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Investors are doubling down on Southeast Asia’s digital economy

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Amit Anand is a founding partner of Jungle Ventures and an early pioneer and leader in the development of Southeast Asia’s venture capital industry. billion, about four times more than they did in 2015. billion in 2015, as we can see in the table below. In 2020, startups in the region raised over $8.2 and Chinese tech firms.

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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. March 2015: With the criminal investigation over, HP begins a civil case, suing Mike Lynch for $5.1

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Daily grabs another $40M so developers can add video, audio features to any product

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We’ve all embraced video calls, whether it is with our work colleague or our physician, but for developers, it remains a challenge to build both real-time audio and video features into products. The company provides APIs so developers can add those features into products or websites using just two lines of code.

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Top 10 cities to hire developers

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According to StackOverflow , the demand for software developers still outpaces the supply. Unfortunately, businesses in major tech countries such as the US and the UK have long been suffering because of the rapid growth of tech industries and the shortage of talented developers. Top 10 cities to hire developers.

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New report examines Africa’s growth in the digital economy and VC investment landscape

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The dynamics that play into this forecast, aside from the impact of COVID, include a youthful population (the youngest globally), rising smartphone adoption and internet penetration that has led to a burgeoning tech ecosystem backed by local and international VC dollars. Here are a few interesting points from the newly-launched report.

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RSA Conference 2015 – San Francisco 20-24 April 2015

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Attendees will receive: Over 30 hours of educational sessions, covering a wide range of topics, including Internet of Things, Supply Chain risk, Threat Intelligence Sharing, Identity Management, Cyber Crime, Mobile Law, Government Policy, Analytics and Forensics, BYOS, Security Operations Center, and many more. More speakers. More exhibitors.

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Open source project Tea is brew2 for web3

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Since that 2015 tweet, compensation for open source developers has remained a hot-button issue, and popular developer platform GitHub launched a feature in 2019 that allows users to send tips to their favorite open source coders. . Homebrew creator and Tea co-founder Max Howell. Homebrew creator and Tea co-founder Max Howell.