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Sharepoint Search Tips and Tricks

Invid Group

Sharepoint Search Tips And Tricks We all Know that learning SharePoint takes practice and continual use to understand the entire platform. For this reason, I do recommend implementing these essential SharePoint search tips and tricks to help you build functional skills. 1. Is the content indexed? Not necessarily your recently uploaded content in SharePoint is indexed.

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Nigerian fintech of the unbanked Bankly raises $2M led by Vault and Flutterwave

TechCrunch

Nigeria remains a largely cash-dominated country. There are over 100 million adult Nigerians, of which more than half have little or no access to financial services. . Today, Bankly , a Nigerian fintech startup digitizing cash for the unbanked, announced that it has closed a $2 million seed round. Founded by Tomilola Adejana and Fredrick Adams in 2018, Bankly is digitizing the informal thrift collections system known with different names such as esusu or ajo in Nigeria.

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Why a Low-Code Platform Should Have Pro-Code Capabilities

DevOps.com

If you want to build a house, you could get a lot done yourself. You could sketch out a simple design, start assembling materials, maybe even nail down some floorboards and install drywall. But to make it truly functional, and to respond to all the unknown fixes — big and small — that would surely […]. The post Why a Low-Code Platform Should Have Pro-Code Capabilities appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Plaid accelerator announces inaugural cohort of fintech startups

TechCrunch

Plaid, the fintech giant, has announced the inaugural cohort of startups in its new accelerator program, FinRise. The equity-free and capital-free program has chosen five early-stage fintech startups out of 100 applications to join its cohort, working on issues central to the financial services industry such as simplifying payments and access to credit.

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Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

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

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How to Mitigate Low-Code Security Risks

DevOps.com

Gartner predicts that by the end of 2025, over 65% of development projects will usee low-code builders. The field of low-code continues to expand. But what security implications does low-code introduce? Low-code refers to tools that enable application construction using visual programming models. Adopting drag-and-drop components instead of traditional code, no-code and low-code platforms enables […].

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Anduril hires Pentagon vet Zachary Mears as head of strategy

CTOvision

Anduril Industries has brought in Zachary Mears, a former senior Pentagon staffer, as head of strategy, the company is expected to announce Tuesday. Mears had been running Covington & Burling’s public […].

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Equity crowdfunding is making the private markets public

TechCrunch

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. For this week’s deep dive, the Equity team brought on Gumroad CEO Sahil Lavingia and Hustle Fund General Partner Elizabeth Yin to talk about equity crowdfunding. It’s been about a week since the SEC increased the equity crowdfunding cap from $1.07 million to $5 million, creating the perfect opportunity to go beyond the dollar amount and understand how the change impac

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6 IT Ops challenges that could threaten your digital transformation

TechBeacon

Getting everyone on the same page when it comes to using event correlation and monitoring tools is no easy task, especially in large organizations. Different teams tend to purchase their own tools and use them in their own silos—and spend money needlessly, instead of centralizing IT Ops.

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Australian lidar maker Baraja collects $31M B round to illuminate the future of autonomy

TechCrunch

Lidar companies across the planet are going SPAC , but Baraja isn’t in a hurry to go public. The Australian lidar maker has raised a $31M B round to continue the deployment and development of its “unique and ingenious” imaging system, with participation beyond the usual VC suspects. Baraja’s lidar uses what the company calls SpectrumScan, letting physics do the hard work of directing the light.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

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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Work-Life Balance and Integration: What Matters Most?

Let's Grow Leaders

Practical Techniques For Work-Life Balance and Integration In this week’s Asking For a Friend Live, I speak with Monica Hammond, VP Business Government Operations at Verizon, Leslie Eubanks, Senior Vice President at Kforce, and Tabana Jabeen, Senior Vice President at Ibex. We […]. The post Work-Life Balance and Integration: What Matters Most?

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The best logos of Y Combinator’s W21 batch

TechCrunch

Our picks for the most intriguing companies of Y Combinator’s latest batch were based entirely on substance and our endless expertise, so it’s time for something much more superficial. Here are the 11 best logos from the hundreds of companies that presented yesterday. Watching companies go by 60 seconds at a time for like eight hours was pretty mind-numbing, even when a lot of them were cool, but I always perked up when I saw something with a nice logo.

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10 application security trends that matter

TechBeacon

Application security is racing to keep pace with an application development environment fueled by DevOps. The result has been DevSecOps, where security processes are shifted further and further left, toward the beginning of the software development lifecycle.

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Motosumo scores $6M to spin up a challenge to Peloton

TechCrunch

Denmark-based Motosumo has scored a $6 million Series A raise led by London’s Magenta Partners, alongside existing investors. The new funding will go on doubling its network of spin class instructors across Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, expanding its tech team and upping its marketing. The 2015-founded fit-tech startup has developed a system for measuring cycling cadence without additional sensors — users need only affix their existing smartphone or tablet to a stationar

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Top 5 Challenges in Designing a Data Warehouse for Multi-Tenant Analytics

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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Aerospike Cloud Puts Enterprises in Control of Their Digital Transformation Strategy

CTOvision

Aerospike Inc., the global leader in next-generation, real-time NoSQL data solutions, today announced the release of the Aerospike Kubernetes Operator and advancements in Aerospike Cloud Managed Service to help enterprises […].

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Hong Kong-based viAct raises $2M for its automated construction monitoring platform

TechCrunch

Hong Kong-based viAct helps construction sites perform around-the-clock monitoring with an AI-based cloud platform that combines computer vision, edge devices and a mobile app. The startup announced today it has raised a $2 million seed round, co-led by SOSV and Vectr Ventures. The funding included participation from Alibaba Hong Kong Entrepreneurs Fund, Artesian Ventures and ParticleX.

