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Storage giant EMC , seeking to take on the likes of Hewlett Packard, IBM, and Oracle, is enlisting unlikely allies – armies of statisticians.
EMC Loves Stat Geeks, “Oracle has the Most to Lose” - Quentin Hardy - At Your Servers - Forbes
The controversial proposed tax break for companies that bring new jobs into San Francisco’s Mid-Market and Tenderloin neighborhoods may be pared back. Service Employees International Union Local 1021 , the largest city employees union that wields substantial political clout, has been a vocal opponent of the legislation that backers hope will keep the Twitter micro-blogging company in the city.
Twitter tax-break plan may be tweaked : City Insider
Color: A $41m Bet On A Radical Social Mobile App - SVW
Last week I was in Palo Alto, drenched by torrential rains but happy to catchup with serial entrepreneur Bill Nguyen and hear about his remarkable new startup Color , which today launched its iPhone and Android based mobile app.
Coming Up: Poland Day Investment Seminar At - Facebook Palo Alto - SVW
Posted by Tom Foremski - March 23, 2011
Deloitte’s annual Technology Trends report examines the ever-evolving landscape of technology put to business use. Although it is written from the perspective of the CIO, it will also inform business executives on exciting new possibilities to apply technology to address their most pressing business challenges.
Technology Trends - 10 trends shaping business and IT in 2011 | Deloitte Consulting
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Association of Research Libraries :: New Roles for New Times: Digital Curation for Preservation, Published by ARL
Updated: Lendle, an ebook-sharing service that allows users to find and trade Kindle books, sounds like a great idea — except that it doesn’t work anymore, because Amazon pulled the plug on the site by blocking access to the Amazon API .
Amazon, Lendle and the Danger of Using Open APIs: Tech News and Analysis «
When the SXSW Interactive conference begins later this week, it could look very different from previous tech gatherings. That's because the geek-iarchy has a new book on its shelves, wedged in between Getting Things Done and The ClueTrain Mainfesto .