Degreed is an education technology company. Degreed is based in San Francisco, CA with offices in Salt Lake City, UT, New York, London, Brisbane, Australia, and Leiden, The Netherlands
iSpring Suite is a PowerPoint-based authoring toolkit produced by iSpring Solutions that allows users to create slide-based courses, quizzes, dialog simulations, screencasts, video lectures, and other interactive learning materials. The output courses are published in HTML5. iSpring-made courses are compatible with the following LMS standards:SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004, AICC, xAPI (Tin Can), and cmi5
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The core of Declara's technology is its platform, called the CognitiveGraph, which analyses and observes how users interact with data — including searches, Tweets, posts, blogs, videos, likes, recommendations, messages, and web content — to create a personalized, cognitive learning map based on a user's data, history, and interests. Declara's customers include governments, companies, educational institutions, non-profits and research organizations that use its platform to connect everyone in a company or organization to collaborate, learn, and solve problems more effectivel
Fuse Universal Ltd. is a learning solutions company based in Shoreditch, London, United Kingdom. The company was founded in 2008 by Steve Dineen, the CEO.
In 2019, the organisation is made up of 55 employees. The main product is the Fuse platform, entirely cloud-based using Amazon Web Services build on Ruby on Rails and available on all devices supporting iOS and Android systems.
As well as the platform, Fuse Universal offers professional services such as Fuse Create and Fuse Consult. Fuse Universal runs its own foundation called Fuse School, which is a non-profit arm of the organisation offering educational videos to children and adults worldwide via YouTube and the Fuse School (also written "FuseSchool") platform.
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Pivotal Software, Inc. was an American multinational software and services company based in San Francisco that provided cloud platform hosting and consulting services. Since December 2019, Pivotal has been part of VMware.
Pivotal Software was formed in 2012 after spinning out of EMC Corporation and VMware (which was majority-owned by EMC). The name came from the Pivotal Labs LLC which had been acquired by EMC, and briefly used the name GoPivotal, Incorporated.[3] On April 24, 2013, the organization announced a US$105 million investment from General Electric (for 10% equity) and Pivotal One, including Cloud Foundry for cloud computing.
Paul Maritz became Pivotal's chief executive immediately after the spin-out. Maritz had joined EMC in February 2008 when Pi Corporation, a company he co-founded, was acquired and was previously the CEO of VMware. The Greenplum Database (acquired by EMC in 2010) formed the basis of a division selling software for the big data market.
In March 2013, a distribution of Apache Hadoop called Pivotal HD was announced, including a version of the Greenplum software for it called Hawq.
Paul Maritz became Pivotal's Chairman and Rob Mee, founder of Pivotal Labs, became chief executive officer of Pivotal Software on August 18, 2015. In May, 2016, a US$253 million round of investment was announced, including Ford investments. EMC also converted US$400 million of debt into equity at that time.
In March 2018, the company filed for an initial public offering, debuting on the NYSE on April 20, 2018.The trading price began at $15 a share, and closed with a 5% increase on its first day. The company raised $555 million in the IPO.
On August 14, 2019 VMware announced merger discussions with Pivotal, and a definitive agreement to acquire Pivotal Software was signed on August 22, 2019. The merger was completed on December 30, 2019. VMware folded Pivotal into the Tanzu application suite, with the Pivotal Labs consulting group rebranding to become VMware Tanzu Labs in January 2021.
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VMware Carbon Black (formerly Bit9, Bit9 + Carbon Black, and Carbon Black) is a cybersecurity company based in Waltham, Massachusetts. The company develops cloud-native endpoint security software that is designed to detect malicious behavior and to help prevent malicious files from attacking an organization. The company leverages technology known as the Predictive Security Cloud (PSC), a big data and analytics cloud platform that analyzes customers’ unfiltered data for threats. The company has approximately 100 partners. It has over 5,600 customers including approximately one-third of the Fortune 100. In October 2019, the company was acquired by VMware.
Carbon Black was founded as Bit9 in 2002 by Todd Brennan, Allen Hillery, and John Hanratty. The company's first CEO was George Kassabgi. The current CEO, Patrick Morley, was formerly the chief operating officer of Corel. He took over the position in 2007.
In 2013, the company's network was broken into by malicious actors who copied a private signing key for a certificate and used it to sign malware.
In February 2014, Bit9 acquired start-up security firm Carbon Black. At the time of the acquisition, the company also raised $38.25 million in Series E funding, bringing Bit9’s total venture capital raised to approximately $120 million.The company acquired Objective Logistics in June 2015. In August 2015, the company announced that it had acquired data analytics firm Visitrend and would open a technology development center in downtown Boston. A month later, the company announced it would partner with SecureWorks, Ernst & Young, Kroll, Trustwave, and Rapid7 to provide managed security and incident response services.
The company changed its name to Carbon Black on February 1, 2016, after being known as "Bit9 + Carbon Black" for approximately two years.
In July 2016, Carbon Black announced it had acquired next-generation antivirus software provider Confer for an undisclosed sum. Prior to the deal, Confer had raised $25 million in venture funding and had more than 50 employees. According to The Wall Street Journal, the deal was valued at $100 million.
On May 4, 2018, the company joined public markets, listing as "CBLK" on the Nasdaq exchange. As part of its initial public offering (IPO), Carbon Black raised approximately $152 million at a valuation of $1.25 billion. Prior to its IPO, the firm had raised $190M from investors including Kleiner Perkins, Highland Capital, Sequoia, Accomplice, and Blackstone.
In October 2019, the company was acquired by VMware.
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RNA polymerase is an enzyme that synthesizes RNA molecules. In a narrow sense, RNA polymerase is usually called DNA-dependent RNA polymerases that synthesize RNA molecules on the DNA matrix, that is, transcription. Enzymes of the RNA polymerase class are very important for the functioning of the cell, so they are present in all organisms and in many viruses. Chemically, RNA polymerases are nucleotidyl transferases polymerizing ribonucleotides at the 3' end of the RNA chain.
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Stepik (Stepik, until August 2016 — Stepic) is a Russian educational platform and designer of free open online courses and lessons.
Allows any registered user to create interactive training lessons and online courses using videos, texts and a variety of tasks with automatic verification and instant feedback. During the training process, students can have discussions among themselves and ask questions to the teacher on the forum. The main disciplines covered by the courses are programming, mathematics, bioinformatics and biology, economics; the main language of the courses is Russian, there are courses in English. As of 2020, 5 million users are registered on the platform. Target audiences are schoolchildren (mainly courses on preparation for the Unified State Exam), students, novice specialists.
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The founder is Nikolay Vyakhkhi, who created author's courses in bioinformatics with the support of JetBrains and the Laboratory of Algorithmic Biology of St. Petersburg Academic University. In 2013, an online platform was created on the basis of developments, and in September 2013, the first third-party training programs were released on it.
Among the organizations that have released online courses on the platform are Yandex, JetBrains, Samsung, Mail.ru , a number of universities (including the European University in St. Petersburg, MIPT, Tomsk Polytechnic University, Samara University, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Tomsk State University, Southern Federal University). The Stepik automated task verification system has been used in a number of courses on the Coursera platform, including courses in bioinformatics from the University of California at San Diego and a course on data analysis from the Higher School of Economics.