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French aerospace company Gama raises $2M to develop a solar sail spacecraft

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The aerospace company was founded in 2020 by Louis de Gouyon Matignon, Thibaud Elziere and Andrew Nutter, whose goal is to develop a low-cost solar sail that would use light as a means of propulsion for spacecraft. Now multiple organizations apart from Gama are developing new solar sail missions.

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There’s nothing Automattic about balancing commercial growth with an open source developer community

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To get there, Automattic has to shepherd and evolve its developer community even as it empowers more and more of its open source contributors to take leadership roles in the future of the WordPress ecosystem. That proportion is actually lower for WordPress, where only about a third of developers are believed to be sponsored.

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Use RevOps to develop a customer-led approach to B2B sales

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Back around 2010, the thinking was, generally: “Let’s bring tech into our business and make it more efficient.” Optimizing your unique path to better connect with customers requires having a cross-discipline team that’s focused solely on that objective and sees the client as their guiding star. We call that RevOps.

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What is S/4HANA? SAP’s latest ERP system explained

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In the 1970s, five formerIBMemployees developed programs that enabled payroll and accounting on mainframe computers. In 2008, SAP developed the SAP HANA architecture in collaboration with the Hasso Plattner Institute and Stanford University with the goal of analyzing large amounts of data in real-time.

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The next decade for health tech may look a lot like the last decade for fintech

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After the 2008 financial crisis, a new slate of regulations aimed at protecting consumers and businesses opened the floodgates for a surge of fintech companies to develop into household names over the last decade. Now, it might be healthcare’s turn.

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MOLOCO raises $150M Series C led by Tiger Global at a $1.5B valuation

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Its clients range in size from mobile developers who have less than 100,000 users to more than a billion, Ahn said in an email, with some spending more than $1 million a month through MOLOCO Cloud, its demand-side platform (DSP). MOLOCO’s customers include King Digital, Playrix and Netmarble.

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Trade routes of the digital age: How data gravity shapes cloud strategy

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In response, traders formed alliances, hired guards and even developed new paths to bypass high-risk areas just as modern enterprises must invest in cybersecurity strategies, encryption and redundancy to protect their valuable data from breaches and cyberattacks. Security was another constant challenge.

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