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Microsoft, its partners, and the ‘last-mile problem’

Computerworld Vertical IT

The company can develop the product, but it’s that last delivery mile that can be hard to manage. Then, around 2003, Microsoft developed a product that bundled many of the items a small business might need. Then, around 2003, Microsoft developed a product that bundled many of the items a small business might need.

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Ireland’s status as tax haven for tech firms like Google, Facebook, and Apple is ending

The Verge

This is a major shift for the country that is the European headquarters for many large US pharmaceutical companies, as well as tech firms, including Google, Apple, and Facebook. For companies with revenues below €750 million, the 12.5 Donohoe added that he believes companies will still choose to locate their headquarters in Ireland. “I

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

CIO Business Intelligence

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. However, Companies House, the UK register of commerce, has no record of such a company, and it’s not until 1997 that Lynch creates another company, called simply Neurodynamics.

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Go inside Group14, the $3B startup with a secret tech for better batteries

GeekWire

.” Venture capitalists including Porsche AG and Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund likewise see potential in the 7-year-old company. The startup says it’s valued at more than $3 billion, making it one of the most valuable privately held companies in the Pacific Northwest. based battery tech company Nexeon.

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Fraunhofer’s new H.266 codec promises to cut the cost of streaming 4K video in half

The Verge

That's why AVC, the predecessor to HEVC, still remains the more dominant standard, despite first releasing back in 2003. With VVC, Fraunhofer says you can get something far better than AVC and HEVC without any of the licensing headaches. VVC promises to use half the data as HEVC to stream a 90-minute 4K video.

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Fast-growing battery materials startup Group14 embroiled in trade secret dispute

GeekWire

Group14 Technologies Chief Technology Officer Rick Costantino, left, and CEO Rick Luebbe inside the company’s commercial-scale manufacturing factory in Woodinville, Wash. Group14 Technologies , a Seattle-area battery materials company, is embroiled in a lawsuit in which it claims that a U.K.-based Group14 / Talia Green Photo).

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This could be the next big game for Microsoft’s Xbox platform

GeekWire

It’s also in an interesting position where it’s both an important release for Microsoft and a potential participant in a major setback for the company. which became part of the Xbox network when Microsoft acquired its parent company ZeniMax Media in 2020. The key word there is “internally,” incidentally.