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Taking advantage of Latin America’s market downturn

TechCrunch

I started my career in private equity in 2002, but my first job at J.P. 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.

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Why, though? A cat ahead of its time

The Hustle

By January 2002, CueCat’s nine lives were all but up, costing investors $185m. It seems like what the tech really needed was a small internet-enabled box with a camera that we carry around all the time — but the iPhone wouldn’t debut until June 2007. It didn’t help that a hack revealed ~140k users’ personal data.

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Bjarne Stroustrup Biography

The Crazy Programmer

Between the years 1995 and 2002, Dr. Stroustrup oversaw department’s operations in the field of large-scale programming Texas A&M University’s Chair Professor of Computer Science also serves as a faculty member at AT&T Labs–Research Information and Systems Software Research Laboratory, where he teaches computer science.

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Adventr uses patented voice-control tech to allow anyone to create interactive videos

TechCrunch

The vast majority of the internet is video, so we’re enabling video to perform like the rest of these smart devices.” He references a scene in the 2002 movie “Minority Report,” where Tom Cruise encounters a hologram at the GAP that asks him about his personalized shopping experience.

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FusionGrid – Javascript Data Grid Component to Speed Up App Development

The Crazy Programmer

Since its inception in 2002, the developers at FusionCharts have worked hard to secure the computational resources in multi-institutional surroundings for their geographically dispersed users. Browser Version Internet Explorer 11.0+ Endless column customizations & data summaries. Smooth data exporting. Firefox 26.0+ Opera 18.0+

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Nigeria’s IROKO plans to go public on the London Stock Exchange AIM in 2022

TechCrunch

But u nlike Interswitch, which was founded in 2002, IROKO has been operating for just 10 years. Within that time, the only internet company to have gone public is Jumia , and it did so after seven years.

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History of HTML

The Crazy Programmer

The XHTML language became a standard markup language in 2000, and it got updated again in 2002. It works even if you are not connected with the internet and can be used for web-based applications. The RSS and MathML are a few examples of the markup languages that are written using XML language. or XHTML 1.0.