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Quantum Computing 101: Brilliant, Google, Microsoft Training Workers

Xconomy

From Microsoft and IBM to Alphabet’s unit X and Canada’s D-Wave Systems, companies are racing to build powerful quantum computers that may solve problems beyond the capacity of the most sophisticated conventional processors, and do it much faster. For that training task, Microsoft and X, the cutting-edge research arm of.

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Venture investors and startup execs say they don’t need Elizabeth Warren to defend them from big tech

TechCrunch LA

“Decades ago, at the peak of Japanese growth as a technology competitor on the global stage, the US government sought to break up IBM. “If big companies like Google, Facebook and Amazon are prevented from acquiring startups, that actually reduces competition,” Sirinivasan writes. — Balaji S. .”

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Innovation and Geography

SoCal CTO

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, February 20, 2007 Innovation and Geography I ran across a post in Read/Write Web - Does Location Matter in Web Innovation? Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be.

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Twitter, Jobs, Democracy & The US Elections

Both Sides of the Table

I know it’s easier to write “horse race&# stories about who’s signing up more users, raising more funding or who’s “hot&# lately. I’m hoping that HTML5 + mobile will lead them down a more open path. I recently wrote a post about the open nature of Twitter and why I’m long on its future.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

I spoke a lot about the need for “personal branding” which I plan to write about soon. It was an IBM XT. It was the first ever IBM to ship with a hard drive. And we had these vans and mobile kegs in the back, and we would go to golf courses. I’ve got guys getting funded at 23! Just forget it.”

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Seth Sternberg – Meebo

Both Sides of the Table

A huge shout out to Ricky Wong of NYCSteals for helping me with the write-up. He grew up in Connecticut attended Yale undergrad and worked for IBM after graduation doing M&A, strategy and venture capital. Mark then talked about Crittercism, a mobile feedback solution. Seth raised $100k in angel funding to fuel operations.

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

Both Sides of the Table

Chris Devore & Andy Sack have created Founder’s Coop with the goal of funding, incubating & launching more early-stage ventures in Seattle. It’s no big surprise that I spend a larger portion of my time in LA working on: disruption of television, performance-based marketing, games & mobile. It’s important.