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Daddy, What Does a Chief Technology Officer Do?

dontbesoanalytical.blogspot.com

From time to time, Ill address information technology, and how it impacts business and daily life. Daddy, What Does a Chief Technology Officer Do? should rest with a COO; the CTO is a research and ad tech discipline in the strategic planning domain. Other firms may shy away from the uncontrolled side of these technologies.

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Why We Invested in Rubrik

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Just as Apple built a time machine to protect Macs, Rubrik has built a powerful time machine for enterprise cloud infrastructure that unites data management with web-scale technology. For example, enterprises using Rubrik can accelerate DevOps by provisioning on-demand infrastructure for application development and testing.

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Managing Social Media With Fetch Plus

YoungUpstarts

One of the companies that will feature at the upcoming web and mobile technology startup conference Echelon 2011 is Fetch Plus , a social media and mobile application development company.

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Why Native Apps May Not Be Our Mobile Future

YoungUpstarts

In the tradition of all new technology, its application promises men and women more free time, higher levels of understanding, and an incredibly exciting new way to look at and listen to the world. In case you were wondering, the “it” in the quote above refers to the Pioneer Company’s 1980 release of its patented LaserDisc technology.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Incubators Are Reaching Out To 1M/1M

ReadWriteStart

At the final roundtable, we worked with just two entrepreneurs and then spent the rest of the time on Q&A, which in itself was interesting. Next, Douglas Villalobos from Costa Rica pitched GeoInvenio, a mobile application development platform. GeoInvenio. Discuss.

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How To Disrupt The Investing Business, With Katina Stefanova (Ex-Bridgewater Management Committee)

David Teten

Technology innovation, globalization of markets, and recent market volatility such as the 2008 market collapse are driving painful changes (for some) in the asset management industry. Katina Stefanova : To create returns above beta returns, an investment manager has to beat the rest and by definition there would have to be some that lose.

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Best Of Both Worlds: Mixing HTML5 And Native Code

mobile.smashingmagazine.com

Rather than build an app entirely with native or HTML5 technology, why not mix and match the technologies? With a hybrid application, building a mobile experience that leverages both native and HTML5 code for the user interface is quite possible. Why Not Mix It Up? HTML For Rich Document Layout. See larger view. ).