Coupang to ramp up investment in Taiwan after four quarters of profits
Coupang, a South Korea-headquartered e-commerce company, said it will accelerate its investment in Taiwan after four straight quarters of profits. Coupang was the most downloaded app in the second quarter of this year in Taiwan, the company said in an earnings call on Wednesday. “Taiwan is another investment that is
Read MoreWhat a truly engaged engineer looks like
Image generated using MidjourneyI think it is fair to say that at this point, we all know that the stereotype of an engineer coding in a dark room, burning the midnight oil, has become painfully outdated and ridiculous. We haven’t internalized in the industry, yet that engineering productivity is less
Read MoreAn Introduction to the esbuild Bundler
Learn how to use the esbuild bundler to optimize your JavaScript, TypeScript, JSX, and CSS code, and how to create your own build system. Continue reading An Introduction to the esbuild Bundler on SitePoint.
Read MoreMade Renovation promises “tech-enabled” remodels; customers describe “absolute nightmare”
Last year, Jonas Heineman was overseeing a team of commercial project managers as they installed hundreds of electric vehicle charging stations. Heineman’s wife was also pregnant with their first child. Given his busy days and evenings filled with planning for the couple’s growing family, the last thing that Heineman wanted
Read MoreMicromax, smartphone sales stalled, eyes a steer into electric vehicles
Micromax Informatics once had a firm grip on the local mobile phone market in India, for a time passing stalwarts like Samsung, icons like Apple and many more to be the biggest handset maker of them all. But a mix of stronger (and cheaper) competition, coupled with the rapid pace
Read MoreA Beginner’s Guide to CSS Grid Layout
Follow these simple examples to learn how CSS Grid allows us to easily lay out elements on a page to create a range of flexible layouts. Continue reading A Beginner’s Guide to CSS Grid Layout on SitePoint.
Read MoreZoom knots itself a legal tangle over use of customer data for training AI models
Three years ago Zoom settled with the FTC over a claim of deceptive marketing around security claims, having been accused of overstating the strength of the encryption it offered. Now the videoconferencing platform could be headed for a similar tangle in Europe in relation to its privacy small print. The
Read MoreAngles between words
Natural language processing represents words as high-dimensional vectors, on the order of 100 dimensions. For example, the glove-wiki-gigaword-50 set of word vectors contains 50-dimensional vectors, and the the glove-wiki-gigaword-200 set of word vectors contains 200-dimensional vectors. The intent is to represent words in such a way that the angle between
Read MoreBlueJeans folds
Verizon dropped hundreds of millions on BlueJeans at the height of the pandemic lockdowns. Three years and some change later, the lesser-known video-conferencing app is done for, the telecom giant told users today. In a mass email, Verizon wrote that it “made the difficult decision to sunset our suite of
Read MoreSingapore wealth management platform Endowus raises $35M
Back in 2021 and early 2022, there was a flurry of VC interest in Southeast Asian investment apps. One of them was Singapore-based Endowus, which raised two rounds in rapid succession: a Series A in June 2021 followed just seven months later by $25.6 million in follow-on funding. Now two
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