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Tech Moves: Expedia and F5 Networks add board members; Madrona principal departs; and more

GeekWire

F5 Networks appointed Elizabeth Buse to its board of directors. Buse previously served as co-CEO and CEO of Monitise, a global mobile banking and payments company, from 2014 to 2015. Former Rover and Cheezburger CTO Scott Porad is now vice president of engineering at Seattle virtual healthcare startup 98point6.

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Why Companies Accepting Bitcoin as a Payment Method

Galido

He once wrote on a computer program: “ Governments are good at cutting off the heads of centrally controlled networks like Napster, but pure P2P networks are holding their own so that it’s very attractive to the libertarian viewpoint.” Bitcoin (BTC) is a virtual currency, created by a slow computer process called ‘mining.”

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Technology News and Hot Topics

CTOvision

device that uses laser technology to project a virtual keyboard onto a flat surface to allow typing on an attached smartphone or tablet. Royal Bank to test out Toronto company’s Nymi technology. By using an implementation of a technique known as mesh networking, phones with a poor signal can leech … Read more on TechSpot.

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Fountainhead: Who's using Infrastructure Orchestration in Finance?

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. The beauty of infrastructure orchestration is that it abstracts-away all of the "plumbing" of the Server such as I/O, networking and storage connectivity -- which makes it an absolutely *ideal* complement to virtualization. Investment Banks.

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The many and varied risk factors in Facebook’s IPO

Trends in the Living Networks

We had more than 425 million MAUs who used Facebook mobile products in December 2011. In 2011, Zynga accounted for approximately 12% of our revenue, which amount was comprised of revenue derived from payments processing fees related to Zynga’s sales of virtual goods and from direct advertising purchased by Zynga.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Fuzzing Message Brokers

ForAllSecure

So Bitcoin has its own network protocol. Knudsen: What was cool was that containers are so much lighter than virtual machines. Vamosi: Virtual Machines are what just that; they’re software representations of hardware machines. I would say it's closer to the metal with a virtual machine.

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Bellevue’s boom: City’s tech industry is poised to eat Seattle’s lunch

GeekWire

Lynne Robinson tries out virtual reality in 2016. The physical therapist and small business owner organizes and attends tech and networking events, and makes sure startups have the support they need. . Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer opens the company’s Bellevue Square store in November 2011. Waiting with open arms.

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