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

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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. May 2007: Autonomy spins off its Blinkx consumer software unit in an IPO. July 2007: Autonomy pays $375 million for content archiving and electronic discovery specialist Zantaz.

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The digital transformation of an island nation: how Bahrain rose to lead cloud adoption in the GCC Region

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AWS launched its first Region in the Middle East with three availability zones in 2019, enabling Middle East organizations to meet business continuity and disaster recovery requirements and build available, fault-tolerant, and scalable applications from Bahrain. The long-term plan kicked off in 2007 with a strategy to digitise government.

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Announcing the 2008 Top 100 Australian Web 2.0 Applications list – Launch is on 19 June - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Applications list – Launch is on 19 June Ross Dawson, May 11, 2008 3:38 PM US PT [UPDATE:] The final Top 100 list is now up. Applications. Share this: Digg this | Reddit | StumbleUpon | Del.icio.us | Share on Facebook Tags : australia , brw , online applications , web 2.0 Following the great success of last year’s Top 60 Web 2.0

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Mobile social networking, meaning virtual networks bringing people physically together, will inevitably be a pervasive application - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

From its early beginnings with sixdegrees.com in 2000, it took until 2007 for social networking sites to work out the basics of what people found compelling and were comfortable with, leading to a broad-based uptake of social networking sites. Or perhaps another initiative to follow will succeed. Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0

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Launching the Web 2.0 Framework - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Framework Ross Dawson, May 30, 2007 11:04 PM US PT [UPDATE:] We have taken the Web 2.0 is how it converts Inputs (User Generated Content, Opinions, Applications), through a series of Mechanisms (Technologies, Recombination, Collaborative Filtering, Structures, Syndication) to Emergent Outcomes that are of value to the entire community. . *

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Fountainhead: Profiling questions nobody's asking re: cloud.

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Profiling questions nobodys asking re: cloud applications. But so little attention is being paid to identifying & profiling which applications are best-suited to actually run in an external "cloud." of what ideal application properties pre-dispose apps for being well-suited to run in a cloud. Tuesday, May 12, 2009.

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How to make Facebook secure for organizational use: no more excuses! - Trends in the Living Networks

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Ross Dawson, December 19, 2007 2:44 PM US PT I have written and being interviewed many times in the last few months on the use of Facebook in organizations. In one step Facebook can become an enterprise application, including proprietary discussions. The application is expected for general release in February.

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