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Education services company Perdoceo acquires coding bootcamp school Coding Dojo for $52.8M

GeekWire

based software engineering bootcamp operator, has been acquired by Perdoceo , a publicly traded Illinois-based company that owns online academic institutions including Colorado Technical University and American InterContinental University System. The company is No. The company has around 700 employees, according to LinkedIn.

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Unity’s Marc Whitten shares apology note following backlash to controversial licensing policies

GeekWire

(LinkedIn Photo) After more than a week of controversy, Unity Technologies posted an apology letter to its community and promised to undo or rollback many of the changes it had planned to make to the licensing agreements for its game engine Unity. 17 promise to reverse course. Unity, which has an office in Bellevue, Wash.,

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Apple’s digital driver’s license has been delayed to next year

The Verge

Apple’s digital driver’s license / ID feature won’t be coming until “early 2022,” according to an update to Apple’s iOS 15 page that MacRumors noticed. Image: Apple. The change comes after news broke that Apple was looking for strict control over how states roll out the feature, which was previously listed as coming late this year.

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Microsoft, Google, and Qualcomm are reportedly nervous about Nvidia acquiring Arm

The Verge

The companies have approached regulators in the US, EU, UK, and China, reportedly with concerns that Nvidia could change how Arm licenses out its chipmaking technology. Nvidia has pledged that it won’t use its control over the company to change how it interacts with other businesses.

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Latest round of Unity layoffs impacts 50 Seattle-area employees

GeekWire

Unity Technologies, based in San Francisco, is best known for its eponymous game engine Unity, which has been used to build hundreds of video games over the course of the last decade. Seattle-area engineering centers : Check out our list of offices established by companies headquartered outside of the region.

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4 moves CIOs should make to achieve a more efficient IT organization

CIO Business Intelligence

This includes running a benchmarking spend analysis on all categories relative to industry peers, as well as leading technology companies. Review software licenses and subscriptions Many organizations are over-licensed and oversubscribed on software, pushing costs higher than they need to be.

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Goldman Sachs releases new font you’re not allowed to criticize Goldman Sachs with

The Verge

As their license states , you’re free to use Goldman Sans for just about anything you like so long as you don’t use it to criticize Goldman Sachs. And although Goldman Sans is nominally a free font, Goldman Sachs retains complete control over the license, allowing it terminate usage for any reason it likes.

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