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Pakistan’s growing tech ecosystem is finally taking off

TechCrunch

Pakistan, the world’s fifth most populous country, has been slow to adapt to the internet economy. As a frontline state and coalition partner in the United States’ invasion of Afghanistan, Pakistan saw fatalities from terrorist violence soar from 295 in 2001 to a peak of over 11,000 in 2009.

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Taking advantage of Latin America’s market downturn

TechCrunch

Morgan was simple: writing portfolio reviews and helping unwind a large portfolio of internet companies that had had their share of glory, but were mostly failures by then. Foreign capital will only cover a portion of these funding needs. I started my career in private equity in 2002, but my first job at J.P.

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Microsoft faces new antitrust complaint over cloud software licensing in Europe

CIO

In 2004 the company paid a $611 million fine after the Commission found it guilty of illegally bundling media player software with Windows XP (launched in 2001), and then $357 million in 2006 and another $1.3 billion in 2008 for failing to comply with the 2004 ruling.

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Egypt’s e-commerce platform Wasla nabs $9 million from retail finance provider Contact

TechCrunch

Contact has been in the business of consumer finance since 2001, while Wasla was founded in 2018 by former Serag Meneassy and Taymour Sabry , both ex-Rocket Internet entrepreneurs, and investment banker Mahmoud El Said. “It’s

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For March 22nd, 2019

High Scalability

BrentToderian : What city went from 14% of all trips by bike in 2001, to 22% by 2012, then leaped to 30% in 3 years by 2015, & 35% by 2018? The company is burning through cash. $3B 3B this year, $4B next year. Debt skyrocketing. It all looks good when capital is cheap I guess. slobodan_ : "It is serverless the same way WiFi is wireless.

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History of IBM DB2

The Crazy Programmer

After IBM bought Informix Software in 2001, Db2 was updated to integrate object-relational extensions, making it an object-SQL database management system. Informix was purchased by IBM in 2001, and many of its database features were included in the DB2 product range. Server Edition for Workgroups (WSE).

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What Executives Should Know About Shift-Left Security

CIO

The term was first coined by Larry Smith in 2001. How did the term shift-left security originate? Shift-left security spawned from a broader area of focus known as shift-left testing. This creates risks.

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