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‘High conviction, low volume’: Playfair launches $70M pre-seed fund for European startups

TechCrunch

One of them was Orca AI which was developing a collision-avoidance system for ships, and it was this company from a sea of samey startups that Playfair ended up investing in — both in its 2019 pre-seed funding round, and its follow-on Series A round two years later. There just wasn’t enough differentiation.”

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

CIO

Rather than selling software to customers, HP said, Autonomy had been selling them hardware at a loss, then booking the sales as software licensing revenue. Its Agentware internet search tools are used by enterprises including Barclays Bank and Unilever and sold as shrink-wrapped software through retail outlets. billion or $11.7

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Ex-Uber software engineers raise $3M for Sperta, a 6-month-old startup that wants to help fintechs better manage fraud risk

TechCrunch

Working together at Uber’s risk team, Yifu Diao and Ming Fang came to realize that with the hypergrowth the company was seeing came fraud challenges. Diao’s first project at the company after starting in 2014 was building a rules engine called Mastermind to fight fraud. It was making 10,000 decisions per second by the time I left.”.

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The Cake is NOT a Lie: 5 Java Frameworks to Support Your Microservices Architecture

OverOps

For teams dealing with loads of technical debt, microservices offer a path to the promised land. Smaller code bases are easier to understand, and with clearly separated services the overall architecture is much “cleaner”. They promise to bring greater flexibility and easier scalability. That doesn’t mean it will be easy though.

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Interview with Evgeny Predein – CEO of Apiumhub

Apiumhub

He got his software engineering degree in Valencia and his Master in Helsinki. First he decided to work as a software developer to better understand the industry and then once he identified key gaps in the software industry he decided to found his own company, focusing on software architecture and best practices.

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The Good and the Bad of Firebase Backend Services

Altexsoft

But in contrast, writing backend code, managing hardware, and dealing with hosting is not that fun as writing letters. In this article we’ll review Firebase platform, its main services, and features. Firebase is a software development platform launched in 2011 by Firebase inc, and acquired by Google in 2014.

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NIST 2.0 Update + Cybersecurity Awareness Month!

Infinidat

The fact of the matter is that the problem is very, very broad and we can create more secure enterprise data infrastructure, data centers, and hybrid cloud environments by being diligent and aware! At the core is InfuzeOS™ software-defined storage (SDS) platform delivering advanced cyber storage capabilities. A former Sr.