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The Evolution of Tech Wars: Past, Present, and Future

VC Cafe

Android may have a larger global market share, but Apple’s loyal customer base, strong brand, and profitable ecosystem made it the clear winner. Cloud Wars: As businesses increasingly adopt cloud services, the battle between cloud providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) intensifies.

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Female Founders! Pitch for a Fast Track into Capital Factory with a $100,000 Investment

Austin Startup

All finalists will receive: A fast track into the Capital Factory portfolio where you will receive opportunities to get in front of potential investors, customers and employees. Houston based Syzygy Plasmonics is developing a green power source from hydrogen fuel cell technology and raised a $5.8 million Series A round.

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Apps sell infrastructure

BeyondVC

The initial Pivotal Cloud Foundry sales pitch was that it gave big companies a way to build new applications that run in a public cloud (rented space on Amazon (AMZN, +0.47%) Web Services, Google (GOOG, +0.34%) Cloud Platform or Microsoft (MSFT, +0.62%) Azure) or private cloud (flexible infrastructure that runs in a company’s own data center.

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Houston Startups can Pitch for a $50,000 Venture Investment

Austin Startup

We’ve helped winners connect with customers, mentors, and secure millions of dollars in capital from Google, Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Fund, Backstage Capital, and many other VC investors. Houston-based Syzygy Plasmonics is developing a green power source from hydrogen fuel cell technology and raised a $5.8 million Series A round.

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Google BigQuery: A Tutorial for Marketers

ConversionXL

Alternatives include Amazon Redshift , Snowflake , Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse , Apache Hive , etc. …and you have a shitty custom CRM that can never connect to your Ads or Analytics platforms. When you create a query, you’ll see a red or green circle in the right corner under your query table. Another use case.

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Microsoft’s Bing Fund will give online startups cash, advice, and discounts

venturebeat.com

Additionally, Microsoft will provide its startups with four to eight months of advice, design and development help, discounted access to Microsoft’s Azure Data Marketplace APIs, and introductions to potential partners or customers. Venture capital. Developers. Entrepreneur. Entrepreneurs. Infographics. Management. Electric cars.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

If you want to serve enterprise customers,NET is one of the best ways to do that and do it well. The tools which you find restrictive I consider a huge timesaver (which paying customers tend to appreciate)… they allow me to rapidly prototype and get solutions to customers. lorf: NET supports JAVA.

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