<story><title>Cisco plans to acquire cybersecurity firm Duo Security for $2.35B</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/02/cisco-buys-security-start-up.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>yawgmoth</author><text>Congratulations to my neighbors at Duo!  That&amp;#x27;s a crazy amount of money and I hope that many Ann Arborites pay it forward in the tech scene from which Duo came.&lt;p&gt;Lots of good tech in A2 in general - Deepfield acquired by Nokia, SkySpecs, Trove, FarmLogs (a YC startup), LLamasoft (my employer!), IBM is here, Toyota, Hyundai, a rapidly increasing number of medtech companies, and plenty of boutique consulting.  It makes for a healthy life - a strong tech scene drives wages up, yet the cost of living is still fairly low (downtown A2 is very expensive already, but you can live in the nearby areas for considerably less).  There were four companies from A2 in the who&amp;#x27;s hiring page the other day. Take a look! :)</text></comment>
<story><title>Cisco plans to acquire cybersecurity firm Duo Security for $2.35B</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/02/cisco-buys-security-start-up.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>youdontknowtho</author><text>I really hope that Duo survives this. Cisco isn&amp;#x27;t necessarily known for handling acquisitions well...or software...but who knows. Maybe it&amp;#x27;s the shot in the arm that many companies will need to move to token based auth. Lot&amp;#x27;s of enterprise IT departments take Cisco&amp;#x27;s word as divine. I have had some bad experiences with Cisco the company, but the devices have always been really good even if they lag behind some of the more aggressive competitors in features or speeds.</text></comment>