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Polywork 13m Series Horowitzkennedy Siliconrepublic

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Polywork, a business-focused social network in private beta that emphasizes the work people do over job titles, raises $13M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz

Polywork, founded by Peter Johnston, has concluded a Series A round that garnered funding from prominent Silicon Valley figures.

Peter Johnston, a Carrickfergus native and the founder of the business-focused social network Polywork, has secured a $13 million Series A financing, which was headed by Andreessen Horowitz (A16z).

GitHub CEO Nat Friedman, Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, Product Hunt founder Ryan Hoover, and Stripe founders John and Patrick Collison were among the illustrious investors that joined A16z.

Along with returning investors Bungalow Capital and 20VC, Goldcrest Capital and Caffeinated Capital were also present.

A draw of Polywork, which was established in 2020, is its creator, Johnston, a former Google employee who founded the freelancer-management software company Kalo (formerly known as Lystable) in 2015. The start-up received recurrent investments from Valar Ventures, graduated from Techstars in the UK, and amassed a clientele that included Google, Airbnb, and The Economist. However, Kalo suffered during the epidemic, so Johnston decided to close it down.

April saw the beta debut of Polywork, while May saw a $3.5 million seed investment. It has been compared to LinkedIn and Twitter by observers and early users, and Johnston has made it apparent that he wants to compete with the Microsoft-owned industry leader in professional networking.

He explained in an interview with Sifted that “our presentation to investors was essentially a reframe of what LinkedIn is attempting to achieve. How beneficial, for example, is a resume that includes a list of skills? What you do with your skills is more important to me than your skill set.

The major means of identification when letting someone know who you are are your work title or your place of education, both of which are rather bad indicators of who you really are and what you care about.

Numerous times in interviews and blog postings, Johnston has expressed his belief that individuals are “more than the labels society has imposed upon them, such as job titles,” and that he thinks Polywork will bridge the gap between the personal and professional in a manner that other social networks cannot. Users receive a Twitter-style feed where they may publish updates on their most recent work, and they can use tags or badges on their profiles to highlight their abilities and hobbies. Additionally, posts may be labelled, allowing you to view a user’s feed based on one of their interests or places of employment.

Following the investment, Sriram Krishnan of A16z will join the Polywork board.

“Earlier this year, we first learned about Polywork, and shortly after, we started noticing well-known internet personalities using it to share their stories. You pay attention when you hear buzz from online groups spanning tech, fashion, music, and more. And it became immediately apparent why Polywork was attracting everyone’s attention,” Krishnan remarked.

“The team was actually creating a network geared to represent the diverse nature of what we do as humans,” said one reviewer of Polywork.

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Banarasi Silk Sarees: Traditional as well as Charming

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Banarasi Silk Sarees: Traditional as well as Charming

The most important event in a woman’s life is her wedding, and she wants to dress and appear her best for this special day. The bride must dress in large, bulky sarees or lehengas for the mehndi ceremony reception, one of many traditions that precede and follow Indian wedding ceremonies. We all have busy lives, though, and it’s possible that we won’t have enough time to visit various stores and make the actual purchase of sarees. It makes perfect sense in this situation to purchase wedding sarees online.

One of any Indian woman’s most prized possessions is a Banarasi Saree. These sarees have received praise not just in India but also outside. Every girl would want to own and utilise something as soft, smooth, and uniquely Indian as Banaras. These stunning sarees are being woven by hundreds of weavers in the historic city of Varanasi.

The ancient craft of creating banarasi has truly been passed down from one generation to the next and is still thriving today. These sarees are considered to have become more popular during the Mughal era. In order to produce the distinctive pattern that now distinguishes Banarasi sarees, Persian and Indian designs were combined.

People from royal houses were the only ones who wore Banarasi Silk Saree Buy Online in the past. These were once worth several lakhs of rupees because they were constructed with genuine silver and gold strings. A saree could sometimes take a weaver a whole year to complete. But now that simple threads are being used, even the common man can buy it.

Many newlyweds wear a Banarasi silk saree on their special day because it meets the requirements of a wedding saree. The sarees are a favourite among upcoming brides because of their brilliant diversity and exceptional designs. The saree can be found in a wide range of colours, including orange, red, imperial blue, purple, blue, green, and others.

