TOP NEWS

5 Types of Folks Trying to Buy Your Business In gov tech, growth and recognition tends to mean interest from many different people. Here, one entrepreneur offers a guide on how to sift through different types of requests and proposals.

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5 Things to Know About Mastering the Cloud
Resource constraints, compliance and security concerns, and cultural inertia all combined to complicate already difficult migration decisions. This new cloud approach offers developers and operation teams the consistency and portability to focus on developing solutions rather than reskilling.
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Zencity Buys Elucd in Bid to Bring Polling to More Cities The move brings Zencity's sentiment monitoring tools together with Elucd's polling technology, which the companies hope will give public officials a better way to see how the public responds to their actions.

An Apology to COBOL: Maybe Old Technology Isn’t the Real Problem COBOL is a 50-year-old programming language that some say government should get away from. But it could still have a place in modern IT organizations.

COVID Hastened Gov Tech Growth — Let’s Make It Stick From online public meetings to chatbots, the COVID-19 pandemic made tech-enabled government communication a must-have. One gov tech CEO asks: How can we keep the momentum going in a post-COVID world?

WATCHLIST

GovTech companies on our radar this week:

DLRdmv: Automation and digital solutions for auto dealers, including electronic titling.

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How to Future-Proof Your Infrastructure for Hybrid Cloud and Modern Applications
HCI has rapidly become the infrastructure model of choice for enterprises looking to fully leverage hybrid cloud, modernized applications and other business-transformative initiatives. Get away from frequent, expensive and resource-consuming component upgrades.
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WHAT WE'RE READING

Empty Office Buildings Threaten Local Government Budgets (New York Times)

Study: Employment Rose Among Those in Free Money Experiment (Associated Press)

Introducing WIT: The Wikipedia-based Image Text Dataset (Google Research Datasets/GitHub)

GovTechBiz is our weekly newsletter covering the companies, deals and trends in the business of gov tech. Got a news tip? Other feedback? We’re listening. Send it to GovTechBiz Writer Ben Miller at biz@govtech.com.

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