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Sales experience platform Walnut raises $15M to improve product demonstrations

TechCrunch

Walnut raised $15 million in Series A funding, led by Eight Roads Ventures, to continue developing its sales experience platform. Founders Yoav Vilner and Danni Friedland started the company in July 2020. Vilner intends to use the new funding to grow the team across the U.S, Walnut engagement example. Image Credits: Walnut. “We

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Open banking startup Finverse wants to build the Asia-Pacific region’s Plaid

TechCrunch

Finverse is among a crop of fintechs developing APIs that allow easier sharing of financial data. Before starting Finverse in 2020, Lesaffre was senior product manager of financial data integrations at NerdWallet, working with account aggregation APIs like Plaid and legacy player Yodlee. Plaid won the U.S.

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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. The legislation in detail During 2020, there was a 23% increase in lawsuits in the US for digital services that failed to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990.

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Attending Oracle’s CodeOne? Here Are 15 Sessions Everyone Will Be Talking About

OverOps

Is Boilerplate Code Really So Bad? Venkat Subramaniam , President, Agile Developer, Inc. No matter how quickly or slowly code moves through development or how diligent your testing is, some issues will only surface in production when real data is involved. Venkat Subramaniam , President, Agile Developer, Inc.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Jack leaves Twitter, Black Friday data, Nubank lowers IPO pricing

TechCrunch

The Equity podcast team discussed his departure in a TechCrunch+ post yesterday afternoon : Alex Wilhelm: A call to return to the old normal from the new normal. Perhaps it should be pro forma for corporate boards in search of a new CEO to start by talking to the company’s longtime engineers, product managers and marketing leads.

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LexisNexis rises to the generative AI challenge

CIO

Late last month, LexisNexis launched Lexis+ AI, its own generative AI solution, in the US that promises to eradicate AI “hallucinations” and provide linked legal citations to ensure lawyers have access to accurate, up-to-date legal precedents — weaknesses discovered in the current slew of LLMs.

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AoAD2 Practice: Whole Team

James Shore

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. This excerpt is copyright 2007, 2020 by James Shore and Shane Warden. Whole Team.