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The Insider’s Guide To Evangelizing Good Design

Scott Berkun

The concept of evangelism is flawed. It’s the word we often use, but it’s a bad model. No one likes to be on the receiving end of evangelism. The self-righteousness inherent in deciding ahead of time to convert other people to your views without knowing anything about them has a dubious history and is often self-defeating. The first lesson is to use a wiser approach.

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Crypto wallet and exchange company Blockchain.com raises $300 million at $5.2 billion valuation

TechCrunch

As Coinbase is about to go public in the U.S., another cryptocurrency company is having a blockbuster first quarter of 2021. Blockchain.com , the company behind a popular cryptocurrency wallet, an exchange, a block explorer and more, has raised a $300 million Series C round. If you’ve been paying attention, you may remember that I wrote about Blockchain.com last month.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

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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ServiceNow Acquires Intellibot to Gain RPA Capabilities

DevOps.com

ServiceNow’s acquisition of Intellibot, a provider of a robotic process automation (RPA) platform, this week is part of a larger effort to automate the development of applications that are driving digital business transformation within enterprise IT environments. Earlier this month, ServiceNow unfurled a set of revamped low-code tools that both professional and so-called citizen developers […].

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UI-licious gets $1.5M led by Monk’s Hill Ventures to simplify automated UI testing for web apps

TechCrunch

UI-licious’ co-founders, chief technology officer Eugene Cheah (left) and chief executive officer Shi Ling Tai (right). UI-licious , a Singapore-based startup that simplifies automated user interface testing for web applications, announced today it has raised $1.5 million in pre-Series A funding. The round was led by Monk’s Hill Ventures and will be used to grow UI-licious’ product development and marketing teams.

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CloudBolt Unleashes New Rainmaker Channel Partner Program

DevOps.com

Revenue-boosting program taps into joint marketing initiatives, market development funds, sales performance incentive funds and other incentives for partners to grow their pipeline and create new revenue streams NORTH BETHESDA, MD, March 23, 2021 — CloudBolt Software, the enterprise cloud management leader, is rolling out its new Rainmaker channel partner program (“Rainmaker”).

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Hopper raises $170M and partners with Capital One on a new cardholder travel booking portal

TechCrunch

Canadian travel startup Hopper has raised a $170 million Series F round, led by Capital One. The U.S. banks and credit card company is also coming on board as a strategic partner, to launch Capital One Travel, which is the first instantiation of Hopper’s new B2B platform, Hopper Cloud. This is Hopper’s second raise in a year that has been marked by turmoil for the travel industry, owing to the disruptions caused by the global COVID-19 pandemic.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“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.

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Number of Ethereum on exchanges drop to new low

CTOvision

Data from analytics company CryptoQuant shows that the number of Ethereum held on centralized exchanges has dropped to a new low. Since September 2020, the number of Ethereum held on exchanges […].

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Y Combinator’s biotech startups incubate a new generation of therapies and tools

TechCrunch

Medical and biotech had a strong showing at Y Combinator’s latest demo day , with nearly a dozen companies in the space catching my eye. The things a startup can accomplish in this space are astonishing these days, so don’t be surprised if a few of these companies are headline news in the next year. Startups take on big pharma. Atom Bioworks has one of the shortest timelines and highest potential impacts; as I wrote in our second set of favorites from demo day , the company seems to

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LeanIX Extends Application Management Reach

DevOps.com

LeanIX today unveiled a catalog that enables DevOps teams to more easily track the relationships between microservices as they are built and deployed. At the same time, the company also revealed it has acquired Cleanshelf, a provider of a platform for managing software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications. LeanIX CEO André Christ said the Microservice Intelligence catalog will […].

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LA’s socially conscious bank challenger, Aspiration, launches a carbon offset credit card

TechCrunch

Aspiration , the financial services business for socially conscious consumers, is back with another environmentally friendly offering for its customers — this time, it’s a credit card. The Los Angeles-based company, which has raised roughly $250 million from investors including the celebrities Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert Downey Jr.’s Footprint Coalition, and Orlando Bloom and more traditional institutional investors like AlphaEdison, Capricorn Investment Group, the Omidyar Networ

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

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.

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BizDevSecOps: The Developer’s Path Forward

Dzone - DevOps

As digital experiences continue to stay at the forefront of business interactions, increasing the need to incorporate security into the fabric of applications is no longer a key consideration – it’s imperative. Research from the Ponemon Institute found that, in 2020, 71% of enterprises reported their portfolio of applications were more vulnerable to attacks and, additionally, more than 50% of respondents said security is not adequately emphasized during the development of new applications.

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Berlin’s Blacklane raises $26M to expand its high-end chauffeur-driven sustainable car service

TechCrunch

As the Ubers of the world continue to scale, a smaller on-demand transportation startup has raised some funding in Germany, underscoring the opportunities that remain for startups in the space targeting specific service niches. Blacklane — the Berlin startup that provides on-demand black-car chauffeur services in Berlin, London, Dubai, Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Singapore and 16 other cities — has closed a round of €22 million ($26 million at current rates).

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The Evolution of Technology Driven Banking

DevOps.com

History repeats itself with every technological revolution, sparking the same old fears about job loss and human redundancy. Much of this is unfounded because each time, when routine and repetitive jobs got mechanized, those who were displaced often were elevated into bigger, better roles. The pattern was consistent across industries; whether it was manufacturing, retail, […].

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