2022

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Myth Busting – Innovation Can Only Happen at the Office

elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog

Apparently, innovation can only happen within the four physical walls of an office. Who knew, right? Or, at least, that’s what we have been told by certain people , once more, as another false narrative that demands we all get back to work, i.e. back to the office, if we would want to continue pushing for innovation to thrive. Gosh, as if the last two and half years have not proved, repeatedly, how, if anything, we’ve been innovating all along, while away from the office , in the midst of the

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A New Journey to Better Software Security

Security Innovation

Like most AppSec organizations, it’s likely that you have been facing the same challenges as most other software organizations: you have limited staff and resources responsible for application security but shoulder the responsibility to reduce risk for the entire organization. It’s an especially difficult spot to be in when you are short-handed – and approximately 43% of cybersecurity positions are unfilled, according to recent data.

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7 Ways To Reduce Burnout In Your Tech Teams

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

The pandemic has resulted in a new kind of workplace burnout—making employee well-being more critical than ever. An Indeed survey reports 67% of all workers believe the pandemic has worsened burnout. Paradigm shifts across all industries in how they work, post-COVID, and an unprecedented talent shortage due to the Great Resignation are sure-fire indicators of employee burnout.

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Web 3.0 is Future – But Why Will It Use Open-Source Coding And Decentralize Technology?

The Crazy Programmer

Web 3.0 is the buzzword amongst a community of decentralized devoted people. The current state of the internet is web 2.0 – one largely restricted in terms of creation and control. Still, there is more usability for end-users and more user-generated content. Two examples are websites like WordPress and social media sites like Facebook, which allow users to have creative control.

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Prevent Data Breaches With Zero-Trust Enterprise Password Management

Keeper Security is transforming cybersecurity for people and organizations around the world. Keeper’s affordable and easy-to-use solutions are built on a foundation of zero-trust and zero-knowledge security to protect every user on every device. Our next-generation privileged access management solution deploys in minutes and seamlessly integrates with any tech stack to prevent breaches, reduce help desk costs and ensure compliance.

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How to Build a Team That’s a Talent Magnet

Next Level Blog

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Six Steps To Developing An Innovation Strategy For A Software Company

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The Great DevOps Burnout

DevOps.com

DevOps needs a mindset shift to save the overworked engineering collective. There’s a considerable discussion right now about the Great Resignation. But if you work in software engineering, you’re probably even more familiar with the Great Burnout. Everything in the software development realm has sped up over the last few years. Engineers perform at a […].

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Revel raises $7.8M to become the Instagram and Robinhood of NFT platforms

TechCrunch

Revel , an NFT or “social collectibles” platform, raised $7.8 million in seed financing led by Dragonfly Capital, the startup’s CEO, Adi Sideman, exclusively told TechCrunch. “One way to describe Revel is a cross between Instagram and Robinhood, wrapped in social game economics,” Sideman said. Instagram is known as a social media platform while Robinhood is known as an investing and trading platform.

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How to get out of the tech debt bottleneck

Martin Fowler

Tim Cochran and Carl Nygard finish their examination of the tech debt bottleneck by looking at how to get out of it. This includes close collaboration betwen product and engineering, a strategy for the four phases of a startup's journey, and empowering teams to fix the tech debt problems. more….

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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10 Key Trends of Digital Transformation in Healthcare in 2022

OTS Solutions

The COVID-19 pandemic fundamentally altered healthcare in 2020. Still, in 2021, a new set of problems has emerged, including more potent COVID-19 variations and overflowing hospitals attempting to treat both people with and without the virus. Technology has proven important in maintaining the healthcare industry’s resilience in the face of so many obstacles.

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The Rise of Hybrid Work and What it Means For Agile

Agile Alliance

Are hybrid workplaces compatible with the workflow teams are trying to achieve, or does it help or hinder them from living up to Agile values and principles? The post The Rise of Hybrid Work and What it Means For Agile first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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The 2030 Self-Driving Car Bet

Coding Horror

It's my honor to announce that John Carmack and I have initiated a friendly bet of $10,000* to the 501(c)(3) charity of the winner’s choice: By January 1st, 2030, completely autonomous self-driving cars meeting SAE J3016 level 5 will be commercially available for passenger use in major cities. I am betting against , and John is betting for.

