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Daily Crunch: London-based SumUp pins $8.5B valuation with $624M debt-equity round 

TechCrunch

Well, Vibrant Planet’s software, which is aimed at land managers, can prioritize objectives like fire risk using a combination of satellite imagery and AI tools. That’s different — and piqued my interest, I must say, as a lover of snow sports. ” How on Earth (pun intended) does that work? Bless them.)

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The US Intelligence Community’s Complicated Relationship with Telework

The Cipher Brief

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the trend towards remote work by businesses that can conduct their work virtually. Intelligence is a team sport requiring close collaboration throughout the intelligence process of collection, processing, analysis, and dissemination. If Not Now, When? OSINT Analysis: Feeding Spook Central.

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How This Pandemic May Change The University Experience Forever

Battery Ventures

The university experience is likely to change profoundly due to social distancing and related health measures. The American Council on Education expects college revenue to decline in the next academic year by $23 billion as universities request billions in emergency government aid. Full disclosure: Our portfolio company Gen.G*

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Travelling Turns Smarter With Mobile Ticketing Apps – Here’s How!

Xicom

The course of achieving every citizen’s heart is full of intricacies and convolution due to many decisive factors, and smart technologies are a stepping stone towards achieving it. In the midst of the pandemic, the biggest demur faced by cities and local governments worldwide is “How to encourage more people to take public transport”? .

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Here are all 20 companies from Alchemist Accelerator’s latest Demo Day

TechCrunch

Alchemist Accelerator is back with another Demo Day — its 29th Demo Day overall, and the latest in the series to be entirely virtual. It’ll be all virtual, so you can tune in to that on YouTube right here. As an enterprise-focused accelerator, Alchemist primarily works with companies that in turn work with other companies.

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AoAD2 Chapter 4: Investing in Agility

James Shore

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. There’s no objective measure of software productivity [Fowler 2003], but from experience, I’d estimate a 10-20% performance dip at first. They need people with the ability to put themselves in users’ and customers’ shoes to determine exactly what the software will do.

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AoAD2 Chapter 5: Invest in Agility

James Shore

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. There’s no objective measure of software productivity [Fowler 2003], but from experience, I’d estimate a 10-20% performance dip at first. They need people with the ability to put themselves in users’ and customers’ shoes to determine exactly what the software will do.

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