TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
Discord , the communications service that’s become the 21st century’s answer to MUD rooms, is close to closing a new round of financing that would value the company at up to $7 billion, according to sources with knowledge of the round. The new funding comes just months after a $100 million investment that gave the company a $3.5 billion valuation.
Agile Alliance
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
How well are Agile retrospectives serving you? We assume you follow the Agile retrospective agenda by starting with setting the stage, then gathering data, followed by generating insights before you decide on actions and close the retrospectives. We furthermore hope that at your next retrospective you look back to your earlier decisions in order to … Continued.
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Let's Grow Leaders
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
Find the fun with authenticity, surprise, and variety Robert unmuted his microphone, leaned into the camera, and asked in a near-whisper: “How can we find the fun again?” We were facilitating at the Inc 5000 Vision Conference, helping leaders navigate the challenges […]. The post How Leaders Can Find the Fun During the Slog appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
CTOvision
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
It’s always been the case that so-called NoSQL databases like MongoDB are very popular in the cloud. That’s not surprising, given that much of today’s cloud data doesn’t neatly fit […].
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TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
News that Salesforce is interested in buying Slack , the popular workplace chat company, sent shares of the smaller firm sharply higher today. Slack shares are up just under 25% at the moment, according to Yahoo Finance data. Slack is worth $36.95 per share as of the time of writing, valuing it at around $20.8 billion. The well-known former unicorn has been worth as little as $15.10 per share inside the last year and worth as much as $40.07.
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Let's Grow Leaders
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
We’re excited to share this special Thanksgiving edition of Asking For a Friend. Karin interviews Dan Rockwell, Leadership Freak, about how to be grateful– even during difficult times. In this episode, we unpack some of Dan’s recent and inspirational writing on gratitude, […]. The post On Being Grateful: An Asking For a Friend Interview with Dan Rockwell appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
CTOvision
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
[link] critical and important-severity flaws were found by a team at the China-based Tiunfu Cup hacking challenge. VMware has hurried out fixes for a critical flaw in its ESXi hypervisor, […].
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 21, 2020
This is The TechCrunch Exchange, a newsletter that goes out on Saturdays, based on the column of the same name. You can sign up for the email here. I had a neat look into the world of mental health startup fundraising planned for this week, but after being slow-motion carpet-bombed by S-1s, that is now shoved off to Monday and we have to pause and talk about COVID-19.
Xebia
NOVEMBER 26, 2020
I’m grateful to learn from my daughter. Be able to see how the brain develops and picks up new concepts, skills and words. Nowadays, I enjoy to sit down and watch her play. As a parent, I also need to help her to achieve her autonomy: emotionally, mentally and physically. It is the job, and […]. The post Organisational structures to create autonomy: what I’ve learned from my daughter appeared first on Xebia Blog.
Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin
As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.
Hacker Earth Developers Blog
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
What’s common to teaching Greco-Roman literature to a bunch of Ph.D. students and heading HR at a global corporation? The answer: a sustained interest in the individual. While HRs are known for protecting the interest of the companies they work for, Christian Blood , who heads People Ops at Zoho’s offices in North America, believes that it is also an effective mechanism for advocacy for individual employees.
CTOvision
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
MemSQL is re-branding to SingleStore, according to a press release on the company’s website. Though MemSQL is a well-recognized name among data architects and performance engineers, the company’s flagship data […].
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 27, 2020
Hacker houses are making a comeback for entrepreneurs as remote work drags on. While founders are adapting to quarantine in style, a group of college women in their 20s aren’t waiting until they are done with undergraduate to plunge into the lifestyle themselves. Started by college juniors Coco Sack and Kendall Titus , Womxn Ignite is a house for female and non-binary college undergraduates studying computer science.
David Walsh
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
Have you ever felt like you’ve been a professional developer or designer forever, and somehow not known something basic, and borderline hate yourself? That’s me with a trick that was introduced to me by Miguel Piedrafita: You can submit forms from a button outside of the form tag by using the form attribute pic.twitter.com/72pjoWu5Ll — Miguel Piedrafita (@m1guelpf) November 22, 2020.
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Hacker Earth Developers Blog
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
The platform has experienced a 250% YoY increase in remote assessments, and a 4,000% YoY increase in remote interviews conducted on its platform FaceCode. November 23, 2020: HackerEarth, a leading developer assessment and tech interview solutions provider, today reported a significant surge in the number of remote assessments and remote interviews conducted across its platforms during Q3.
