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Do Americans want to gamble on individual athletes? Marc Lore is betting on it

TechCrunch

Mojo , a seven-month-old, New York-based company, says it’s looking to build a new sports stock market that lets fans bet on athletes just like stocks. The company declined to answer our questions today, saying it’s “too early” in its trajectory.). — it will likely know exactly who its customers are.

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Static vs Dynamic Code Analysis: How to Choose Between Them

OverOps

Let’s start with a sporting analogy to help illustrate the difference between these two methodologies. These include common developer errors which are often found by “Code Peer Reviews”. In which stage of the SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle) can we use Static code analysis? There are minimal surprises.

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LLMs come to workplace morale monitoring, as Loopin raises $1.9M for its platform

TechCrunch

We reported on Plasticity Labs back in 2014, though their web site seems no longer functioning. After leaving the armed forces, Ben went into coaching leadership teams at corporates, including the England Football Team and Manchester United. On the surface of Loopin is the daily ‘check-in’ via Slack or Microsoft Teams.

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Why you can’t ignore cloud security

CIO

Why it’s vital to make sure your technology teams don’t lose focus on cyber security in a cloud environment with fast moving cloud-native development processes? The first is the ‘front end’, with an emphasis on endpoint protection, identifying external threat factors and developing strategies to mitigate against them.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: How VC really works, longevity investor survey, choosing your angel

TechCrunch

Essentially, VC is a high-stakes extreme sport in which top players can accumulate startling amounts of wealth and power. Prior to joining TechCrunch, reporter Haje Jan Kamps worked at VC fund Bolt, where he interacted directly with early-stage founders. I happen to agree,” says Max Brenner, part of the founding team at Compound.

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Nigeria’s IROKO plans to go public on the London Stock Exchange AIM in 2022

TechCrunch

According to this report , the media company will raise between $20 million and $30 million valuing the company at $80 million to $100 million. . However , more bad news came in August when the CEO announced that the company was laying off 150 people. sports betting company, GVC and online fashion retailer, ASOS have done in the past.

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Fintech Roundup: Will financial technology startups dodge the venture slowdown?

TechCrunch

On March 25, PitchBook released its 2021 Annual Fintech Report , which found that the fintech industry raised $121.6 Alex and I will be doing a deep dive on that report next week, but it’s a nice lead-in to what I’m examining today. Not bad for a company that only publicly launched just over two years ago.

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