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Google DeepMind’s robotics head on general purpose robots, generative AI and office WiFi

TechCrunch

The researchers involved compared the system to ImageNet, the landmark database founded in 2009 that is now home to more than […] © 2023 TechCrunch. Earlier this month, Google’s DeepMind team debuted Open X-Embodiment, a database of robotics functionality created in collaboration with 33 research institutes. All rights reserved.

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How to use the secondary market to find clues about who will IPO first

TechCrunch

This plummeted to 28 in 2022, the lowest number recorded since 2009, amid the financial crisis. PitchBook counted 296 venture-backed companies that went public in 2021, which doubles — or more — any other year prior.

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What’s Turo worth?

TechCrunch

billion, making it a unicorn long in the making, having raised capital as early as 2009. And a Turo IPO would not be a small affair. PitchBook pegs the company’s most recent private-market price at $1.28

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The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster

CIO

January 2009: Autonomy buys enterprise content management vendor Interwoven for $775 million. September 2020: The UK’s Financial Reporting Council fines Deloitte £15 million for failings in its auditing of Autonomy’s accounts between January 2009 and June 2011.

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Rails Guides get a facelift

Ruby on Rails

The design of the guides, however, has remained largely untouched since 2009 - a point which hasn’t gone unnoticed (we heard your feedback). When Rails 7.0 landed in December 2021, it came with a fresh new homepage and a new boot screen.

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Private equity descends on Chartbeat

TechCrunch

Launched out of Betaworks in 2009 , the service offered real-time analytics back when Google Analytics made you wait 24 hours to see who was clicking around your site. Chartbeat, a website that tells publishers about their readers, is getting the private equity treatment.

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The Next Supply-Chain Challenge Isn’t a Shortage — It’s Inventory Glut

Harvard Business Review

In 2009, the financial crash left manufacturers with excess inventory when consumer buying power suddenly dropped. Inventory challenges aren’t new. Electronics littered shelves in 2001 after the dot-com bubble burst. And now, the high-tech industry is feeling the weight of a volatile market that has led to excess component inventory.

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