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

CIO

The 1990s: Founding myth 1990: Mike Lynch, an academic in Cambridge, England, borrows—or so the legend goes—£2,000 to start Cambridge Neurodynamics, going on to develop the software that would later give rise to Autonomy. January 2009: Autonomy buys enterprise content management vendor Interwoven for $775 million.

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Zonos banks $69M to develop APIs for democratizing cross-border commerce

TechCrunch

The Series A is the first outside capital Zonos has raised since it was founded in 2009, Clint Reid, founder and CEO, told TechCrunch. Even if someone chooses not to purchase the item due to the fees being too high, MacLean believes the purchasing experience will be different because the pricing and shipping information was provided up front.

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Flippa raises $11M to match online asset and business buyers, sellers

TechCrunch

The company, with bases in both Austin and Australia, was started in 2009 and facilitates exits for millions of online business owners, some that operate on e-commerce marketplaces, blogs, SaaS and apps, the newest data integration being for Shopify, Blake Hutchison, CEO of Flippa, told TechCrunch.

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Announcing the startups and judges onstage at TC Sessions: Mobility 2022

TechCrunch

. “Swyft is a new form of urban mobility, using autonomous cabins on lightweight cable infrastructure to solve transportation problems in densely developed areas including corporate campuses, airports, universities and tourism districts. This adds capacity into an area, allowing higher density and more profitable developments.

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Understanding Technical Debt and Why Recruiting the Right Tech Talent is the Solution

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Now and then we read about a new, all-important parameter of software development that has technical teams buzzing. In other words, it is the ‘cost’ that companies ‘borrow’, to ensure speedy delivery, with the understanding that the tech team needs to pay off the ‘interest’.In The danger occurs when the debt is not repaid.

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Top 25 Web Development Companies In Dubai UAE

Xicom

Did you ever ask any experienced business owner how was their experience with a web development company for their website development? Experimenting with your first project can be a perplexing preposition without succinct diligence due to the selection of the right web development companies in Dubai.

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The Sobering Truth About the Impact of Your Business Ideas

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

For example, in some companies an idea such as “we’ll lower prices to increase demand by 10%” might be made on a whim by a marketing exec and there will be no follow up at all to see if it had the expected impact on demand. They are unswayed by well-crafted narratives, emotional reviews by customers, or an executive’s influence.