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Can Elon Musk's robotaxi plan help Tesla owners make $30,000 a year?

Posted on Tue Apr 23, 2019, 3:36 pm

Are robot taxi's really on the horizon? Tesla's aggressive (perhaps unrealistic) goal to launch a robotaxi network in 2020 was revealed by CEO Elon Musk on Monday as the company discussed plans toward ...

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Iron Mountain Incorporated INSIDERS ON Board Members

Posted on Fri Apr 19, 2019, 3:44 pm

The information and data displayed in this profile are created and managed by S&P Global Market Intelligence, a division of S&P Global. Bloomberg.com does not create or control the content. For ...

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Posted on Fri Apr 19, 2019, 3:49 am

Mr. Don Pickering serves as Chief Executive Officer at BluHaptics, Inc. Mr. Pickering is responsible for strategic planning, partnerships, business and corporate development. He serves as President ...

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Posted on Thu Apr 18, 2019, 5:00 pm

Mathematician; Computer Scientist; Hugo Award-winning Novelist, A Fire Upon The Deep, Rainbow's End VERNOR VINGE is a mathematician, computer scientist, and science fiction author who is a retired San ...

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Lesbians of 1916 are the Rising's 'hidden history'

Posted on Wed Apr 17, 2019, 5:00 pm

Maeve Sheehan In the 1916 commemorations, women are celebrated as the forgotten heroes of 1916. But there is another hidden history and it concerns women who loved women. RTE's flagship 1916 drama, ...

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Google and China: The Analysis Continues

Posted on Wed Apr 17, 2019, 5:00 pm

Fresh Air contributor Dave Davies interviews Joseph Menn, a journalist who has been investigating hacker collectives and daily lives of hackers (chronicled in his new book, Fatal System Error), and ...

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Thank you to all Buckham West volunteers

Posted on Tue Apr 16, 2019, 1:21 pm

Come and enjoy the breathtaking images of award-winning film artist, Louie Schwartzberg, while we reflect on gratitude. With the many new challenges caregivers must address, it can be easy to feel ...

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Global warming an urgent problem

Posted on Mon Apr 15, 2019, 5:00 pm

At least one climate scientist, Wieslaw Maslowski of the Naval Postgraduate School, projects a blue, ice-free Arctic Ocean in summers by 2013, an event that has never occurred before, as long as human ...

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Researchers Worry Right Whales Could Be Harmed During Seismic Testing

Posted on Mon Apr 15, 2019, 2:48 pm

We think seismic testing is damaging not just to whales but to much of the marine ecosystem. LEMOULT: Chris Clark of Cornell University says seismic exploration is based on a very simple principle. ...

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GMU students want Kavanaugh fired

Posted on Mon Apr 15, 2019, 11:33 am

George Mason University hired Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh ... has garnered more than 2,000 signatures at the time of publication. GMU President Angel Cabrera responded to the backlash in a ...

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Posted on Mon Apr 15, 2019, 2:03 am

David Engle serves as President of The Esco Group and Esco Electric Company. Mr. Engle was employed at E & S Electrical Contractors, Inc. from 1978 to 1985. He graduated from University Of Northern ...

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Wayne Dickinson

Posted on Sun Apr 14, 2019, 10:54 pm

R. Grace & Co., NASA and the U.S. Navy. He joined Jon Myers in 2007... to focus on developing a useful product from carbon dioxide. The result of that work is Graphene Technologies. He is a mechanical ...

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Posted on Sun Apr 14, 2019, 5:00 pm

BRUCE STERLING was born in 1954 in Brownsville, Texas. His grandfather was a rancher, his father an engineer. Sterling, purportedly a novelist by trade, actually spends most of his time aimlessly ...

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Posted on Sun Apr 14, 2019, 7:21 am

Co-Founder, Editor and Executive Director, Scout Holdings, Inc. The information and data displayed in this profile are created and managed by S&P Global Market Intelligence, a division of S&P Global. ...

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Posted on Sat Apr 13, 2019, 8:49 pm

Dr. Hank C. K. Wuh, MD, MPH is a Founder of Cellular Bioengineering, Inc., and serves as its Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director. Dr. Wuh is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Skai ...

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Posted on Fri Apr 12, 2019, 8:45 am

Mr. Don Budinger has been a Member of Advisory Board of Strategic News Service LLC since March 2012. Mr. Budinger serves as a Trustee of Arizona State University-Tempe. He serves as Chairman and ...

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Ken Chahine Ph.D.

Posted on Fri Apr 12, 2019, 5:50 am

Mr. Ken Chahine, Ph.D., has been an Executive Vice President and General Manager at AncestryDNA LLC at Ancestry.com LLC since April 2015. Mr. Chahine served as Senior Vice President and General ...

