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Microsoft’s Purchase Of Minecraft Maker Mojang Shows Comitment To Building Cross-Platform Appeal

YoungUpstarts

The software generated by thousands of developers, both at Mojang and independent developers aligned with Mojang, will be supported by Microsoft’s ample resources and global distribution network. Minecraft” is already in use in some U.S. school districts as a math, physics or resource management simulator.

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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

Nadella got Microsoft organized around mobile and the cloud (Azure), freed the Office and Azure teams from Windows, killed the phone business and got a major release of Windows out without the usual trauma. In 2014, Microsoft finally announced that Ballmer would retire, and in early 2014, Satya Nadella took charge.

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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

Nadella got Microsoft organized around mobile and the cloud (Azure), freed the Office and Azure teams from Windows, killed the phone business and got a major release of Windows out without the usual trauma. In 2014, Microsoft finally announced that Ballmer would retire, and in early 2014, Satya Nadella took charge.

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Do You Have The Data Agility Your Business Needs?

YoungUpstarts

For example, application developers who use tools such as Microsoft Visual Studio and.NET will likely have a preference for the integration efficiencies of Microsoft Azure. In a data-driven enterprise, the needs of everyone – from developers and data analysts to non-technical business users – must be considered when selecting IaaS solutions.

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Customer-Centric Strategies Win Over Product-Centric

Startup Professionals Musings

The message here is skip the gut feel estimates, and plan on using one of the many predictive analytic tools , such as Sisence or Azure. Assuming that customers fit a bell curve distribution. All this may sound very complex, but calculating customer values can actually be fairly simple if you have the data and tools.

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Bad returns be damned: Venture capital fundraising jumps 31 percent in U.S

www.geekwire.com

The company is hiring 300 employees in 2012, particularly software engineers with talent in key areas such as interactive analytics, mobile applications, internet scale distributed systems, high performance graphics, user experience and human oriented design. Check out all of the current job openings here. GEEKWIRE ANNUAL SPONSORS.

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Amazon Redshift Too Slow or Crashing? BlazingDB Performs

Austin Startup

Massive Scale with Unprecedented Speed BlazingDB offers a massively distributed, “cloud first”, high performance SQL database that achieves performance gains on the largest workloads and datasets at extraordinarily competitive costs. These are multi-Terabyte data loads, crunched by the Fortune 100.

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