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

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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. billion or $11.7

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AllSpice thinks hardware developers lack their own ‘GitHub,’ so it is building one

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AllSpice , a collaborative hub designed for hardware development, came out of private beta on a mission to build a DevOps ecosystem inspired by GitHub. They bonded over frustrations at their respective jobs in what seemed like a hardware industry left behind to rely on PDFs and email to get things done versus software development.

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5 pillars of a cloud-conscious culture

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To them, most of the technology stack can be regarded as a commodity, a layer of hardware and software no different from one organization to another. Much of the work requires travel to remote regions of the world, and teams need to become operational almost immediately. “We I call it ‘learn by doing it.’

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Qapita, a developer of equity management software for startups, raises $5M led by MassMutual Ventures

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Qapita , a Singapore-based fintech that provides capitalization table and employee stock ownership plans (ESOP) management software, has raised $5 million in pre-Series A funding. Its software platform helps private companies digitize and manage cap tables, perform due diligence and issue equity to employees.

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Accord, which offers a platform to manage sales processes, secures $10M

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CEO Ross Rich says that the new funds, which bring Accord’s total raised to $17 million, will be put toward the startup’s engineering, sales and marketing teams. Accord was co-founded in early 2020 by brothers Ross and Ryan Rich. DealPoint , Sales Hacker ) to develop similar sales orchestration offerings.

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Weights & Biases raises $135M Series C to keep building MLOps software

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According to Carta data , data and analytics-focused Series C rounds since the start of 2020 have median values of $43.75 According to Weights & Biases co-founder Lukas Biewald , the software world has a set of tools built for developers to write and deploy code well. monitoring ( Atlassian , Datadog , etc.),

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Sharing Responsibility for Data Security in the Cloud

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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. trillion mark by 2025, noted the “ 2020 Cybersecurity Ventures ” report. This also makes it easier for developers to create secure code.