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

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The 1990s: Founding myth 1990: Mike Lynch, an academic in Cambridge, England, borrows—or so the legend goes—£2,000 to start Cambridge Neurodynamics, going on to develop the software that would later give rise to Autonomy. Lynch’s lawyers will later claim that HP executives spent just six hours in conference calls with his team.

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‘Knowledge-as-a-service’ platform Lynk announces collaboration with UBS

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Founded in 2015, Lynk has raised a total of $30 million in funding, including a $24 million round announced in January that was led by Brewer Lane Ventures and MassMutual Ventures, with participation from the Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund. As COVID-19 era drags on, VCs look beyond Zoom calls for due diligence and sourcing.

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

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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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Why Tomago Aluminium reversed course on its cloud journey

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This conundrum is what motivated Tomago to migrate its ERP system to the cloud back in 2015. We put dollars in and got services out, but couldn’t say to the board, with confidence, that we were really in control of things like compliance, security, and due diligence.” We essentially had a swarm of big black boxes,” he says. “We

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United Airlines gives employees the digital tools to make customers happy

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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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How African startups raised investments in 2020

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To understand how much growth has occurred, African startups raised a meagre $400 million in 2015 compared to the $2 billion that came into the continent in 2019, according to Africa-focused fund Partech Africa. However, that figure isn’t the only yardstick. It was expected that these figures would increase in 2020. billion and $1.8

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Top 25 Web Development Companies In Dubai UAE

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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.