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Daily Crunch: After glitch causes a two-hour global outage, WhatsApp restores service

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Bilt Rewards, which works with some of the country’s largest multifamily owners and operators to create loyalty programs and a co-branded credit card for property renters, entered unicorn status after securing $150 million in a growth round at a $1.5 8 questions to answer before your startup faces technical due diligence. .”

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Key skills tech leaders need to secure a board seat

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Rona Bunn is CIO for the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), where she facilitates digital orchestration and leads information technology, data, and digital experience. Therefore, we have programs to educate all directors on cybersecurity. Senior technology executives should also focus on technology’s strategic value.

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Google expands program to help train the formerly incarcerated

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Last April, Google launched Grow with Google Career Readiness for Reentry, a program created in partnership with nonprofits to offer job readiness and digital skills training for formerly incarcerated individuals. Inmates can go well over a decade without access to technologies like smartphones and only limited familiarity with the internet.

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Women in tech statistics: The hard truths of an uphill battle

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The employment gap Despite national conversations about the lack of diversity in tech, women are disproportionally missing out on the ongoing boom in IT jobs. In fact, the ratio of women to men in tech roles has declined in the past 35 years, with half of women who go into tech dropping out by the age of 35, according to data from Accenture.

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CIOs in transition: 5 tips for landing your next IT leadership job

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While you may have planned or negotiated an exit, very often such departures are beyond your direct control, due to a leadership change, acquisition, or another strategic event. Open and free-to-register events scheduled by public cloud providers and other technology companies.

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3 key digital transformation priorities for 2024

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This year’s technology darling and other machine learning investments have already impacted digital transformation strategies in 2023 , and boards will expect CIOs to update their AI transformation strategies frequently. Despite all that, CIOs should add generative AI initiatives to the much longer secondary list of transformation programs.

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14 climate tech investors share their H1 2022 strategies

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This month, researchers are attempting to reach the “Doomsday Glacier” for study, but icebergs are slowing their progress. Last year, round sizes for climate tech startups quadrupled, with more than 600 investments totaling over $40 billion. What is your climate tech investment thesis in H1 2022?