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The biggest enterprise technology M&A deals of the year

CIO Business Intelligence

NetApps has agreed to buy Instaclustr, a service provider supporting open-source database, pipeline, and workflow applications in the cloud. KBMax allows buyers to configure a product online and instantly see 3D renderings and dimensioned drawings of what they are buying. Instaclustr continues acquisitive streak for NetApps.

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How Australia became the test bed for tech regulation

The Verge

Because we felt that, back then, there was software that cost $100,000 to install, and there was free software, open-source, but there was really nothing in between. There’s just a net increase to the economy, to the productivity of a company like GM. And we felt there was a huge market gap there.

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List of the world’s top female futurists (Update #5)

Trends in the Living Networks

She led a research project on the Future of Data and investigated topics such as 3D printing, social enterprise, and the evolving role of the state. boyd discovered the potential of computers while still in high school, and her college undergraduate thesis investigated how the cues in 3D computer systems were “inherently sexist”.

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