TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2023

Victoria Melnikova Contributor Share on Twitter Alongside fellow Evil Martians , Victoria Melnikova builds devtools and commercial open source products and writes about her journey in tech. But is it possible for a smaller open source project to find its way into this land of commercial opportunity?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Companies on the hunt for comprehensive project management and issue tracking tooling aren’t exactly short of options, with the likes of Atlassian’s Jira serving software development teams well for more than two decades.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Just a few months after buying fellow robotic software firm Vicarious , Alphabet-owned Intrinsic has acquired several divisions within Open Robotics , the company behind the widely-used robotics software packages Gazebo and Robotic Operating System (ROS). doors and elevators). doors and elevators).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Armory is a company built to be a commercial layer on top of the open-source continuous delivery project Spinnaker. “Spinnaker is an open-source project that came out of Netflix and Google, and it is a very sophisticated multi-cloud and software delivery platform,” company co-founder and CEO Daniel R.

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The Verge

JANUARY 14, 2021

If you’ve ever wanted to be like Steve Wozniak and have your own custom-made, geeky watch, Squarofumi (stylized SQFMI) may have the product for you: an open-source, Arduino-powered smartwatch with a 1.54-inch It’s called the Watchy , and both the hardware and software are completely customizable. Image: SQFMI.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

Open source has become a major force in the world of IT, and today a startup that has built a profitable operation by developing business management software on the principle is announcing a sizable secondary investment on the back of that growth. What is also notable is how Odoo pitches itself.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Jitsu , a graduate of the Y Combinator Summer 2020 cohort, is developing an open source data integration platform that helps developers send data to a data warehouse. The founders built the open source project called EventNative to help solve problems they themselves were having moving data around at their previous jobs.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

The answer might be through projects employing open source software, Mudit Gupta, chief information security officer at layer-2 blockchain Polygon, told TechCrunch. But if it was built on open source software it would have been caught almost immediately and the product would have been much safer.”.

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The Verge

JANUARY 26, 2021

Google is ending development on the virtual reality painting app Tilt Brush — one of the most well-known VR applications — and making it open source. Tilt Brush’s code can be accessed on GitHub now , but Google says some features had to be removed from the open-source release because of licensing restrictions.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Tracking the growth and frequency of open source startups has been a long-running project at TechCrunch. This column joined the fun in the last few years , noting what seemed to be a rising wave of startups building open source projects that they later monetized. Confluent was one. Hashicorp was another.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

Securing the software supply chain is admittedly somewhat of a dry topic, but knowing which components and code go into your everyday devices and appliances is a critical part of the software development process that billions of people rely on every day. But the consequences of a software compromise can be dire and widespread.

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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. ServiceNow and Hugging Face provided no timeline as to when the project might reach completion. The application form went live this afternoon.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2022

A new company from the creators of the Godot game engine is setting out to grab a piece of the $200 billion global video game market — and to do so, it’s taking a cue from commercial open source software giant Red Hat. ” The open source factor. But first… what is a game engine, exactly?

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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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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Now, a Spanish startup called Penpot — which is taking a new approach to design collaboration through an open source platform that brings designers and developers into the mix simultaneously — says that it’s been seeing a huge amount of adoption since the Figma deal. “Developers care about that.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

And it turns out that many popular DevOps tools, such as Prometheus, Argo, Grafana, KubeFlow and Jenkins, are open source software (OSS). Pick active, backed projects. Before adding an OSS project to your DevOps toolset, make sure to perform a full audit: How many contributors does the project have?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

What open source-based startups can learn from Confluent’s success story. He created a tool to do this called Hudi , which Uber donated to the Apache Software Foundation as an open source project the following year. And data lakes let you scale to huge amounts of data,” he said.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 28, 2014

He also championed an open source ethos so that our work can be broadly shared (you can view all our open source projects on GitHub ). Overseeing the Accessibility Metadata Project , with which we led a collaborative effort to develop standards for accessibility metadata.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The tech industry has made a full 180-degree turn with regard to open source in the 16 years since Matt Mullenweg founded Automattic , a major commercial backer of open source content management system WordPress. Even true believers can be shocked by the extent to which open source has succeeded. “To

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

Successful companies such as Hashicorp, JFrog, Elastic, MongoDB and Gitlab have demonstrated the power of open source models. Effectively, open source startups need to build two product road maps and companies. Effectively, open source startups need to build two product road maps and companies.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2023

Founded out of Berlin in 2021, Qdrant is targeting AI software developers with an open source vector search engine and database for unstructured data, which is an integral part of AI application development particularly as it relates to using real-time data that hasn’t been categorized or labeled.

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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. By creating virtual worlds where their supporters can assist with projects they care about, nonprofits can inspire Gen Z to become advocates for their mission.

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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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Chicago-based serial entrepreneur Dan Pinto has raised new cash and launched a new company looking to commercialize a years-old open-source project that purports to solve one of the web’s hardest problems — fraud prevention. “We will continue to build upon that base and focus on selling to developers first.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

A new open source startup is setting out to help software development teams glean deeper insights from their codebases, using SQL to query all the data sources they use in the software building process. Similarly, could it surface areas of high risk that were dependent on someone who no longer works on a project?”

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

SocialCoding4Good We are very excited about our SocialCoding4Good project, one of our Benetech Labs initiatives, which is working to increase the engagement of the technology sector with social good initiatives beyond just the scope of our own programs. Martus is our free, open source, secure information collection and management tool.

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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. I have worked remotely in technology for over a decade, and I’ll share my tips for how fast-paced technical startups can take good care of their software development talent.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The nonpartisan think tank Brookings this week published a piece decrying the bloc’s regulation of open source AI, arguing it would create legal liability for general-purpose AI systems while simultaneously undermining their development. “In the end, the [E.U.’s] “In the end, the [E.U.’s]

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TechSpot

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Microsoft is planning to retire its Soundscape iOS app early next month, but it is not going away entirely.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

When it comes to building databases and other backend software development, different organizations and developers do not always speak the same language. Its open-source-based Prisma ORM, launched last year, now has more than 150,000 developers using it for Node.js

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Appsmith , which provides open source software that helps companies quickly build internal applications, announced an $8 million Series A round of funding this morning. Instead, Appsmith targets traditional developers with its service, which provides user-interface components that can be connected to business data sources.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

Wicked fast VPNs, data organization tools, auto-generated videos to spice up your company’s Instagram stories … Y Combinator’s Winter 2022 open source founders have some interesting ideas up their sleeves. And since they’re open source, some of these companies will let you join in on the fun of collaboration too.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The spies, working for Russia’s foreign intelligence service, had first targeted SolarWinds, an IT company whose software helps to remotely manage the networks of thousands of businesses, Fortune 500 organizations and federal government agencies. federal government.

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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

JULY 15, 2022

Merchants building businesses on giant marketplaces often have to think inside the marketplace’s box, but Medusa , a one-year-old e-commerce startup from Denmark, is going after e-commerce platforms, like Shopify and WooCommerce, with its open source alternative aimed at the JavaScript developer community.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

As Meltano CEO and GitLab veteran Douwe Maan told me, the original idea behind Meltano was to build an end-to-end data platform, but then the team narrowed its focus back to ELT again between 2020 and 2021, with the Singer open-source ELT tool as its core component. Now, with this new funding as a basis and the launch of Meltano 2.0

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TechSpot

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Go, one of the most popular programming languages alongside "traditional" standards such as Python, C, and Visual Basic, was exploited to turn legitimate open-source projects into malicious software. Read Entire Article

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