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How AI/ML is changing the way businesses work

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Businesses around the world are constantly evolving and with that comes new opportunities for companies to improve their operations and grow their reach. One of the most exciting and rapidly-growing fields in this evolution is Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML). Simply put, AI is the ability of a computer to learn and perform tasks that ordinarily require human intelligence, such as understanding natural language and recognizing objects in pictures.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

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.

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Log4J Vulnerability (Log4Shell) Explained

The Crazy Programmer

It is an open source library in java built for logging error messages in applications including networks, cloud computing services. This library has been used in many java programs designed for server as well as client applications. What is Log4Shell in Log4j? Log4Shell is a vulnerability that affects the core function of log4j. This allows the attacker to execute the code remotely leading to: Taking the complete control of the system.

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We are still early with the cloud

Erik Bernhardsson

This is is in many respects a successor to a blog post I wrote last year. about what I want from software infrastructure, but the ideas morphed in my head into something sort of wider. The genesis. I encountered AWS in 2006 or 2007 and remember thinking that it's crazy — why would anyone want to put their stuff in someone else's data center? But only a couple of years later, I was running a bunch of stuff on top of AWS.

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OpenAI will give roughly 10 AI startups $1M each and early access to its systems

TechCrunch

OpenAI, the San Francisco-based lab behind AI systems like GPT-3 and DALL-E 2, today launched a new program to provide early-stage AI startups with capital and access to OpenAI tech and resources. Called Converge, the cohort will be financed by the OpenAI Startup Fund , OpenAI says. The $100 million entrepreneurial tranche was announced last May and was backed by Microsoft and other partners.

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Nigerian retail automation platform Bumpa raises $4M, led by Base10 Partners

TechCrunch

Millions of small and medium businesses still operate inefficiently due to dependency on manual processes, which limits their capacity to grow and scale; this is despite contributing to about 48% of Nigeria’s GDP in the last five years, But the tide is turning. Over the last couple of months, we’ve seen a wave of upstarts launching solutions geared toward digitizing small business operations.

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2024 Salary Guide

Procom’s 2024 Salary Guide provides critical insights into the latest hiring trends, in-demand IT roles, and competitive pay rates across Canada and the U.S. It highlights key market dynamics such as the growing demand for remote work, skills-based hiring, and flexible staffing solutions. With detailed pay rate data for top IT positions like Cybersecurity Consultants, Cloud Engineers, and Salesforce Developers, this guide is an essential resource for companies looking to stay competitive in toda

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Remembering the startups we lost in 2022

TechCrunch

It’s been a year. This roundup is never a particularly fun one to write. No one wants to see startups fail, but we’re all keenly aware that most ultimately do. A commonly cited figure suggest that 90% of these companies will ultimately fail. But even with that in mind, 2022 just hit different. The previous two years were unprecedented in startup land, of course.

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Gravitics raises $20M to make the essential units for living and working in space

TechCrunch

The space industry is on the cusp of a revolution. The cost of launch, which has dramatically decreased over the past five years, will continue to drop as heavy-lift rockets like SpaceX’s Starship and Relativity’s Terran R become operational. Parallel to these developments, multiple private companies have introduced plans to build commercial space stations for science, manufacturing and even tourism.

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#MyTechFrenemy

TechCrunch

Some students at the MyTechBestFriend academy have always been a little suspicious of the program and its founder, Mary Awodele. Since its founding in 2020, a whisper network murmured that many of the materials taught by the academy were plagiarized from various other online programs, such as those from Google or Salesforce. Founded by Awodele in 2020, MyTechBestFriend (MTBF) launched to public acclaim, especially within the Black tech community.

