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20 powerful women shaping the networking industry

Network World

Fun fact: She is a licensed English-as-a-Second Language teacher. Cloudflare acts as a reverse proxy service that provides content delivery, security, and application performance optimization for Internet traffic.) She was chief operating officer through the companys wildly successful IPO in 2019, and in 2020 became company president.

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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.

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Microsoft’s latest OpenAI investment opens way to new enterprise services

CIO Business Intelligence

In July 2019 it became OpenAI’s exclusive cloud provider and invested $1 billion in the company to support its quest to create “artificial general intelligence.” In 2020, Microsoft became the first to license OpenAI’s Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) AI software for inclusion in its own products and services.

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Google’s Wing warns new drone laws ‘may have unintended consequences’ for privacy

The Verge

Amusingly, no: the Alphabet subsidiary just wishes they’d send it through the internet instead of broadcasting it locally. If you want to read the whole argument for yourself, the FAA spends 15 pages laying out and contemplating all the objections to internet-based Remote ID in its full rule (PDF) starting at page 60.

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Digital identity startup Evernym sells to Avast, looks to bring trust to a decentralized internet

GeekWire

There’s a lot of chatter these days about Web3 — a decentralized version of the internet that operates outside the confines and grips of social media and technology giants. Evernym raised an $8 million round of funding in 2019, with backers including Barclays Ventures and Medici Ventures.

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There are more streaming choices than ever — why are prices going up?

The Verge

The first era of internet-streamed TV — the one of cheap, innovative cable alternatives — is over, and what comes next is going to look a whole lot more like the traditional cable services it promised to replace… with prices to match. Between traditional cable and internet services, there’s more TV competition than ever.

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The digital transformation of an island nation: how Bahrain rose to lead cloud adoption in the GCC Region

CIO Business Intelligence

AWS launched its first Region in the Middle East with three availability zones in 2019, enabling Middle East organizations to meet business continuity and disaster recovery requirements and build available, fault-tolerant, and scalable applications from Bahrain. So far, so good.

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