Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

It even showed its work through research papers and by open-sourcing its models. DeepSeeks breakthroughs caused some angst, but its fresh thinking and openness will likely spur bigger and faster innovations from the worlds top AI companies by this time next year. People downloaded variants of the open-source Phi-3 more than 4.5

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

I look forward to the growth of this community, and the ongoing development of the MPower solution as an open source alternative CRM for nonprofit organizations. “I I look forward to the growth of this community, and the ongoing development of the MPower solution as an open source alternative CRM for nonprofit organizations.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

million) in seed funding to double-down on recent growth that has seen it adopted by commercial clients including insurance companies Barmenia and VHV Versicherungen , logistics firms such as Metro Supply Chain Group subsidiary Evolution Time Critical , and venture-backed startups such as Crowd.dev. million ($2.9

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Its now parlaying its advancement of business AI into serving as an open-source tools hub for the technology community. With an open-source model fostering community-driven innovation, Airbyte has used AI to help a robust community of 20,000 data engineers develop 10,000+ user-built custom data connectors.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2022

According to a recent survey conducted by Splunk, 86% of developers see difficulties related to tech as a challenge to observability adoption. too many tools) as the top blockers, as well as concerns about open source tools. ClickHouse was open sourced in 2016, and in 2021, a corporate entity — ClickHouse, Inc.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

. “Most solutions for bigger brands came with proprietary baggage like vendor lock-in, slow adoption of new technologies and commercial certification programs. As difficult as it was, we tore down what was a rather good open-source e-commerce platform and rebuilt it API-first” Contentstack raises $31.5M

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2022

Postgres, also known as PostgreSQL, is an open source database management system launched in 1996 as the successor to a database developed at UC Berkeley called Ingres. As for the former, Shamgunov notes that some customers are wary of the vendor lock-in and dependency that can come with closed-source products.

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Care2

MAY 25, 2011

Nonprofits are often among the earliest adopters when it comes to technology and cloud computing is no exception. Registering a domain, purchasing hosting, installing an open source CMS like WordPress , and setting up a basic design theme can all be done affordably. The savings can be dramatic too.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

GraphQL, developed internally at Facebook to help developers with API management before getting rolled out as an open-source query language in 2015, has gained traction as an alternative (or complement) to REST and other tools. Airbnb, Pinterest, PayPal and of course Facebook parent Meta are among the companies using it.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

QR code tech, which exploded during the pandemic as businesses searched for hygienic alternatives to physical touchpoints, continues to grow in popularity particularly across sectors such as restaurants and outlet retail. “We see more businesses continuing to adopt this technology because it streamlines the customer experience.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

People have left social networks before and they will do so again if there is an alternative that suits them better. The more curmudgeonly social networking users get, the less likely they are to adopt new social networks. That obviously doesn’t happen in agriculture. It means lock-in that they don’t have to build.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The company was co-founded by Ben Firshman, who led open source product efforts at Docker, and Andreas Jansson, previously a machine learning engineer at Spotify. Enter Replicate, which offers a library of open source models that software developers can run with a few lines of code.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

Chatwoot is an open source customer engagement suite alternative to Intercom and Zendesk. Pragmatic Leaders is attempting to build a platform to provide cost-effective alternative to an MBA. The startup says recent laws such as GDPR and CPRA have helped drive adoption of SigNoz.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The company is driving change in the industry through the open sourcing of materials for others to benefit, and in doing so, is becoming the industry’s standard bearer on sustainability practices. It started with a humble, natural wool (and extremely comfortable) shoe, but Allbirds is not merely an apparel company today.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

According to a February report from security vendor Optiv Security — admittedly not a neutral third party — only 21% of businesses have adopted zero trust as a “foundational model.” “Tailscale sits at the intersection between network infrastructure (connectivity) and security. Designed by Jason A.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

A host of e-commerce platforms are increasingly moving to alternatives like buy now, pay later as customers tend to buy more often when given no-interest or interest-free payment alternatives, and providers like Affirm and Afterpay are poised to reap the benefits of this shift, Ryan writes.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

He began looking at alternatives, but found that many were focused on conferencing and didn’t provide for the flexibility for native mobile. D’Sa and his team, which includes co-founder David Zhao, developed a free, open source infrastructure for building and scaling real-time audio and video experiences, aka WebRTC, in applications.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

They struggle mightily with software, no matter whether it’s free/open source or proprietary, shrink-wrapped or custom-built, on their desktops or web-hosted, which they generally spend extraordinary amounts of time and/or money on. I was looking for the discriminating approach to adopt technology appropriately.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2023

“Businesses scrambled to transition their everyday processes to contactless alternatives; however, these applications often relied on an internet connection to function effectively. And the open source, Airbyte-owned Grouparoo replicates info between databases and cloud-based tools.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

