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Sony Pictures Entertainment’s Acclaimed Sequel to its 2004 ERP Implementation

CIO

Competition in the entertainment industry has never been as intense as it is today. For decades, the movie business in the U.S. was dominated by a handful of entertainment conglomerates, known as “The Big Five”: Disney, Universal, Paramount, Warner Bros, and Sony Pictures.

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Sony Pictures Entertainment’s Acclaimed Sequel to its 2004 ERP Implementation

CIO

Competition in the entertainment industry has never been as intense as it is today. For decades, the movie business in the U.S. was dominated by a handful of entertainment conglomerates, known as “The Big Five”: Disney, Universal, Paramount, Warner Bros, and Sony Pictures.

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Pulled Ant Group IPO costs Alibaba nearly $60B in market cap

TechCrunch

Ant has its roots in Alipay, an online payment service founded in 2004. Ant’s delay has cost its former parent company around $60 billion in market capitalization in a single day. The company’s Alibaba spin-out came seven years later in 2011, with its former parent company buying 33% of its value in 2018 ahead of its planned IPO.

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Virtual social network IMVU raises $35M from China’s NetEase and others

TechCrunch

IMVU has raised more than $77 million from five rounds since it was co-founded by “The Lean Startup” author Eric Ries back in 2004. Menlo Park-based Structural Capital among other institutions that also joined in the strategic round totaling $35 million. The company declined to disclose its post-money valuation.

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Singapore-based sales productivity platform Nektar raises $2.15 million seed round

TechCrunch

Individual investors also contributed to the funding, including Five9 executive vice president Anand Chandrasekaran; Airtel chief executive of enterprise business Ganesh Lakshminarayanan; Vinod Muthukrishnan, the chief growth officer of Cisco’s Contact Center Business Unit; Venkat Tadanki, who sold his former startup Daksh to IBM in 2004; and Capillary (..)

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Barbara Liskov Biography

The Crazy Programmer

from Stanford University Notable Positions NEC Professor of Software Science and Engineering, Ford Professor of Engineering, MIT Institute Professor Key Contributions Liskov Substitution Principle, Venus Operating System Notable Awards Discover Magazine’s 50 Most Important Women in Science, IEEE John von Neumann Medal (2004), A.M.

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As Sequoia changes its model, other permanent-capital VCs weigh in

TechCrunch

A recent report from OpenView makes this point well, noting that since Salesforce’s 2004 IPO, it has grown its valuation 210x. Shopify is an obvious example of how money can be made holding through a public offering, to pick one. Shopify, the venture group noted, is up 143x from its IPO price. ServiceNow is up 60x.

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