CTOvision
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
Israeli autonomous drone startup Percepto announced on Tuesday the completion of a $45 million series B funding round. The company also revealed that it is expanding its activity into additional […].
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
Cashfree, an Indian startup that offers a wide-range of payments services to businesses, has raised $35.3 million in a new financing round as the profitable firm looks to broaden its offering. The Bangalore-based startup’s Series B was led by London-headquartered private equity firm Apis Partners (which invested through its Growth Fund II), with participation from existing investors Y Combinator and Smilegate Investments.
David Walsh
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
In the current JavaScript climate of new syntaxes, features, and using loads of external libraries, it seems harder than ever to be sure what your functions are being given or even what the data represents. Of course, we’ve come up with Flow and TypeScript to help, but we can’t count on those always being available. That’s why I like doing my own detection with JavaScript, especially when it comes to function types.
Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage
Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.
DevOps.com
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
What lies ahead for application development? Can we look forward to a less hierarchical system? The current state of application development has an often overlooked problem: It’s inaccessible. Top tier companies such as Google, Microsoft, Apple and Facebook are at a major advantage. With their large capital, they can invest in innovative development tools and […].
CTOvision
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
Windward, the Predictive Intelligence company applying AI to transform global maritime trade, has partnered with a number of organizations in the maritime field including four major shipping companies – Norden, […].
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
U.S. challenger bank Current, which has doubled its member base in less than six months, announced this morning it raised $131 million in Series C funding, led by Tiger Global Management. The additional financing brings Current to over $180 million in total funding to date, and gives the company a valuation of $750 million. The round also brought in new investors Sapphire Ventures and Avenir.
The Citus Data
NOVEMBER 21, 2020
Stored procedures are widely used in commercial relational databases. You write most of your application logic in PL/SQL and achieve notable performance gains by pushing this logic into the database. As a result, customers who are looking to migrate from other databases to PostgreSQL usually make heavy use of stored procedures. When migrating from a large database, using the Citus extension to distribute your database can be an attractive option, because you will always have enough hardware capa
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DevOps.com
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
Successful digital transformations are not possible without successful data transformation. After all, it’s data—and the ability to analyze that data—about an organization’s customers, employees, infrastructure, market dynamics, supply chain, business-technology systems and more that make digital transformation possible. However, last year Gartner said that “information as an asset” is still in its infancy.
CTOvision
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
A new variant of a skimmer has revealed the increasingly muddy waters associated with tracking groups involved in Magecart-style attacks. On Wednesday, researchers from RiskIQ described how a new Grelos […].
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
A spate of startups focused on mental health recently made enough noise as a group that they caught the eye of the Equity podcast crew. Sadly, the segment we’d planned to discuss this topic was swept away by a blizzard of IPO filings that piled up like fresh snow. But in preparation, I reached out to CB Insights for new data on the mental health startup space that they were kind enough to supply.
thoughtLEADERS, LLC
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
Dr. Cindy McGovern offers five meaningful ways employers can say “thank you” to their staffs during the holidays and throughout the year. Today’s post is by Dr. Cindy McGovern, author of Every Job is a Sales Job (CLICK HERE to get your copy). A holiday party for employees is a nice touch as the year winds down, and nobody ever turned down a big bonus as a reward for doing a good job month after month.
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DevOps.com
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
Continuous delivery (CD) and all the other continuous things—continuous integration (CI), continuous testing, continuous deployment—have become the new mantra of DevOps. CI/CD adoption typically starts with agile development teams working on new or well-funded systems. But what about the rest of the world and all of those “other” applications, under-funded IT teams are responsible for […].
CTOvision
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
Read Shristi Deoras take a look at why FireEye acquired Respond Software and how it will help FireEye in long term on Analytics India Mag: In one of the costliest […].
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 26, 2020
Meet Bigblue , a French startup that just raised a $3.6 million seed round (€3 million) to build an end-to-end fulfillment solution in Europe. If you sell products on your own website and across multiple marketplaces, you can use Bigblue to handle everything that happens after a transaction. Bigblue doesn’t try to reinvent the wheel. Instead, it partners with existing logistics companies so that you only have to manage one relationship with Bigblue.
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