O'Reilly Media - Ideas
JANUARY 25, 2021
In this report, we look at the data generated by the O’Reilly online learning platform to discern trends in the technology industry—trends technology leaders need to follow. But what are “trends”? All too often, trends degenerate into horse races over languages and platforms. Look at all the angst heating up social media when TIOBE or RedMonk releases their reports on language rankings.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 25, 2021
Pula , a Kenyan insurtech startup that specialises in digital and agricultural insurance to derisk millions of smallholder farmers across Africa, has closed a Series A investment of $6 million. The round was led by Pan-African early-stage venture capital firm, TLcom Capital , with participation from nonprofit Women’s World Banking. The raise comes after Pula closed $1 million in seed investment from Rocher Participations with support from Accion Venture Lab, Omidyar Network and several angel i
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CTOvision
JANUARY 25, 2021
Robotic process automation was already experiencing strong growth in 2019. By the middle of 2020, the pandemic had accelerated the automation mandate, pushing adoption up 27%. And the trend is not […].
TechCrunch
JANUARY 25, 2021
Jake Jolis. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Jake Jolis is a partner at Matrix Partners and invests in seed and Series A technology companies including marketplaces and software. More posts by this contributor. 4-year founder vesting is dead. 2019 saw a stampede of fintech unicorns. Dana Stalder. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Dana Stalder is a partner at Matrix Partners, where he invests predominantly in fintech, consumer marketplaces and enterprise software.
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CTOvision
JANUARY 25, 2021
When you think about Kubernetes, clusters of CPU and memory resources all scaling to meet the demands of container workloads probably springs to mind. But where does GPU acceleration fit […].
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Let's Grow Leaders
JANUARY 25, 2021
Psychological safety pioneer, Dr. Amy Edmonson discusses the difference between psychological safety and courage at work, and why both are so critical in our teams right now. An excerpt from her foreword of Courageous Cultures: How to Build Teams of Micro-Innovators, Problem Solvers, […]. The post Psychological Safety or More Courage? What Your Team Needs Now. appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 25, 2021
This morning, investor and SPAC raconteur Chamath Palihapitiya announced two new blank-check deals involving Latch and Sunlight Financial. Latch, an enterprise SaaS company that makes keyless-entry systems, has raised $152 million in private capital, according to Crunchbase. Sunlight Financial, which offers point-of-sale financing for residential solar systems, has raised north of $700 million in venture capital, private equity and debt.
TechBeacon
JANUARY 25, 2021
An experienced security solutions architect, Vandana Verma Sehgal is president of Infosec Girls, an initiative that assists women in their cybersecurity careers.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 25, 2021
Yac , the Orlando, Florida-based startup that’s digitizing voice messages for remote offices, has raised $7.5 million in a new round of funding. The company’s service has garnered enough attention to pick up a pretty sizable new round from investors led by GGV Capital and a return investment from the Slack Fund. Apparently, reinventing voicemail is a multi-million-dollar endeavor.
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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.
DevOps.com
JANUARY 25, 2021
From an organizational perspective, an analytics workload is a way to gain a data-driven business advantage. Analytics workloads can serve a primary objective that translates to an actionable business impact (such as analyzing A/B testing results, understanding user retention or finding anomalies in a flow, for instance) or can serve in a supporting role for […].
TechCrunch
JANUARY 25, 2021
French startup Alma is raising a $59.4 million Series B funding round (€49 million). The company has been building a new payment option for expensive good. You can choose to pay over three or four installments. This product sounds familiar if you’ve used Klarna in the past. But Klarna isn’t available in France. Cathay Innovation, Idinvest, Bpifrance’s Large Venture fund, Seaya Ventures and Picus Capital are participating in today’s funding round.
David Walsh
JANUARY 25, 2021
An enjoyable web apps rely on engineers implementing the APIs that cover all of the small things. Those small things sometimes improve performance, usability, accessibility, and the app’s relationship with its host system. The Wake Lock API is the latter — an API that allows developers to instruct the host machine to not dim the screen or sleep, especially useful when users view videos.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 25, 2021
Taboola is the latest company seeking to go public via special purpose acquisition corporation — more commonly known as a SPAC. To achieve this, it will merge with ION Acquisition Corp, which went public in 2020 with the aim of funding an Israeli tech acquisition ( Haaretz reported last month that Taboola was in talks with ION). The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter, and the combined company will trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol TBLA.
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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.
