled its customer base to more than 21 million customers. In addition to Pay Now, Klarna will be introducing its Klarna Card to U.S. customers, which will enable them to make interest-free payments in four installments using a physical card f

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DevOps.com

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

ServiceNow today revealed it has acquired DotWalk to gain an artificial intelligence (AI)-infused application testing capability that runs natively on its software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform. Joe Davis, senior vice president for platform engineering at ServiceNow, said that testing capability will be made available free of charge to all organizations that build custom applications on the company’s […].

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Kyle Poyar. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Kyle Poyar is a partner at OpenView. More posts by this contributor. Freemium isn’t a trend — it’s the future of SaaS. How to overcome the challenges of switching to usage-based pricing. It’s not just your imagination — usage-based pricing (UBP) is seemingly everywhere in 2021. SaaS companies have been ditching traditional subscription pricing in favor of usage-based models that better align with modern buying behavior and the value delivered by t

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DevOps.com

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Some time toward the end of the year, I start considering the volume of change we, as practitioners, have been under for … literally years, even decades. And I start to try and think of ways to keep you all from drowning in change. And then I write something that I hope helps you all […]. The post Some Change is Bad appeared first on DevOps.com.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Despite Apple and Facebook investing billions into a “metaverse” future, in recent years there’s been a distinct drop-off in venture deals for startups focused on finding opportunities in augmented reality. Many VCs who have been burned by investments in large-scale efforts like Magic Leap now see the near-term spoils of augmented reality tech as opportunities largely left for big tech companies, but smaller startups are still finding inroads that appeal to investors.

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Dzone - DevOps

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Why automate IT infrastructure? Actually, automating is not the best solution only for IT infrastructure, but for many things in software development. And why? Manual processes are slow, highly vulnerable to human failure, not scalable, hard to create, update and keep a standard, etc. I could cite many other reasons for anyone to run away from any manual processes.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Only a few months ago, Vercel , the company behind the popular Next.js framework for front-end developers, announced a $102 million Series B funding round that took its valuation to $1.1 billion. Today, it’s announcing a $150 million Series C round that puts its valuation at $2.5 billion. The round, which brings Vercel’s total funding to $131 million, was led by GGV Capital, with participation from existing investors Accel, Bedrock Capital, CRV, Geodesic Capital, Greenoaks Capital, G

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Dzone - DevOps

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

CI/CD is the cornerstone of DevOps. Continuous integration/continuous development (or deployment) brings value to software production by introducing automation and monitoring throughout the development lifecycle. The CI/CD pipeline defines a series of steps software engineers take to work on smaller chunks of code, increasing overall productivity and efficiency.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

If you’ve ever visited the site of the six-year-old, London-based direct-to-consumer clothing company Vollebak , you’ve likely marveled at the exaggerated descriptions of clothing it sells, including a jacket “designed for a world of megastorms, where ‘waterproof’ is not enough,” a hoodie that promises to repel rain, wind, snow and fire; and and an “ice age” fleece “designed to recreate the feeling and performance of the soft hides worn by pr

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Tenable

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Scammers are leveraging compromised YouTube accounts to promote fake cryptocurrency giveaways for Bitcoin, Ethereum, Dogecoin, Cardano, Ripple, Shiba Inu and other cryptocurrencies. For the last few years, scammers have been hijacking legitimate YouTube accounts in order to promote fake cryptocurrency giveaways through the popular video service platform.

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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.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

U.K.-based digital therapy company ieso announced a $53 million Series B round on Tuesday. The round is the funding the company needs to move in a brand new direction: creating more intuitive autonomous text therapy. . In other words, AI trained on thousands of hours of real-life therapy that can provide personalized sessions, over chat. . Ieso has been around for about 10 years, and has been running a text-only therapy service (with human therapists on one end) through the U.K.’s National Healt

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CEO Insider

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Business, like life, is a story of yin and yang. This tale has two dominate players, who are interdependent in the raising of capital needed to get a start-up started. Firstly is, quite obviously, the entrepreneur. By definition, a “person who sets up a business or businesses, taking on financial risks in the hope of […]. The post What you need to know about raising capital for a new business appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Mobiz , a South African startup integrating hyper-personalization into mobile marketing, has raised a pre-Series A round of $ 4 million from HAVAÍC, Futuregrowth, Launch Africa, Allan Gray E-Squared Ventures, CapaciTech and Endeavor’s Harvest Fund. The investment comes as the startup is ramping up efforts to expand into the U.S. and double down on marketing, sales and account management.

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