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Nerdio lands $117M to build management tools on top of Azure Virtual Desktop

TechCrunch

In 2005, three entrepreneurs — Vadim Vladimirskiy, Stuart Gabel and Niall Keegan — co-founded Adar, a Chicago-based company providing “streaming IT” and IT-as-a-service products mainly to small- and medium-sized businesses. Nerdio runs in a customer’s own Azure subscription as an Azure-based application.).

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Hottest tech skills to hire for in 2020

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Here are some of the hottest tech skills (a mix of programming languages, tools, and frameworks; in random order) to hire for in 2020, which will help you thrive in the workplace of tomorrow. The language is at the heart of several prominent tech companies, such as Netflix, PayPal, Groupon, LinkedIn, and Walmart. JavaScript.

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Coming out of COVID, investors lose their taste for board meetings

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Two weeks ago, longtime venture capitalist Chris Olsen, a general partner and cofounder of Drive Capital in Columbus, Ohio, settled into his seat for a portfolio company’s board meeting. So two years go by, and you may have invested in three or four times more companies than you did before the pandemic, and it’s too many.”

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Cloud PC preps Grant Thornton for hybrid future

CIO

The UK-based accounting and tax consulting firm was one of few accountants in the UK that weathered the 2020 tax season without a hitch, thanks to its early bet on SaaS, Microsoft Azure, and software-defined networking. We were ahead of the game,” says Swift, of his company’s response to the health crisis that slowed business globally.

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The startup CIO’s guide to formalizing IT for liquidity events

CIO

You see the data by which Wall Street will judge your business is scattered across the company, stored and formatted unsystematically. You see the systems that must be repaired (or built) if the firm is to comply with SOX. He helps the firm’s portfolio companies tackle the intricacies of crossing the start-up to scale-up chasm.

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Manila-based MadEats is more than a ghost kitchen startup

TechCrunch

MadEats , Y Combinator alum, claims to be the first “‘full-stack’ delivery-only startup in the Philippines,” with their own virtual storefront, ghost kitchens and fleet of drivers. The company announced today it has raised $1.7 The company announced today it has raised $1.7

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Sharing Responsibility for Data Security in the Cloud

CIO

Intellectual property is key to a company’s success,” notes Simon Leech, operational security lead for HPE GreenLake Cloud Services. Therefore, it’s up to CIOs to do due diligence about what sort of security controls are in place and to ensure data is well protected in an [as-a-service] operating model.