TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Bitwarden , an open source password manager for enterprises and consumers, has raised $100 million in a round of funding led by PSG, with participation from Battery Ventures. ” Open source password manager Bitwarden raises $100M by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Streamlabs has promised to remove “OBS” from the name of its livestreaming software, Streamlabs OBS, following backlash from streamers and the open-source livestreaming platform OBS Studio. OBS Studio says it asked Streamlabs not to use its name, which stands for “Open Broadcaster Software,” only to have the company do so anyway.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Over 90% of the fastest-growing open-source companies in 2020 were founded outside the San Francisco Bay Area, and 12 out of the top 20 originate in Europe, according to a new study. The “ ROSS Index ”, created by Runa Capital , lists the fastest-growing open-source startups with public repositories on GitHub every quarter.

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InfoWorld

APRIL 29, 2024

A few weeks ago, Redis changed its license from the Open Source Initiative (OSI)-approved BSD 3-Clause license to the Redis Source Available License (RSALv2). This move echoed Elastic’s earlier license change for Elasticsearch , which switched from the Apache License 2.0 to the Elastic License (ELv2).

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

Software is just like any other product you build and ship; it relies on using components that others have built, often in the form of source code, and making sure that it doesn’t break or have weaknesses that compromise the final product. That also means a reliance on trusting that the developers will always act in good faith.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Oligo Security , a Tel Aviv-based startup that focuses on runtime application security and observability to detect and prevent open-source vulnerabilities, is coming out of stealth today and announcing that it has raised a total of $28 million in seed and Series A funding. This, ideally, cuts down on unnecessary alerts.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

Companies producing software are becoming ever more reliant on open source databases to build their programs, but it’s complex working with all these different products. Instaclustr , a California startup, wanted to change that by offering popular open source databases delivered as a service.

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Tableau

MAY 25, 2021

In the two or so weeks it takes them to get that missing data set, time is lost, conditions change, and momentum stalls. Companies in similar fields want to collaborate on open data sets, such as enriched census data or machine learning (ML) training data sets. Introducing secure, open source data sharing .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2023

But while there’s little question of a seismic sea change these past six months in terms of public awareness, the growing demand for AI could be outpacing the infrastructure required to power the myriad use cases that are emerging — and this is something that German startup Qdrant is looking to address.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

That began changing in recent years as companies saw a need to merge the two concepts and the lakehouse idea — combining the power of the data lake with the computational power of the data warehouse — began to take shape. . What open source-based startups can learn from Confluent’s success story.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

ARMO , the Tel Aviv-based company behind Kubescape , the popular open source Kubernetes security platform, today announced that it has raised a $30 million Series A funding round led by Tiger Global. New investor Hyperwise Ventures as well as existing investors Pitango First and Peled Ventures also participated in this round.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

Richard North developed an open source solution called Testcontainers in 2015 to help ease this problem for developers. Today, the open source project is used by companies like Uber, Netflix, Spotify and Capital One. Testcontainers changed that by testing against real versions of the dependent software pieces. “If

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VentureBeat

MARCH 14, 2025

OpenAI reshaped the enterprise AI landscape Tuesday with the release of its comprehensive agent-building platform a package combining a revamped Responses API, powerful built-in tools and an open-source Agents SDK. While this announcement might have been overshadowed by other AI headlines

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

million in funding to fuel the mission, as well as to support the continued growth of the open-source Conductor community. The rise of Orkes underscores a very common route these days for open source tools. “ Orkes has the right team to bring enterprise-grade support and cloud services to this thriving community.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

But so far, only a handful of such AI systems have been made freely available to the public and open sourced — reflecting the commercial incentives of the companies building them. Hugging Face and ServiceNow launch BigCode, a project to open source code-generating AI systems by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Tyk (pronounced like “tyke”, meaning small/lively child) got its start as an open source side project first for co-founder Martin Buhr, who is now the company’s CEO, while he was working elsewhere, as a “load testing thing,” in his words. It has raised just over $40 million to date.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

“Reviving parts of a codebase is like changing a plane’s engine while it’s mid-flight,” but rebooting involves an inordinate amount of technical resources. Are there any other immigration-related changes coming this year? Passionate People Person Dear Sophie: What H-1B and other immigration changes can we expect this year?

