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Enabling privacy and choice for customers in data system design

Lacework

EU, UK, and Switzerland), and in regulated markets including healthcare information (protected under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act [HIPAA] in the US) or financial information (protected under Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act [GLBA] in the US).

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Dan Gwak of Point72 Ventures on why defense tech is becoming the next big thing for investors

TechCrunch

It’s not just that the market in general has corrected, but rather, I think defense tech, specifically as an opportunity, has really [gained traction] among other venture investors, as well as founders [along with a growing] awareness of the importance of defense tech to the government. To my mind, it’s all about system design.

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Bringing an AI Product to Market

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

In this article, we turn our attention to the process itself: how do you bring a product to market? CTRs are easy to measure, but if you build a system designed to optimize these kinds of metrics, you might find that the system sacrifices actual usefulness and user satisfaction. Identifying the problem.

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IBM to buy Apptio for $4.6B to help companies optimize IT spend

CIO

Cloud providers offer expense tracking tools IBM’s acquisition of Apptio can be seen as a move to keep pace with rivals such as AWS, Microsoft and Google Cloud, as all of them have billing management systems designed to help customers manage cloud costs. Cloud cost management and optimization is the biggest pain point of enterprises.

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Slice is launching a point-of-sale system for pizzerias

TechCrunch

Slice , the online ordering platform for independent pizzerias, announced two new offerings this morning — a point-of-sale system designed specifically for those businesses, as well as a rewards program for diners. ” Slice, an online ordering and marketing platform for pizzerias, raises $43M.

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a16z, Avenir and Google back South African mobile games publisher Carry1st in $20M round

TechCrunch

The company started as a game studio where it conceptualized, developed (from system designs to artwork and engineering), and launched mobile games. Over time, it switched to a hybrid model, adopting a publishing role and handling distribution, marketing and operations. Africa is the next major growth market for gaming globally.

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Mastercard preps for the post-quantum cybersecurity threat

CIO

Not many hardware vendors have features available that can integrate with the QKD systems.” Designing the test was also challenging. Some of the hardware vendors we worked with have features that are just announced and very new in the market, and some haven’t even been generally made available,” Maddaloni points out. “I

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