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Fintech Roundup: How going Fast and furious can ruin your startup

TechCrunch

One day later, on December 7, it was revealed that CTO Diane Yu was transitioning from her role as Chief Technology Officer – a position she had just assumed in January 2021 – into an advisory position. We ended up spending way too much time and money that nearly bankrupted the company a few times over.”.

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Storm in the stratosphere: how the cloud will be reshuffled

Erik Bernhardsson

I spent six years as a CTO and moving from one cloud to another isn't something I even remotely considered. Putting precious eng time on a cloud migration isn't worth it unless cloud spend starts to become a significant fraction of your gross margins. I'm not so sure? Which is true for some companies!

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So much fintech M&A

TechCrunch

Jason Furtado and Stephan Richter founded Boston-based Shoobx in 2013, according to Crunchbase. Proptech that offers fractional home ownership to wealthy individuals raises $30M in debt and equity. Pagaya Technologies announces acquisition of Darwin Homes. The pair went on to raise a known $10 million in funding for the company.

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Symantec Government Symposium 11 March 2014 at the Renaissance Hotel Washington DC

CTOvision

Leon Panetta, Secretary of Defense (2011-2013), Director, CIA (2009-2011) & Co-founder, Panetta Institute for Public Policy. Wolf Tombe , CTO, U.S. Travis Howerton , CTO, NNSA. David Shive , Director, Office of Enterprise Infrastructure, GSA IT. Adam Sedgewick , Senior Information Technology Advisor, NIST.

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20 influential women in software development

Apiumhub

Founder and lead mentor at eJavaGuru.com, Mala Gupta has been actively supporting Java certification as a path to career advancement. A sought after speaker and coach, Mala Gupta’s Java books with Manning Publications, USA, are top-rated for Oracle Certification around the globe. LinkedIn. . 2 – Mala Gupta. LinkedIn.

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Apiumhub among top IT industry leaders in Code Europe event

Apiumhub

His main work is software development consulting, which combines actually writing code with advising clients on how to do that better. She started her own startup (Cubicus) in 2013. Usually working on Java/Java EE and Spring technologies, but with focused interests like Rich Internet Applications, Testing, CI/CD and DevOps.

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DARPA Official: Human-Robot Teams Key to Disaster Response

CTOvision

Launched in October 2012, the DARPA Robotics Challenge has held two of three competitions -– a virtual event in June 2013 and a live two-day event held Dec. The technology will be ready for commercialization if a market can be found in the commercial world for it,” Pratt said. WASHINGTON, Feb.