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Ex-Uber software engineers raise $3M for Sperta, a 6-month-old startup that wants to help fintechs better manage fraud risk

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Diao’s first project at the company after starting in 2014 was building a rules engine called Mastermind to fight fraud. That engine, he says, allowed risk analysts to build and rollout rules without the help of engineers.

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2014 Analyst Forum: Data Analytics and Ancestry.com

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Hong Kong-based Pickupp makes logistics more affordable for e-commerce sellers

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Before starting Pickupp, co-founder and chief executive officer Crystal Pang, a software engineer by training, was part of the team that launched Uber in Hong Kong in 2014. Sensing a market opportunity, Pang began using her software engineering background to think of a solution.

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No-code Bubble raises $100M to make technical co-founders obsolete

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Computer science is a challenging field, and despite proactive attempts by legislatures to add more coding skills into school curriculums, the reality is that the demand for software engineering vastly outstrips the supply available in the market. million seed round in June 2019 led by SignalFire.

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We are still early with the cloud

Erik Bernhardsson

You might look at them and think of them as examples of “toys”, or niche use cases, but that's sort of the point that I'm making — it might look insignificant to the larger set of software engineers. But it's a bit imprecise, e.g. EC2 was launched in 2006, but the oldest API version is from 2014.

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Mobile testing platform Kobiton raises $14M, acquires competitor Mobile Labs

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The last time it raised outside funding was in 2014. The companies declined to disclose the exact price, though. Mobile Labs, which was founded in 2011, had raised about $15 million before the acquisition, according to Crunchbase. Kobiton and Mobile Labs do not share any common investors. Kobiton CEO Kevin Lee. Image: Kobiton .

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Thwarting the Risk of Malicious Attacks on Medical Devices

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In November 2014, a step towards developing code to prevent the attacks on the devices took place. The range of the volunteer's backgrounds includes: cybersecurity, programming languages, software engineering, medical device development, medical device standards and medical device regulation.