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

CIO

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. November 2005: Autonomy agrees to buy search technology developer Verity for $500 milllion, its third acquisition of the year after NCorp (in February) and etalk (in June).

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Prioritizing AI? Don’t shortchange IT fundamentals

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Fundamentals like security, cost control, identity management, container sprawl, data management, and hardware refreshes remain key strategic areas for CIOs to deal with. The same issues were revealed when Microsoft launched Delve, and before that when the FAST integration brought powerful search to SharePoint in 2010. But it was.

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Digital pragmatism at Volvo means more control and less agile

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The balance between software and hardware in cars is also changing dramatically since software is increasingly developed internally and built into the cars. We need to take greater responsibility for the development of our digital products and not act as an internal supplier to our business.”

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China’s game engine Cocos raises $50M, goes beyond games

TechCrunch

Cocos Technologies, a China-based game engine provider that has been around since 2010, just announced it has picked up $50 million in a Series B funding round in a bid to work on development and move beyond games. The boom caught the eye of hardware makers like Vivo, which partnered up with Cocos to make its equivalent of mini games.

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Emulate Inc. closes $82M Series E to fund expansion of ‘organ-on-a-chip’ products

TechCrunch

a biotech company focused on developing “organ-on-a-chip” technology, closed an $82 million Series E round on Tuesday. This latest round is intended to formulate a massive investment in a “roadmap” for developing model organ systems created to fit drugmakers’ needs and bring the idea of an organ-on-a-chip into use in the lab. .

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Hire Binance Smart Chain Developer

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Hiring BSC developers can bring many benefits to your business. They are experts in blockchain technology, particularly in the development and deployment of smart contracts, dApps, and digital assets. It was developed to easily build inexpensive blockchain networks for decentralized apps (dApps) and smart contracts.

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Streetlogic launches computer vision-based e-bike collision warning system, raises $2.1M

TechCrunch

More recently, c omputer vision companies like Luna or Drover AI have developed similar tech for e-scooters that’s operated by the likes of shared micromobility operators Voi and Spin, respectively. increased 6% in 2019 from 793 in 2010 to 1,089 in 2019, and of those 843 were killed in crashes with motor vehicles.