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

CIO

Around the turn of the century, Autonomy Corporation was one of the darlings of the UK technology industry, specializing in knowledge management and enterprise search. 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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SGNL.ai secures $12M to expand its enterprise authorization platform

TechCrunch

Kriz and SGNL’s second co-founder, Erik Gustavson, spent roughly a decade developing identity solutions at Bitium, which they co-launched in 2011, before conceiving of SGNL. A glance at SGNL.ai’s dashboard, which lets admins review authorizations across teams, divisions and individual employees. Image Credits: SGNL.

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Does Atlantic Canada have a blueprint for rural revival in the post-pandemic era?

TechCrunch

Despite booming from the war years onward due to its abundant natural resources, since the ’90s Atlantic Canada has watched its young people migrate west to the oil fields of Alberta for blue-collar work and to Toronto and Montreal for white-collar work. Atlantic Canada had four major tech acquisitions in a five-month period.

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Codecademy eyes the enterprise with $40 million in new capital

TechCrunch

But founder Zach Sims , who began the company in 2011 as a Columbia student, says that Codecademy’s growth, and hunger for new capital, isn’t due to a pandemic bump. “A Udacity raises $75M in debt, says its tech education business is profitable after enterprise pivot.

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Q&A with John Masserini, Chief Information Security Officer at Millicom

Sailpoint

In this Q&A we spoke with John Masserini, chief information security officer at international telecommunications provider Millicom. Masserini talks with us about his interesting career path in information security, cloud security, and identity management. This is where the Information Security team comes in.

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Book Review: “The Fifth Domain”

Palo Alto Networks

Cyber Canon Book Review: “The Fifth Domain – Defending our country, our companies, and ourselves in the age of cyber threats” by Richard A. Bottom Line: We recommend this book for the Cybersecurity Canon Hall of Fame. Knake, two very experienced, leading experts on security, cyberspace and terrorism. cybersecurity policy.

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Black Swan analyzes social media to predict which products will be successful

TechCrunch

While founded long before the pandemic, Steve King says that Black Swan Data , the data science and tech company that he helped co-launch in 2011, is well-suited to the current environment. Prior to co-founding Black Swan, King was a technical director at creative agency Digital Jigsaw. to start Black Swan. .” ”

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