DevOps.com
JANUARY 25, 2021
Twenty years ago, no one in IT could have predicted the monumental role that cloud computing would play in our everyday lives. To play off the words of Back to the Future‘s Doc Brown: “On-premises? Where we’re going, we don’t need on-premises.” As technology continues to evolve, though, security teams face greater challenges. Infrastructure is […].
TechCrunch
JANUARY 25, 2021
The line between social networking and gaming is increasingly blurring , and internet incumbents are taking notice. NetEase, the second-largest gaming company in China (behind Tencent), is among a group of investors who just backed IMVU, an avatar-focused social network operating out of California. Menlo Park-based Structural Capital among other institutions that also joined in the strategic round totaling $35 million.
CTOvision
JANUARY 25, 2021
In a year of historic challenges, 2020 saw firmware and hardware issues become one of the most active areas of enterprise security. APT and ransomware threat actors targeted enterprise VPNs […].
TechCrunch
JANUARY 25, 2021
A startup called BlackCart is tackling one of the key challenges with online shopping: an inability to try on or test out the merchandise before making a purchase. That company, which has now closed on $8.8 million in Series A funding, has built a try-before-you-buy platform that integrates with e-commerce storefronts, allowing customers to ship items to their home for free and only pay if they choose to keep the item after a “try on” period has lapsed.
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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.
CTOvision
JANUARY 25, 2021
Read Dominik Mohilo profile Dr. Denise Gosnell, Chief Data Officer, at DataStax on JAX Enter : A research study by The National Center for Women & Information Technology showed that […].
TechCrunch
JANUARY 25, 2021
Virgin Orbit isn’t slowing down after joining the exclusive club of small launch companies that have made it to orbit – the company just announced that it’s flying a payload on behalf of customer the Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNAF). This is the first ever satellite being put up by the Dutch Ministry of Defense, and it’s a small satellite that will act as a test platform for a number of different communications experiments.
CEO Insider
JANUARY 25, 2021
Business leaders everywhere can no longer afford to ignore what their employees are saying on social media. Here’s why. There’s just too much valuable information shared by your people that impacts your organization’s climate. Face it; your employees look to social media how my father turned to the newspaper back in the 1990s. Whether or […]. License and Republishing: The views expressed in this article Why Leaders Can No Longer Ignore Their Employees’ Social Media Content. are those
TechCrunch
JANUARY 25, 2021
This week, Latch becomes the latest company to join the SPAC parade. Founded in 2014, the New York-based company came out of stealth two years later, launching a smart lock system. Though, like many companies primarily known for hardware solutions, Latch says it’s more, offering a connected security software platform for owners of apartment buildings.
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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.
Dzone - DevOps
JANUARY 25, 2021
Are you are wondering what Jib is, actually? You should probably read my previous article before going ahead. In short, Jib is an excellent tool for Java developers who are interested in containerizing Java applications, but not so interested in creating and maintaining Dockerfile or installing Docker. A Java developer can add a plugin to Maven or Gradle, and that's it.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 25, 2021
Sano Genetics , a startup with a broad mission to support personalised medicine research by increasing participation in clinical trials, has raised £2.5 million in seed funding. The round is led by Episode1 Ventures, alongside Seedcamp, Cambridge Enterprise, January Ventures, and several Europe and U S.-based angel investors. It adds to £500,000 in pre-seed funding in 2018.
DevOps.com
JANUARY 25, 2021
Driven by machine learning, Lucidum provides complete visibility of all critical assets and context of how and why they are used for IT teams to take corrective action SAN JOSE, Calif. — January 25, 2021 – Lucidum today announced the commercial availability of its IT asset discovery platform that eliminates blind spots across cloud, security and IT […].
TechCrunch
JANUARY 25, 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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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
JANUARY 25, 2021
The role of DevOps is constantly evolving as new technologies and trends keep emerging and reshaping the business. It is critical for DevOps engineers to continuously learn about the latest tools, best practices and technology, and be able to adapt to change. There are many ways for DevOps teams to refine their skills in order […]. The post TechStrong TV: How to Build and Refine Your DevOps Skills with OpsCompass appeared first on DevOps.com.
Gitprime
JANUARY 25, 2021
Technology experts discuss COVID-19’s lingering impact on the way we work, the biggest issues and opportunities the technology industry needs to address, and which technologies you should be investing time in right now.
Kaseya
JANUARY 25, 2021
Monitoring of Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) devices, such as routers, switches and printers, allows system administrators to quickly detect and remediate potential issues before they can cause major damage to an organization’s productivity. In this blog, we’ll take a look at what SNMP monitoring is and why it is an essential part of overall network monitoring and management.
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