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Windows 10 Is Now On 825 Million Active Devices: What It Means For Programmers

The Crazy Programmer

In November 2017, Windows announced that their Windows 10 operating system had been downloaded onto 600 million active devices. However, in May 2019, that record was smashed as it emerged that there are now 825 million devices running Windows 10. The Windows Terminal App. PowerToys For Windows 10.

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Stripe eyes an exit over next 12 months

TechCrunch

The payments giant was founded in 2010, so the fact that it’s exploring avenues for exit is not entirely surprising. Has Stripe missed its window to have gone public, or is it kicking off a trend to be followed by other behemoths in the space? Stripe declined to comment on the record about the deadline or current revenue.

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To Make It Big, Most Tech Startups Have A Limited Post-IPO Window To Turn Profitable

Crunchbase News

One famous example is Tesla , which went public in 2010 and reported its first profit in 2020. In the interim, they benefited from well-known brands, a high buzz factor and long-term shareholders who believed in the business model.

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ispace wants to stake its claim to the moon with November launch

TechCrunch

Founded in 2010, ispace is one of many emerging companies that want to foster new markets on and around the moon; on its website, it describes its goal as becoming “a gateway for private sector companies to bring their business to the moon.”.

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Uber embraces the cloud with customized CPUs

CIO

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. AWS was less than a decade old, and Microsoft rebranded Azure, originally Windows Azure and about a half-decade old, just months before Uber’s beta launch.

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How to turn an open source project into a profitable business

TechCrunch

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.

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Bending Spoons acquires Evernote, marking the end of an era

TechCrunch

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.” in 2008. .”

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