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The True Cost of Neglecting Quality Assurance: Lessons from Recent Tech Failures

Perficient

The Importance of Quality Assurance in Software Development The pressure to deliver software quickly and cost-effectively is among the highest priorities of business leaders. However, recent high-profile tech failures serve as stark reminders of the critical importance of robust Quality Assurance (QA) practices.

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Deoleo doubles down on sustainability through digital transformation

CIO

Founded in 1955 and present in more than 70 countries, Deoleo’s philosophy stems from a heritage of quality and tradition, and to value innovation and sustainability as growth vectors, with the aim of protecting its farmers, suppliers and the land. This has a direct impact on the reduction of claims by consumers.”

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Wikifactory has raised $4.5M for its ‘GitHub for hardware’ to make almost anything remotely

TechCrunch

With the investment, the company will build a “quality-assured” manufacturing marketplace, as well as mirrored servers in China to open access to its hardware capital, Shenzhen. The “impact” aspect of Wikifactory’s playbook is that it involves less shipping and less costly inventories being required.

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VCs to recommerce startups: Let’s pop some tags

TechCrunch

It’s largely due to the changing cultural and societal value placed on sustainability. As Gen Z enters the workforce, they’re starting to flex their growing purchasing power with value-aligned, sustainability-oriented brands. That’s 5x faster growth than the overall retail market. Why the sudden recommerce resurgence?

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Singapore-based alternative protein startup Next Gen Foods gets $100M Series A for U.S. growth

TechCrunch

The company’s Series A, which brings its total funding so far to $130 million, includes new investors Alpha JWC, EDBI and MPL Ventures, as well as returning investors like Temasek (through its wholly-owned Asia Sustainable Food Platform), GGV Capital, K3 Ventures and Bits X Bites. and other big markets, like Brazil or China, first.

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The Real Value of the Quality Assurance Team

MagmaLabs

Reading Time: 3 minutes In a software development project, different teams contribute to creating a digital product; one of those is Quality Assurance. The QA Team adds significant value to the project, resulting in a stable product with the highest quality. Just there is where Quality Assurance has its most important role.

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Tiger Global leads cash infusion into Elementary for automated manufacturing inspection

TechCrunch

cloud initiatives, and quality/sustainability initiatives in a fast and easy path.”. Elementary Robotics is making its quality assurance robots commercially available. Overall, we’re enabling customers to move towards industry 4.0