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Steps tech leaders are taking to meet new accessibility mandates

CIO

Leading CIOs are empowering their teams to make the digital estate as accessible as the physical buildings of the business, and they’re right to do so. Among the organizations to be hit were education, entertainment, leisure, and retail organizations. Yet the digital environment is littered with poor accessibility. “It

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Construction tech startups are poised to shake up a $1.3-trillion-dollar industry

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Allison Xu is an investor at Bain Capital Ventures, where she focuses on investments in the fintech and property tech sectors. In the wake of COVID-19 this spring, construction sites across the nation emptied out alongside neighboring restaurants, retail stores, offices and other commercial establishments. A construction tech boom.

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Daily Crunch: After buying Twitter, will Musk bite back at Apple’s in-app purchase fees?

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99 Twitter problems, and Apple might have one : It’s no secret that Elon Musk thinks Apple’s 30% IAP (“inventor assistance program” to those of us not up on tech lingo) transaction charge to developers is “a lot.” OTI raises $55 million for technology to remove screen obstructions. Big Tech Inc. The TechCrunch Top 3.

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Generative AI: the Shortcut to Digital Modernisation

CIO

As transformation is an ongoing process, enterprises look to innovations and cutting-edge technologies to fuel further growth and open more opportunities. Notably, organisations are now turning to Generative AI to navigate the rapidly evolving tech landscape. percent of the working hours in the US economy.

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“Cloud adoption momentum in the GCC will gain further impetus in 2024”

CIO

Developing generative AI implementation strategies will be imperative for technology leaders, prioritizing key areas such as business model building, internal operational improvements, risk mitigation, and overall organizational efficiency. How has the past year changed the landscape for technology leaders?

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Don’t gamble with your identity verification practices

CIO

Earlier this year, I wrote about the importance of organizations reviewing their password management strategies. The firm had seen continuous patterns of activity that showed that bad actors tried to get passwords to privileged user accounts. According to reports, MGM and Caesars were both customers of identity management company Okta.

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Founders of well-funded Egyptian B2B startup Capiter fired following fraud allegations

TechCrunch

Last September, Egyptian startup Capiter raised $33 million in Series A funding to compete in the country’s growing B2B e-commerce and retail space. Others described a workplace with poor management and no structure and a company finding it hard to onboard merchants to its platform while running out of money simultaneously.

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