TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

The recent terms & conditions controversy sequence goes like this: A clause added to Zoom’s legalese back in March 2023 grabbed attention on Monday after a post on Hacker News claimed it allowed the company to use customer data to train AI models “with no opt out” Cue outrage on social media.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Eun co-founded Uiflow with Eric Rowell, who he met at Workday, in early 2020. While working at software developer Pegasystems, Eun says he saw the importance of lowering the barrier of entry to app development. “[The] software backlog for every company is also getting longer by the day due to pandemic and skill shortage.

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CIO

OCTOBER 31, 2024

You may be unfamiliar with the name, but Norma Group products are used wherever pipes are connected and liquids are conveyed, from water supply and irrigation systems in vehicles, trains and aircraft, to agricultural machinery and buildings. And finally, Security First that revolves around an automation concept and dedicated SOC.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

Lilt , a provider of AI-powered business translation software, today announced that it raised $55 million in a Series C round led by Four Rivers, joined by new investors Sorenson Capital, CLEAR Ventures and Wipro Ventures. “This new funding will … [reduce our] unit economics [to make] translation more affordable for all businesses.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

This is mostly due to the clearly maturing startup scene in the region, with proven successes such as Nubank, Cornershop, Gympass and Loggi helping to bolster LatAm’s credibility. Similarly, most businesses are underserved by modern software solutions,” Nyatta explained. Brazil and Mexico riding the gravy train.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

EverAfter secured $13 million in seed funding to continue developing its no-code customer-facing tool that streamlines onboarding and retention and enables business-to-business clients to embed personalized customer portals within any product. The Tel Aviv-based company was founded in 2020 by Noa Danon and Tal Shemesh.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

To them, most of the technology stack can be regarded as a commodity, a layer of hardware and software no different from one organization to another. The best way to learn the language is through training programs. Organizations should establish regular training sessions to develop knowledge of the terms around cloud computing.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

JULY 14, 2021

Events like these are so important for developers, whether you are a beginner or an advanced software engineer, hackathons are the great equalizer and skill democratizer. The lessons you gain, both in software development, entrepreneurship, and in working as a team will pay dividends down the road.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

If teams don’t do their due diligence, they risk omitting from design documents important mechanical equipment, like exhaust fans and valves, for example, or failing to size electrical circuits appropriately for loads. The urban planning and design software market that BeamUP occupies was worth an estimated $2.91

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2022

Zingtree provides interactive contact center software that guides agents to the next best action so that they can cater to even the most discerning customer. Users leverage no-code “decision trees” to create detailed agent scripts, guide customers to solve their own issues and manage their internal processes at scale.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

The venture capital and private equity database today launched VC Exit Predictor, a tool trained on PitchBook data to attempt to suss out a startup’s growth prospects. Algorithms have historically struggled with these owing to their limited training data. bankruptcy) that prevents an exit. bankruptcy) that prevents an exit.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Aircover’s conversational AI software integrates with Zoom and automates parts of the sales process to lead to more effective conversations. Chatting about pain points on the sales process over the years, Levy said it felt like the solution was always training the sales team more. The essential revenue software stack.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2021

One customer assumed that poor usage rates at a particular station was due to a lack of EVs in the area, Terry recalled in a recent interview. This round values the startup, which was founded in January 2020, at $11 million post-money. ” In January 2020, Terry quit her job and started ChargerHelp. Hiring approach.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

Meez , a company creating professional recipe software and a culinary operating system, brought in its first-ever funding round of $6.5 There are tools for things like inventory management or financial software, but there wasn’t anything built for the things we do in the kitchen or related to what we actually do.”. Meez software.

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CIO

JANUARY 14, 2025

The technology has made tidal waves in society, as more than 180 million ChatGPT users tap the fastest growing app for everything from writing term papers to debugging code. Vertice advises that to be in a strong negotiating position, you should start due diligence 6-8 months before renewal.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2023

In a large-scale survey of IT decision makers published last September, 75% of the respondents said they expected to increase their observability spend in 2022 “significantly” to better plan, deploy and run software. ” Metaplane monitors data using anomaly detection models trained primarily on historical metadata.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

A pair of Airbnb alums have teamed up to build a software business aimed at dramatically simplifying that process, or being, in their words, a “concierge for procurement.” Notably, the San Francisco company was founded in 2020, so it has achieved this unicorn valuation in about 18 months (this deal actually closed earlier in 2022).

