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Amazon settles for $2.5M with Washington AG over pesticide sales by third-party merchants

GeekWire

“Amazon sold these regulated pesticides on its site without a license, and without verifying the licenses of Restricted Use Pesticide purchasers, or collecting other legally required information, like the intended use of the pesticide,” the AG’s office said in a press release announcing the settlement.

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The Linux Migration: December 2018 Progress Report

Scott Lowe

Although I stopped the migration in August 2017, I restarted it in April 2018 when I left VMware to join Heptio. In this post, I’d like to recap where things stand as of December 2018, after 8 months of full-time use of Linux as my primary laptop OS. Applications. Aside from that, it sees very little regular use.

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Cell therapy startup Immusoft lands deal with Takeda worth potentially more than $900M

GeekWire

Under the agreement, Takeda has options to exclusively license programs at the preclinical stage and will take products to the clinic and through commercialization. The company aims to file an investigational new drug application for the condition with the U.S.

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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. April 2018: The federal grand jury finds Hussain guilty. Enterprise Applications, HP, Mergers and Acquisitions HPE receives $2.5 He appeals.

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Unpacking Murray & Roberts’ turbulent journey to the cloud and back again

CIO Business Intelligence

If we were willing to look at outsourcing the whole lot to them — all the way from server application right down to the technician support level — and adopt their managed public cloud, they were confident they could make it work for us. We had third-party independent consultants come in to analyze certain systems and licensing.

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Instagram says sites need photographers? permission to embed posts

The Verge

Ars Technica reported yesterday that Instagram’s policies “require third parties to have the necessary rights from applicable rights holders,” according to a company spokesperson. This includes ensuring they have a license to share this content, if a license is required by law.”.

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Microsoft’s resurgence: Reflecting on Satya Nadella’s leadership, a decade after he became CEO

GeekWire

This shift also marked a departure from the traditional model of selling software licenses toward a subscription revenue model that is now deeply ingrained across the entire consumer and enterprise technology ecosystem. Satya wasn’t afraid to steer the company in a new direction.

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