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How Nvidia became a trillion-dollar company

CIO Business Intelligence

Its founders spotted that generating 3D graphics in video games—then a fast-growing market—placed highly repetitive, math-intensive demands on PC central processing units (CPUs). Although Nvidia’s first chips were used to enhance 3D gaming, the manufacturing industry is also interested in 3D simulations, and its pockets are deeper.

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Cloud, Mobile, Social and Cyber: 2015 Predictions That Will Rock The World (AGAIN!)

Cloud Musings

Wearables will become the most impactful mobile device - BYOW will replace BYOD as the primary concern of enterprise IT managers. The Microsoft-IBM Cloud Computing Alliance will be model as other IT behemoths partner to take down Amazon Web Services.

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Microsoft alumni reunite in Redmond, look ahead to what’s next in AI and the world

GeekWire

(GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) The serious nature of the crowd was underscored during a Q&A session with Charlie Bell, the Microsoft executive vice president in charge of security technologies, who joined the company after a long tenure with Amazon Web Services. “It’s an AI device,” she said.

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Tech23: SaaS/ In the cloud panel: Angusta, IPScape, MyCosm, Tagmotion

Trends in the Living Networks

A photo-realistic 3D virtual world with real-world physics, which allows people to create their design individual worlds and monetize them through 3D content and other means. They see the 10 million users of 3D CAD software as a key potential market. Partners with Salesforce and has a run rate of $2 million.

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Tech Moves: Zillow hires NYC leader; ex-Airbnb president joins Tapas Capital; Big Fish exec returns to EA; Slalom’s first CMO; and more

GeekWire

based mobile marketplace OfferUp hired Amazon Web Services and Real Networks veteran Michael Eggers as its chief financial officer. Ekata spun out of Whitepages last year and sells enterprise identify verification products. based 3D Robotics. Additionally, Zillow hired Ravi Kandikonda as SVP of integrated marketing.

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Official launch of the Top 100 Australian Web 2.0 Applications list

Trends in the Living Networks

Description: Enterprise wiki with 5,000 clients in over 80 countries. Description: Web service application that creates 'attention profiles' of users, and enables these to be used in customising services and content for users. Description: Service for restaurants to take online bookings without needing a computer.

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The biggest enterprise technology M&A deals of the year

CIO Business Intelligence

Even though Nvidia’s $40 billion bid to shake up enterprise computing by acquiring chip designer ARM has fallen apart, the merger and acquisition (M&A) boom of 2021 looks set to continue in 2022, perhaps matching the peaks of 2015, according to a report from risk management advisor Willis Towers Watson.