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Social networks and engineering serendipity in the workplace

Trends in the Living Networks

and Google are doing in the space, the article continues: As Yahoo and Google see it, serendipity is largely a byproduct of social networks. was that employees who ate at cafeteria tables designed for 12 were more productive than those at tables for four, thanks to more chance conversations and larger social networks.

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Acquisition Related Data Breach Hits DNA Testing Lab

SecureWorld News

The Starwood reservation system it was acquiring had been hacked, because of a data breach that began long before the two companies became one. DNA testing company data breach impacts personal information. M&A cyber risk is real. And we just had another example of the different ways it can appear—perhaps when you least expect it.

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Ascent Index: Big Data

The Investing Edge

Big data is a hot topic, especially here in Massachusetts – arguably the Big Data capital of the world with 12,000 people employed in big data jobs in more than 100 companies across the state, an unmatched talent pool from top universities, and home to EMC Corp. This turned out to be a killer.

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Will the future of social networking be open and distributed? Here comes Plexus

Trends in the Living Networks

In his presentation Mark starts with his long relationship with programming and finally moves on to describe his project Plexus , which will provide a new platform for social networks. First and most important is the social graph, a database of connections known as the ‘Plex’. Unfortunately PeopleAggregator has not taken off.

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Tech Moves: Adaptive Biotech hires commercial officer; Instacart names new president; and more

GeekWire

Everson most recently was VP of Facebook’s global marketing solutions which works with the social networks top agencies and advertisers. Instacart has been building out its advertising business and reportedly hired more than 50 former Facebook employees based on LinkedIn data compiled by Silicon Valley tech news site The Information.

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IDC Foundry India CIO Summit 2024: How CIOs Are Transitioning into the AI Era

CIO Business Intelligence

India’s digital revolution will take center stage as Arvind Gupta, the esteemed Head of the Digital India Foundation, expounds on driving social change through technology while scaling digital initiatives in his session, India, the Data Capital of the World – Exploring India’s Digital Evolution.

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Climate Innovators in the Information Age

CIO Business Intelligence

According to a recent McKinsey report , global sustainable investment is more than $30 trillion, a tenfold increase from 2004. Global sustainable investment considers “ESG [environmental, social, and governance] factors in portfolio selection and management across seven strategies of sustainable or responsible investment.