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

CIO

It went on an acquisition spree in the early 2000s, driving up its revenue, before being swallowed itself by Hewlett-Packard in 2011, in a deal that valued it at over $10 billion. Rather than selling software to customers, HP said, Autonomy had been selling them hardware at a loss, then booking the sales as software licensing revenue.

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Environmental health and safety software is now a hot commodity

TechCrunch

Historically, environmental health and safety software hasn’t been a massive market — at least compared to others in the software-as-a-service segment — and it’s admittedly not the most enthralling startup category. But that’s changing, according to a new survey released by research firm Verdantix. billion by 2027.

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coinlayer API Review – How to Add Crypto Rates to Your Website

The Crazy Programmer

Due to the extreme uncertainty found in most cryptocurrencies, the price would typically not be the same from day to day. Examine how the API has been developed for historical data during 2011 by querying cryptocurrency data over time. An example of target currency code for Euro: [.] & target = EUR [.] ] & target = EUR [.]

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Koan raises $1M more as it adds a free tier to its OKR software

TechCrunch

This week Koan , a startup that provides objectives-and-key-results (OKR) and status-tracking software, announced that it has raised an additional $1 million, added a free tier to its service and acquired a design firm with which it has worked. Koan, launched by a co-founder of Jive Software, has raised $3 million in seed funding.

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As startups whip up a restaurant tech frenzy, is anyone close to Toast?

TechCrunch

Technology innovation often comes in waves, but the restaurant industry saw its surf get bigger and stronger due in part to the pandemic. Toast, a financial software company focused on restaurants, has remained one of the leaders in the space.

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Adventures in content marketing

Successful Software

Back in 2011 I created eventcountdown.com. The idea was people searching for countdown clocks for events (such as their wedding) would find the site via Google, find out about PerfectTablePlan and a certain percentage would then buy my event seating planner software. The site got 38k hits in a single day just before superbowl 2019!

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Call center automation software vendor Replicant raises $78M

TechCrunch

Prior to Replicant, Abraham — who joined eBay in 2011 via the company’s acquisition of Milo.com — did stints as a software engineer at Atomic and smart device company Leeo. And changes in consumer behavior due to [the pandemic] and supply chain issues have driven massive spikes in call volume,” Shamia said.