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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. Its Agentware internet search tools are used by enterprises including Barclays Bank and Unilever and sold as shrink-wrapped software through retail outlets. 19, 2011, and Nov.

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Porch Group makes unusual promise in latest acquisition — guaranteeing its stock will double

GeekWire

Big deals have become almost run-of-the-mill for Seattle-based home services tech company Porch Group , which has been acquiring an array of companies in areas such as home inspections, moving, real estate, and insurance. million; California-based CSE Insurance for $48.6 But one aspect of its latest deal is anything but ordinary.

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Big Data: The Hadoop Business Case

CTOvision

The Internet is overloaded with definitions, characteristics, and benefits; however, few discussions synthesize all three of these topics in one place. Scour the internet and you will find that there are other, less commonly discussed but relevant characteristics associated with Big Data to include Veracity and Volatility [2].

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10 emerging innovations that could redefine IT

CIO Business Intelligence

The hope is that these new analog chips will use dramatically less power making them useful for any of the mobile and distributed applications on machines that aren’t always plugged in. Chance of succeeding: The success or failure will probably be governed by the nature of the applications.

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Top 10 Quotes About Cloud Security

SecureWorld News

Shadow IT in the cloud: "The guy from finance, for example, just goes on the internet in search of whichever application he wants. He can take his own credit card and buy some licenses and connect online. But they didn't even know because finance bought a new application on its own.

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Strategic positioning in the flow economy: 3 action steps

Trends in the Living Networks

The software and content, including interactive maps, can be downloaded on the Internet or purchased on CD-ROM or preinstalled modules. In addition, Lonely Planet licenses its brand for a television travel series that is screened worldwide, and now it even publishes world music CDs.

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Building Identity Systems on the Sovrin Network

Phil Windley

Perhaps the most familiar example of a metasystem is the internet. The internet is not so much a communications system as it is a system for building communication systems that all interoperate. For example, I may have a credential representing my drivers license and one representing my employee ID. Drivers license.

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