Tue.Dec 01, 2020

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Better Functioning Tech Makes for Less Stress at Work

Dell EMC

At Dell, we use research to understand our customers’ needs and to drive innovations as those needs change. That’s why we embarked on our first ever neuroscience “Brain on Tech” study earlier this year.

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Singapore-based mental health app Intellect reaches one million users, closes seed funding

TechCrunch

Theodoric Chew, co-founder and chief executive officer of mental health app Intellect. Intellect , a Singapore-based startup that wants to lower barriers to mental health care in Asia, says it has reached more than one million users just six months after launching. Google also announced today that the startup’s consumer app, also called Intellect, is one of its picks for best personal growth apps of 2020.

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Enough About Millennials. Are You Ready For Generation Z?

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

A HackerEarth guide to hiring and retaining early-talent developers. Millennials have been the hot topic of discussion for a long time in the workforce. However, studies suggest that Generation Z (aka Gen Z) will make up 24% of the workforce in 2020. . As millennials inch closer to middle age, Gen Z is expected to replace them quickly. . Born between 1996 to 2001, Gen Z is the demographic cohort succeeding millennials (born between 1981-1995).

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The hidden cost of being a founder

TechCrunch

James Sutcliffe. Contributor. James Sutcliffe is the founder and CEO of The Founding Network , a collaboration platform for high-growth founders. If I were to pick one thing that unites the global tech scene in terms of culture I would point to the respect and reverence accorded to startup founders. After all, creating your own company is an ambition many of us harbor.

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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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Succession in the Real World- With John H. Tyson, Chairman of the Board at Tyson Foods

N2Growth Blog

Succession is one of the most popular shows on HBO. It’s sometimes even mentioned in the same breath as The Sopranos, Game of Thrones, and Veep. Succession showcases super-rich, but deeply flawed characters who struggle for power and seem to face an endless maze of existential conflict. Viewers love watching the spoiled family members teeter on a knife’s edge of recognizable and relatable, admittedly more of the former since most of us aren’t billionaires.

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FlexDeploy Loves Salesforce: Build and Deploy Salesforce DX Apps

Flexagon

FlexDeploy is an Enterprise DevOps platform with fully integrated support for Salesforce apps, metadata customizations, integrations and more. This is the fourth article in a blog series that will help you understand what makes FlexDeploy a perfect choice to implement DevOps, CI/CD, and release automation with Salesforce. Here is a summary of the FlexDeploy Loves Salesforce series.

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Cyber Monday scams? Fakespot says it can identify fraudulent reviews and sellers online

TechCrunch

The pandemic has made it all but impossible for a retail company without an online presence to survive. Yet while companies heavily dependent on foot traffic like J.Crew and Sur la Table have filed for bankruptcy this year, companies that are expert in e-commerce have thrived, including Target and Walmart. Amazon alone now attracts roughly one quarter of all dollars spent online by U.S. shoppers.

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4 best practices for AI in the SOC

TechBeacon

TechBeacon ’s Essential Guide to AI and the SOC lays the groundwork for choosing an artificial intelligence system for your organization. It explains why these tools are essential for today’s distributed systems, explains how AI is being applied to security, and provides criteria for considering AI-powered tools for your security operations center.

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In first IPO price range, Airbnb’s valuation recovers to pre-pandemic levels

TechCrunch

This morning Airbnb released an S-1/A filing that details its initial IPO price range. The home-sharing unicorn intends to price its shares between $44 and $50 in its debut. Per the company’s own accounting, it will have 596,399,007 or 601,399,007 shares outstanding, depending on whether its underwriters exercise their option. That gives the company a valuation range of $26.2 billion to $30.1 billion at the extremes.

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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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Antipatterns That Hurt DevOps Implementations

DevOps.com

Avoiding these DevOps antipatterns can help organizations reap the benefits of implementations faster It’s a given that all organizations at some point will suffer from poor development practices when trying to find the perfect balance between software development and IT operations. The good news, however, is that implementing DevOps can help you improve these processes […].

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Floww raises $6.7M for its data-driven marketplace matching founders with investors, based on merit

TechCrunch

Floww — a data-driven marketplace designed to allow founders to pitch investors, with the whole investment relationship managed online — says it has raised $6.7 million (£5 million) to date in seed funding from angels and family offices. Investors include Ramon Mendes De Leon, Duncan Simpson-Craib, Angus Davidson, Stephane Delacote and Pip Baker (Google’s head of Fintech U.K.) and multiple family offices.

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Why Secrets Management is Critical to DevOps Pipeline Security

DevOps.com

While valuable, secrets management also can be difficult for DevOps teams to employ. Here’s what you need to know Business is all about speed. Companies want to innovate and deliver functionality faster to remain competitive. This explains the increasing popularity of DevOps as a go-to model for rapid application delivery. A recent Gartner report indicated […].

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Despite everything, Oyo still has $1 billion in cash

TechCrunch

India’s Oyo has been one of the worst impacted startups with the coronavirus, but it has enough cash to steer through the pandemic and then look at funding further scale, a top executive says. In a town hall with employees last week, Oyo founder Ritesh Agarwal said the budget lodging firm “continued to hold on to close to a billion dollars of cash” across its group companies and joint venture firms and has “tracked to runway very closely.”.

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How Embedded Analytics Helps Product Managers Exceed Their KPIs

Embedded analytics can help you deliver cutting-edge analytics experiences to your end-users that align with KPIs that are critical to the growth and success of your business. Read this eBook to learn how an embedded analytics platform, like Qrvey, can help PMs exceed the following KPIs: Growing revenue while improving customer retention rate Delivering rapid time to value Earning a high net-promoter score Increasing Gross Margin / Profitability Conversion rate from trial to paid Don’t just meet

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Amazon: Here’s what caused the major AWS outage last week

CTOvision

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has explained the cause of last Wednesday’s widespread outage, which impacted thousands of third-party online services for several hours. While dozens of AWS services were affected, AWS […].

