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The biggest enterprise technology M&A deals of the year

CIO Business Intelligence

billion that Oracle agreed to pay for health software provider Cerner. Technology and telecommunications deals accounted for more than one-fifth of that, according to Shearman & Sterling. Perforce Software buys Puppet. MainOne has just opened its fourth data center, in Lagos. M&A volume climbed from $3.26

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List of the world’s top female futurists (Update #5)

Trends in the Living Networks

With a background in economics and IT, as well as experience in sectors as diverse as telecommunications, pharmaceuticals and agriculture, Tarhan is well placed to advise a variety of stakeholders. Evans’s involvement in the telecoms industry began with her work as a software engineer in the early 1980s. Twitter: @GayemarieBrown.

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How Australia became the test bed for tech regulation

The Verge

We started off really building one product in Sydney called Jira — which is still our largest product — that started off as a bug tracker for software developers. Because we felt that, back then, there was software that cost $100,000 to install, and there was free software, open-source, but there was really nothing in between.