article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

How Much is Poor Quality Software Costing You?

OverOps

Earlier this month, Herb Krasner, an Advisory Board member of the Consortium for IT Software Quality (CISQ) joined our VP of Solution Engineering Eric Mizell for a webinar examining the cost of poor quality software. Herb’s CISQ report estimates that, in 2018, poor quality software cost organizations $2.8

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

New report examines Africa’s growth in the digital economy and VC investment landscape

TechCrunch

The dynamics that play into this forecast, aside from the impact of COVID, include a youthful population (the youngest globally), rising smartphone adoption and internet penetration that has led to a burgeoning tech ecosystem backed by local and international VC dollars. million jobs due to Google’s $1 billion investment in the continent.

Report 243
article thumbnail

Infogrid raises $90M for its AI-driven building monitoring tech

TechCrunch

.” De Gruchy — who has a fascinating history, having studied cage fighting and served as an army officer before pivoting to a quieter, white-collar career in due diligence analysis — founded Infogrid in 2018.

article thumbnail

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For October 5th, 2018

High Scalability

Then please recommend my well reviewed book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. antirez : "After 20 years as a software engineer, I've started commenting heavily. What made me change was a combination of reading the SQLite and Redis codebases" <3 false myth: code should be auto-explaining. Please support me on Patreon.

article thumbnail

Cybersecurity startup Guardio, now with 1M users of its browser extension, raises its first funding: $47M led by Tiger Global

TechCrunch

Some say that antivirus software that you install on your PC may have run its course when it comes to the next generation of computing in the cloud. A large percentage of users with updated operating systems” — which internconnect to the internet — “were using antivirus. We believe in positive friction.”

article thumbnail

A Brief History of the Internet’s Biggest BGP Incidents

Kentik

In the summer of 2022, I joined a team of BGP experts organized by the Broadband Internet Technical Advisory Group (BITAG) to draft a comprehensive report covering the security of the internet’s routing infrastructure. Below is an edited version of my take on the internet’s most notable BGP incidents.