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Quantum Computing 101: Brilliant, Google, Microsoft Training Workers

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But tech companies are already writing the novel kinds of software these revolutionary computers will need in order to operate—and businesses are even helping to train the workforce for a future era of “quantum speed-up.’’ For that training task, Microsoft and X, the cutting-edge research arm of.

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Degreed Raises $75M to Expand in Growing Workforce Training Sector

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San Francisco-based Degreed is among the educational technology companies now classified as “learning experience platforms,’’ because they organize staff participation in skills development training and coordinate it with the goals of employers, who are their clients.

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Arevo Adds $12.5M To Expand 3D Printing into Manufacturing

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Arevo’s technology mix—which combines automated printing equipment with Web-based software and customized raw materials—exemplifies the changes in 3D printing since the days when it served as a mere tool for crafting prototypes and as a consumer novelty. Instead, 3D printing startups have trained their eyes.

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FTC Queries Internet Providers on Consumer Data Collection and Use

Xconomy

The Federal Trade Commission, which has been digging into the privacy practices of tech giants Facebook and Google, is now training its sights on the internet service providers that bring us all our online content.

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With GreatCall Deal, GTCR Looks to Expand Healthtech for Boomers

Xconomy

The company, founded in 2006, began by selling easy-to-use “Jitterbug” mobile phones, and expanded its offerings to include a variety of welfare and safety-related services. A key part of this strategy are call centers (GreatCall CEO David Inns insists on calling them “caring centers”), where trained agents.

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Sebastian Thrun and Udacity Launch New Self-Driving Nanodegree

Xconomy

Thrun (pictured) says many software engineers working at the raft of companies now developing self-driving vehicles have trained in the technology via Udacity , the educational technology company he. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Ten Of The Top Tech Companies For Employees In LA

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Readers in San Diego, Orange County, Ventura County, and elsewhere, please comment or send us your comments!). Edmunds.com has been around forever in Los Angeles, but after a recent redesign and a focus on updating its web site, new mobile. Despite a huge number of companies, we found there are a number which.