Conversational AI platform Loora to break down language barriers
Monday, March 4, 2024 by Richard Harris
Loora announced that it raised $12M in a Series A financing round from lead investor QP Ventures, with participation from new investor Hearst Ventures and existing investors Emerge and Two Lanterns Venture Partners, among others. The new funding, which comes just eight months after Loora’s launch from stealth with a $9.25M seed funding round, will enable the compa...
Extension marketplace for Agora lands
Monday, September 20, 2021 by Freeman Lightner
Agora, Inc., a platform for real-time engagement APIs, has announced its Extensions Marketplace at RTE2021, the company’s flagship conference and the world’s largest event exploring real-time engagement (RTE) technologies. The new marketplace features extensions from audio technology company Bose and a real-time content moderation solution from Hive.
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Apple watch app from Trainerize brings the coach to your wrist
Friday, September 11, 2020 by Freeman Lightner
Since its inception, Trainerize has been on a mission to make fitness accessible—and with their newly-released Apple Watch App, they’ve progressed to a whole new phase of accessibility. Fitness businesses and personal trainers can now deliver coaching straight to their clients’ wrists, transforming the way wearables are utilized in personal health and ...
Women Who Tech announce 10 finalists
Thursday, September 5, 2019 by Brittany Hainzinger
Women Who Tech announced the 10 finalists for the European-leg of its flagship Women Startup Challenge. The HealthTech startups will pitch their ventures to top investors and compete for an equity-free $50,000 cash grant on 7th October at Paris City Hall, Hôtel de Ville.
"By 2040, $25 trillion will be spent annually on healthcare, yet only 9.7% of investor...
Code security gamification company nabs $3.5M in funding
Friday, September 14, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
Secure application development platform provider Secure Code Warrior announced that it has gained US $3.5 million in funding from two strategic venture capital firms. The financing was led by Washington DC-based Paladin Capital Group, with participation from Sydney-based AirTree Ventures. The initial funding round will allow the company to further expand its rapidly gro...
Open Design Challenge launches to develop fitness app for US Airforce
Friday, August 3, 2018 by Richard Harris
AF CyberWorx is launching its first-ever open design challenge. The online competition is designed to allow people to join from across the nation, bringing together a greater mix of participants from industry, government, and academia. Participants are asked to design and develop a fitness application that could provide health monitoring, personalized fitness coaching, ...
Mitel certifies Enghouse quality management suite
Tuesday, March 20, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
Enghouse Interactive has announced that Mitel has certified Enghouse Interactive’s Quality Management Suite version 7.1 for MiVoice Business 8.0 SP1, MiVoice Border Gateway 10.0 and its Secure Resource Connector (MBG/SRC). Enghouse Interactive’s Quality Management Suite (QMS) is comprised of three modules: Call Recording for interaction recording and live monitoring; Ag...
$40 million genomics accelerator introduced by Helix and Illumina
Tuesday, August 22, 2017 by Richard Harris
Helix, a personal genomics company, has announced a collaboration with Illumina Accelerator, a business accelerator focused solely on creating an innovation ecosystem for the genomics industry. Together, the organizations will partner with entrepreneurs to foster and accelerate innovation and development of DNA-driven products and insights for consumers. Interested star...
IBM Watson Analytics to improve the student retention rates at SCSU
Friday, July 21, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
Low student retention rates continue to challenge many colleges and universities across the U.S. The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center reported this summer that for all students who started college in the U.S. in the fall of 2015, only 61.1 percent returned to their original school for the fall semester of 2016. Studies show that college freshman who r...
IBM launches Blockchain Founder Accelerator
Friday, May 19, 2017 by Richard Harris
IBM has announced the IBM Blockchain Founder Accelerator to help enterprises and enterprise developers take blockchain networks into production faster. The accelerator is the first program available that provides expertise and support across the technology, legal and business considerations of establishing new blockchain networks. Enterprises can join to gain exclusive ...
The use of vulnerable open source components putting more software at risk
Tuesday, October 18, 2016 by Richard Harris
Veracode has released the findings in its annual State of Software Security Report (SoSS). The seventh edition of the report presents metrics drawn from code-level analysis of billions of lines of code across 300,000 assessments performed over the last 18 months. The report revealed that the continued and persistent use of components in software development is creating ...
