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Tech Companies That Missed the Mark in 2016

CTOvision

From Snapchat Spectacles to virtual reality, 2016 was a year of innovation and growth in the tech industry. However, not every company saw great success, and even the tech giants had some big snafus. Here are some of the most notable tech company failures of the past year. Rick Delgado.

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Invention network company Xinova to shut down, 5 years after spinning out of Intellectual Ventures

GeekWire

Xinova , a Seattle company that operated a network of inventors, is winding down operations, GeekWire has learned. Xinova spun out of Intellectual Ventures in 2016 and helped match inventor ideas with customers such as PepsiCo, Honda, Funai, and others. The company now has only two employees who are helping wind down operations.

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Mobile private network technology enablers

TM Forum

Mobile private networks (MPNs) use the same kinds of network elements as public or macrocellular networks, which consist of a radio access network (RAN) and core. Communications service providers (CSPs) are modernizing public mobile networks to exploit the potential of cloud and edge computing, and MPNs will do the same.

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10 game changing networking acquisitions of 2016

Network World

Image by Thinkstock In the networking industry, it seems that every year there’s a flurry of mergers and acquisitions. Turns out that 2016 was no different. Here are 10 that have the most game changing potential, since they have the potential to move the acquiring company into an entirely new market. Game changers?

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Pendulum raises $5.9M to help companies identify potentially harmful narratives online

GeekWire

The tech: Pendulum’s software is used by corporate risk intelligence groups within Fortune 500 companies to identify risks and opportunities that arise from social media and other online content. government, helping to combat harmful narratives and foreign election interference in 2016. million seed round.

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Former Amazon exec Dave Clark abruptly resigns as Flexport CEO a year after joining logistics company

GeekWire

Flexport Photo) Dave Clark , the former longtime Amazon executive, has resigned as CEO of Flexport , the San Francisco-based logistics company he joined a year ago. In light of that, I feel that he is best suited to lead the company in that direction.” The company’s revenue hit $3.3 Dave Clark.

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RiskIQ Accelerates Momentum Across Entire External Threat Management Solution Set in First Half of 2016

CTOvision

What the press release does not capture well enough is that RiskIQ is the only firm we have seen that can provide network defenders with true insights into how adversaries are using infrastructure to attack. We track RiskIQ in our Security Companies Directory -bg. They are like the SIEM of the Internet and all mobile devices.

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