TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

News that Salesforce is interested in buying Slack , the popular workplace chat company, sent shares of the smaller firm sharply higher today. Slack shares are up just under 25% at the moment, according to Yahoo Finance data. Slack is worth $36.95 per share as of the time of writing, valuing it at around $20.8 billion. The well-known former unicorn has been worth as little as $15.10 per share inside the last year and worth as much as $40.07.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

We’re excited to share this special Thanksgiving edition of Asking For a Friend. Karin interviews Dan Rockwell, Leadership Freak, about how to be grateful– even during difficult times. In this episode, we unpack some of Dan’s recent and inspirational writing on gratitude, […]. The post On Being Grateful: An Asking For a Friend Interview with Dan Rockwell appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Unacademy, an online learning platform in India, has added two more marquee investors to its cap table. The Bangalore-based startup, which focuses on K-12 online education, said on Wednesday it has raised new funds from Tiger Global Management and Dragoneer Investment Group. The funding round, which is between $75 million to $100 million in size (according to a person familiar with the matter; Unacademy has not disclosed the figure), valued the four-and-a-half-year-old startup at $2 billion, up

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Henrik Warne

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

This fall I took the course Mathematical Modelling of Football from Uppsala University. It was taught by Professor David Sumpter , and I believe this is the first academic course of its kind. The main subjects covered are modelling and analysis of events (on the ball actions), movement and pitch control (tracking data), player evaluation, and match result simulations.

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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 25, 2020

In the wake of insurtech unicorn Root’s IPO, it felt safe to say that the big transactions for the insurance technology startup space were done for the year. After all, 2020 had been a big one for the broad category, with insurtech marketplaces raising lots, rental insurance startup Lemonade going public , Root itself debuting even more recently on the back of its automotive insurance business, a big round to help Hippo keep building its homeowners company and more.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

When you launch an application in the public cloud, you usually put everything on one provider, but what if you could choose the components based on cost and technology and have your database one place and your storage another? That’s what Cast.ai says that it can provide, and today it announced a healthy $7.7 million seed round from TA Ventures, DNX, Florida Funders and other unnamed angels to keep building on that idea.

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TechBeacon

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

It’s one of the fastest-growing industries in the world, with the need for talent so extreme that it faces a forecast global workforce deficit exceeding 4 million. Cybersecurity affects nearly every aspect of our day-to-day lives, from how we shop and pay bills to the devices we use at our jobs, in our homes, and in our cars. As consumers in this intricately connected world, we’re trusting that the companies we do business with are protecting our personal information.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Just a few months after launching margin trading on Coinbase Pro, the company is disabling the feature. Margin trading lets you trade on leverage. But it works both ways — margin trading lets you multiply your gains and your losses. Starting on November 25, 2pm PT, users won’t be able to place new margin trades. Existing margin positions will expire over the coming days and weeks.

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TechBeacon

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Two research reports remind us this week that the consumer device market is a cesspool of insecure plastic garbage. These are the devices in your users’ home networks—the same users who are working from home and connecting back into your organization.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Robots are no longer the high-tech tools reserved for university labs, e-commerce giants and buzzy Silicon Valley startups. The local grocer now has access too. Tortoise, the one-year-old Silicon Valley startup known for its remote repositioning electric scooters, has taken its tech and adapted it to delivery carts. The company recently partnered with online grocery platform Self Point to provide neighborhood stores and specialty brand shops with electric carts that — with help from remote teleo

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CEO Insider

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Today we are rushing into a new world where the money is becoming digital and a society that could go cashless. Sometimes other developments spur our ideas about money, but there are key moments when innovation in money drives broader changes–and we’re experiencing one of those moments today. But what is money and why does […]. License and Republishing: The views expressed in this article The History of Money in 10 Illustrations By Harry Harrison are those of the author Harry H

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Jason Green has a pretty solid reputation as venture capitalists go. The enterprise-focused firm he co-founded 17 years ago, Emergence Capital , has backed Saleforce, Box and Zoom, among many other companies, and even while every firm is now investing in software-as-a-service startups, his remains a go-to for many top founders selling business products and services.

