TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

There are far fewer annoying things than managing one’s passwords. There are a bunch of companies out there to help you attempt to do that. And there’s also a number of companies that want to go a step further and eliminate the password completely. One such company, Stytch , just raised $30 million in a Series A round of funding as it launches out of beta with its API-first passwordless authentication platform.

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Agile Alliance

JULY 14, 2021

As we put the finishing touches on Agile2021, let’s take a moment to acknowledge the contributions of the people and organizations who help to make this event so special. The post Agile2021: With a Little Help from Our Friends first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

Venture capital price discipline is out the window ; venture funds are looking to make faster, earlier deals; and more unicorns were minted in the last three months than during any quarter in history. It’s a busy time for startups and their financial backers. Now weeks into July, it’s increasingly clear that 2021 is shaping up to be a record-setter for venture capital investment.

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CTOvision

JULY 14, 2021

Read Mike Robuck explain how IBM and Palantir Technolgies, Inc’s low code AI data processing will help small and medium businesses on Fierce Telecom : IBM and Palantir have teamed up on a new enterprise offering designed to simplify how businesses build and deploy AI-based applications. The partnership merges AI, via IBM Watson, operational technology, data […].

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

Arcc, a coworking space in Singapore available for bookings on Deskimo. Part of Y Combinator’s current batch, Deskimo wants to make finding coworking spaces easier. Its on-demand booking app is currently available in Singapore and Hong Kong, with plans to enter more markets after Demo Day. Its founders are former Rocket Internet executives who say that their main competition aren’t spaces like WeWork or other hot desk booking apps.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

Easy Eat AI , a Singapore-based startup that wants to “transform restaurants into technology companies,” announced today it has raised $5 million in funding. Easy Eat AI offers an operating system for restaurants that lets them digitize all parts of their business, from inventory and customer orders to delivery, and gain AI-based data analytics to improve revenue.

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CTOvision

JULY 14, 2021

Read Edward Segal explain how the latest computer chips shortage shows exactly how the supply chains are still at risk on Forbes : The semiconductor chip crisis that hit companies around the world shows no signs of ending any time soon and will continue to impact the supply chains for many industries. Indeed, some organizations […].

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

As concerts and live events return to the physical world stateside, many in the tech industry have wondered whether some of the pandemic-era opportunities around virtualizing these events are lost for the time being. San Francisco-based FlyMachine is aiming to seek out the holy grail of the digital music industry, finding a way to capture some of the magic of live concerts and performances in a live-streamed setting.

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CTOvision

JULY 14, 2021

Gamifying cybersecurity is the key to preventing attacks, according to new reports from Balbix. Cybersecurity incidents have increased exponentially in recent months, with Cybersecurity Ventures predicting cybercrime damages will total $6 trillion globally in 2021 – about $190,000 every second. Read more about the new report by Balbix, Inc. which reveals that gamifying cybersecurity to mitigate […].

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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.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

When it comes to tough environments to build new technology, firefighting has to be among the most difficult. Smoke and heat can quickly damage hardware, and interference from fires will disrupt most forms of wireless communications, rendering software all but useless. From a technology perspective, not all that much has really changed today when it comes to how people respond to blazes.

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CTOvision

JULY 14, 2021

Joe Lonsdale, founding partner at 8VC and co-founder of Palantir Technologies Inc (NYSE:PLTR), provided insight on mega-cap stocks and cryptocurrency Thursday on CNBC’s “TechCheck.” Mega-Cap Regulations: Although there are a lot of people complaining about mega-cap technology companies like Apple Inc, Alphabet Inc, and Facebook Inc, it doesn’t look like anything will be done to negatively […].

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

Today a new software company from two former Nutanix executives called DevRev emerged from stealth with a $50 million seed round from Mayfield Fund, Khosla Ventures and several industry luminaries. The company, which aims to bring the coding and revenue processes closer together, already has 75 employees working on the new software platform, which they hope to have ready to launch later this year.

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CTOvision

JULY 14, 2021

Read Tyler Logtenberg explain how companies can improve their supply chain security through threat intelligence from surface, deep and dark web on Security Intelligence : It would be comforting if the only cyber-risks organizations had to worry about were the ones that smacked up against their firewall and endpoint security solutions. But in the interconnected […].

