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Updating The Single Most Influential Book of the BASIC Era

Coding Horror

There was a half-hearted attempt to modernize these early BASIC programs in 2010 with SmallBasic , but I didn't feel these ports did much to bring the code up to date, and overall had little relevance to modern code practices.

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Employment Hero raises $181M AUD at $1.25B AUD valuation, acquires KeyPay

TechCrunch

KeyPay was founded in 2010 by Phil Bernie, Richard McLean, Paul Duran and Kristian Reynolds, and is active in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia and the United Kingdom, which Employment Hero said will help it grow in those markets. It has now raised a total of $220 million AUD.

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Squarespace raises $300M at a staggering $10B valuation

TechCrunch

million Series A in 2010 that was co-led by Accel and Index Ventures. The move comes less than two months after the company filed confidentiality to go public via a direct listing or initial public offering. Squarespace, which has helped millions create their own websites, was founded in 2003 and bootstrapped until a $38.5

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Atlassian is acquiring Chartio to bring data visualization to the platform

TechCrunch

Chartio was founded in 2010, and participated in the Y Combinator Summer 2010 cohort. As for Chartio customers, unfortunately according to a notice on the company website, the product is going to be going away next year, but customers will have plenty of time to export the data to another tool. It raised a modest $8.03

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Ticketmaster sucks. Can blockchain be the cure?

TechCrunch

Senate questioned Live Nation, which acquired Ticketmaster in 2010, over concerns that it’s a monopoly. . “What determines pricing is demand.” ” Regulators in many countries beg to disagree. Earlier this year, the U.S. Ticketmaster sucks. Can blockchain be the cure? by Anna Heim originally published on TechCrunch

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iRobot launches a $1,399 premium Roomba combo vacuum/mop and dock

TechCrunch

The first Scooba system became widely available in 2010. Like many of us, iRobot has a long-standing love-hate relationship with the mop. Ultimately, however, mopping up and filling a tank with dirty water proved inefficient, and the line was eventually phased out.

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Sales CRM Pipedrive takes majority investment from Vista Equity Partners to reach unicorn status

TechCrunch

Founded in 2010, Pipedrive’s calling card has always been that it is sales software designed to serve first and foremost the needs of sales people not their managers — built by sales people, for sales people, if you like — but has since matured into a more comprehensive CRM platform play also spanning marketing.