The patterns and designs of the Banarasi sarees have undergone a great deal of trial and error. Sarees with extraordinary designs that reflect elegance and grace are the end result. These sarees are a treat to wear because of their lovely and elaborate embroidery.

A Banarasi saree never quits trying to make a woman look good. It makes a fashion statement right away. This is one saree that has endured for many generations and has remained unaffected by changes in the fashion industry. Banarasi silk sarees are now sold all over the world. It is now simpler than ever to buy sarees from the comfort of your home thanks to the extensive selection available online. Buy one from one of the many stores and take pleasure in its rich splendour. To make sure you are receiving a good value for your money, check its validity before purchasing.

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Release of Google Chrome 88: Farewell to Flash Player and FTP assistance

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Release of Google Chrome 88: Farewell to Flash Player and FTP assistance

Today, January 19, 2021, Google released Chrome 88 to the Stable desktop channel, which contains security updates and the much awaited removal of Adobe Flash Player.

Chrome 89 is the newest Beta version, Chrome 88 has been moved to the Stable channel, and Chrome 90 will be the Canary version.

Users using desktop versions of Windows, Mac, and Linux can upgrade to Chrome 88 by selecting Settings -> Help -> About Google Chrome. When a new update becomes available, the browser will then check for it automatically and install it.

Removal of Flash Player from Chrome
On January 12th, 2021, Adobe Flash Player will no longer be supported, hence Google has totally removed Flash from the browser.

Organizations will no longer be able to use Enterprise policy to re-enable Flash Player in Google Chrome as a result of this change.

Since 2017, Google has been alerting consumers to the impending demise of Adobe Flash Player and recommending businesses to stop utilising it in their environments.

With this modification, Flash Player is no longer supported by the main platform for running Flash content.

FTP support was dropped
Due to its limited usage and lack of support for proxy or encrypted (FTPS) connections, Google decided to remove FTP support (ftp:/) from Chrome.

Because only “.1-.2%” of Chrome users actually utilise the FTP protocol, Google has been attempting to get rid of it since 2014.

With the introduction of a new “chrome:/flags/#enable-ftp” flag that determines whether or not FTP support is enabled, Google started deprecating FTP support with the release of Chrome 80.

In order to ensure that there would be no issues with accessing content on FTP sites during the epidemic, Google restored FTP support once more on April 9th, reversing the previous decision to disable it by default in Chrome 81.

“We will “undeprecate” FTP on the Chrome stable channel in light of the present problem. FTP, for instance, will resume operation “Asanka Herath, a Google software engineer, commented on a Chromium issue topic.

The browser no longer offers any FTP support as of the release of Chrome 88.

enhanced controls for the dark mode
Although Google Chrome has long supported operating system dark mode settings, not all of its controls have been converted to a dark mode style. Scroll bars and form controls are some of these controls.

With Chrome 88, the browser now uses a dark mode theme to display scroll bars and form controls.

increased protection against tabbing assaults
In order to prevent “tabnabbing” assaults, Chrome 88 will automatically apply the “noopener” context to links that open in new tabs when a user clicks on them. This attack technique is referred to as “tab-napping” by Google.

A security flaw called “tabbing” enables a freshly opened page to use javascript to send the user to a different URL from the one they were originally on. Any URL the threat actor chooses, such as phishing pages or pages that automatically download malicious files, might be used as the redirected URL.

HTML links can have a rel=”noopener” property added by web designers to stop a new tab from changing the referring page using JavaScript.

With the introduction of Google Chrome today, any links that open in a new tab will instantly have the rel=”nooopener” attribute applied to them.

New Tab search demonstration
The long-awaited capability of being able to search through all of your open tabs finally arrives in Chrome 88. When activated, a small down arrow will appear in a circle, and clicking it will launch a search dialogue.

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PE firm Insight Allies spends $290M for a bulk risk in CivicPlus, which provides software and also various other innovation to greater than 4,000 municipal governments (AJ Dome/Manhattan Mercury).

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PE firm Insight Partners invests $290M for a majority stake in CivicPlus, which provides software and other technology to more than 4,000 municipal governments (AJ Dome/Manhattan Mercury)

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PE firm Insight Partners invests $290M for a majority stake in CivicPlus, which provides software and other technology to more than 4,000 municipal governments  —  A Manhattan software business owner says a multimillion-dollar investment into the company will not change the company’s makeup.

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