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Nord Security, the startup behind NordVPN, raises its first-ever funding, $100M at a $1.6B valuation

TechCrunch

What’s notable here is that Vilnius, Lithuania-based Nord has been bootstrapped for the last 10 years (it was founded in 2012), a state that doesn’t seem to have held back its growth. And having a customer base that was primarily consumers also meant potentially less due diligence around how the product worked.

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Soci raises $120M in debt and equity to grow its marketing management platform

TechCrunch

” Launched in 2012 by Khoury, Alo Sarv and Tony Rindsberg, Soci’s platform is designed for organizations that have hundreds — or even thousands — of people managing their marketing across various channels. Yelp) and then automatically responds to those reviews. ” There’s probably some truth to that.

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What does Stack Overflow want to be when it grows up?

Coding Horror

I currently do other stuff now , and I have since 2012, but if I will be known for anything when I'm dead, clearly it is going to be good old Stack Overflow. The responsibility for this misunderstanding is all on Stack Overflow (and by that also mean myself, at least up until 2012). It's called Stack Overflow. Uh, have you met me?

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7 famous analytics and AI disasters

CIO

MIT Technology Review has chronicled a number of failures, most of which stem from errors in the way the tools were trained or tested. Zillow wrote down millions of dollars, slashed workforce due to algorithmic home-buying disaster. There was only one problem: The system vastly preferred male candidates. In a statement on Oct.

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History of Cloud Computing

The Crazy Programmer

Because of the vast availability of VPN, connecting with the network became relatively easy. Google also presented its Google Cloud in 2012, but it finally got available to the public in 2013. Because the concern of data security has risen due to hacking and malware issues. History of Cloud Computing.

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National Cyber Security Hall of Fame Announces 2015 Inductees

CTOvision

Of the more than 200 nominations reviewed, the board of advisors selected the following five individuals to be inducted into the 2015 Cyber Security Hall of Fame: Steven Lipner is Partner Director of Software Security in Trustworthy Computing Security at Microsoft and serves as a board member and chair of SAFECode.

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Alphabet makes cuts, Twitter bans third-party clients, and Netflix’s Reed Hastings steps down

TechCrunch

While our fearless Week in Review leader Greg enjoys parental leave, I’m filling in, curating the latest on the tech news front. Somewhere in the midst of all that, Boston Dynamics demoed an improved bipedal robot, Wikipedia launched a redesign and major universities banned TikTok from their campus networks. Howdy, folks!