TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

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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The Crazy Programmer

MARCH 20, 2021

Landing a job at Google is like a daydream come true! Googlers around the world are highly satisfied with the culture, work-life balance, perks, and benefits that Google offers. However, it’s not easy for anyone to get a job at Google. . Google ranks second in the world’s top four most valuable brands with Amazon (#1), Apple (#3), and Microsoft (#4).

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 25, 2021

Too many meetings can frustrate productivity and morale. Reduce them to free your team. When your calendar staggers under the weight of too many meetings, start with design thinking, involve your team, and improve your use of asynchronous tools. It’s a refrain […]. The post Too Many Meetings – How to Free Your Team to Build, Create, and Thrive appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Agile Alliance

MARCH 23, 2021

In Part 1, we focused on lean thinking, we can accomplish more, reliably and consistently. In Part 2, we discussed how local variation can enhance a team’s adaptability. In Part 3, we explained cycle time, lead time, and seeing the team’s actual internal data. In this part, we’ll address how the team can use its … Continued. The post Explain Dates to Anyone with Forecasts Based on Your Historical Data first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) offer new ways for consumers to collect, wear and trade fashion online, and now that most fashion shows have scaled back or gone virtual , they may become an important tool for the industry. Because some of the most profitable NFTs are produced by celebrities with teams , it makes sense that music corporations, fashion brands and designers are venturing into the NFT market as well.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 22, 2021

3 Communication Mistakes That Sabotage Your Influence and Impact When it comes to having better influence at work, words matter. Of course, WHAT you say will instantly influence your credibility and impact. But, what’s REALLY tragic is to see well-intentioned leaders with […]. The post Want Better Influence at Work? Avoid These Communication Mistakes appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 22, 2021

The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach. At least, that’s how my grandmother used to describe it. Maybe there’s still something to this adage. Stefania Mallett turned this old idea into a billion-dollar tech unicorn called ezCater. Along the way, she learned some valuable lessons about leadership and culture. ezCater is a global marketplace for business catering.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

Ashwin Ramasamy. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Ashwin Ramasamy is the co-founder of PipeCandy , an online merchant graph company that discovers and analyzes business and consumer perception metrics about D2C brands and e-commerce companies. More posts by this contributor. How to successfully dance the creator-brand tango. Mind the gap: E-commerce marketers should revise their TAM and SAM estimates.

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CTOvision

MARCH 23, 2021

Read why Billy Bambrough favors Ethereum over Bitcoin in the face of probable cryptocurrency launch by the United States Federal Reserve on Forbes : Bitcoin has soared by almost 1,000% […].

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 22, 2021

3 Communication Mistakes That Sabotage Your Influence and Impact. When it comes to having better influence at work, words matter. Of course, WHAT you say will instantly influence your credibility and impact. But, what’s REALLY tragic is to see well-intentioned leaders with great ideas getting talked over or ignored, because of HOW they contribute.

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DevOps.com

MARCH 24, 2021

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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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2021

Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s broadly based on the daily column that appears on Extra Crunch , but free, and made for your weekend reading. Want it in your inbox every Saturday morning? Sign up here. Earnings season is coming to a close, with public tech companies wrapping up their Q4 and 2020 disclosures.

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CTOvision

MARCH 23, 2021

The volume and velocity of data generated by government agencies continues to grow at astronomic rates. At the same time, agencies have a lot of legacy applications that need to […].

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 26, 2021

In this inspiring conversation with Elle Marc-Charles, Director of Inclusive Culture for Belden Corporation you’ll get practical insights into how to guard yourself and your leaders from losing their humanity, how your human resource professionals can help you achieve your strategic results, […]. The post Transform Your HR Relationships and Your Leadership appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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DevOps.com

MARCH 23, 2021

Cloud and DevOps are almost a match made in heaven. Cloud started truly gaining steam in the age of DevOps and Agile, and has adapted – or grown up in it – well, depending on your viewpoint. If not for the combined issues of data gravity and data (im)mobility, we might have gone even farther […]. The post Languages and DevOps: To The Cloud!

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

Clubhouse, the social audio app that first took Silicon Valley by storm and is now gaining much wider appeal, is an interesting user experience case study. Hockey-stick growth — 8 million global downloads as of last month, despite still being in a pre-launch, invite-only mode, according to App Annie — is something most startups would kill for. However, it also means that UX problems can only be addressed while in “full flight” — and that changes to the user experience will be felt at

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CTOvision

MARCH 23, 2021

Crypto asset management company Grayscale has added five new investment trusts to its product suite. The new products are Basic Attention Token ($BAT), Chainlink ($LINK), Decentraland ($MANA), Filecoin ($FIL) and Livepeer […].

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The Citus Data

MARCH 20, 2021

One of the big new things in Citus 10 is that you can now shard Postgres on a single Citus node. So in addition to using the Citus extension to Postgres to scale out Postgres across a distributed cluster, you can now also: Try out Citus on a single node with just a few simple commands. Shard Postgres on a single Citus node to be “scale-out-ready” Simplify CI/CD pipelines by testing with single-node Citus.

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DevOps.com

MARCH 24, 2021

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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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

In a new S-1/A filing , Coursera set an initial IPO price range between $30 and $33 a share, signaling the market views its edtech business warmly ahead of its impending public offering. Coursera will have 130,271,466 shares outstanding after its IPO, or 132,630,966 including its underwriters’ option. At $30 per share, the low end of the company’s IPO range and a share count inclusive of 2,359,500 shares reserved for its underwriting banks, the firm would be worth $3.98 billion.

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CTOvision

MARCH 24, 2021

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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TechBeacon

MARCH 24, 2021

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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DevOps.com

MARCH 22, 2021

GitHub’s platform is the largest host of source code in the world, hosting over 190 Million repositories. So much of the code we rely on every day is hosted there. You are, in all likelihood, using it. But what would you do if, one day, all of the project code GitHub stored for you disappeared? […]. The post Make GitHub Backups Part of Your Development Process appeared first on DevOps.com.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

Meniga , the London fintech that provides digital banking technology to leading banks, has closed €10 million in additional funding. The round is led by Velocity Capital and Frumtak Ventures. Also participating are Industrifonden, the U.K. Government’s Future Fund and existing customers UniCredit, Swedbank, Groupe BPCE and Íslandsbanki. Meniga says the funding will be used for continued investment in R&D, and in particular further development of green banking products — building on its

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CTOvision

MARCH 23, 2021

Shelly Morales, Chief People Officer at Balbix, has joined the board of advisors at Censia, a leading Talent Intelligence provider. Other board members include technology leaders Shakti Jauhar, Former SVP, […].

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TechBeacon

MARCH 24, 2021

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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DevOps.com

MARCH 25, 2021

As a senior DevOps consultant working with large organizations over many years, I have been involved in more than 70 digital transformation projects, with hundreds of applications. While many things have changed over time, one thing has been a consistent source of problems that presents a formidable impedance to these transformations. The diverse number of […].

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

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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