BetterBrand’s new dough raises company’s valuation to over $170M
BetterBrand, a foodtech company known for creating “The Better Bagel,” closed on $6 million of Series A capital at a pre-money valuation of $170 million. The company, citing Crunchbase data, also touts that the raise puts founder Aimee Yang among just 150 solo female founders to raise a Series A
Read moreNotarize launches Proof to ensure safe online transactions
Notarize, the world’s largest online notary network, is launching Proof, a new company and platform for digital identity verifications. Beginning in August, Notarize’s business tools will be rebranded to Proof, and it is also changing its company name to Proof. Notarize will continue serving its online notary network, which is
Read moreVolt, an open banking fintech for payments and more, raises $60M at a $350M+ valuation
Open banking — where traditional banks enable payments and other new services by way of APIs that give access to financial data previously locked up in their systems — has led to a rush of startups looking to build the links to make it a reality. Today one of the
Read moreHashtag Trending Jun.21-Over 100,00 ChatGPT accounts on sale on the dark web; Employees believe companies are slow to adopt new technologies; Are we finally getting flying cars?
Over 100,000 ChatGPT accounts found for sale on the dark web, Employees claim companies are too slow to adopt new technologies and yes, finally, we might actually get those flying cars. These and more top tech news stories from Hashtag Trending and Tech News Day. I’m your host Jim
Read moreAPI vs Messaging — How to Choose Which One to Use?
We have been living in a distributed world for quite some time, and when considering how should you implement the communication between…Continue reading on Better Programming »
Read moreNanoservice State of Mind
Write code as nanoservices — deploy however you want!Lessons from Amazon Prime VideoRecently there’s been a bit of controversy that microservices may be a mistake, and monoliths are (once again) the way to go. This began due to a blog post from the Amazon Prime Video team indicating the great cost reduction they realized
Read moreGetting Started With .NET 8: Seamless Setup With DevContainers
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Read moreCreating a GitHub Documentation Bot With LLMs
All the documentation in my open-source repo is generated by GPT4 and I can update these docs with the click of a button.The visual representation of my doc-bot hard at work.The automation is powered by AgentHub and is able to read my GitHub project, generate new markdown docs, and publish the PR
Read moreAmazon will hold its Prime Day shopping event on July 11-12
Amazon announced today that it will host the annual Prime Day shopping event on July 11-12. The company typically offers a lot of discounts to customers to boost sales numbers during this event. The company said the event will start on July 3 a.m. EDT and run through July 12.
Read moreHow Amazon beat Walmart — and who might beat Amazon: talking with reporter Jason Del Rey
Jason Del Rey has spent the last 15 years reporting on e-commerce businesses, including Walmart and Amazon. Now, in a new book that hit shelves today called Winner Sells All, he tells the broader story of Walmart — which long focused on preserving what it had built — and its
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