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Dude, Akanda Is Tying The Cloud Together Like A Rug

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In the mid 1960’s, large mainframe manufacturers, such as IBM, Burroughs and Honeywell, provided complete IT solutions. IBM might not have offered the best printers, but buyers had no choice because early mainframe vendors provided a closed set of proprietary technologies. The earliest mega-scale web services (e.g.,

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Tilofy: Making Sense Of The World Around You Using Location Data

socalTECH

Those three organizations have very strong networks inventure capital, entertainment, and academia, and put together the incubator. We now have a team of nine engineers and scientists, with experience from companies like IBM, Demand Media, and Google, all part of our core engineering team. What drove your interest in this area?

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Making The Most out of Sitting on Panels

Both Sides of the Table

Entertain – It is also your job to entertain! But let’s face it, on most panels a large number of people in the audience are surfing the web, doing Tweets, checking email, playing with their iPhones, etc. It spices things up and makes for great entertainment. It’s because they’re BORED.

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CallFire Bootstraps 50,000 Signups and Hires Former NetZero CEO

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CallFire serves clients in a diverse array of industries, from automotive, education and entertainment, to finance, healthcare, marketing and real estate. CallFire powers voice and text messaging applications that enable businesses, government agencies and grassroots organizations to instantly and affordably communicate with key audiences.

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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

Both Sides of the Table

We put all of this infrastructure in an Exodus web hosting facility and had to pay for rack space, bandwidth and some management services if a disk failed, for example. To this day I’m astounded that IBM, Google, Sun, Microsoft and others didn’t offer this service and Amazon did. We raised $16.5 million in our A round.

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