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

“Due to the extreme human capital and time costs, unstructured data isn’t efficiently analyzed and is often left out of historical data decisions. To customers, Accern provides AI-powered apps and natural language processing (NLP) models trained to recognize, classify, and extract domain-specific financial language.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

CEO David Akinin founded JABU in mid-2020 to fix Namibia’s inefficient and almost nonexistent supply chain and distribution. Due to the pandemic, Akinin’s construction company embarked on a COVID relief program to donate food supplies in Namibia. Then, he stumbled on the country’s B2B e-commerce retail opportunity. “We

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

Headroom , a startup developing AI-powered software to make meetings ostensibly more efficient, today announced that it raised $9 million in funding led by Equal Opportunity Ventures with participation from Gradient Ventures, LDV Capital, AME Cloud Ventures, and Morado Ventures. The momentum isn’t slowing down.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

. “As machine learning models usage grows exponentially in production use cases, we see AI builders needing products and solutions to make AI systems more secure, while recognizing the unique needs and threats surrounding machine learning code,” Swanson told TechCrunch in an email interview.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

MARCH 18, 2020

Survey respondents represent 25 different industries, with “Software” (~17%) as the largest distinct vertical. In 2020, as in 2019, a plurality of respondents—almost 22%—identified a lack of institutional support as the biggest problem. In both 2019 and 2020, the AI skills gap actually occupied the No. Respondent demographics.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

That process involves placing a smear of blood onto a slide, and examining the shape, size and structure of certain cells using a well-trained eye. Once samples are scanned in the lab, they could be reviewed by hematologists working from anywhere. You can zoom around in one of the images here.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2022

All this started just a week after she applied for a small loan of around $100 that she needed due to a severe financial crisis earlier this year. Unemployment in the country hit 23.52% of its total labor force in April 2020, per data shared by the Mumbai-based economic think-tank Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE).

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

When the iconic American power tools company Stanley Black & Decker began looking for ways to improve the pipeline of diverse candidates that the company was reviewing for potential roles, it turned to an Israeli-based startup called Talenya for help. Flockjay pitches its sales training service as an on-ramp to tech careers.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

And instead of having a radiologist sit down and annotate an entire image, the software is designed to ensure that only key portions of the image are labeled. Encord was founded in 2020 by Eric Landau, who has a background in applied physics, and Ulrik Stig Hansen. Another might be trained to recognize Ben Affleck’s Batman, and so on.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

Yahya Bouhlel started coding in his early teens. It raised $850,000 seed in October 2020. As such, most venture-backed startups build around upskilling students and professionals in software engineering and generally tech-facing skills. Within this timeline, he interned at several companies in Palo Alto, California.

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CIO

APRIL 15, 2022

MIT Technology Review has chronicled a number of failures, most of which stem from errors in the way the tools were trained or tested. A similar example includes an algorithm trained with a data set that included scans of the chests of healthy children. The paper determined the technique not fit for clinical use. 25 and Oct.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

But Stephen Durnin, the company’s head of operational excellence and automation, says the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic thrust automation around unstructured input, like email and documents, into the spotlight. “We So it onboarded OutSystems, an AI-powered low code platform, to help orchestrate end-to-end processes.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The government organization found labor productivity, or output per hour, declining in six of 10 quarters between the fourth quarter of 2020 and the first quarter of 2023, with a flat number in a seventh quarter. But the online university hasn’t seen the productivity boost it has expected with AI-based coding assistants, Smith adds.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

Blockchain startups and protocols are fighting to onboard and train more engineers — an even tougher undertaking in a world where developing on Ethereum vs. Solana vs. Polkadot vs. another blockchain can require completely different programming skill sets. The Encode Club team Image Credits: Encode Club.

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CIO

JULY 24, 2024

A mission to prevent rampant food waste and ease financial vulnerability In 2020, as Covid-19 forced the closure of state facilities, Switzerland witnessed a distressing situation where numerous individuals faced food insecurity while an alarming amount of food was being wasted across the country.

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CIO

JANUARY 13, 2023

All Posts The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has overspent about $15 million on Oracle software over the past five years because it lacked a centralized software asset management practice, according to an audit report published by the space agency’s office of the inspector general (OIG).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Gretel AI , which lets engineers create anonymized, synthetic data sets based on their actual data sets to use in their analytics and to train machine learning models has closed $50 million in funding, a Series B that it will be using to get the company to the next stage of development. million to date.

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Tenable

APRIL 30, 2020

On April 29, 2020, Check Point researchers Omri Herscovici and Sagi Tzadik published research into three popular WordPress learning management system (LMS) plugins: LifterLMS , LearnDash and LearnPress. CVE-2020-6008 is an arbitrary file write vulnerability in LifterLMS versions below 3.37.15. Background.

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Honeycomb

AUGUST 18, 2020

8/3 – Query engine lambda startup failures : A code change was merged that prevented the lambda-based portion of our query engine from starting. 8/5 – Query engine panics : A configuration change targeting a different part of the code base caused the query engine reader to panic when trying to execute some common types of queries.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

With the market for call center software estimated to be worth tens of billions, there’s a strong incentive to crack the code — or to come close, at least. “Our core models don’t require customer data for training — we work under GDPR standards, regardless of where the client is based.”

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