#2: Funding a Revolution: Government Support for Computing Research
Funding a Revolution: Government Support for Computing Research by Committee on Innovations in Computing and Communications: Lessons from History, National Research Council (2) Buy new: $49.00 18 used & new from $1.50 (Ranking is updated hourly. Visit the Bestsellers in Research list for authoritative information on this product's current rank.)
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Twitter Acquires GeoAPI Maker Mixer Labs
Twitter announced this afternoon it has acquired Mixer Labs, a San Mateo, Calif.-based startup that recently launched GeoAPI , a reverse look-up service to help application makers get more information about where their users are. Basically, it offers developers a layer of geo so they don’t have to build it themselves. As Twitter CEO Ev Williams explained in a blog post announcing the acquisition (but not its price tag): As of today, they’re part of Twitter and will be working to combine the contextual relevance of location to tweets
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Connected Nation Wins Huge Chunk Of Taxpayer Money – And will likely use that money to fight against your interests…
Uncle Sam has set aside $350 million in taxpayer dollars to help map broadband availability in the country, given we've never comprehensively tried to do so (though we've been good at pretending we have ). The National Telecommunications & Information Administration today awarded fifteen more grants for broadband mapping and planning
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AGRICULTURE SECRETARY VILSACK HIGHLIGHTS RURAL BROADBAND PROJECT IN … – USDA.gov (press release)
WASHINGTON, December 22, 2009 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today highlighted the newly announced Recovery Act Broadband Infrastructure project in Ohio that will receive a grant worth $1 million and a loan worth nearly $1.4 million in funding ...
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Stimulus Funding Begins to Roll Out
“One key to strengthening education, entrepreneurship, and innovation in communities.is to harness the full power of the Internet, and that means faster and more widely available broadband,” said President Barack Obama on September 21, 2009.
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The Practical CIO: A Common Sense Guide for Successful IT Leadership (Hardcover) newly tagged "microsoft"
The Practical CIO: A Common Sense Guide for Successful IT Leadership ( Hardcover ) By Jose Carlos Eiras Buy new : $26.37 First tagged "microsoft" by Jess Customer tags: budgeting , kraft , general motors , governance , business maxims , business strategy services , gm , general foods , business unit funding , dhl , business value measures , executive colleagues
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Good or Bad Times Ahead for Tech Startups?
We’re at an odd time in the technology industry. While there’s bound to be some pre-holiday layoffs waiting around the corner, it shouldn’t be like the rapid-fire carnage of last winter. Meanwhile, venture-backed companies like Fortinet are finally making it all the way to IPO and beyond
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Fashion Evolution raises R4M to expand Springleap
This just in - Cape Town based Internet Startup, Fashion Evolution Holdings, has raised a further R4M ($0.5M) in its second round of funding, with the aim of commercialising its social network, crowdsourcing, & eCommerce web based software platform, to be used to launch further internal brands, as well as being used for powering 3rd party websites. Fashion Evolution’s first brand, springleap.com, launched 18 monthsago, and has become the largest crowd sourcing website in South Africa. Eran Eyal, Fashion Evolution co-founder stated that “we’ve completedstage 1 of our business model, which was the launch ofspringleap.com, and the R4M will allow us to take our vision to thenext level, as we focus on further developing & improving allcomponents of our web platform, in addition to expanding the productrange from T-shirts to multiple products.” Eric Edelstein, CEO & co-founder added: “Imagine a large company suchas a beer company, creating a new name for a beer
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