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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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New Doors

Eric Greenspan

As I write this, the articles and comments about my company’s demise continue. But over the past 11 years, after a career at IBM and 15 Thinkpads later, even I switched from my Thinkpad to a Mac, from my Blackberry to an iPhone and soon enough, an iPad too. Someone called my company a scam today. Do they really believe that?

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Interview with Gary Bishop, Network Automation

socalTECH

We are handling IT processes which are normally the purview of large players like BMC and CA Technology, HP, and IBM--considered the Big 4 in IT administration. The traditional way to handle that is to write code. If you want to buy something for less than $2000 from IBM, that's a very difficult thing to do.

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The Harder I Work, The Luckier I Get

Both Sides of the Table

Would Microsoft have been such a powerful global business if IBM had recognized the importance of software as an independent phenomenon from hardware? I started by writing 3-4 times / week. I didn’t have any grand ambitions other than to write, share ideas and try to build awareness of who I am through my thoughts.

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7 Strategies For Brand Leadership Through Influencers

Startup Professionals Musings

At the very least, big brands like IBM and McDonalds still take decades to achieve influence, whereas people have become influencers with only a few months of work. Now customers judge you by your visibility to them at public forums, your writing, videos, and what other public figures say.

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Make It Work, Now Belongs To Geek Squad

Eric Greenspan

In 1995, I sat on my couch with an IBM Thinkpad 720C, Coreldraw, Microsoft Word and created Make It Work. Next, came MIW II…but before we get to that part, let me explain why I’m writing this post. I built CRMs out of Microsoft Access and installed networks. I got paid a few bucks and I left.

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