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'Core' Dell Is Significantly Undervalued

Posted on Fri Apr 12, 2019, 5:03 am

Barron's, among many others, has hypothesized about a potential Michael Dell discount, owing to the bruising nature of the negotiations when he took Dell private back in 2013, and when he bought ...

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Posted on Thu Apr 11, 2019, 5:00 pm

the Baker River in Chilean Patagonia suddenly tripled in size, causing a virtual river tsunami. In less than 48 hours, roads, bridges, and farms were severely damaged and dozens of livestock drowned. ...

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Dr. Daniel Kapp

Posted on Thu Apr 11, 2019, 5:00 pm

Dr. Daniel Kapp is a radiation oncologist in Stanford, California and is affiliated with Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital. He received his medical degree from Stanford University School of ...

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Dr. Andreas Kogelnik

Posted on Thu Apr 11, 2019, 5:00 pm

Dr. Andreas Kogelnik is an infectious disease specialist in Mountain View, California and is affiliated with El Camino Hospital. He received his medical degree from Emory University School of Medicine ...

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Chorus promises improvement after failing to prevent exploitation

Posted on Thu Apr 11, 2019, 1:43 pm

"I think they are pretty clear about what the Government's expectations are." Chorus chief executive Kate McKenzie observed that the report said that the use of a subcontracting model was appropriate. ...

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Posted on Thu Apr 11, 2019, 5:26 am

Mark Thiele has been the Chief Strategy Officer at Apcera ... and has been a leader in efforts to reduce the carbon footprint of IT. Prior to joining ServiceMesh, he served as Director of Business ...

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David W. Garrison

Posted on Wed Apr 10, 2019, 7:12 pm

Garrison has been an Independent Director at Phillips Edison & Company, Inc. since November 14, 2018. He served as the Chief Executive Officer of iBAHN Corporation. Mr. Garrison served as President of ...

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Amazon tech chief dispels cloud fears

Posted on Wed Apr 10, 2019, 6:37 pm

Adrian Weckler Twitter Email The chief technology officer of Amazon Web Services says that encryption offers a way around European objections to sensitive data being hosted by US companies. Speaking ...

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An expensive democracy

Posted on Wed Apr 10, 2019, 9:34 am

Rahul Tandon visits a political rally in Kolkata where many participants have been paid to attend, while Ed Butler speaks to an 'election agent' tasked with recruiting those crowds, often for ...

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RedSeal Receives Equity Investment from STG Partners

Posted on Wed Apr 10, 2019, 8:37 am

The company intends to use the funds to accelerate its growth. Led by Ray Rothrock, chairman and CEO, RedSeal provides a cyber risk modeling platform for hybrid environments that helps validate an ...

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J. Andrew Rogers

Posted on Sun Apr 7, 2019, 10:53 pm

Mr. J. Andrew Rogers is the Founder of SpaceCurve, Inc. and also serves as its Chief Technology Officer. Mr. Rogers served as the Chief Executive Officer of SpaceCurve, Inc. He is a pioneer in the ...

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Veteran entrepreneur on a quest to make motorcycling safer

Posted on Sun Apr 7, 2019, 1:01 pm

Three summers ago, when Jay Giraud had moved on from his last startup ... In 2012, Mr. Giraud started Mojio Inc., to connect cars with the internet. Mr. Giraud signed on Deutsche Telekom to lead an $8 ...

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Icontrol Networks, Inc. INSIDERS ON Board Members

Posted on Sat Apr 6, 2019, 9:43 pm

The information and data displayed in this profile are created and managed by S&P Global Market Intelligence, a division of S&P Global. Bloomberg.com does not create or control the content. For ...

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Dave Chen Moving to Venture Partner

Posted on Fri Apr 5, 2019, 5:00 pm

The OVP team includes investing partners Chad Waite, Lucinda Stewart, Mark Ashida, Rick LeFaivre and Carl Weissman in Seattle and Gerry Langeler, John Hull and Dave Chen in Portland. Chad Waite serves ...

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Company Overview of Evidon, Inc.

Posted on Fri Apr 5, 2019, 1:16 pm

Evidon, Inc. develops and implements technical solutions to digital governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) challenges worldwide. The company provides Universal Consent Platform, a technology that ...

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Posted on Fri Apr 5, 2019, 2:17 am

Davis Brimer Co-founded Active Life Technologies LLC in 2010 ... culture around the shared vision of living and prolonging an Active Life. He founded Active Life Scientific, Inc. in 2010 and served as ...

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Key Executives for X1 Technologies, Inc.

Posted on Wed Apr 3, 2019, 11:59 am

The information and data displayed in this profile are created and managed by S&P Global Market Intelligence, a division of S&P Global. Bloomberg.com does not create or control the content. For ...

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Can Business Models Contribute to Higher GDP?

