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Nomod raises $3.4M seed to allow merchants accept payments without hardware

TechCrunch

One, most of them are excluded from various payment ecosystems globally due to their size, and two, getting hardware from providers can be expensive. . based fintech Nomod allows these businesses to bypass the card terminal by providing a platform to accept card payments on their phone with no extra hardware. The company has raised $3.4

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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. June 2010: Autonomy acquires CA Technologies’ information governance business. The 2010s: Autonomy’s unravelling September 2010: Ex-SAP CEO Léo Apotheker is named CEO of HP.

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Prioritizing AI? Don’t shortchange IT fundamentals

CIO

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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Device42 tunes IT infrastracture tooling to measure carbon emissions

TechCrunch

Device42 , a startup that helps companies understand and manage their hybrid infrastructure, can see a lot of information about each customer’s hardware and software usage. The company launched in 2010 and has raised more than $38 million, per Crunchbase. The new tool is available for customers at no additional cost, says Jalan.

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iRobot launches a $1,399 premium Roomba combo vacuum/mop and dock

TechCrunch

The first Scooba system became widely available in 2010. Like many of us, iRobot has a long-standing love-hate relationship with the mop. Ultimately, however, mopping up and filling a tank with dirty water proved inefficient, and the line was eventually phased out.

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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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3 Cybersecurity Technologies You Should Know

The Crazy Programmer

Forrester Research analyst John Kindervag coined the term “zero trust” in 2010 because, at the time, the concept of trustworthy internal networks and untrusted external networks was seen as flawed. Whether you’re downloading files or simply browsing, it can be a very useful bit of software. Zero Trust.