Published on: 2025-05-18 05:52:54
Debts, Tech and Otherwise While people debate the validity of "tech debt", others are asking, "What other sorts of 'debt' do we have in software development and delivery?" 09 March 2025 tl;dr A colleague of mine, Scott Porad (CTO, VP Engineering) posted on LinkedIn, asking, "What are all the other kinds of debt like tech debt?" He listed out a few, then asked for others to weigh in, and the list grew... kinda long. And interesting. And made me think about the metaphor more deeply. His list in
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-23 03:35:37
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence firm xAI has acquired his social media platform X in an all-stock transaction that values the company at $33 billion, including $12 billion worth of debt, the centibillionaire announced Friday. The sale comes just weeks after Musk reportedly raised another roughly $1 billion in debt financing for X that valued the company at $44 billion—the same price Musk paid for it three years ago. “xAI and X’s futures are intertwined,” Musk wrote in an X post. “Today, we
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-24 03:54:00
Recap: DoorDash has partnered with Swedish-based financial services company Klarna to offer customers more ways to pay for deliveries. At checkout, you'll have the choice to break a bill up into four equal, interest-free installments, defer a payment until a later date, or pay in full as you normally would. DoorDash said the option, which will launch in the coming months in the US, can be used on food deliveries as well as groceries, retail purchases, and to pay for a DashPass annual plan. As
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-27 11:27:03
Winter of Quality In just a few months, developers fixed over 700 reported issues, revisited old bug reports, and addressed unreported problems. Alongside bug fixes, Winter of Quality also included tackling technical debt and improving documentation.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-03 00:00:00
Key Takeaways The Federal Reserve voted to hold rates steady at its meeting March 18-19. An unchanged federal funds rate means your credit card's APR likely won't be adjusted either. Credit card interest rates, on average, currently sit over 20%, according to the Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve voted to once again hold its benchmark interest rate steady at this week's monetary policy meeting March 18-19, which means you shouldn't expect your credit card APRs to change. Although the fede
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Debt collection in emerging markets often feels outdated and can be costly — damaging borrower trust. As consumer lending surges and regulators push for fairer practices, legacy collection outfits are struggling to maintain pace. ClearGrid aims to help modernize debt collection — and recovery — with AI. The Dubai-based startup, which is emerging from stealth with $10 million in funding ($3.5 million pre-seed and $6.5 million seed), helps banks, fintechs, and lenders recover more debt without re
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-20 18:41:11
Since taking out that loan from the Carlyle Group and facing increasing competition from Chinese manufacturers, iRobot has not found a way to become profitable again and says it expects to incur losses for “the foreseeable future.” With no clear path to paying off the debt, the future looks bleak for the inventor of the robot vacuum. In its quarterly financial report published March 12, the company, which saw its revenue in the U.S. drop by 47 percent in the fourth quarter, said it had “initiat
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-27 12:17:23
Humans who lived hundreds or thousands of years ago often get a bad rap. That's because they lived long before many of the great technological advances that define our world today. How could these people, who lacked the power of modern technologies like computers, or even paper, have any chance to solve difficult problems requiring lots of calculations? Then, as now, those problems include how to settle the estates of the deceased. Dividing up an estate fairly among surviving heirs can be a tr
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In 2022, Elon Musk placed a bid of almost $44 billion to acquire Twitter, which he then tried to worm out of. With his back against the wall after a brief skirmish in the courts, Musk chose to honor his original purchase agreement and take over the platform. Flash forward to the present day, and X-formerly-Twitter has lost upward of 79 percent of its original value after neo-Nazis flocked to the platform and big-name advertisers fled in droves. Now, in a somewhat rare move for the richest man
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