Our 9 favorite startups from Y Combinator W19 Demo Day 2

Heathcare kiosks, a home-cooked food marketplace, and a way for startups to earn interest on their funding topped our list of high-potential companies from Y Combinator’s Winter 2019 Demo Day 2. 88 startups launched on stage at the lauded accelerator, though some of the best skipped the stage as they’d already raised tons of money. Be sure to check out our write-ups of all 85 startups from day 1 plus our top picks, as well as the full set from day 2.

The five pillars of successful master data management

MDM serves as the fuel that flows through the entire ecosystem of your business. It breaks down data silos and allows internal systems to work together.

How Continuous Testing Is Hitting Shift Left On Security

When developers are looking at security issues in their programs, they can take one of several different approaches. Historically, though, the majority of developers have focused on a practice known as “shifting right.” To shift right, in security nomenclature, is all about identifying bugs and weaknesses after launch and then making adjustments to deal with those issues. As DevOps teams become more skilled, however, shifting right is becoming obsolete.

Portworx raises $27M Series C for its cloud-native data management platform

As enterprises adopt cloud-native technologies like containers to build their applications, the next question they often have to ask themselves is how they adapt their data storage and management practices to this new reality, too. One of the companies in this business is the four-year-old Portworx, which has managed to attract customers like Lufthansa Systems, GE Digital and HPE with its cloud-native storage and data-management platform for the Kubernetes container orchestration platform.

Here’s How Big Data Is Transforming Online Gaming

Consumers are producing more data than ever before. As the volume of data increases at an exponentially faster rate, companies must have the best scientists on staff to aid them. Employment for Big Data Surges There has been a 29% increase in data scientists over the past year. The trend is even more significant if you look at it over a longer time interval.

How Big Data Is Interrupting The Real Estate Industry

Big data has a lot of applications. While we usually focus on big data’s impact in the marketing and fitness industries, there are other sectors that are equally affected by them. Large-scale real estate companies and firms have been using big data for a long time, but now the technology is becoming more affordable and readily available. These big data trends are having the biggest impact on the real estate industry.

U.S. federal court jury finds Apple infringed three Qualcomm patents

Mobile chipmaker Qualcomm has chalked up another small legal victory against Apple in another patent litigation suit. A jury in a U.S. federal court in San Diego found Friday that Apple owes Qualcomm about $31M for infringing three patents, per Reuters. As we reported earlier the San Diego patent suit relates to the power consumption and speed of boot-up times for iPhones sold between mid-2017 and late-2018.

Is Google’s Snorkel DryBell the future of enterprise data management?

Google, along with researchers at Stanford University and Brown University, have extended the open-source Snorkel tool to make it industrial-strength for enterprise machine learning. The work points the way to a path beyond traditional data integration.

Governance, integration are top challenges to cloud data warehouse efforts

While cloud data warehouses are often an important first step in digital transformation, enterprises need to follow some best practices to overcome implementation challenges and increase investment return.

Is Big Data The Key To Our Culture’s Relationship Crisis?

Big data is solving countless challenges in the business world. One of the biggest benefits of big data is improving relationship building. Victoria Greene, a writer for Bloomberg, wrote about the benefits of using big data to strengthen customer relationships. Greene states that there are lots of ways that big data is helping with customer relationship building. Advances in data technology have made supply-chain management costs decline.