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

TechCrunch

To me, one of the most incredible examples of this is Chromium being used not just by Brave, but by Internet Explorer,” Mullenweg, who is also CEO of Automattic, said. Most are small design agencies and paid plugin developers, such as Yoast , a search engine optimization tool that has over 12 million websites. Founding privilege.

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New report examines Africa’s growth in the digital economy and VC investment landscape

TechCrunch

The dynamics that play into this forecast, aside from the impact of COVID, include a youthful population (the youngest globally), rising smartphone adoption and internet penetration that has led to a burgeoning tech ecosystem backed by local and international VC dollars. from 2010 to 2019. Africa’s digital opportunity.

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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.

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What’s next for the internet in Afghanistan?

Kentik

Will it also end a period of development of the domestic internet in Afghanistan? Growth of Afghan domestic internet. The fragmented nature of the country’s internet, driven by its austere mountainous geography, meant that shutting down service in Afghanistan would require more than a single kill switch. As the last U.S.

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

SoCal CTO

Some really great stuff in 2010 that aims to help startups around product, technology, business models, etc. 500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication?

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Thoma Bravo agrees to acquire digital forensics firm Magnet Forensics for over $1B

TechCrunch

” Launched in 2010, Magnet Forensics develops digital investigation software that acquires, analyzes, reports on and manages evidence from computers, mobile devices, Internet of Things devices and cloud services.

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The Russification of Ukrainian IP Registration

Kentik

Last summer we teamed up with the New York Times to analyze the re-routing of internet service to Kherson, a region in southern Ukraine that was, at the time, under Russian occupation. In my accompanying blog post , I described how that development mirrored what took place following Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014. rev# Date Op.

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