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

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The 1990s: Founding myth 1990: Mike Lynch, an academic in Cambridge, England, borrows—or so the legend goes—£2,000 to start Cambridge Neurodynamics, going on to develop the software that would later give rise to Autonomy. May 2007: Autonomy spins off its Blinkx consumer software unit in an IPO.

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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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In turn, Bahrain’s investment in digital transformation, and continued focus on attracting key projects like AWS while developing key sectors as part of its overall growth and diversification plans, acted as an economic force multiplier. The long-term plan kicked off in 2007 with a strategy to digitise government. So far, so good.

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Technology News and Hot Topics

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Scientists working on an experiment at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in the US have taken a step forward in developing a technology which could significantly reduce the size of particle accelerators and, consequently, their cost. Royal Bank to test out Toronto company’s Nymi technology.

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Peer-to-peer banking - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

The principle is simple – you lend to individuals at interest rates based on their credit rating, and since you’re cutting out the bank as middleman, both lender and depositer get more attractive interest rates than they can get commercially. Banks are the archetypical intermediary, in this case between depositers and lenders.

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Seattle area boasts 10 fast-growing unicorns: Can you name the billion dollar startups?

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Co-founder and CEO : Manny Medina , former director of business development at Microsoft. Co-founder and CEO : Matt Oppenheimer , head of mobile and internet banking initiatives at Barclays Kenya. GeekWire story from June 2020 : Secretive Seattle biotech company raises more than $700M to develop new ways to modify genes.

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Sell-side banks become consultants - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

As such, the emerging domain of algorithmic trading – which largely automates trade execution – is in fact providing new ways for investment banks to create high-value relationships with the clients. more ] Five reasons why Turkey is one of the hottest Internet markets in the world (7) Ekim Naz?m

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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. Financial market traders started using IM because it was useful, but banks were concerned about security and audit trails. The same thing is happening with social networks.

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