TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Since Treepz, formerly Plentywaka, was founded in 2019 in Lagos, the startup has expanded west into Ghana and east into Uganda. You’re seeing investors make a lot more time for due diligence. Treepz founder Onyeka Akumah on how to succeed in transportation tech by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

As the chief business transformation and technology officer at Twinings Ovaltine (TwO), some might imagine Sandeep Seeripat’s role to be the epitome of what a senior technology executive should be, with a remit beyond IT operations, an authoritative voice in the boardroom and a reporting line straight to the CEO.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

Yubo , a social livestreaming app popular with a Gen Z audience, announced today it’s becoming one of the first major social platforms to adopt a new age verification technique that uses live image capture technology to identify minors using its app, in order to keep them separated from adult users. The app doesn’t run ads.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

The future of technology is determined by a handful of venture capitalists. The world’s 10 leading venture capital firms have, together, invested over $150 billion in technology startups. As of 2019, 81% of all venture capital funds worldwide are clustered in just a handful of countries, primarily in the U.S.,

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CIO

MARCH 13, 2023

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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Today Juniper Networks announced it was acquiring smart wide area networking startup 128 Technology for $450 million. This marks the second AI-fueled networking company Juniper has acquired in the last year and a half after purchasing Mist Systems in March 2019 for $405 million.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The tragic Boeing 737 Max crashes in 2018 and 2019 serve as a stark reminder of the dangers associated with fragmented communication and isolated teams. It was caused by a vulnerability that went unpatched due to a breakdown in communication between separate departments.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Sonder is a tech-driven hospitality company. million, and, in the post-pandemic world where the population has become far more movable due to remote working, similar businesses are raising funds to attend to the needs of this global, nomadic workforce. Based out of the U.S., It’s raised $529.6

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CIO

MARCH 19, 2024

Around the turn of the century, Autonomy Corporation was one of the darlings of the UK technology industry, specializing in knowledge management and enterprise search. November 2005: Autonomy agrees to buy search technology developer Verity for $500 milllion, its third acquisition of the year after NCorp (in February) and etalk (in June).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

VCs are also increasingly looking for what biotech startups can do with AI beyond just R&D and are wary of companies that use the technology as a marketing tool. We also see AI being used in the biologics space, although the technology is used there far earlier. Where else can AI play a role in health tech?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” Here’s another edition of “Dear Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

As Italy reinstates many COVID-19 restrictions, the country’s tech ecosystem is watching and waiting to see what the wider effects of the emergency will be. Italy’s ecosystem for tech venture capital and startups has been in development for years and has made decent strides in the last decade.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JANUARY 25, 2024

While we like to talk about how fast technology moves, internet time, and all that, in reality the last major new idea in software architecture was microservices, which dates to roughly 2015. We’re skeptical about things like job displacement, at least in technology. This has been a strange year. What will those changes be?

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CIO

MAY 17, 2024

The industry saw unprecedented growth in certain areas — such as AI and ML — alongside massive layoffs from tech vendors and cooling (or even contracting) salaries for a wide range of IT roles. Recent layoffs have been cast in part as a corrective for that period, when the average tech salary increased nearly 9%.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

The API-based tool, dubbed Grow, has so far been integrated with 22 tech entities across Africa including Topship, Barter by Flutterwave, Float, Fingo and Payhippo, enabling them to either bundle their main products with insurance packages or offer insurance as a standalone service. without the outsized market of South Africa.

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BrainStation Technology

DECEMBER 11, 2019

We’ve talked about the growth of New York’s tech scene, but 2019 might prove to be a pivotal year in the city’s emerging status as a global tech leader. . Here are some of the things we learned from the biggest New York tech industry stories and developments from 2019. Government Continues to Support Tech and AI.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

In 2019, Geifman co-founded Deci alongside Ran El-Yaniv and entrepreneur Jonathan Elial. But Deci has the backing of Intel, which last March announced a strategic business and technology collaboration with the startup to optimize machine learning on Intel processors. ” Image Credits: Deci. . ” Image Credits: Deci.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

As key officers of their companies, technology leaders have entered a more lucrative compensation bracket,” notes Martha Heller, CEO of Heller Search Associates. Since 2023, compensation for CIOs and CTOs has increased by more than 7% and over 20% since 2019, according to Heller. Stephenson says.

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The Hustle

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

While the TSA has used facial recognition tech since 2019, the “tipping point” for air travel biometrics could come in 2024, per The New York Times. With TSA facial screening verification already used at ~30 airports and expanding to 400+ more in the coming years, biometric tech looks like it’s here to stay.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2023

Sarah writes that the social media giant is seeing a spike in one-star reviews, which include calling for its removal. Go on, another handful for ya: They just want to stay involvo : Frederic reports that Volvo Cars Tech Fund invests in driver monitoring startup CorrActions. Big Tech Inc. You can sign up here. Kirsten has more.

