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Demystifying Data for Business

SoCal Tech Calendar

Thursday, July 28, 2016 -- Demystifying Data for Business. Data Scientist is the "sexiest job of the 21st century", according to Harvard Business Review. education/demystifying-data-for-business/los-angeles/24581. Big data lives in the cloud. It knows what we do." - Pointy-haired boss. It's all about what you do with it.

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6 Top Trends For The Digital World In 2016

Tech Zulu Event

6 Entrepreneurs share their predictions for this year’s evolution of online industries, which will be key for small businesses across the globe in 2016. The controversial CISA bill passed in late December, despite outcry from the tech world, now means large corporations will be able to share personal online data with government agencies.

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Tech Transforms the Election Experience, From VR to Voter Registration

Xconomy

I found another name for this low-tech form of long distance TV show sharing in the New York Times: “sync-watching.” Beyond a simple phone call, far-flung friends are using any technical means possible—like Skype and live tweeting—to duplicate that cozy experience of sitting in front of the same TV together. See how it works here.).

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Fuel50: Helping Employees Figure Out Their Career Path, With Anne Fulton

socalTECH

Anne Fulton: Fuel50 is a career pathing startup, part of the HR technology landscape. We're a disruptor, the third wave in human resources technology. Anne Fulton: I've always been a technology lover, although I'm an organizational psychologist by training. What is Fuel50? The whole space has been neglected. versus New Zealand?

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Getting A Software Patent Is Valuable But Frustrating

Startup Professionals Musings

That’s more than a lifetime in today’s technology. Patent offices can’t keep up with software technology. It’s impossible for any patent jurisdiction to keep staff up to speed and qualified to validate significant innovations in a complex and rapidly changing technology, where trivial innovations are not obvious.

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Beware Of New Challenges With Services Relationships

Startup Professionals Musings

Customers today extrapolate their relationships not only from personal contact, but from every aspect of their interface with your company, including web site and social media interactions, access to peer reviews, as well as the actual services experience. Bolton, a distinguished Marketing Educator Award winner at the W.P.

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5 Companies Millennials Avoid – And What It Means For Your Brand

Inverted Software

Millennials are more educated about healthy choices, are price sensitive and environmentally friendly. So which companies are ones seeing the most change in their sales as a result of Millennials making more educated choices? percent in 2016. billion in fiscal 2016, a 1.8% sales falling 3.9 decline from 2015. Applebee’s.

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