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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

JULY 14, 2021

After operating in beta for a year, Nooks, a virtual workspace space targeting distributed teams, has attracted thousands of users and millions of dollars in venture capital. The Stanford student-led upstart has raised a $5 million seed round led by Tola Capital, with participation from Floodgate and investors such as Julia and Kevin Hartz (CEO and chairman of Eventbrite, respectively) and Julia Lipton, the founder of Awesome People Ventures.

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Agile Alliance

JULY 14, 2021

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

Meet Gourmey , a new French startup that recently raised a $10 million founding round in equity and debt. The startup is working on meat grown in laboratories from animal cells. In particular, the company is focusing on poultry and aims to convince chefs that they should use the company’s products in their restaurants. “We’ve been raising animals for 20,000 years,” co-founder and CEO Nicolas Morin-Forest told me.

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TechBeacon

JULY 14, 2021

Being a developer comes with many benefits. Often, there's the opportunity for continued on-the-job learning, a high salary, and the ability to work remotely means developers can live wherever the cost of living gives them the biggest bang for the buck. But programming isn't all fun and games.

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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

JULY 14, 2021

Unybrands is the latest e-commerce aggregator to pick up a significant investment, this time closing $300 million in growth capital from Crayhill Capital Management. The Miami-based company, which created a platform for e-commerce businesses looking to scale their operations on and off Amazon, was founded in 2020. It previously raised a $25 million seed round in February.

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JULY 14, 2021

Data is the lifeblood of so much of what we build as software professionals, so it’s unsurprising that operations involving its transfer occupy the vast majority of developer time across […].

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

First created to give supply chain merchants a streamlined way to communicate with buyers, Tinvio is now preparing to launch financial services, including financing and credit card issuing. The Singapore-based startup announced today it has raised a $12 million Series A to build out its B2B transactions platform. The round was led by AppWorks Ventures, with participation from strategic investor MUFG Innovation Partners (MUIP), a venture capital firm for collaborations between startups and Mitsub

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DevOps.com

JULY 14, 2021

This blog series explains how to engineer applications for DevOps. Topics covered in this blog series: • Factors to decide whether an application is a good candidate for DevOps. • Practices to engineer designs for DevOps. • DevOps applied to enterprise apps and software services. • DevOps applied to COTS systems. • DevOps applied to […]. The post Engineering Applications for DevOps (Part 5) appeared first on DevOps.com.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

Proper , an automated accounting and bookkeeping service for property managers, announced Wednesday it raised $9 million in Series A funding in a round led by QED. Existing investors MetaProp, Expa and Bling Capital also participated in the round, which gives the San Francisco-based proptech company a total amount raised of $13.8 million. The company brought in $4.8 million of seed funding last August.

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DevOps.com

JULY 14, 2021

Successful infrastructure monitoring enables IT teams to ensure constant uptime and performance of their company’s systems. Technologies like machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) benefit infrastructure monitoring by more quickly collecting and analyzing data from all of the hardware and software components that comprise the IT stack.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

Anyone , an audio app that’s building a ‘marketplace for advice’ one five-minute phone call at a time, is launching new versions of its iOS and Android apps today* and beginning to large-scale onboarding after operating in a limited closed beta for the past six months. The app — which was founded around 18 months ago (so pre-pandemic) — has a simple premise: Advice is best delivered verbally, concisely and one-to-one, in a time-limited format.

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CTOvision

JULY 14, 2021

RiskIQ, a leader in internet security intelligence, today released its annual “Evil Internet Minute” security intelligence report. The report taps RiskIQ’s proprietary global intelligence and third-party research to analyze the volume of malicious activity on the internet, revealing that cybercrime now costs organizations a whopping $1,797,945 per minute.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

French startup Wecasa has raised a $17.7 million funding round (€15 million). Blisce is leading the funding round with existing investors Serena, ISAI and Frédéric Mazzella also participating. The company has been building a marketplace for home care and wellness. Over the past few years, Wecasa has kept adding new verticals. The startup originally specialized in hairdressing at home.

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CEO Insider

JULY 14, 2021

According to an Ernst & Young survey ‘The power of many’, 90 per cent of companies agree that their organisations’ problems are so complex that they need teams to tackle them. And the amount of time spent collaborating in teams across organisations has increased by around 50 per cent in 20 years according to the […]. The post Why leadership today has to be a collective pursuit appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

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