VB Transform Watch every session from the AI event of the year On-Demand Watch Now (Reuters) — Snap said on Tuesday a bump in user growth at the start of coronavirus-led lockdowns petered out sooner than expected, and it forecast fewer current-quarter users than the Wall Street consensus. Shares of …
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Grown from the idea of a student entrepreneur, home improvement startup BuildEasy was officially launched in November 2015. That student was Tan Yong Meng, founder and CEO of the company. In a recent catch up session with him, he revealed that 2019 was by far the most eye opening year …
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Companies spent a record $ 31 billion on cloud infrastructure services in Q1 2020, though the full impact of COVID-19 is unlikely to be realized until the second quarter. New figures from Canalys indicate cloud spending grew 34.5% year-on-year (YoY) from the $ 23.1 billion for the corresponding period last …
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