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Ghanaian fintech Dash raises $32.8M seed to build connected wallets for Africans

TechCrunch

Global financial transactions are facilitated mainly by payment processors such as Visa or Mastercard. They are responsible for communication between banks and fintechs to settle transactions for consumers and businesses swiftly. Africa has it different. It’s not a predominantly card continent. Telecoms and banks lead the majority of online financial transactions carried out in the region via mobile money wallets and bank accounts.

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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days

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.

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Wefox grabs $400M at $4.5B valuation to buck the insurtech downturn trend

TechCrunch

European insurance tech startup Wefox has raised $400 million in a series D round of funding, giving the German company a post-money valuation of $4.5 billion. This represents a 50% increase on last year’s $3 billion valuation at its Series C round. Founded out of Berlin in 2015, Wefox sells various insurance products through a combination of in-house and external brokers, bypassing the direct-to-consumer model of insurtech competitors which include rival German startup Getsafe.

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Rebundle raises $1.4M for plant-based hair extensions

TechCrunch

This morning Rebundle , a hair-focused startup based in St. Louis, announced that it has raised $1.4 million in a pre-seed round. M25 , a venture firm with a geographic focus on the Midwest, led the funding event. Prior to its pre-seed round, Rebundle had raised what CEO and co-founder Ciara Imani May described as six-figures worth of grant, and other non-dilutive capital in an interview with TechCrunch.

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Ghanaian fintech Float raises $17M seed to power cash flow for commerce in Africa

TechCrunch

Cash flow is a major pain point for small businesses in Africa. Long payment cycles, which can take 30-90 days after services or products have been rendered, and little or no capital, of which research says 85% of African small and medium businesses are subject to, are the main culprits of cash flow issues. Many startups are solving these problems for African SMBs in one form or another, and the demand for their services has seen Ghanaian startup Float pick up a significant round of funding.

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Homa raises another $100 million for its data-driven mobile gaming tools

TechCrunch

French startup Homa has raised a $100 million Series B funding round. Quadrille Capital and Headline are leading the round. Homa partners with indie mobile game studios so that their games are perfectly optimized to become a hit game on the App Store and Google Play. In other words, Homa builds tools that help third-party developers build games. The reason for that is that it has become incredibly challenging to stand out when you build a hypercasual, casual or board game with a small dev team.

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An Architect’s Guide for Selecting Scalable, Data-Layer Technologies

There’s no getting around it: selecting the right foundational data-layer components is crucial for long-term application success. That’s why we developed this white paper to give you insights into four key open-source technologies – Apache Cassandra®, Apache Kafka®, Apache Spark™, and OpenSearch® – and how to leverage them for lasting success. Discover everything you’ll want to know about scalable, data-layer technologies: Learn when to choose these technologies and when to avoid them Explore h

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Bolt raises $709M at an $8.4B valuation to expand its transportation and food delivery super app

TechCrunch

Economies of scale are an essential cornerstone for on-demand companies, and to that end one of the hopefuls in the space has raised a big round to grow its business. Bolt — the startup and app of the same name that operates on-demand ride hailing, shared cars and scooters; and restaurant and grocery delivery — has raised €628 million ($709 million at current rates), at a valuation of €7.4 billion ($8.4 billion).

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MVP versus EVP: Is it time to introduce ethics into the agile startup model?

TechCrunch

Anand Rao. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Anand Rao is global head of AI at PwC. The rocket ship trajectory of a startup is well known: Get an idea, build a team and slap together a minimum viable product (MVP) that you can get in front of users. However, today’s startups need to reconsider the MVP model as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) become ubiquitous in tech products and the market grows increasingly conscious of the ethical implications of AI augmenting or replacing

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YC-backed Namibian startup JABU gets $3.2M for its B2B e-commerce and retail play

TechCrunch

Namibian business-to-business e-commerce startup JABU confirmed to TechCrunch that it has raised a $3.2 million financing round. The seed round, which was closed last year, welcomed investors such as Afore Capital, Y Combinator, FJ Labs, Quiet Capital, Kli Capital, Pareto Capital and unnamed angels. As a last-mile distribution e-commerce company, JABU joins a list of startups across the continent that help small retailers order and stock their products and, at the same time, provide data-driven

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