TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Magic, a startup developing a code-generating platform similar to GitHub’s Copilot , today announced that it raised $23 million in a Series A funding round led by Alphabet’s CapitalG with participation from Elad Gil, Nat Friedman and Amplify Partners. So what’s its story? But absent a demo, we have only his word to go on.

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CIO

JANUARY 19, 2023

As companies shift their focus from the digital transformation of individual processes to the business outcomes enabled by a digitally transformed organisation, software engineering will become a core enterprise capability. 61% of respondents rated the performance of OSS as being superior compared to proprietary software.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Digital transformation is expected to be the top strategic priority for businesses of all sizes and industries, yet organisations find the transformation journey challenging due to digital skill gap, tight budget, or technology resource shortages. Amidst these challenges, organisations turn to low-code to remain competitive and agile.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

Historically, environmental health and safety software hasn’t been a massive market — at least compared to others in the software-as-a-service segment — and it’s admittedly not the most enthralling startup category. But that’s changing, according to a new survey released by research firm Verdantix. billion by 2027.

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CIO

MARCH 12, 2024

Generative AI is already having an impact on multiple areas of IT, most notably in software development. Early use cases include code generation and documentation, test case generation and test automation, as well as code optimization and refactoring, among others.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Portlogics , a South Korean digital freight forwarder that offers a robotic process automation-based forwarding management system, wants to help merchants track international shipping logistics and get status updates on shipments, digitizing the process with its software tool. billion in 2030 , up from $2.92

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2023

Move over, software. Writing the text strings that instruct AI systems like ChatGPT and DALL-E 2 to generate essays, articles, images and more has become a veritable profession, commanding salaries well into the six-figure range. Prompts may well be the new oil. Anyone can come up with prompts, of course. But only certain prompts (e.g.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Redbird was created to help everyone in an organization create and run analytics without using code, therefore reducing the amount of bottlenecks that data engineers need to deal with. The new funding will be used to add more no-code capabilities. The New York-based startup announced today that it has raised $7.6

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

Smile Identity , a KYC compliance and ID verification partner for many African fintechs and businesses, has acquired Inclusive Innovations, the parent company of Appruve , a Ghanaian developer of identity verification software. We want to add that depth in more markets, and Appruve gives some of that.”

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CIO

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

At its Microsoft Ignite 2024 show in Chicago this week, Microsoft and industry partner experts showed off the power of small language models (SLMs) with a new set of fine-tuned, pre-trained AI models using industry-specific data. The company notes that customers can also use the models to configure agents in Microsoft Copilot Studio.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Specifically, organizations are contemplating Generative AI’s impact on software development. While the potential of Generative AI in software development is exciting, there are still risks and guardrails that need to be considered. It helps increase developer productivity and efficiency by helping developers shortcut building code.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

And this is something that London-based generalist VC firm Playfair Capital knows all about, given its focus on backing super young startups that have yet to make much of a ripple in their respective industries. ” A large chunk of early-stage deals fall apart in the due diligence phase. .

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The retail landscape has undergone massive shifts in recent years to adopt self-checkout systems. Some industry experts believe the pull-back is only temporary, and the future for self-checkout is bright — as soon as new technologies begin to be deployed on a large scale. But is this the beginning of the end for self-checkouts?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

QA Wolf , a cloud-based platform designed to detect bugs in software, today exited stealth and announced a $20 million funding round led by Inspired Capital with participation from Notation Capital, Operator Partners and Thiel Capital and several angel investors (among them Peter Thiel). Neither, obviously, are very desirable scenarios.

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CIO

OCTOBER 2, 2024

An AI policy serves as a framework to ensure that AI systems align with ethical standards, legal requirements and business objectives. Algorithmic transparency and explainability AI systems often operate as ‘black boxes,’ making decisions that are difficult to interpret. Providing such clarity builds confidence in AI decision-making.

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CIO

OCTOBER 25, 2023

On October 20, 2023, Okta Security identified adversarial activity that used a stolen credential to gain access to the company’s support case management system. Once inside the system, the hacker gained access to files uploaded by Okta customers using valid session tokens from recent support cases.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2023

domestic flights were grounded when one of its key systems went down, Darrell reports. Can AI turn out polite pitch rejection letters, automate aspects of due diligence, or draft accurate market maps? Stretching our spans : Abby Miller Levy takes a stab at predicting the longevity industry in 2023. What did you say?

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Martin Fowler

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Pretty much all the practitioners I favor in Software Architecture are deeply suspicious of any kind of general law in the field. Good software architecture is very context-specific, analyzing trade-offs that resolve differently across a wide range of environments. We often see how inattention to the law can twist system architectures.

