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Absolute Software to buy Seattle-based NetMotion for $340M

GeekWire

Founded in 2001, NetMotion helps employees at more than 3,000 organizations access resources from devices both on premises or remotely in the cloud. million for the quarter ended March 31, up 18% year-over-year, and net income of $2.2 Absolute said the deal will compliment its “Endpoint Resilience” offering.

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IT services company Atos plans IBM-style split

CIO Business Intelligence

IBM was still broadly profitable when it split, having made a net profit of $5.7 He’s been with the company since 2001, just after the first appearance of the Atos name, although the company’s origins go much further back, with at least part of its business tracing back over a century. Legacy losses. billion ($5.3

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Interview: Expedia’s new leaders from Apple and Verizon hope to help travel giant bounce back

GeekWire

In 2001, Expedia Group embarked on a shopping spree. Apple reported late last month that second-quarter net sales for its services alone were up 35% to nearly $17 billion compared to $13.3 New Expedia execs Jon Gieselman (left) and Rathi Murthy. Expedia Photo). billion for the same period last year. Personalization opportunity.

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Tech Moves: Expedia board director Skip Battle resigns; Madrona promotions; Vacasa’s new CFO

GeekWire

Its net loss for the first nine months of this year was $2.2 San Francisco biotech startup Earli added Juno Therapeutics founding scientist Phil Greenberg and former Fred Hutch President Lee Hartwell , who received a Nobel Prize in 2001, to its scientific advisory board. The company posted revenue of $4.2 billion in 2019. Jamie Cohen.

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Welcome to the crypto ice age

Vox

Cheese — you’ve kept a bunch of your net worth in Chuck E. You know, go back to 2001: A lot of the dumb dot-com companies got washed out, but it laid the foundations of fiber optic cables and broadband and e-commerce. And when you left, if you had tokens left, you could give them back, and they would give you some money back.

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The Gates split: While the money is outrageous, here’s why the divorce likely won’t be

GeekWire

Mark Zuckerberg famously — and legally — established his net worth at $19 billion the day before his wedding to Priscilla Chan. This meant Larson, who retired from the company in 2001, had to pay tens of millions in additional money to his soon-to-be ex-wife. And how important is this legal standard?

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Stop using your phone number to log in

Vox

Back in 2001 when I worked at Vodafone, we saw this problem coming,” said Marc Rogers, who is now chief security officer at the cybersecurity firm Q-Net Security. But even before the iPhone changed the mobile game, there were concerns over using phone numbers as identifiers.