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Juniper Networks acquires Boston-area AI SD-WAN startup 128 Technology for $450M

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Today Juniper Networks announced it was acquiring smart wide area networking startup 128 Technology for $450 million. This marks the second AI-fueled networking company Juniper has acquired in the last year and a half after purchasing Mist Systems in March 2019 for $405 million.

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Sesamm bags $37M to give corporates ESG insights using natural language processing

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With that in mind, Sesamm enables businesses to track textual data from across the web — including news portals, NGO reports and social networks — and convert this into actionable insights. Elsewhere, private equity firms can use Sesamm for due diligence on potential acquisition or investment targets.

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6 revealing statistics about career challenges Black IT pros face

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Despite a recent push to address diversity issues in IT, data shows that Black professionals still face an uphill battle in the tech industry, receiving less recognition, opportunity, and acceptance than non-Black peers. To advance their careers and earn more pay, Black talent in the tech industry move employers every 3.5

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Friend.tech hype grows, Tornado Cash founders go for a spin and FBI’s monitoring North Korean hackers

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The company was founded in 2014 and has its own sidechain technology, Liquid Network, as well as bitcoin mining operations and hardware wallets for Bitcoin and other assets. The last startup he co-founded before Blockstream was Dan’s Plan, a health tech company.

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The startup landscape has shifted dramatically: Accelerators must adapt or fade away

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Starting a tech company today costs 99% less than it did 18 years ago when Y Combinator was started ( today and 2005 ), largely due to the emergence of cloud technologies, no-code tools, and artificial intelligence. Network effects have evolved, moving away from the traditional physical spaces to digital ones.

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Data-driven iteration helped China’s Genki Forest become a $6B beverage giant in 5 years

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Creative use of the country’s networked manufacturing and logistics hubs make mass production both cheap and easy. It was just a matter of time until an intrepid Chinese entrepreneur with a tech background decided to take on Coca-Cola and PepsiCo. China is also home to one of the world’s largest e-commerce and tech ecosystems.

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How a CIO’s approach to cloud, AI and ML is transforming Nigeria’s Dangote Industries

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His endeavour to get into the technology space led him to learn about enterprise application platforms and he eventually started his ERP career at IBM. Later he joined SAP Labs in the US where he was immersed in product management for cloud technology. Can you describe the importance of cloud technologies across Africa today?