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The biggest enterprise technology M&A deals of the year

CIO Business Intelligence

Technology and telecommunications deals accounted for more than one-fifth of that, according to Shearman & Sterling. NetApps has agreed to buy Instaclustr, a service provider supporting open-source database, pipeline, and workflow applications in the cloud. billion for Activision Blizzard, dwarfing the $28.3

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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. This powerful combination has helped her become one of Australia’s leading futurists in the telecommunications space.

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How Australia became the test bed for tech regulation

The Verge

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. There’s just a net increase to the economy, to the productivity of a company like GM. And we felt there was a huge market gap there.