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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. Its Agentware internet search tools are used by enterprises including Barclays Bank and Unilever and sold as shrink-wrapped software through retail outlets. billion or $11.7

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Accord, which offers a platform to manage sales processes, secures $10M

TechCrunch

CEO Ross Rich says that the new funds, which bring Accord’s total raised to $17 million, will be put toward the startup’s engineering, sales and marketing teams. Ross was one of the first salespeople at Stripe back in 2015, while Ryan was an early sales hire at Google Cloud. “Customers don’t want to talk to sellers.

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United Airlines gives employees the digital tools to make customers happy

CIO

Our goal is to improve the entire travel process from when you plan a trip to when you plan the next trip,” says Birnbaum, who joined the airline in 2015 and became CIO last July. That was our story, and we worked very diligently to change the narrative.” We are in the business of getting people to where they want to go.

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Payments remain the darling of the fintech space

TechCrunch

Either way, let’s hope 2023 brings with it greater due diligence, less ego and more viable business models. On outage tracker DownDetector.com, irate customers reported missing funds and unexpected negative balances due to problems with the digital payment network.” So whether it’s a correction or a bubble is hard to say really.

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SMBleed (CVE-2020-1206) and SMBLost (CVE-2020-1301) Vulnerabilities Affect Microsoft SMBv3 and SMBv1

Tenable

The first version of the SMB protocol (SMBv1) was developed at IBM by Barry Feigenbaum in 1983 and it was eventually implemented in Microsoft Windows in 1992. However, after reviewing all the changes, they decided that marking this release as a minor revision “doesn’t do justice [sic] the work that has gone in.” Server Message Block.

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The Cake is NOT a Lie: 5 Java Frameworks to Support Your Microservices Architecture

OverOps

For teams dealing with loads of technical debt, microservices offer a path to the promised land. Smaller code bases are easier to understand, and with clearly separated services the overall architecture is much “cleaner”. They promise to bring greater flexibility and easier scalability. That doesn’t mean it will be easy though.

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Top 25 Web Development Companies In Dubai UAE

Xicom

Did you ever ask any experienced business owner how was their experience with a web development company for their website development? Experimenting with your first project can be a perplexing preposition without succinct diligence due to the selection of the right web development companies in Dubai.