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Daily Crunch: News and updates from TechCrunch’s Meta Connect 2022 coverage

TechCrunch

Ingrid reports that the company brought in $120 million in new funding that doubles its valuation into unicorn territory as it builds out enterprise-quality HR for small businesses. Google unifies its BI services under the Looker brand , reports Frederic. Google looks to boost its security cred in the cloud , writes Ingrid.

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Introducing “Billion-Dollar B2B”: The New Revenue and Valuation Paradigm for Today’s Rapidly Growing, Consumer-Like B2B Standouts

Battery Ventures

billion ), for example, which is working to power the back ends of 68 million global small-business websites, per their investor presentation , has benefited from this trend. Billion Dollar B2B company Shopify ( 2020 revenue: $2.9 File/storage service Dropbox, with fiscal 2020 revenue of $1.9 billion , went through a similar evolution.

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Technology Trends for 2024

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Our own theory is that it’s a reaction to GPT models leaking proprietary code and abusing open source licenses; that could cause programmers to be wary of public code repositories. The source code for LLaMA was open source, and its weights (parameters) were easily available to researchers.

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The IT Leader’s Ultimate Multicloud Toolbox

Perficient

Robust Code Base : While native cloud tools such as Azure ARM templates and Bicep offer rudimentary checking to ensure that variables you are referencing are present, Terraform takes it a step further by providing built-in commands and extra packages. It’s like having your own personal code checker.

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BitBucket vs GitHub?—?The Complete Review [2020]

Codegiant

Right from the beginning, GitHub became a strong git advocate (as you can tell by its name) that hosts awesome GitHub open-source projects you can contribute to. A significant number of open source advocates migrated their git repositories over to BitBucket and GitLab as they initially feared Microsoft’s intentions.

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Three surveys of AI adoption reveal key advice from more mature practices

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

For example, at our recent AI Conference in London, two talks— Ashok Srivastava of Intuit and Johnny Ball of Fluidy —presented business applications for AI aimed at establishing safety nets for small businesses. Moreover, few schools have resources to act on that data in aggregate.

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Data Migration Software: Which Solution Fits Your Project Best

Altexsoft

Open-source solutions are either free or significantly cheaper than commercial alternatives. Some open-source products are really good — however, you’ll get access to only a few features while the rest is fee-based. Along with commercial products, the vendor offers a suite of open source tools named Open Studio.