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Can developer productivity be measured? Better than you think

CIO Business Intelligence

Measuring developer productivity has long been a Holy Grail of business. In 2020, McKinsey surveyed 440 large companies about their “ developer velocity” — meaning the practices that best tap the full potential of development talent. Right now, there are roughly 27 million developers on the job, 4.4 That isn’t easy.

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Zulily hit with lawsuits from vendors and more layoffs in latest trouble for struggling retailer

GeekWire

(GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper) Zulily is laying off more employees and facing two lawsuits over alleged unpaid invoices, in the latest signs of trouble for the Seattle-based online retailer since it was acquired by a private equity firm earlier this year.

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Will enterprises soon keep their best gen AI use cases under wraps?

CIO Business Intelligence

The retail industry has no shortage of cases on display where generative AI has shown tangible benefits. Suddenly, you can create engaging customer-facing videos at the click of a button,” says Oliver Banks, retail consultant and author of Driving Retail Transformation: How to navigate disruption and change.

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Portland startup Candid lands $2M to help brands and retailers run their wholesale business online

GeekWire

Candid is a software program meant to help retailers with their online wholesale efforts. based startup Candid raised $2 million to help retailers and other businesses run their wholesale efforts online. They were former colleagues at Stack Development, a Portland software development firm. Candid Photo).

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‘Just infuriating’: Online retailer Zulily flip-flops, now plans to lay off employees amid holidays

GeekWire

GeekWire first reported last week that the online retailer planned to shut down three offices, including its Seattle headquarters, and lay off more than 800 people in total. The firm has not responded to multiple emails from GeekWire about developments at Zulily over the past several months. Here is the full text of the message.

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Zulily website inaccessible and ‘down for maintenance’ following layoffs

GeekWire

Zulily’s website was “down for maintenance” Monday in the latest sign of the retailer’s collapse. The online retailer earlier this month planned to shut down three offices, including its Seattle headquarters, and lay off more than 800 people in total. The company later announced a “going-out-of-business” sale.

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GeekWire Podcast: Apple Vision Pro, a developer’s take; Detecting and defusing AI deepfakes

GeekWire

Tim Cook, Apple CEO, and Deirdre O’Brien, senior vice president of retail, launch sales of the Apple Vision Pro in New York City this week. Apple Photo) First up this week on the GeekWire Podcast: an inside look at developing software for the Apple Vision Pro spatial computing headset.

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