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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. “Construction and property management are among the last major industries to digitize.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Now tech companies across industries are poised for an even better year, according to more than a dozen investors we talked to in the country. Other investors felt that a broader range of industries, like fintech and biotech, would eventually produce the biggest companies in the country. Rafi Carmeli , partner, Viola Growth.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

Africa’s appetite for cloud computing software continues to increase as connectivity and bandwidth opportunities push boundaries. Per reports, the continent’s cloud computing industry coupled with the Middle East is expected to grow to $31.4 billion in 2026 from $14.2 billion last year. but rarely used in markets like Nigeria. “In

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The Crazy Programmer

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

IT or Information technology is the industry that has registered continuous growth. It was in a better situation even in the COVID-19 situation than other industries. However, the ever-growing IT industry has encouraged the young generation and current professionals to find their ideal career opportunities. Software Architect.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2022

and Europe are on a mission to bring some of that industrial work back to its own shores. Robco , a Munich-based startup that has built a platform for designing low-cost modular robots for small and medium industrial businesses, has picked up €13 million (abut $13.8 We are not selling robots nor software.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

As TC’s Connie Loizos reported on January 11: “The 11-year-old, San Francisco-based outfit whose core business is selling software to investors to track their portfolios, has sued its former CTO , Jerry Talton, who the company says was fired ‘for cause’ almost three weeks ago, on Friday, December 23.”

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CIO

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

The promise the approach has for impacting business workflows has organizations such as Aflac, Atlantic Health System, Legendary Entertainment, and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory already pursuing the technology. CRM leader Salesforce has since centered its strategy around agentic AI, with the announcement of Agentforce.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

They eventually left Peixe Urbano and started Tuna in 2019 to make their own payment product which enables merchants to use A/B testing of credit card processors and anti-fraud providers to optimize their payments processing with one integration and a no-code interface. In the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

MARCH 19, 2021

Charles Caldwell is VP of product management at Logi Analytics , which empowers the world’s software teams with intuitive, developer-grade embedded analytics solutions. Charles Caldwell. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Organizations spend ungodly amounts of money — millions of dollars — on business intelligence (BI) tools.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Atrium, a 100-person legal tech startup founded by Justin Kan, shut down in March after failing to find an efficient way to replace the arduous systems of law firms. Ultimately, Atrium’s failure shows how difficult and unprofitable it could be to disrupt a traditional and complicated system. Atrium (2017-2020). Essential (2017-2020).

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OTS Solutions

JUNE 3, 2022

Technology has proven important in maintaining the healthcare industry’s resilience in the face of so many obstacles. Clinics that use cutting-edge technology will continue to thrive as intelligent systems evolve. Some industries, including finance and retail, already use chatbots, but healthcare is just getting started.

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CIO

JUNE 18, 2024

The use of gen AI with ERP systems is still in its early days, but the combination is expected to provide several benefits, including helping employees create specialized ERP functionality on their own through code wizards, says Liz Herbert, a Forrester analyst and lead author of the report, “ How Generative AI Will Transform ERP.”

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CIO

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

However, despite the potential for heightened growth from the swift expansion of AI, supply limitations and broader geopolitical issues troubling the semiconductor industry continue to cause some concerns for the company. If you ever look in the back of the data center, the systems and the cabling system are mind-boggling.

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CIO

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Chatbots may assign service tickets incorrectly, describe a problem inaccurately, or disrupt workflows and lead to significant systemic issues—causing data breaches or misallocation of vital resources—that then require human intervention. Software copilots are fantastic, but you want to read and understand what they give you,” Smith says.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

“The industry has shown reluctance to abandon its legacy processes — many shippers still pay freight brokers on 30-60 day terms despite carriers expecting near-instantaneous payments. For each shipment, these algorithms review 20 different data points and either approve the purchase or flag that a manual review is required.

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CIO

JULY 23, 2024

Generative AI (genAI) will drive transformation across industries in the coming year. Leaders have a profound responsibility not only to harness AI’s potential but also to navigate its ethical complexities with foresight, diligence, and transparency. Responsible leadership in GenAI isn’t optional – it’s essential.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

And though Nigeria’s food processing systems have a keen resemblance to the West with respect to big factories and huge economies of scale in high-demand cities, farmers still suffer from poor logistics networks. First, it planned to increase productivity in Nigeria’s agricultural sector using software.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

They typically don’t have the benefit of the specialized software and tech to help make everything run smoother, but that’s where Vori saw an opportunity. Now, I’d need to perform due diligence on that. ( ” Below is a five-minute video that tells the story beautifully. Slides in this deck.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Apply systems thinking into all facets of development. Base milestones on objective estimation and evaluation of working systems to ensure there is an economic benefit. Lean portfolio management: By applying Lean and systems thinking, SAFe organizations ensure their entire portfolio is aligned and funded to deliver strategic value.

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