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Tech Moves: Zillow co-founder joins Palantir board; Hootsuite names new CEO; and more

GeekWire

Founded by former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold, Intellectual Ventures is one of the world’s largest patent holders. contract management startup Icertis. At Microsoft, Smith helped with the worldwide launch of Windows 10 Pro and led go-to-market strategy for the Windows tablet launch. He will be based in Seattle.

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SAMOS – How To Evaluate Disruptive Innovation

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In 1790, gunsmith Honoré Blanc produced a thousand muskets with interchangeable parts. In 1798, Eli Whitney was awarded a contract to sell the US Government 10,000 muskets, but by 1801, he had failed to deliver any. manufacturing became world famous, the industrial revolution failed to produce interchangeable parts.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Real World Criminals Online

ForAllSecure

VAMOSI: Once the classified documents were found online, there was an effort -- both by law enforcement and by the media -- to identify the leaker. It turns out some of the classified documents were photographed on a marble countertop, like in a kitchen countertop. That’s understandable, given his age. They could. And there were.

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Amazon DynamoDB ? a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database.

All Things Distributed

After the successful launch of the first Dynamo system, we documented our experiences in a paper so others could benefit from them. s original implementation had taken the "eventually consistent" approach to the extreme and presented customers with consistency windows that were up to a second in duration. CTO - Amazon.com.