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The Story No One Cares About: PC Sales at lowest number since 2007

CTOvision

The analyst firm IDC reports that worldwide PC shipments in 2015 were about 300 million units, on par with 2007 numbers. Internet of Things : Today's Internet connects people, governments, academia and business. Bob Gourley.

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Bezos’ Amazon: from bookstore to backbone of the internet

The Verge

to found an internet-based bookstore. In 1998, Amazon bought the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) for approximately $55 million, in the company’s first major acquisition. AWS was a commercial product that would provide the backbone for companies to run their own internet businesses from the cloud. Shaw & Co. Image: Amazon.

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Bay Area Internet Acquired by Private Equity Firm » Data Center.

Data Center Knowledge

Bay Area Internet Acquired by Private Equity Firm. Bay Area Internet Acquired by Private Equity Firm. Private equity firm The Stephens Group has acquired Bay Area Internet Services (BAIS), a colocation provider in Santa Clara with a Tier IV facility. colocation » Silicon Valley. By: Jason Verge July 16th, 2013.

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ARM Brings the Internet of Things To Life On Its Campus » Data.

Data Center Knowledge

ARM Brings the Internet of Things To Life On Its Campus. ARM Brings the Internet of Things To Life On Its Campus. The systems will be based on open internet standards and designed to help application developers mobilize connected assets of all kinds. ” RELATED POSTS: The Internet of Things: Buzzword or Big Business?

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20 Reasons Why the Internet of Things will be Big and Important

Social, Agile and Transformation

20 Reasons Why the Internet of Things will be Big and Important. How big and important will the internet of things and machine to machine technologies be over the next 5-10 years? So Ive been doing a lot of reading - and below is a mix of metrics, company strategies, and technologies on the Internet of Things and M2M technologies.

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Every PC can now run Crysis

The Verge

The vast majority of PCs on the market today, and even some of the budget gaming PCs that existed in 2007, can run Crysis by streaming it from GeForce Now. The original Crysis , released in 2007, had a reputation for having high system requirements, and struggled to run on many PCs at the time of its release. But can it run Crysis ?”

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The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster

CIO Business Intelligence

Rather than selling software to customers, HP said, Autonomy had been selling them hardware at a loss, then booking the sales as software licensing revenue. Its Agentware internet search tools are used by enterprises including Barclays Bank and Unilever and sold as shrink-wrapped software through retail outlets.

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