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

TechCrunch

To me, one of the most incredible examples of this is Chromium being used not just by Brave, but by Internet Explorer,” Mullenweg, who is also CEO of Automattic, said. Most are small design agencies and paid plugin developers, such as Yoast , a search engine optimization tool that has over 12 million websites. Founding privilege.

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New report examines Africa’s growth in the digital economy and VC investment landscape

TechCrunch

The dynamics that play into this forecast, aside from the impact of COVID, include a youthful population (the youngest globally), rising smartphone adoption and internet penetration that has led to a burgeoning tech ecosystem backed by local and international VC dollars. from 2010 to 2019. Africa’s digital opportunity.

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

CIO

The 1990s: Founding myth 1990: Mike Lynch, an academic in Cambridge, England, borrows—or so the legend goes—£2,000 to start Cambridge Neurodynamics, going on to develop the software that would later give rise to Autonomy. June 2010: Autonomy acquires CA Technologies’ information governance business.

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Thoma Bravo agrees to acquire digital forensics firm Magnet Forensics for over $1B

TechCrunch

” Launched in 2010, Magnet Forensics develops digital investigation software that acquires, analyzes, reports on and manages evidence from computers, mobile devices, Internet of Things devices and cloud services.

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You raises $25M to fuel its AI-powered search engine

TechCrunch

It brings the startup’s total raised to $45 million, which Socher said will be put toward developing “premium features” and collaborating with outside developers to “show more useful actionable apps” in You’s search results page. Image Credits: You.com. ”

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Emergence of SaaS in Enriching Product Development

Sunflower Lab

We were set up in 2010 with an optimal vision to produce a similar sci-fi plot from the 80’s, something which has the word ‘future’ written all over it. What makes these internet clouds highly reliable and efficient one might ask. If there is a need, there will be supply and that is how the market develops.

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Alphabet’s innovation lab will solve humanity’s biggest problems, if others help foot the bill

The Hustle

In 2010, Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin established X as their company’s most innovative wing, dedicated to “moonshot thinking.” But as cost-cutting efforts intensify across the company, the runway for developing these speculative bets solely on Alphabet’s dime is shortening. What work could feel the heat?