Posted on Tue Apr 2, 2019, 6:15 pm

Countries that support technology-based business models without ignoring more traditional ones demonstrate positive GDP growth, according to Deloitte research. William Ribaudo In business, the ...

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Nerdery Hires Joseph Tobolski as Chief Technology Officer

Posted on Tue Apr 2, 2019, 5:00 pm

MINNEAPOLIS, April 3, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Nerdery, a leading digital consultancy, today announced the addition of Joseph Tobolski to its leadership ... Tobolski spent the majority of his career ...

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Posted on Tue Apr 2, 2019, 6:25 am

Drummond Reed serves as the Chief Trust Officer of Evernym ... He was Chief Executive Officer, Co-Founder and Co-Author of the Respect Trust Framework at Respect Network, which was honored with the ...

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Paul Jacobs drops Qualcomm takeover fight

Posted on Mon Apr 1, 2019, 5:55 pm

Former Qualcomm (QCOM +1.5%) CEO Paul Jacobs retreats from his takeover bid to focus on his wireless tech startup Xcom Labs. Qualcomm dropped Jacobs as a director last year as he fought to take ...

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Square now processes $6b in payments annually, employs over 300 people; hires...

Posted on Mon Apr 1, 2019, 9:00 am

In a statement, Square boasts that it has recently added several VP-level executives, including Alyssa Cutright (VP, International) from PayPal, Jesse Dorogusker (VP, Hardware) from Apple and Ricardo ...

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Movement Toward a Poop Test for Liver Cirrhosis

Posted on Fri Mar 29, 2019, 3:09 am

MRE is a non-invasive, imaging-based biomarker for detection of cirrhosis ... K23DK090303 and 5P42ES010337), American Gastroenterological Association Foundation, T. Franklin Williams Scholarship Award ...

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CSRHub Co-Founders Speaking Engagements

Posted on Wed Mar 27, 2019, 10:40 pm

Companies have begun to implement ESG practices to reshape how they... Feb 7, 2019 10:45 AM ET CSRHub's Cynthia Figge to Speak at SB New Metrics '18 CSRHub CEO and Co-Founder, Cynthia Figge, will be ...

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Should Oracle Investors Be Worried About MongoDB's Success?

Posted on Wed Mar 27, 2019, 12:54 pm

They, in turn, came up with a document-based database architecture, which is far more flexible. After Oracle's earnings report, CEO Mark Hurd was interviewed on CNBC, where he was asked about ...

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OTC Markets Group Welcomes NanoXplore Inc. to OTCQX

Posted on Tue Mar 26, 2019, 12:16 pm

Trading on OTCQX will allow for more transparency and liquidity to our current U.S. shareholders," said Soroush Nazarpour, CEO and Founder of NanoXplore. "As a leader in graphene technology, ...

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The Human Element

Posted on Tue Mar 26, 2019, 10:50 am

In an arresting new documentary from the producers of Racing Extinction, The Cove And Chasing Ice, environmental photographer James Balog captures the lives of everyday Americans on the front lines of ...

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H5 to test Forced Physics cooling system

Posted on Mon Mar 25, 2019, 12:29 pm

This is the first full demo installation of JouleForce, which is based on patents awarded to Scott Davis in 2005. Davis founded Forced Physics Data Center Technology (DCT) and since 2015, the company ...

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Social VR and the Metaverse: are we close to Ready Player One?

Posted on Wed Mar 20, 2019, 5:06 am

Because I am old, my first point of reference for social VR is the 1992 novel Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, which coined the term 'Metaverse' to refer to the photorealistic virtual urban environment ...

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5 things to know about grounding of Boeing 737 MAX planes

Posted on Thu Mar 14, 2019, 4:14 am

The U.S. joined much of the rest of the world on Wednesday in grounding all Boeing 737 MAX 8 planes following a deadly crash of an Ethiopian airliner. The decision came hours after Canada joined some ...

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Thompson tweets apology to low-energy NBA Warriors fans

Posted on Wed Mar 13, 2019, 4:00 pm

With a 115-111 defeat Sunday at Oakland, the Warriors fell to 24-10 this season at Oracle Arena in their final campaign at the venue before moving to a new San Francisco arena in September. "I expect ...

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Azim Premji Pledges Wipro Shares Worth Rs 52,750 Crore For Philanthropy

Posted on Wed Mar 13, 2019, 5:47 am

IT (information technology) czar and Wipro Chairman Azim Premji has earmarked 34 per cent of Wipro shares worth Rs 52,750 crore ($7.5 billion) for his philanthropic activities, a statement said on ...

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iRobot: Consumer Robotics At Its Best

Posted on Mon Mar 11, 2019, 12:52 pm

Colin Angle - Chairman & CEO iRobot is clearly the market leader in the home-care robotics segment. It has an all-star product portfolio with both national and global momentum. The firm is rapidly ...

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