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After launching its inaugural school of engineering earlier this year and raising pre-seed funding, Nigeria’s AltSchool has expanded its catalog to include data and product schools, responding to the growing demand for these technical skills by youth and employers. Among the new courses are product marketing, design and management, and data science, engineering and analysis. […]

Nigeria’s AltSchool increases course options amidst soaring tech-skill demand by Annie Njanja originally published on TechCrunch

The Cloud Foundry Foundation, the home of the Cloud Foundry open source development platform for cloud-native applications, today announced that Catherine McGarvey, a vice president of software engineering at VMware, is the new chair of its governing board. She succeeds Kubernetes co-founder and VMware VP of R&D Craig McLuckie, who took the role in late […]

The Cloud Foundry Foundation gets a new chair by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

Welcome to the first day of TechCrunch Disrupt! Yeah, baby, we are ready to jump right into a jam-packed day dedicated to the growth and success of the entire early-stage startup ecosystem. Check out our day-one highlights to whet your appetite and then dig in! Latecomers always welcome: Buy a pass right here. You’ll find […]

Here’s a peek at what’s happening on day one at Disrupt by Lauren Simonds originally published on TechCrunch

Startups and big retailers utilize technology to help brands better manage returns, but they’re also attempting to tackle the root cause — the fit itself.

Advances in fit technology could minimize those onerous online returns by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch

We’re positively thrilled that Startup Battlefield is live and in person at TechCrunch Disrupt 2022. In a new era of the legendary startup competition, TechCrunch editorial hand selected 200 startups, out of thousands of applicants, to comprise the Startup Battlefield 200. The top  20 companies will pitch on the Disrupt Stage. Startup Battlefield Finalists are […]

Announcing the TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 20 companies on the Disrupt Stage by Neesha A. Tambe originally published on TechCrunch

Venture capital funds focusing on niche sectors are “in,” and Will Ventures is here for it. This low-flying, Boston-based venture outfit just tripled the size of its second fund to $150 million thanks to its approach of investing in sports technologies with the help of its community of athlete backers who help promote and grow […]

Will Ventures closes second fund with $150M to invest in sports technologies by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch

Photoshop and Lightroom are incredibly powerful tools for manipulating images, but since the beginning of time, the most frustrating part of working with these tools has been selecting specific objects to cut them out of an image, move them elsewhere, etc. Over the years, the object selection tools got a lot better, but for complex […]

Adobe makes selecting and deleting objects and people in Photoshop and Lightroom a lot easier by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

It’s been eighteen months since Adobe acquired Frame.io, the video collaboration service that helps anyone from freelancers to large production houses streamline their review and editing workflows. One of the core features of Frame.io is its Camera to Cloud (C2C) technology, which greatly speeds up the process of uploading and sharing video in the middle […]

RED and Fuji are building Frame.io’s Camera to Cloud right into their cameras by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch