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

TechCrunch

‘High conviction, low volume’ Playfair, for its part, seeks out founders “outside of dominant tech hubs,” as well as founders working on projects that may run more tangential to where the main hype and “buzzy-ness” exists. ” A large chunk of early-stage deals fall apart in the due diligence phase. .

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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. Higher frequency releases and increased collaboration between dev and ops is exciting, but it’s important to stay diligent. They promise to bring greater flexibility and easier scalability.

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

CIO

Around the turn of the century, Autonomy Corporation was one of the darlings of the UK technology industry, specializing in knowledge management and enterprise search. November 2005: Autonomy agrees to buy search technology developer Verity for $500 milllion, its third acquisition of the year after NCorp (in February) and etalk (in June).

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Endgame Announces Advisory Board with Commercial and Federal Technology Expertise

CTOvision

Arlington, VA – February 20, 2014 – Endgame, Inc., Arlington, VA – February 20, 2014 – Endgame, Inc., In this role, she was responsible for the technology services and capabilities that underlie the work of delivering quality knowledge and financing products to the Bank Group’s clients across the globe. Previously, Ms.

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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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Muslims come into the frame in Southeast Asia’s fintech boom

TechCrunch

Founded in 2014, Blossom Finance was first intended for Muslim entrepreneurs in the United States. the Blossom Finance team realized that the market there for Islamic finance was very small, said Martin. We were able to bridge that lack of capital using a technology solution. After initially soft-launching in the U.S.,

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FISMA Compliance: A Guide for Enterprises

Firemon

Enacted in 2002 and later amended by the Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014, FISMA compliance mandates that federal agencies and their contractors implement robust information security programs. Compliance involves multiple stakeholders and often requires coordination between IT, legal, and executive teams.