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Puls Technologies lands $15M to provide on-demand home repair service

TechCrunch

That’s where Puls Technologies come in. The company initially got started in 2015 as a mobile phone repair service, and in 2020 underwent a management shift that pivoted the business model to memberships, Gabi Peles, Puls CEO, said via email. Puls Technologies app. Image Credits: Puls Technologies.

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New clinical trial data from Locus Biosciences shows promise in CRISPR-Cas3 technology

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But Locus Biosciences is hoping that their crPhage technology might provide a new solution. Led in part by former Patheon executive and current Locus CEO Paul Garofolo, the startup launched in 2015 with the goal of using a less popular application of CRISPR technology to address growing antimicrobial resistance.

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

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Around the turn of the century, Autonomy Corporation was one of the darlings of the UK technology industry, specializing in knowledge management and enterprise search. November 2005: Autonomy agrees to buy search technology developer Verity for $500 milllion, its third acquisition of the year after NCorp (in February) and etalk (in June).

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Zola Electric closes $90M funding round to scale technology and enter new markets

TechCrunch

In an interview, Bill Lenihan , the CEO who joined in 2015, told TechCrunch that Zola Electric found over time that its singular product could not work for the entire market of customers it wanted to go after — from off- or on-grid to rural or urban and residential or commercial. The company has evolved since then. “More than 2.2

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Gen Z social app Yubo rolls out age ‘estimating’ technology to better identify minors using its service

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Yubo , a social livestreaming app popular with a Gen Z audience, announced today it’s becoming one of the first major social platforms to adopt a new age verification technique that uses live image capture technology to identify minors using its app, in order to keep them separated from adult users. Image Credits: Yubo. It’s 98.9%

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2015 CRN Emerging Vendors List

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July 23, Hortonworks announced that they have been named to The Channel Company’s exclusive 2015 CRN Emerging Vendors List. This annual list highlights the technology vendors that have introduced innovative new products and create opportunities for channel partners in North America, which generate solutions for customers.

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Integrate (26-30 Sep 2015 in Santa Clara) is the largest conference 100% focused on integrating technologies

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Thanks to the organizers of the Integrate + API World 2015 Conference ( Sept. Integrate + API World 2015 is the nation’s largest integration + API conference featuring participants such as Google, IBM, Facebook, Linkedin, HP, Slack, HipChat, Zendesk, and 200+ more companies. Who attends Integrate + API World 2015: Developers.