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New Effort Taps Crowdsourced PCs To Help Find Ebola Cure

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A new effort by San Diego-based Scripps Research Institute and IBM is seeking to tap into the collective power of crowdsoruced PCs and Android mobile devices, to help find a cure for Ebola.

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Accurate Background Snags Box.com VP

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Irvine-based Accurate Background , a developer of automated, workforce screening tools, said that it has hired on former Box.com executive Scott Hebert as Chief Revenue Officer. Sales at Salesforce.com for nine years; he also has served at IBM.

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3 Great Ideas You May Steal

Eric Greenspan

Qwerty is here to stay, but the touch screen keyboard needs a serious redesign. Why do we even need to touch the screen? We need a keyboard that is above the screen, projected, with bigger buttons. This frees up a ton of screen real estate so we can make keys larger and further apart. Keyboard idea 1. Keyboard idea 2.

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How To Make Freemium Customers Generate Revenue For Your Startup

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In the spirit of the “land grab” mentality of the day, we emphasized usage of our screen sharing technology with no thought applied to how we would convert such users into paying customers. We then asked them to encourage IBM to license DesktopStreaming on their behalf. If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for.

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How Enervee Is Making Shopping For Products Energy Smart, with Matthias Kurwig

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Big screen TVs and refrigerators can cost you thousands of dollars over the life of those products. I joined them in New York as Global Chief Operating Officer of Neo @ Ogilvy, doing digital media for IBM, Cisco, Amex, and others. It's funny that no one provides this kind of information. How did you end up in Santa Monica?

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Seth Sternberg – Meebo

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He grew up in Connecticut attended Yale undergrad and worked for IBM after graduation doing M&A, strategy and venture capital. Unlike those IM clients with a small (ineffective) footprint, Meebo experience is a website and a full page screen. Check out his website if you live in or are visiting New York!

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Why Taking Some Risks in the Sales Process Can Improve Results

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We have a great screening process. ” (effectively a “nobody ever got fired for buying IBM” sort of argument). You FEEL unique but when you meet your ultimate fund-raising customers (investors) the law of large numbers means that they’ve seen a bunch of companies saying nearly identical things as you are.

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