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Twitter ‘acqui-hires’ the team from subscription news app, Brief

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Co-founder and CTO Andrea Huey, meanwhile, was a Google senior software engineer, who worked on the Google iOS app and had a prior stint at Microsoft. Image Credits: Brief. It also bought products, like newsletter platform Revue , which it directly integrated.

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Nudge Security emerges from stealth to tackle cybersecurity’s people problem

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Social engineering attacks are on the rise. The fully remote company — with outposts in Austin, Texas and Jackson, Wyoming — was founded in 2021 by ex- AlienVault software engineers Russell Spitler and Jaime Blasco, who believe the only way to address the “people problem” is to make employees part of the solution.

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Actual, which renders company ESG data in a SimCity-like platform, raises $5M seed

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Founded by LinkedIn and Airbus alums, the San Francisco-based platform says it combines urban planning, game design, data visualization, and scientific planning to model and execute on their environmental, social and governance plans. “We and former LinkedIn software engineer and Rhodes Scholar, Derek Lyons, Ph.D.

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2014 Analyst Forum: Data Analytics and Ancestry.com

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Scott Sorensen , the Chief Technology Officer with Ancestry.com , delivered a keynote that examined issues relevant to analysts from throughout the community. ancestry CTO Scott Sorensen says [link] 's business is all about data and telling stories from that data #DataAnalytics.

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8 open source companies from YC Demo Day Winter ’22

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Founders: Co-founders Jeremy Dorn and Graham McNicoll both used to work at Education.com as chief architect and CTO respectively. Our thoughts: Startups will likely be more comfortable using open source software to help them make product decisions rather than sending all of their data to a third-party provider. Founded: 2021.

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Pros And Cons Of Hiring Full-Stack Developers Over Front Or Back-End Developers

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Experienced front-end, back-end, or a full-stack software engineer are in high demand. According to stats from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics , by 2029, software engineers’ employment will surge by 22%. The Three Main Layers of Software Development. ’ This gap may take a while to narrow down. .’

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Nestcoin raises $6.45M pre-seed to accelerate crypto and web3 adoption in Africa and frontier markets

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Orilogbon was the company’s chief technology officer. It recently backed AltSchool Africa, an entry-level tech talent project introducing Africans to software engineering and web3 courses like blockchain. Local investors in the round include Ventures Platform, Future Africa and Voltron Capital.

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