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Getting Around: Ridecell’s Integrated Approach to Mobility
Especially in urban areas, people are hailing rideshares and hopping on employer-provided shuttles with increasing frequency. These services rely on uniquely tailored platforms—and that’s Ridecell’s area of expertise.
Blue Hexagon Cybersecurity Fights Fire With Fire Using Deep Learning
Business technology may be growing increasingly complex, but when it comes to cybersecurity, it remains a game of cat and mouse. Hackers and cyber criminals are currently creating malware at an unprecedented level to infiltrate websites around the world, disrupt business, steal company secrets, shut down sites, and take customers’ information. In 2017 alone, over 120 million new malware samples were detected. And even if your business deploys state-of-the-art signature-based detection systems and malware sandboxing, it can quickly get overwhelmed by a daily deluge of new threats. Sunnyvale, Calif-based Blue Hexagon, however, thinks it’s cracked the problem.
How Coinbase Builds Its Blockchain Infrastructure
Coinbase is a marketplace to buy and sell digital currency. It’s one of the best-known portals for anyone hoping to approach the crypto-currency market, because it’s the “easiest and most trusted place to buy, sell, and manage your digital currency,” according to Jack Kearney, a software engineer at Coinbase working on infrastructure and security.
CryptoMove on Making the Cloud More Secure and Effective for Developers
In this article highlighting AWS’ partnership with CryptoMove, we’ll discuss how innovations like moving target defense make the cloud more secure and effective for developers.
Cloud and AI-Driven Service Desk Automation with Aisera
Every organization—small, medium or large—requires a service desk to deal with requests originating from customers and employees; they basically need a ticketing system that tracks the submission and resolution of problems.
Couchbase’s Wayne Carter on Why Every Enterprise Should Be Looking to Leverage Database Technologies
Couchbase is NoSQL database and data management software maker best known for creating the world’s first “Engagement Database.” Known as the Couchbase Data Platform, the distributed, multi-cloud, and mobile NoSQL document database is based on a memory-first, async everywhere architecture. AWS Startups recently interviewed Wayne Carter, Couchbase’s Vice President of Mobile, about the company’s mission, methods, and most successful ideas.
Applying AI to Procurement and Finance Data on AWS
In the fall of 2016, Jeff Gerber, Suplari’s co-founder and CTO, approached me with a simple solution to a growing business problem. He had noticed that most data within organizations was too siloed, making it hard to surface basic analytics.
How Vice Media Tamed 12 Verticals in 18 Different Languages
VICE had a large-scale problem to solve. Their ecosystem had become too large in terms of the number of brands they supported—they currently have sites in 35 different countries in 18 languages, which read in different characters and directions—and their engineering team wanted to make sure the reading experience worked well for everyone.
Fiverr Relies on SageMaker to Streamline and Simplify Machine Learning Models
When it came time for Fiverr to analyze the data around user behavior on its platform, the freelance services website did what many modern businesses do in terms of recruiting the right tool for the task: they engaged Amazon Web Services’s SageMaker. Amazon SageMaker is an API that enables developers and data scientists to readily build, teach, and position machine learning models to serve any need and at any scale.
Zoona CMO Lelemba Phiri on the Challenges of Being a Businesswoman in Africa
Lelemba Phiri, the Chief Marketing Officer for mobile payment platform Zoona, says many African businesswomen prefer to simply grow their companies to a “subsistent” level, because if their businesses get too big, they are seen as “not being marriage material.”