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Sequoia, Jay-Z, Will Smith back Landis’ $165M debt, equity round toward making homeownership accessible to everyone

TechCrunch

in 2004 before falling sharply due to the economic recession of 2007-2009. Berdugo did not disclose the round’s debt versus equity breakdown, or go into specifics about growth metrics, but did say the driver for the funding round was to expand into new states, add to Landis’ headcount and improve user experience. according to Statista.

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Strangler Pattern: How to Deal With Legacy Code During the Container Revolution

OverOps

While on a trip to Australia in 2004, Martin Fowler witnessed a peculiar tree and came to a new understanding of how outdated applications can be updated: “One of the natural wonders of this area [Australia] is the huge strangler vines. That’s when the Strangler Pattern might come in handy. So… What is it anyway? Watch a live demo here.

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GraphWear closes $20.5M Series B for a needle-free, nanotech-powered glucose monitor

TechCrunch

This Series B round is a vote of confidence by investors in GraphWear’s approach: to monitor key metrics in the body, like glucose, without breaking the skin at all. . Since graphene was discovered in 2004 , the material has generated a lot of hype — it was supposed to be the next silicon , though that hasn’t quite happened yet. .

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Attending Oracle’s CodeOne? Here Are 15 Sessions Everyone Will Be Talking About

OverOps

Moscone West – Room 2004. Moscone West – Room 2004. Learn about data-driven DevOps in this session, from cross-cutting metrics across dev, QA and ops to some of the major dos and don’ts, and specific examples of metrics to implement. Sergey Kuksenko , Java Performance Engineer, Oracle. – 4:45 p.m.

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#812 The Quantum Leap in Digital Analytics with Mario Ciabarra, CEO & Founder at Quantum Metric

Modern CTO

Today, we’re talking to Mario Ciabarra, CEO & Founder at Quantum Metric. We discuss what makes a good generative AI strategy, the challenges of implementation, and how Quantum Metric’s Felix AI is changing the game for digital analysis. All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast!

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Learning Agility: What is It And How to Measure It?

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

In the year 2004, two academicsMiachael Lombardo and Robert Eichingercoined the term learning agility and described it as one of the key metrics to measure leadership potential. Since then, this term has become the cornerstone of human resource processes worldwide.

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

CIO

March 2004: Autonomy acquires NativeMinds and Cardiff Software. Lynch is among them, for “failure to meet agreed performance goals, including financial metrics.” 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).