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Ray Ozzie’s cellular IoT startup Blues Wireless raises $22M from Bill Gates and others

GeekWire

Sequoia Capital and former Stripe exec Lachy Groom led the Series A round, which will fuel growth for the company’s technology that helps product manufacturers send data from their physical assets to cloud-based apps over cellular networks. Developers use the JSON programming language and two lines of code to make it all work.

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Go read how the US government built a top-secret iPod right under Steve Jobs’ nose

The Verge

For a period of time starting in 2005, Apple allowed two US government contractors to work in its offices to develop a custom version of the iPod — but exactly what that iPod would do was a mystery, and remains so today, as shared in this fascinating story by former iPod engineer David Shayer that you should go read. He cut to the chase. “I

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Big Data: The Hadoop Business Case

CTOvision

Since the birth of Hadoop in 2005-06, the way we think about storing and processing information has evolved considerably. The term “Big Data” has become synonymous with this evolution. But still, many of our customers continue to ask, “What is Big Data?”, “What are its use cases?”, What is Big Data? By Jeremy Glesner.

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Tech Moves: Microsoft Teams CVP joins UiPath; Sage Bionetworks names president; and more

GeekWire

He began as a product manager and from 2005 to 2008 served as a technical advisor to Satya Nadella, who was then a senior vice president and is now Microsoft CEO and chairman. Foschini previously spent more than ten years as the chief data scientist at Evidation Health, a healthcare technology and services company he co-founded.

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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. 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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The view from day one: Microsoft challenges FTC in court over acquisition of Activision Blizzard

GeekWire

The Call of Duty franchise has dominated American sales charts since 2005, and is the primary point of argument between Microsoft and the FTC. The American video game industry is notorious for its secrecy, where many companies maintain firm control over their internal data.

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Tech Moves: Ex-Microsoft COO Kevin Turner leaves Core Scientific; Magic AI founder joins ThruWave

GeekWire

He previously spent 11 years at Microsoft from 2005 to 2016, leading the company’s global sales and marketing teams. Fortune 100 customers in retail and e-commerce warehouses are using ThruWave’s hardware and software. Just going to take some time to recharge and plan my next thing,” Turner said. The startup raised $6.4

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