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CIO

JULY 23, 2024

Mounting technical debt from mission-critical systems CIOs have good reason to stress out over rising technical debt and the impact of supporting legacy systems past their end-of-life dates. Neglecting to address technical debt in a timely manner can lead to catastrophic consequences.”

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

APRIL 23, 2023

Also read: 5 Reasons For Bad Candidate Experience In Tech Interviews Why is candidate engagement important? Potential candidates will read those bad reviews and decide not to apply. Are there any technical glitches to make candidates drop off? Use technology to make better hiring decisions Q3. Is it long? Is it confusing?

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

No merchant likes a bad customer review and Okendo , a customer marketing platform, announced $26 million in Series A funding today to continue developing its customer review tools for e-commerce brands. Base10 Partners led the funding round and was joined by Craft Ventures and existing investor Index Ventures.

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The Crazy Programmer

MAY 9, 2023

In this article, I will be reviewing one such web scraping API that comes with great features and can be really helpful for developers in their web scraping projects. ScrapingBee was founded in the year 2019 by Kevin Sahin and Pierre de Wulf. It provides various other awesome features that are explained below.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

When Chijioke Dozie, the CEO, spoke to TechCrunch in 2019, he cited recruitment purposes and clientele trust as reasons why the company made its financials public — an exercise it has done every second quarter for two years. It’s a tradition Dozie hopes the company will keep this year. billion (~$241.35

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OverOps

MARCH 26, 2019

Report: Technical Debt is Costing You More Than You Think [link] pic.twitter.com/MHIGkKrXk6. — OverOps (@overopshq) March 26, 2019. What is Technical Debt? Technical debt , like most terms in the technology sector, has a different meaning depending on who you ask. So, what is technical debt?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

But Playfair transitioned into more of a pre-seed firm with its second fund announced in 2019 , a focus that it’s maintaining for its new £57 million ($70 million) third fund, which it’s announcing today. ” A large chunk of early-stage deals fall apart in the due diligence phase. .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

It had produced, and was poised to produce, an enormous number of technology startups, given its relatively small size. million on average, the largest payout to employees in Israeli high tech at the time, and the exit created a pool of new entrepreneurs and angel investors. And in 2019, Bay Area investors put $1.4

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

So in 2019 she founded Eano , a San Francisco-based startup that aims to walk a homeowner through a renovation and help connect individual contractors with new clients. Construction tech startups are poised to shake up a $1.3-trillion-dollar Construction tech startups are poised to shake up a $1.3-trillion-dollar

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

“As software developers ourselves — working in health tech and fintech, where even minor bugs could have an outsized impact on people’s lives — we know firsthand how critical robust end-to-end testing is for all software businesses,” Perl said. Neither, obviously, are very desirable scenarios.

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Altexsoft

JULY 3, 2020

The hospitality industry evolved into various businesses that propose different customer experiences by adopting new technologies, practices, and cultural trends. Technologies that form back offices and hotel management systems consist of various tools and structures. foster the adoption of new technologies.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Now, investors see New Zealand as a country with a track record of building companies with global exits in SaaS, health tech and deep tech. That said, the signs are all pointing to technology being New Zealand’s next export industry, as long as everyone keeps pushing in the same direction. billion, from Q1 2020 to Q4 2021.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 3, 2023

AlterPacks is tackling both issues with technology that turns food waste into takeout boxes and other containers. Founded in 2019 to tackle single-use plastics, AlterPacks’ main raw material are spent grains, a by-product of manufacturing foods like beer. Spent grains are usually used for animal feed, fertilizer or disposed of.

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CIO

DECEMBER 9, 2022

A recent report from Korn Ferry Institute predicts that by 2030 the tech industry labor-skill shortage will reach 4.3 The traditional answer would be your hiring competitors, which, with every company becoming in some sense a technology company, is just about every business out there. trillion in unrealized annual revenues. Employees?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

“We seek out exceptional founding teams whose business plan is centered on the strategic utilization of technology to gain a competitive advantage. By 2019, Kaszek had closed on its fourth fund, raising $375 million and its first Opportunity Fund, reserving $225 million for later-stage investing in existing portfolio companies.

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CIO

JANUARY 12, 2023

And when technology is added to the mix, opportunities multiply. Our economy is based on agriculture and I believe it should be further supported by technology to increase agricultural productivity,” he says. The same is true for most African countries that need to be supported by technological solutions.” Plus, about 20.4

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The company also offers due diligence and acquisition financing from Thrasio-owned Yardline Capital and a new service called Flippa Legal. in 2019, driven largely by the global pandemic as sales shifted online while brick-and-mortar stores closed. Our strategy is verification at the source, i.e. data,” Hutchison said.

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