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Vivenu, a ticketing API for events, closes a $15M Series A round led by Balderton Capital

TechCrunch

Vivenu , a ticketing platform that offers an API for venues and promoters to customize to their needs, has closed a $15 million (€12.6 million) Series A funding round led by Balderton Capital. Previous investor Redalpine also participated. Historically speaking, most ticketing platform startups took a direct to consumer approach, or have provided turnkey solutions to big event promoters.

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How To Ensure Your NIST Cybersecurity Framework Implementation Isn’t Too Little, Too Late

CTOvision

We are huge believers in the NIST Cybersecurity Framework. But more excited when we hear Gaurav Banga of Balbix discuss it! The NIST Cybersecurity Framework has become quite popular in […].

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Scale AI hits $3.5B valuation as it turns the AI boom into a venture bonanza

TechCrunch

Scale AI , the four-year-old data labeling startup, has discovered that selling the picks and shovels needed to develop and apply artificial intelligence is big business. The company, which created a visual data labeling platform that uses software and people to label image, text, voice and video data for companies building machine learning algorithms, has raised another $155 million.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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Aqua Secures Container Image Support in AWS Lambda

Aqua Security

Amazon continues to build new capabilities into its serverless operational mode and has launched container image support in AWS Lambda. It enables packaging and deploying Lambda functions as container images. Building on our strong partnership with AWS and our desire to offer the most complete cloud-native security solution, Aqua Security now includes advanced security capabilities that incorporate this new Lambda feature.

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Ankorstore raises $29.9 million for its wholesale marketplace

TechCrunch

French startup Ankorstore has raised a $29.9 million Series A round (€25 million) with Index Ventures leading the round. Existing investors GFC, Alven and Aglaé are also participating. Ankorstore is building a wholesale marketplace that connects independent shop owners with brands selling household supplies, maple syrup, headbands, bath salts, stationery items and a lot more.

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Broadcom Extends AIOps Platform Reach

DevOps.com

Broadcom today extended the reach of its artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) platform to provide full-stack observability via integrations with 15 third-party data sources including Dynatrace, Datadog, AppDynamics, PagerDuty, Splunk, ServiceNow, SolarWinds and Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager. In addition, Version 2.0 of AIOps from Broadcom now captures data at the chip level to […].

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Find out how we’re working toward living and working in space at TC Sessions: Space 2020

TechCrunch

The idea of people going to live and work in space, outside of the extremely unique case of the International Space Station, has long been the strict domain of science fiction. That’s changing fast, however, with public space agencies, private companies and the scientific community all looking at ways of making it safe for people to live and work in space for longer periods — and broadening accessibility of space to people who don’t necessarily have the training and discipline

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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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Nokia, Elisa and Qualcomm achieve 5G speed record

CTOvision

Nokia, Elisa and Qualcomm Technologies have announced that they achieved the world’s fastest 5G speeds on a commercial network in Finland by delivering 8 Gbps for the first time serving […].

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Novakid’s ESL app for children raises $4.25M Series A led by PortfoLion and LearnStart investors

TechCrunch

With the pandemic playing havoc with children’s education, edtech startups have been on a roll. A new fundraising seems to come almost every week at this point. Today it’s Novakid’s turn. This edtech startup is yet another “learning English as a second language for children” startup. But it at least has a chance among the plethora of solutions out there, having raised a $4.25 million Series A financing led by Hungary-based PortfoLion (part of OTP, a leading banking group in Eastern E

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TechSoup's Fundraising Forecast and Recommendations for 2021

TechSoup

All indications are that much of 2021 will be another lean pandemic year in nonprofit fundraising. NIH director Francis Collins said on the PBS Newshour recently , "let's be prepared for the fact that life is not going to feel like it did in 2019 for another year." The one silver lining is that after all these months of dealing with COVID 19 conditions, there is a pretty clear pandemic fundraising playbook now.

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Join us for a live Q&A with Sapphire’s Jai Das today at 2 pm EST/11 am PST

TechCrunch

Today’s the day! In just a few hours I am chatting with with Jai Das , a managing director at Sapphire Ventures. The conversation is part of the second season of Extra Crunch Live series that has seen all sorts of investors and founders join TechCrunch for a dig into their work. Das’ participation comes at the perfect moment: he invested early in MuleSoft, which sold to Salesforce for $6.5 billion back in 2018.

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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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Couchbase ‘edges’ upwards with offline-first control

CTOvision

Read explain how Couchbase with Couchbase Lite and Couchbase Sync Gateway for mobile and edge computing applications version 2.8 is helping organizations move to offline-first control on Computer Weekly: No […].

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Connectivity in the Wild: Taking Oil Rigs to the Cloud

Megaport

Tampnet and Megaport make rapid cloud access possible for remote offshore locations, helping oil and gas companies overcome their current challenges – and those to come. When you think of an offshore oil platform, you’ll likely think about their physical mechanical complexity – the network of pumps, valves, and extractors that make up offshore oil rigs and platforms.

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Ghost 4 is a Multi-Function Vertical take-off landing (VTOL) small unmanned aircraft system (sUAS)

CTOvision

Ghost 4 is a new autonomous vertical take-off landing (VTOL) small unmanned aircraft system (sUAS) developed by Anduril Industries, a defence artificial intelligence and autonomous solutions provider. The sUAS is […].