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High Tech Fitness: How it’s Changing the Game

Tech Zulu Event

The rise of high-tech fitness has taken the industry by storm with everything from wearable fitness trackers to smart jump ropes. No longer content with an overpriced gym that comes with little to no guidance on how to achieve their goals, people are turning more and more to high tech fitness instead.

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Bio Roundup: Theranos Cuts, Alnylam Stops, Nobel Eats Its Own & More

Xconomy

. —Alnylam Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: ALNY ) of Cambridge, MA, said that it would shelve its drug revusiran after 18 patients died in a Phase 3 study to treat the rare disease transthyretin amyloidosis. PRICE FIGHTS. With some caveats, ICER recommended lower prices. Shares immediately fell more than 40 percent.

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Putting Tom Perkins Comments into Context

Both Sides of the Table

There is outraged public reaction to the Google buses carrying technology workers from the city to the peninsula high-tech companies which employ them. We have outrage over the rising real-estate prices which these “techno geeks” can pay. ” We were hardly people of society.

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Reflections On 2017: Krisztina 'Z' Holly, MAKE IT IN LA

socalTECH

This morning's contribution is from Krisztina 'Z' Holly host of the The Art of Manufacturing podcast and founder of MAKE IT IN LA (www.makeitinla.org), which supports connecting local manufacturers and high tech companies. Yet, in another study, it still has difficulties understanding Homer Simpson's actions.

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Startups Are A Remix

InfoChachkie

Ironically, studies have shown that the majority of value associated with high-tech innovations involve unique advancements in non-product areas, such as: pricing (SaaS subscriptions vs. licensing), delivery (downloads vs. retail) and customer experience (Apple vs. smaller, faster, cheaper, lighter, etc.)

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10 Reasons To Start A Company In An Economic Downturn

InfoChachkie

There has recently been a common theme among the entrepreneurs I have interviewed and the conferences I have attended: despite the relatively weak state of the world economy, now is a great time to create a high-tech startup. At the end of the period studied, 94.5% People are free or cheap because of the recession.

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If You Don’t Define Your Personal Brand the Market Will

Both Sides of the Table

Every time I approached Network Solutions (or any technical group in Accenture) they wrote me off as “a business guy” since I studied economics and was on the Accenture “business track.” You’re a tech guy. I struggled to get the group to take me – they only took engineers. I had had enough.