In “ Robust Routing Using Electrical Flows ”, we presented a recent paper that proposed a Google Maps solution to efficiently compute alternate paths in road networks that are resistant to failures (e.g., On the optimization front, we open-sourced Vizier , our flagship blackbox optimization and hyperparameter tuning library at Google.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

“In addition to constantly improving the open source and enterprise self-hosted downloadable versions, we will continue to invest in making our cloud-based offering globally available.” Kontsevoy, Wakefield, and Klizentas released Teleport’s flagship product, the eponymous Teleport, as an open source project in 2016.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Diagnosed with learning disabilities early in life, he was forced to figure out alternate ways to be focused and productive. If you search for it online (especially in Instagram and Pinterest) you might think it’s a tool for professional graphic designers – but it is not, and you don’t need to be a graphic professional to adopt it.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

A similar trajectory is being seen across the Atlantic, as nations such as Italy , England and the Ukraine join a rapidly expanding list of countries including Germany, France, Israel, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Denmark, Poland and others who have chosen to supplement their urban transportation networks with modern micromobility alternatives.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

Indeed, Welsh makes the case that Fixie goes several steps beyond what’s out there by addressing some of the major hurdles in adopting generative AI, namely the high cost of training LLMs and the risks associated with even the best models available today.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2014

We should also pause and note t he tech sector’s troubling tendency to turn inward while adopting the language of the public square and the commons. Are nonprofits ready to build alternative platforms to AirBnB and Lyft’s owned by the people? Let us insist on what is most transformative. Nonprofits need to speak up.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Taking a production-centric approach to enterprise-wide AI adoption. Image Credits: Chaiyawat Sripimonwan / EyeEm (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. ” Taking a production-centric approach to enterprise-wide AI adoption. .” ” Taking a production-centric approach to enterprise-wide AI adoption.

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Towards Data Science

DECEMBER 16, 2024

AI adoption is slower than expectedbut leaders are biding their time(Tomasz) In contrast to the tsunami of AI strategies that were being embraced a year ago, leaders today seem to have taken a unanimous step backward from the technology. In B2B, youll see smaller models on the whole, and more open source on the whole.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

Over timer founders and sales teams who adopt this mindful approach can turn customers into assets, says Khan. Devin Coldewey: Epic wants to be the organic, free-range alternative. ” Thanks very much for reading TechCrunch+, and have a great weekend. Alex Wilhelm: Let’s see what Bandcamp can do with money, reach and power.

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Gyrus

MARCH 4, 2024

Types of LMS (Learning Management Systems) There are three main types: Cloud-based LMS, Open-source LMS, and Proprietary LMS. Cons Limitations related to customization – when compared to open-source or proprietary alternatives. Strategy: With the adoption of a top-tier LMS, HPI found its silver bullet.

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Towards Data Science

JULY 13, 2023

In this post, we’re going to share how Hamilton , an open source framework, can help you write modular and maintainable code for your large language model (LLM) application stack. For these reasons, it is important to adopt flexible tooling to create robust dataflows that allow you to: plugin in various components easily.

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Forum One

JULY 20, 2021

Drupal is an open-source content management framework that was initially released 20 years ago. New minor versions will continue to be released every six months (in June and December each year) with new features, following the cadence that began with Drupal 8’s adoption of semantic versioning. million members.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

By building their own tech stacks and shifting the resulting (much lower than market) costs away from inmates, Ameelio provides an enticing alternative to the totally outdated systems in most prisons today. ” “We leverage a lot of open source tech, which is part of why our costs are so low,” said Saruhashi.

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Towards Data Science

JULY 26, 2024

Before suggesting an alternative, simpler, solution, come prepared with a deep understanding of the problem at hand. Steve Jobs Side note: Be aware that adopting radical simplicity doesn’t mean ignoring new tools and advanced technologies. As a result, be expected to fight your corner. Check it out, it’s pretty cool.

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Gyrus

MARCH 4, 2024

Types of LMS (Learning Management Systems) There are three main types: Cloud-based LMS, Open-source LMS, and Proprietary LMS. Cons Limitations related to customization – when compared to open-source or proprietary alternatives. Strategy: With the adoption of a top-tier LMS, HPI found its silver bullet.

Learning Management 40

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Gyrus

MARCH 4, 2024

Types of LMS (Learning Management Systems) There are three main types: Cloud-based LMS, Open-source LMS, and Proprietary LMS. Cons Limitations related to customization – when compared to open-source or proprietary alternatives. Strategy: With the adoption of a top-tier LMS, HPI found its silver bullet.

Learning Management 40

Learning Management Examples System Learning 40

TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

What it says it does : Building an open-source webhooks infrastructure. Promises include : The startup claims its “open source cloud-native” webhook services is “secured, reliable, and scalable for customers’ webhooks infrastructure. Website : [link]. Founded in : 2022. Team size : 9.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Drupal is an open-source content management framework that was initially released 21 years ago. New minor versions will continue to be released every six months (in June and December each year) with new features, following the cadence that began with Drupal 8’s adoption of semantic versioning. million members.

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