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IBM to Acquire Cloudant: Open, Cloud Database Service Helps Organizations Simplify Mobile, Web App and Big Data Development

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a privately held database-as-a-service (DBaaS) provider that enables developers to easily and quickly create next generation mobile and web apps. . Clients across a variety of industries, including gaming, financial services, mobile device manufacturers, online learning, retail and healthcare are already using Cloudant technology.

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BIPOC students gain web design skills while building sites for Black-owned businesses

GeekWire

(Image from Youth Web Design video). The idea for the program came from the Office of Economic Development. “We As the COVID pandemic unfolded and the economy slowed, restaurants and retail businesses were hit particularly hard. “We of web developers and 5.9% Nationwide, Black employees made up only 3.7%

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Hackers exploit Apache Struts vulnerability to compromise corporate web servers

Network World

Attackers are widely exploiting a recently patched vulnerability in Apache Struts that allows them to remotely execute malicious code on web servers. Apache Struts is an open-source web development framework for Java web applications.

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Why Magento Is Preferred By Ecommerce Industries?

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According to sources by the end of 2020, online retail sales will the figure of 4,058 billion. At last, using open source tools also means that the platform guarantees a robust performance and enhanced security for merchants and developers. Third-party plugins simplify the routine tasks of Magento store administrators and developers.

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Vote for Startup of the Year: Arrived Homes, Lexion, Phaidra, Shipium, WhyLabs

GeekWire

Elwany worked as an engineer at Microsoft on artificial intelligence and Baird came from web development firm Pancake Labs. CEO Alessya Visnjic spent eight years at the company helping develop its machine learning infrastructure. Founders : CEO Gaurav Oberoi previously founded two startups that were acquired.

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Kevin Lowell’s appointment as UScellular’s Chief People Officer puts IT in the limelight

TM Forum

Become a partner with the business rather than an order-taker – Here, IT applied Agile concepts by sitting down with business stakeholders early on during the service development process and ideating with them, asking lots of questions about customers’ preferences, for example. Going cloud-native. He discussed this during.

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Hottest tech skills to hire for in 2020

Hacker Earth

It is considered as one of the smartest choices for building interactive web interfaces as all modern browsers support JavaScript. The Stack Overflow developer survey results show that about 69.7% of 90,000 professional developers stated JavaScript is the most commonly used programming language. Full-stack web development.