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IT leaders on DOGE’s bold COBOL ambitions: Pure folly

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Many IT leaders scoffed when they heard that Elon Musks US Department of Government Efficiency wants to rip out millions of lines COBOL code at the Social Security Administration and replace it within a matter of months. Social Security is not something to fail fast on.

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Leap, a ‘social learning’ platform aimed at over 55s, raises a $3.1M seed round

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Leap , a platform for people over 55 to learn via social interaction, has raised $3.1 Leap was founded by Swedish entrepreneur Caroline Ingeborn, former CEO of Toca Boca, a Swedish app development studio that builds learning apps for kids, and Vishal Kapur, former CTO and co-founder of Screenhero, which was acquired by Slack in 2015.

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Backed by former Facebook and Twitter execs, Tagg launches social branding app for Gen Z

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Gen Z isn’t satisfied with the social media they grew up with, so they’re building the apps that they want to use. It’s like a link-in-bio service, but with a social element that encourages young creatives to connect, collaborate and develop friendships. Image Credits: Tagg.

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Upstream aims to be the new home for your professional social life

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Last fall, social analytics startup SocialRank sold its product and business to Trufan , allowing the team to focus on something new: a professional social network. “This is the place for your professional social life,” Taub said. Today, they’re officially unveiling Upstream to the public.

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Rethinking digital transformation for the agentic AI era

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For example, by analyzing customer feedback, including unstructured data such as reviews and social media comments, AI helps organizations operationalize that feedback to improve training, policies, and hiring, Mazur says.

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College social app Fizz is growing fast – maybe too fast

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Things are bleak in the tech sphere as we close out a year defined by plummeting stocks , persistent mass layoffs and a fall from grace for major social media companies. ” So, is it a good time to be building a buzzy new social app, or is it a complete mess? Fizz closed a $4.5 Fizz told users about the issues via a blog post.

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Early Snapchat employee debuts Yoni Circle, a social storytelling app for womxn

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Drimal, has now launched her own social app, Yoni Circle. Drimal came up with the idea for a social storytelling app, in part, because she saw the potential when working on the Snapchat “Our Stories” product. An early Snapchat employee who once architected the “Our Stories” product, Chloe?

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