Hey Coach! Square Peg
Monday, October 10, 2016 by Philippe Sauve
Welcome back to the coaching post that looks at teams and the complex environment around us. This time we shall discuss the not-too-controversial topic of keeping track of work.Too often, tracking time and logging work related information has been used to enforce work schedules and dishing out “punishment” to those who don’t put in the hours. Here we describe “puni...
DOES16 Opens Discounted Registration
Friday, September 9, 2016 by Richard Harris
IT Revolution just announced the conference program for the 2016 DevOps Enterprise Summit (DOES16). The event, which aims to identify and amplify DevOps best practices for technology leaders of large enterprises, will be held in San Francisco from November 7-9. For a limited time only, attendees can receive a 20 percent discount when they register to att...
New Agile Conference Added to Nashville's Music City Code Event in August
Tuesday, July 26, 2016 by Richard Harris
Music City Code 2016 is a three-day event that covers software, web and mobile development. Held in Nashville on August 18 – 20, the event organizers have added a sister conference with new Agile focus called Music City Agile, which is scheduled to be held on August 17 - 18.Music City Code has grown from a one day event last year to full blown a three day conference. Th...
About SelfOrganizing Teams
Monday, April 11, 2016 by Clementino de Mendonca
A question from a budding Scrum Master, who is transitioning from a background as a traditional project manager:“In order to promote team bonding and self-organization, from now on I am going to try something new with the team. In the sprint planning meeting, instead of me breaking down the tasks for user stories between each team member, I am going to just identify tas...
Hey Coach! How Do I Get People to Do What I Need
Thursday, March 24, 2016 by Philippe Sauve
In this edition of “Hey Coach!” we will discuss this critical question: “How do I get people to do what I need?”Maybe an obvious question - since by definition, this should be a core capability of coaches. Except that on many occasions I have heard it time and time again. Since the fall of our love affair with the word “Control”, people have found new ways to expre...
CA Technologies Ryan Polk Discusses CA's Agile Management Portfolio
Monday, March 14, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Ryan Polk, VP of Product Management at CA Technologies, reached out to us to discuss CA’s approach to agile management and provide insight into the products and services available to help companies adopt an agile methodology. ADM: How does the Agile Management portfolio that CA introduced help the enterprise succeed in the application economy? Polk: The app ec...
TechCrunch's Startup Battlefield Applications Open Through 2-29
Saturday, February 27, 2016 by Richard Harris
Startup Battlefield is TechCrunch’s premiere startup launch competition, and the next one is at TechCrunch Disrupt NYC, May 9-11th. The companies selected to compete will pitch on-stage in front of some of the biggest names in tech. Applications are open through 2/29.Last year, our judges included partners from Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, Founder Collective and SV An...
New uTest Community Offers QA and QE Software Testing Network
Tuesday, December 22, 2015 by Richard Harris
We recently sat down with Matt Johnston from Applause to learn more about how their new uTest serves to provide QA and QE professionals world-wide with job seeking tools and networking connections to help advance their careers. Johnston is Chief Marketing & Strategy Officer at Applause and has more than a decade of marketing experience at companies ranging from...
Next TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield Slated for May 5 7 in NYC
Thursday, February 26, 2015 by Richard Harris
Startup Battlefield is TechCrunch’s premiere startup launch competition and the next one will be held at TechCrunch Disrupt NYC, May 5-7. The companies selected to compete will pitch on-stage in front of some of the biggest names in tech and compete for a $50,000 prize.Last year, judges included partners from Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, Founder Collective and SV Angel. Co...
Google Moves Forward On the Wearable Front with Google Fit Preview SDK
Friday, August 8, 2014 by Richard Harris
Google has now made the Fit Preview SDK available to developers, offering a single set of APIs for apps and device manufacturers to store and access activity data from fitness apps and sensors on Android and other devices (like wearables, heart rate monitors or connected scales). One of the impacts of the SDK is that developers, with a user’s permission, can get ac...
