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Why Google Fiber? Moat-widening Endeavor & Future of Computing.

Tech Zulu Event

With Fiber, Google has 2 primary objectives: 1) Billionaire celebrity investor Warren Buffet explains the first reason most eloquently: “In business, I look for economic castles protected by unbreachable moats” Fiber is a moat-widening endeavor. 2) Fiber is a means to Google’s vision of the future of computing.

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Claiming a landmark in fusion energy, TAE Technologies sees commercialization by 2030

TechCrunch LA

Six years ago, the company had proved that its reactor design could sustain plasma indefinitely — meaning that once the switch is flipped on a reaction, that fusion reaction can continue indefinitely. By 2008, the first construction began on integrated experiments to make a plasma core and infuse it with some energetic particles.

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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

Both Sides of the Table

Web-based client for user stream data including Twitter (original focus), FaceBook, MySpace, Google Buzz, FourSquare and many others. Founded in January 2010 by Stephen Hood (ex-Delicious head of product), Dave Baggeroer (Stanford’s Institute of Design), and Josh Whiting (ex-senior engineer at Delicious and Craigslist).

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ORA Smart Glass | Augmented Reality Glasses

Tech Zulu Event

Google Glass started a revolution for wearable devices. Before all the hype for different fitness bands, smart watches and other wearables today, Google Glass jumpstarted today’s wave of wearable technology. Google laid out the initial blueprints of what AR glasses can do. These are just a fraction of what Google has to offer.

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Top Ten infoChachkie Entries Of 2011

InfoChachkie

I began publishing my blog in 2008. was published in 2009 and Time Wounds All Heels was written in 2008. Google likes these entries, as evidenced by the significant organic traffic it consistently drives to them. Worst T-shirt Designs Ever. For the first couple years, I wrote under the pseudonym Uncle Saul.

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Peering Into The Mobile Games Future With Josh Hartwell of Mobile Deluxe

socalTECH

really, that opportunity has only recently been realized fully with Apple in 2008, and later with Google. Speaking of Apple's iPhone and Google, it seems like you're one of the few mobile game firms for phones which has made the transition more or less smoothly into this new world of iOS and Android.

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Marissa Mayer Yahoo’s New CEO

Tech Zulu Event

in Computer Science from Stanford University, she specialized in artificial intelligence in both her degrees and has several patents in artificial intelligence and interface design credited to her. At Google she also curated the Google Doodle program used during celebrations worldwide. Marissa Mayer has a B.S. billion.

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