Why leaders should not fear layoffs in 2023
Friday, January 13, 2023 by Richard Harris
Peter Pezaris from New Relic discusses his predictions for 2023, including why leaders should not fear layoffs, why we will see renewed investments by the end of 2023, how FOMO will unleash venture capital funding, and why founders should foster a network of VC insiders and entrepreneurs to get insights and perspectives.
Leaders should not fear layoffs
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NFTs are irrelevant. Say what!
Wednesday, November 23, 2022 by Richard Harris
NFT's, NFT's, NFT's! The buzzword you can't escape these days. But what are they and WHY? According to Hussein Hallak, the Co-Founder of Momentable, the new NFT e-commerce platform that is democratizing access to and reimagining the way we view art and culture, "NFT's are irrele...
Speeding up SaaS deployments with Platform.sh
Friday, November 23, 2018 by Richard Harris
Organizations spend an inordinate amount of time and resources developing and maintaining infrastructure, which distracts from what should be their core focus: providing customers with valuable and engaging applications and digital experiences. Platform.sh allows companies to direct their attention towards accomplishing this primary goal by relieving them of the burden ...
Sell any digital service using AppDirect's new platform
Thursday, October 18, 2018 by Richard Harris
AppDirect has announced major platform additions that aim to empower businesses to sell, monetize, and manage digital services - alongside physical goods - across any channel they say.
It is a significant challenge for businesses to manage and customize how they sell, as older systems struggle to scale with the growing number of new product types and the multit...
Tom Ebling joins Moltin board of directors
Monday, May 7, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
Tom Ebling has joined Moltin's board of directors. An accomplished industry executive, Ebling is the former CEO of Demandware. He brings more than 30 years of operating and management experience to Moltin. Ebling was CEO of Demandware from 2010 to 2016 and helped it scale from $20 million to $250 million in revenue. He led the company through a successful IPO in 2012 an...
IBM MaaS360 comes to the Cloud Marketplace
Wednesday, January 3, 2018 by Richard Harris
Ingram Micro Inc. is helping drive AI-powered cloud technology with the addition of IBM MaaS360 with Watson on the Ingram Micro Cloud Marketplace, an automated e-commerce platform that offers more than 200 vetted cloud services. This expanded relationship with IBM Security helps Ingram Micro reseller and solution provider partners deliver a leading endpoint security sol...
Is your app ready for Black Friday
Wednesday, September 6, 2017 by Tony Branson
With the increasing use of mobile devices for online shopping, a major share of every wallet is now going to online retailers. The convenience of shopping anytime; anywhere perfectly suits the busy, on-the-go generation that is giving eCommerce businesses a big boost. Despite this reality, more than 70% of SMBs do not have their websites ready for a sudden rise in traff...
Why Texas Humor selected the Shopgate mobile commerce platform
Thursday, July 20, 2017 by Richard Harris
Shopgate has announced Texas Humor, a clothing brand that emphasizes Texas pride, selected their mobile commerce platform solution to develop an enhanced mobile shopping application for its customer base. The mobile app allows Texas Humor to further connect with customers through advanced features including push notifications, abandoned cart reminders and exclusive mobi...
Hazelcast updates its Jet distributed processing engine
Wednesday, June 14, 2017 by Richard Harris
Hazelcast, an open source in-memory data grid (IMDG), has announced the 0.4 release of Hazelcast Jet - an application-embeddable, distributed processing engine for big data stream and batch. Major new functionality in Jet 0.4 includes event-time processing with tumbling, sliding and session windowing. Using these new capabilities, users benefit from a feature-rich strea...
Fuzzy Logix partners up with Kinetica to provide better analytics
Monday, May 8, 2017 by Richard Harris
Fuzzy Logix, Inc., provider of in-database analytics, and Kinetica, provider of a GPU-accelerated database, is announcing a partnership to offer a joint solution that will allow customers of both companies to leverage "high performing advanced analytics with acceleration of 100-500x on 1/10th the hardware over CPU-only based solutions." The joint solution will initially...
Get a free intro to Apache Hadoop course
Friday, March 31, 2017 by Richard Harris
The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit advancing professional open source management for mass collaboration, today announced its newest massive open online course (MOOC) is available for registration. The course, LFS103x - Introduction to Apache Hadoop, is offered through edX, the nonprofit online learning platform launched in 2012 by Harvard University and Massachusetts I...
How to help push alerts not seem so pushy!
Wednesday, March 29, 2017 by Richard Harris
Editors note: Guest submission from Sunil Thomas, CEO of CleverTap
Here’s a challenge for you - try to read this article through without attending to your buzzing, pinging, distracting smartphone.Once upon a time, mobile notifications were just for person-to-person text messages. Some time around the turn of the decade, brands realized that provoking cons...
Mashape gets $18M in series B funding to help further the API revolution
Friday, March 24, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
Mashape has announced that they have achieved a company milestone as they close a $18M Series B funding round, led by Andreessen Horowitz, a venture capital firm, with previous investors CRV and Index Ventures participating. The funding round, according to Mashape, "represents all the hard work by the team, our dedication to building the best and most open API Gateway f...
Conversocial Acquires HipMob
Wednesday, March 22, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
Conversocial announces its acquisition of HipMob, a Y-Combinator Alumnus that developed an integrated live chat platform for websites and mobile apps. The acquisition paves the way for Conversocial to extend its best-in-class digital customer engagement platform to better serve customers who prefer web-based chat channels and in-app messaging on mobile for customer care...
A realtime, open source commerce platform launched by Reaction Commerce
Tuesday, March 21, 2017 by Richard Harris
Reaction Commerce has announced the general availability (GA) release of its breakthrough, real-time and completely open source commerce platform, designed to build, run and scale modern digital stores. Offering the simplicity that businesses expect, along with the reliability, customization and scalability that larger retailers and brands require, Reaction Commerce ena...
A Deep Dive into the Shopify Ecosystem
Friday, July 22, 2016 by Richard Harris
We recently visited with with Atlee Clark, the Director of Apps and Developer Relations at Shopify, to talk about the Shopify API and developer services.ADM: What is Shopify? What is the Shopify ecosystem? Clark: Shopify is the leading cloud-based, multichannel commerce platform designed for small and medium-sized businesses. Our goal is to make commerce better for...
The Weather Channel Shows IBM How to IoT
Friday, November 6, 2015 by Richard Harris
Its all blue skies for the folks at the Weather Channel as IBM has announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire The Weather Company’s B2B, mobile and cloud-based web properties, including WSI, weather.com, Weather Underground and The Weather Company brand. The Weather Channel is not part of the agreement, but the TV channel will license weather forecast da...