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WebMD will pay $75M to acquire employee experience company Limeade

GeekWire

Limeade, founded in 2006, sells software that aims to help companies improve employee well-being and satisfaction. Limeade reported a net loss of $3 million in its most recent quarter, down from a net loss of $6.4 The transaction values Limeade at $112 million AUD, or about $75 million. million in the year-ago period.

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Elon Musk overtakes Bill Gates to become world’s second richest person behind Jeff Bezos

The Verge

The Tesla CEO’s net worth now sits at around $128 billion, after increasing by $100 billion this year. There is a sizable gap between Musk and the number one spot, which is currently held by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos who has a reported net worth of around $182 billion. In January, Musk ranked 35th on the list, Bloomberg reports.

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Seattle firm debuts ETF that uses machine learning for long-term equity investing

GeekWire

Founded in 2008, the Seattle firm manages private hedge funds on behalf of accredited or high net worth investors, using machine learning technology to find undervalued U.S. Alberg and his co-founder Michael Seckler previously started an HR software company called Employease that ADP acquired in 2006.

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At a loss for data project ROI? Evaluate it like a product

CIO Business Intelligence

In 2006, British mathematician Clive Humby proclaimed, “Data is the new oil.”. Establishing the net value of data operations. According to t’Kint, the process of establishing a net value of operations for the Data Intelligence Usage Dashboard helped Collibra determine that, yes, the project had created net positive value.

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How climate concerns and incentives are driving solar installations on Washington roofs

GeekWire

The Grow Community on Bainbridge Island has solar power for many of its 119 homes and is a net zero neighborhood, meaning it doesn’t contribute carbon emissions. Through “net metering” the utilities credit customers for the extra energy at retail rates, lowering the cost of their following months’ bills.

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How Nvidia beat everyone else in the AI race

Vox

In 2006, the company released a programming language called CUDA that, in short, unleashed the power of its graphics cards for more general computing processes. Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s CEO and one of its founders, has a personal net worth that currently hovers around $70 billion, an over 1,700 percent increase since 2019.

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Stop using your phone number to log in

Vox

“Back in 2001 when I worked at Vodafone, we saw this problem coming,” said Marc Rogers, who is now chief security officer at the cybersecurity firm Q-Net Security. More recently, we’ve seen plenty of stories about phone numbers changing hands, causing accounts to be taken over by strangers on platforms like Facebook and Airbnb.