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Most Violent Cyber Attack Noted To Date: 2008 Pipeline Explosion Caused By Remote Hacking

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Reporting by Jordan Robertson and Michael Riley in Bloomberg is shedding new light on a destructive attack against an oil pipeline that caused a massive explosion in Refahiye Turkey in 2008. Was 2008 Turkish Pipeline Explosion Caused by Cyber Attack? Mysterious 2008 Turkey Pipeline Blast Opened New Cyberwar Era (bloomberg.com).

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Hear from these amazing investors and founders on TechCrunch Live this March

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We have Agility Robotics’ co-founder and CTO, followed by Snorkel AI presenting an early pitch deck, which laid the groundwork to raise $135 million in two years. DoubleVerify and early investor Blumberg Capital is speaking on how they’ve worked together since 2008. days of 2008.

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John Carmack Biography

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Carmack left id Software in 2013, and become Chief Technology Officer at Oculus, a virtual reality company. Carmack continued making sequels to Doom and Quake including Doom II: Hell on Earth in 1994, Final Doom in 1996, Quake II in 1997, Quake III: Arena in 1999, Doom 3 in 2004, and Quake 4 in 2005.

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Former Affirm exec Silvija Martincevic to lead shift work management platform Deputy

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Before joining Affirm in 2019, Martincevic led Groupon’s international business in Europe, Asia and Australia as chief operating officer and chief marketing officer. Founded in 2008, Deputy has raised $104 million AUD (about $72 million USD) from investors like Square Peg and IVP, reaching soonicorn valuation.

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Grouparoo snares $3M seed to build open source customer data integration framework

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Grouparoo CEO and co-founder Brian Leonard says that his company has created this open source customer data framework based on his own experience and difficulty getting customer data into the various tools he has been using since he was technical founder at TaskRabbit in 2008.

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With $3M new funding, Egyptian startup OneOrder sets out on growth drive

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I think Africa has a lot of markets that feel the same pain points that Egypt does,” said OneOrder co-founder and CEO, Tamer Ame r, who co-founded OneOrder with Karim Maurice (CTO), also founder Cube, an online restaurant-reservation service. before settling in Egypt from 2008. “The before settling in Egypt from 2008.

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Federal Big Data Community Convenes 6 Feb at Apache Hadoop Forum

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Mike Olson – Chief Strategy Officer, Cloudera. Eli Collins – Chief Technologist, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. EzBake, DIAs Technology Agnostic Framework Under ORION that Enables Seamless Transition into ICITE. Eli Collins – Chief Technologist, Office of the CTO, Cloudera.

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