Remove 2012 Remove Network Remove Systems Review
article thumbnail

Nord Security, the startup behind NordVPN, raises its first-ever funding, $100M at a $1.6B valuation

TechCrunch

What’s notable here is that Vilnius, Lithuania-based Nord has been bootstrapped for the last 10 years (it was founded in 2012), a state that doesn’t seem to have held back its growth. And having a customer base that was primarily consumers also meant potentially less due diligence around how the product worked.

article thumbnail

Soci raises $120M in debt and equity to grow its marketing management platform

TechCrunch

” Launched in 2012 by Khoury, Alo Sarv and Tony Rindsberg, Soci’s platform is designed for organizations that have hundreds — or even thousands — of people managing their marketing across various channels. Yelp) and then automatically responds to those reviews. ” There’s probably some truth to that.

Marketing 234
article thumbnail

7 famous analytics and AI disasters

CIO

MIT Technology Review has chronicled a number of failures, most of which stem from errors in the way the tools were trained or tested. Zillow wrote down millions of dollars, slashed workforce due to algorithmic home-buying disaster. There was only one problem: The system vastly preferred male candidates. In a statement on Oct.

Analytics 363
article thumbnail

Unveiling the Power and Potential of GraphQL in Modern Web Development

Perficient

Understanding GraphQL: At its core, GraphQL is a query language and runtime for APIs that was developed by Facebook in 2012 and later open-sourced in 2015. This approach reduces the overhead of setting up and tearing down multiple connections, resulting in optimized network performance.

article thumbnail

Microsoft’s October 2023 Patch Tuesday Addresses 103 CVEs (CVE-2023-36563, CVE-2023-41763)

Tenable

An unauthenticated, remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using social engineering in order to convince a target to open a link or download a malicious file and run it on the vulnerable system. Alternatively, an attacker could execute a specially crafted application to exploit the flaw after gaining access to a vulnerable system.

Windows 117
article thumbnail

The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Crusoe Energy, Insider And Biotech Raise Big

Crunchbase News

tied) Crusoe Energy Systems , $500M, energy: This is not the first time Crusoe has made this list. Insider, which was co-founded in Istanbul in 2012, has now raised $772.1 startups raised half a billion dollars apiece, and another eight raised $100 million or more, with industries from cybersecurity to biotech to AI represented.

Biotech 108
article thumbnail

AoAD2 Practice: Test-Driven Development

James Shore

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. Test-driven development, , or TDD, is a rapid cycle of testing, coding, and refactoring. Done well, TDD eliminates an entire class of programming errors. TDD isn’t perfect, of course. TDD is difficult to add to legacy codebases. Why TDD Works.