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DevOps.com

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Redgate’s Code Club for kids ended up teaching their parents to love coding again Like lots of people in IT and other office-based jobs, I’ve been working from home since the pandemic started to hit in March 2020. In some ways it’s been hard because I’m the technical lead on a software engineering team, and […]. The post What Children Can Teach Us About Coding appeared first on DevOps.com.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

With COVID-19 making commuters switch to bikes, and cities wanting cleaner air, the e-bike revolution is only just getting started. Further evidence of this is the news that today British e-bike manufacturer FuroSystems has closed its first institutional venture funding round of £750,000 with participation by TSP Ventures and European impact investment bank ClearlySo , as well as a number of angel investors.

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Synopsys

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Watch the latest video in our AppSec Decoded series to learn why manufacturers should consider building security into their IoT devices. The post AppSec Decoded: The consequences of insecure IoT devices appeared first on Software Integrity Blog.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Sure, we’re heading into a holiday weekend here in America, but that doesn’t mean that the good ship TechCrunch is going to slow down. We’re diving right back in next week with another installment in season two of Extra Crunch Live , our regular interview series with startup founders, venture capitalists, and other leaders from the technology community.

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Toptal

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Git provides basic branching operations, but advanced patterns are left up to the user. The popular "Git flow" branching model helps, but can also complicate some common procedures. Thankfully, a new variation retains the benefits, while streamlining everyday work.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

WeGift , the London-based startup that has built an “incentive marketing” platform that lets businesses easily issue e-gift cards and other digital rewards to customers, has raised $8 million in new funding. Dubbed a Series A extension, the round is led by AlbionVC. Existing investors including Stride.vc, SAP.iO fund and Unilever Ventures also followed on.

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UruIT

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

This post will provide a step-by-step guide on churn prediction using Machine Learning. In this tutorial we share how to do churn prediction using Machine Learning. You’ll will be able to create a predictive model that will help your team to predict and identify customer turnover. Source: [link]. Customer attrition, turnover, defection, or churn, is the loss of clients or customers.

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Dataiku

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Total spending on AI-related drug discovery and development tools is expected to hit $1.3 billion in 2022, according to Boston Consulting Group. These are massive numbers and, while true that research and discovery are a key part of the life sciences and pharmaceuticals value chain, data science, machine learning, and AI can play a valuable role across its entirety.

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Confluent

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

As part of this year’s Kafka Summit, the Confluent Community team hosted a community hackathon named Kafkathon 2020. The event provided an opportunity for participants to learn, build, and showcase […].

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Dzone - DevOps

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

A DevOps toolchain is a set of digital tools used to perform complex software delivery tasks. The tools in the toolchain are usually executed one after the other, with one tool’s output being the input for the next tool. This is why standardization of these tools is really important. Above all, DevOps toolchains should improve collaboration between developers, automate any necessary tasks, and enable more quality software.

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Daffodil Software

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Keeping employees happy and engaged is a challenge that every HR goes through. And for all the right reasons. Happy employees equate to employee loyalty and productivity. The more engaged your employees are the better they can contribute to your company’s growth.

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Scott Berkun

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

They say the web is decaying all the time and it’s true. When sites redesign they break hundreds or thousands of previously working links. I discovered this fun interview from 2008 by Sara Peyton at O’Reilly Media had disappeared. I recovered it thanks to the Web archive and reposted it here. It’s based on the Proust questionnaire , a parlor game by the eponymous author.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The book Reinventing the Organization provides a framework of principles of practices that can help companies to deliver greater value in fast-moving markets. The authors explored some of today’s nimblest and fastest-growing large companies, looking at what goes on inside these companies and what's outside: networks, partners, and the marketplace they want to dominate.

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Daffodil Software

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Every organization needs an effective Human Resource Management Software (HRMS) to function optimally. What happens when you don’t have one? Or when you are using software that doesn’t meet the demands of your organization? Higher costs, mismanagement of daily tasks, and struggling HR executives.

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The Daily WTF

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

It's Thanksgiving Day in the US. Yesterday, we looked at a classic "encryption" story, and today, we should all be thankful that we don't have to support this encryption code. Original -- Remy. Richard's company builds, hosts, and maintains a variety of small- and mid-sized web-based applications for their clients. Recently, one of their clients asked Richard to help audit a fraudulent transaction, which meant that Richard needed to dig through the code to see how to decrypt

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Exadel

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Thanks to our extensive expertise developing AI solutions , we recently launched a public version of CompreFace, a free face recognition service that can be easily integrated into any IT system without prior Machine Learning (ML) skills. This post will take a closer look at the solution and its features, which benefit both businesses and developers.

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