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Uber embraces the cloud with customized CPUs

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Ampere’s ability to customize chips for cloud workloads appealed to Uber, because of its heavy and unique computing needs, says Kamran Zargahi, Uber’s senior director of technology strategy. The company, with a beta launch in mid-2010, chose to operate its own data centers because the modern cloud computing market was still in its infancy.

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How to turn an open source project into a profitable business

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Image Credits: GitHub Star History (opens in a new window) Let’s give some more context to the graph above. From 2010 to today, the number of GitHub users has exploded from 500,000 to 103 million. How to monetize open source There are multiple strategies for earning money from open source.

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Bending Spoons acquires Evernote, marking the end of an era

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Founded in 2000 by Russian-American entrepreneur Stepan Pachikov, Redwood City-based Evernote made handwriting recognition software for Windows and the eponymous note-taking, web-clipping app Evernote, which stored notes on an “infinite roll of paper.” This proved to be a winning strategy — at least at first.

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Lecciones del caso Crowdstrike para los CIO

CIO

La culpable: una actualización defectuosa de la plataforma Falcon de la empresa de ciberseguridad CrowdStrike para Windows. Citan, entre otros, cuando en 2010 McAfee causó un bucle de reinicios por culpa de un nuevo fichero de programa o, más recientemente, en 2021, cuando Fastly provocó una caída global por un fallo de software. “La

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Daily Crunch: Embedded finance fintech Pezesha raises $11M pre-Series A equity-debt round

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As a partner at the accelerator from 2010 to 2015, Tan spent time working with companies to better understand what they needed from investors after they graduated. Image Credits: Peter Dazeley (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. Startups and VC. How to communicate to your crypto community when things aren’t going well.

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Three success predictions for 2010 | IT Project Failures | ZDNet.com. Five failure predictions for 2010 | IT Project Failures | ZDNet.com. Fascinating: The new Amazon EC2 spot price ticker [link] Pricing most active on large instances, both Linux and Windows. Tuesday’s Tip: 10 Cloud and SaaS Apps Strategies For 2010.

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Revenue-based financing: The next step for private equity and early-stage investment

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“Taking in some smart equity or convertible debt and balancing that money with other financing can be a good strategy for a startup,” she said. In 2010, five firms were founded and in 2015 four additional firms were founded, then from 2014-2019, two or more firms were founded each year. Increasing popularity of RBI.