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Nurse-assisting robotics firm Diligent raises $30M

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Diligent has been leading that specific charge for some time now. Late last year, we spoke with Georgia Tech associate professor Andrea Thomaz, who co-founded the company in 2017 with Vivian Chu, to discuss precisely how profound an impact the past two years have had on the firm. And a lot of people shifting jobs.

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10 fastest growing US tech hubs for IT talent

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Tech salaries are on the rise thanks to a demand for talent across nearly every industry. between 2021 and 2022, reaching an average tech salary of $111,348 per year, according to the 2023 Dice Tech Salary Report. But you don’t have to live in Silicon Valley to earn a high-tech salary. Salaries increased 2.3% Tampa, Fla.

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IT leaders uplift women to fill tech talent gaps

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As companies scramble to find qualified IT talent, they are struggling to achieve greater female representation in their technology ranks, particularly in key areas such as software engineering and cybersecurity. There’s a stereotype of what security looks like, but the technical stuff is the easiest to pick up,” Lee says.

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Prewave pulls in $20M as supply chain tech investments remain on VC radars

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Risk factors Prewave founders Harald Nitschinger and Lisa Smith Image Credits : Prewave Founded out of Vienna in 2017 by Harald Nitschinger and Lisa Smith, Prewave touts itself as a holistic supply chain risk platform that spans “every phase of the risk lifecycle,” through identifying, analyzing, mitigating, and reporting these risks.

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HackerOne buys YC-backed PullRequest to add code review to bug-squashing platform

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PullRequest , a five year old startup that came out of Y Combinator in 2017 , helps software developers by providing an external code review team. PullRequest expands that capability by having a group of qualified code reviewers on call, who can detect a bug even before it gets into production. The deal closed last week.

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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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Southeast Asia health tech platform Speedoc raises $28M

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Speedoc , a health tech platform that brings hospital care to homes, has raised $28 million in pre-Series B funding. Based in Singapore, Speedoc was founded in 2017 by Dr. Based in Singapore, Speedoc was founded in 2017 by Dr. Shravan Verma and Serene Cai.