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TechSpot

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Last month, we learned that an engineering student from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, EPFL, had successfully modded an iPhone X to change the charging port from Lightning to USB-C. This was a great accomplishment, since the USB-C port was fully functional for both charging and data transfers.

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Wired

MARCH 24, 2025

If you dont understand how digital tech is changing, youll be swallowed by it. From post-quantum algorithms and thermodynamic hardware to open source architectures and apocalypse-proof programming, WIRED journeys to the freaky frontiers of modern computing.

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Charity Village

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest honours the life and legacy of Antonio “Tony” Pizzigati, an early advocate of open source computing. The Pizzigati Prize provides grants to developers making a two-faceted contribution to social change.

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TechSpot

OCTOBER 4, 2021

On Monday, Google uploaded the source code for Android 12 to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). Pixel devices will be the first to receive it sometime in the “next few weeks.” Other OEMs like Samsung and OnePlus will release the latest iteration for their devices later this year.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

” The company’s roots are in open source, and it still runs a popular open source version of the software (the community for which has 19,000 members, it says) that helped it gain its initial popularity and traction in the market. The front end is the perfect place for integrations.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 20, 2022

It is defined as open-source software that doesn’t require the support of a trusted intermediary and it has no governing body. With the third iteration of the internet already on its way (hello cryptocurrencies and augmented reality), Web3 will continue to usher in new technologies, forever changing the way people interact.

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Futurism

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Since then, Musk has filed several lawsuits against the ChatGPT maker, claiming that it had lost track of its "open-source" roots, and instead becoming beholden to corporate incentives and multibillion-dollar deals. Given the many complaints he has filed against OpenAI, Musk has seemingly taken on that position himself.

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InfoWorld

MARCH 18, 2024

This is changing, and fast, as the world shifts toward ever more granular pricing based on consumption. Once upon a time, few companies needed metering or usage-based billing.

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TechSpot

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Microsoft has been trying to earn the trust of the open-source community for years, partly because CEO Satya Nadella recognized its growing importance in the grand scheme of things. Back in 2015, Nadella said his company was undergoing cultural and strategic changes in order to help developers and consumers go.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Predictive modeling reveals future outcomes and trends with greater accuracy than traditional methods, enabling proactive decision-making and change management. Several providers offer open source or limited free access, which is a great way to test options. How the organization’s value proposition needed to change.

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TechSpot

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

A few months after releasing.NET 7, Microsoft is already working on the next version of its open-source, managed framework for software and app development.NET 8 will be finalized at the end of 2023, so there's still plenty of time for developers to adapt and digest all the changes. Read Entire Article

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TechSpot

MAY 25, 2021

The first time we heard about Fuchsia OS was in 2016, when we learned it would be an open-source OS not based on Linux. Instead, it would use the Magenta kernel known to be used on IoT devices, but Google has since changed its name to Zircon. Meanwhile, we also.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Aiven , a Finnish startup that helps companies combine various open source technologies with public cloud infrastructure resources, announced a $60 million investment on a $2 billion valuation today. Company CEO and co-founder Oskari Saarenmaa says the company helps take the complexity out of managing open source projects in the cloud.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Betsy is a recognized social entrepreneur who has dedicated much of her career to changing the world with software. Helped environmental leaders design, manage, monitor, and evaluate global conservation projects and campaigns with the first open source conservation project management tool.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2019

It is the ideal content management system for nonprofits because of how it’s open source and anyone can contribute to making it better. WordPress powers 34% of all sites on the web and is one of the most popular digital marketing tools used by organizations in the world. Events, Fundraising and Donations.

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Medium Technology Section

MARCH 24, 2025

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Lorna Mitchell is head of Developer Relations at Aiven , a software company that combines the best open source technologies with cloud infrastructure. Developers are lifelong learners; they have to be because the industry changes so quickly. Many developers give much of their time to open source projects.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

Tracking the explosive growth of open-source software. The Money In Open-Source Software. But now it’s time to update T2D3 to account for some of the tectonic changes shaping a broader universe of B2B tech — and pushing companies to grow at rates we’ve never seen before. More posts by this contributor.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The goals of the DEI Open Source Commons team center around leveling the playing field for everyone in tech by increasing diversity and inclusion at Salesforce community events, in addition to creating and modeling a toolkit that groups can use towards their own diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. “I What’s next?

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