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

CIO

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. Its Agentware internet search tools are used by enterprises including Barclays Bank and Unilever and sold as shrink-wrapped software through retail outlets.

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South Korean proptech startup Zigbang acquires Samsung SDS’ smart home IoT business

TechCrunch

Zigbang , a South Korean proptech startup that provides real estate transactions service, announced on Thursday that it will acquire Samsung SDS’ home internet of things (IoT) unit to make a foray into the smart home industry. . Its main products include digital door locks and wall pads that connect to users’ smartphones.

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China’s logistics robot maker VisionNav raises $76M at $500M valuation

TechCrunch

Founded in 2016 by a group of PhDs from the University of Tokyo and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, VisionNav’s valuation was boosted to over $500 million in this round, up from $393 million just six months ago when it picked up 300 million yuan ($47 million) in a Series C financing, it told TechCrunch.

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Zededa lands a cash infusion to expand its edge device management software

TechCrunch

The only successful way to manage this type of environment was for organizations to have visibility across all the hardware, applications, clouds and networks distributed across their edge environments, just like they have in the data center or cloud.” Image Credits: Zededa.

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David Patterson Biography

The Crazy Programmer

Turing Award laureate David Patterson retired in 2016. Contributions in the Field of the Internet. In his computer hardware research, David mostly incorporated elements of Array data structure, Multi-core processor, and Cache. He used to talk about his hobbies, his work, and his team in his lectures. He served for 40 years.

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The peculiar, persistent threat of bitsquatting

The Parallax

It was a serious enough problem in the early days of the commercial Internet for the United States to pass the AntiCybersquatting Consumer Protection Act in 1999, which contained measures to allow for prosecution of typosquatters. More and more devices are connecting to the Internet every day. READ MORE ON CYBERATTACKS.

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The peculiar, persistent threat of bitsquatting

The Parallax

It was a serious enough problem in the early days of the commercial Internet for the United States to pass the AntiCybersquatting Consumer Protection Act in 1999, which contained measures to allow for prosecution of typosquatters. “More and more devices are connecting to the Internet every day.

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