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How to do effective video calls

Martin Fowler

During 2011-2012 there was a small but significant revolution in how we worked at ThoughtWorks. When we needed to communicate while separated we used to do telephone meetings, but within a year the telephone disappeared and we started using video calls instead.

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2025 IT headcount expectations lowest in over a decade

CIO

Harvey Nash’s survey found that only 36% of CIOs believed IT headcounts would increase in 2025 — the lowest such sentiment reported since 2011. Jason Pyle, Harvey Nash’s president and managing director, told CIO.com that those CIO sentiment projections may have shifted since they were recorded, which was before the US economy stabilized.

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Data center provider fakes Tier 4 data center certificate to bag $11M SEC deal

CIO

According to the indictment, Jain’s firm provided fraudulent certification documents during contract negotiations in 2011, claiming that their Beltsville, Maryland, data center met Tier 4 standards, which require 99.995% uptime and advanced resilience features.

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Celonis sues SAP for anti-competitive data access practices

CIO

Celonis was launched in 2011. SAP is ultimately hindering competition, Celonis says, to gain an advantage for its own process mining solution, which it acquired with the Signavio acquisition.

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Where is the e-commerce app ecosystem headed in 2021?

TechCrunch

According to Brinker , the martech landscape grew 5,233% between 2011 and 2020. What’s worth noting is that the consolidation we expected to happen is happening, and yet the pace of new companies coming up in the space makes up for the consolidation — and some more.

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Why do SaaS companies with usage-based pricing grow faster?

TechCrunch

So in 2011, they introduced usage-based pricing. The company struggled with poor churn and anemic expansion revenue. Net revenue retention was near 70%, a far cry from the 100%+ that most SaaS companies aim to achieve. Something needed to change. This pricing change allowed HubSpot to share in the success of its customers.

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SoftBank-backed Socar, South Korea’s largest car-sharing startup, tumbles on market debut

TechCrunch

billion won ($ 284.2million) since its inception in 2011 before its IPO. Socar was founded in 2011 by Lee Jae-woong, who co-founded South Korea’s largest internet portal operator Daum Communications; Daum merged into Kakao in 2014. billion won ($150 million) funding at a 1.3 The startup raised a total of 379.7

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