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Nomod raises $3.4M seed to allow merchants accept payments without hardware

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One, most of them are excluded from various payment ecosystems globally due to their size, and two, getting hardware from providers can be expensive. . based fintech Nomod allows these businesses to bypass the card terminal by providing a platform to accept card payments on their phone with no extra hardware. The company has raised $3.4

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StartupOS launches what it hopes will be the operating system for early-stage startups

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The platform was built in partnership with (and backed by) SVB, the parent company of Silicon Valley Bank. The company is headed up by CEO and co-founder Paul Pluschkell, who spent the past quarter century building startups, and has a handful of successful exits under his belt, including MXNet, IXnet, Spigit , Global Center and Kandy.

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Will quantum computing remain the domain of the specialist VC?

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The company was founded in 2015, and it went public in 2021 through a SPAC at a $2 billion valuation. The company is developing a superconducting quantum computer, which already could scale up to 80 qubits. As a result, quantum hardware manufacturers develop their own cloud-based operating systems.

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Eclypsium lands $25M to secure the device supply chain

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As the enterprise device supply chain grows increasingly global and fragmented, it’s becoming more challenging for organizations to secure their hardware and software from suppliers. ” Eclypsium supports hardware, including PCs and Macs, servers, “enterprise-grade” networking equipment and Internet of Things devices.

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10 hottest IT jobs for salary growth in 2023

CIO

As companies vie for talented tech workers to meet skills gaps in their organizations, the demand for certain tech roles has increased. There’s a strong need for workers with expertise in helping companies make sense of data, launch cloud strategies, build applications, and improve the overall user experience.

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Microsoft acquires Fungible, a maker of data processing units, to bolster Azure

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In December, reports suggested that Microsoft had acquired Fungible, a startup fabricating a type of data center hardware known as a data processing unit (DPU), for around $190 million. ” A DPU is a dedicated piece of hardware designed to handle certain data processing tasks, including security and network routing for data traffic. .

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Addressing cloud waste: 4 steps to cloud computing cost optimization

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By: Scott Sellers , Co-Founder and CEO, Azul From the get-go, the cloud promised to help companies scale up their architectures in seconds, run their applications faster, never turn away a transaction, and save money through economies of scale. Every company is different based on its industry, its available resources, and its needs.

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