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French aerospace company Gama raises $2M to develop a solar sail spacecraft

TechCrunch

The aerospace company was founded in 2020 by Louis de Gouyon Matignon, Thibaud Elziere and Andrew Nutter, whose goal is to develop a low-cost solar sail that would use light as a means of propulsion for spacecraft. Now multiple organizations apart from Gama are developing new solar sail missions.

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There’s nothing Automattic about balancing commercial growth with an open source developer community

TechCrunch

To get there, Automattic has to shepherd and evolve its developer community even as it empowers more and more of its open source contributors to take leadership roles in the future of the WordPress ecosystem. That proportion is actually lower for WordPress, where only about a third of developers are believed to be sponsored.

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Top AngularJS Development Tools in 2022

Radixweb

Angular JS was launched by google in 2010. Now almost a decade later, the framework has become one of the world’s most sought-after software development frameworks. Angular JS’s popularity is twofold-it is a highly efficient framework that facilitates the building of dynamic and highly responsive web apps and SPAs.

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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. June 2010: Autonomy acquires CA Technologies’ information governance business. Here’s how it played out.

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Use RevOps to develop a customer-led approach to B2B sales

TechCrunch

Back around 2010, the thinking was, generally: “Let’s bring tech into our business and make it more efficient.” Optimizing your unique path to better connect with customers requires having a cross-discipline team that’s focused solely on that objective and sees the client as their guiding star. We call that RevOps.

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PHP sinks in Tiobe language popularity index

InfoWorld

PHP, long a popular server-side scripting language for web development , has dropped to its lowest position ever in the monthly Tiobe index of programming language popularity, ranking 17th in the April 2024 edition of the index. PHP even reached the top 3 spot in the index, ranking third several times between 2006 and 2010.

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How to Find and Hire Fintech Developers with React / Typescript

Mobilunity

The role of skilled fintech developers React experts has become increasingly important as traditional banking methods evolve. This demand has propelled technologies like React and TypeScript to the forefront of fintech application development. By 2028, this share is anticipated to exceed $400 billion.

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