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Start-ups founded by immigrants are creating jobs all over America
— ON APRIL 19th Jack Markell, the governor of Delaware, is due to visit a new factory being built in his state by Bloom Energy, a start-up based in Silicon Valley. Bloom makes clean power-generation systems using a novel fuel-cell technology.
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E-commerce in China: The Alibaba phenomenon
— China's e-commerce giant could generate enormous wealth—provided the country's rulers leave it alone Mar 23rd 2013 | From the print edition ON ITS way to becoming the world's biggest economy, China is passing another landmark.
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Information technology in Africa
— Technology companies have their eye on Africa. IBM is leading the way — NAIROBI | From the print edition — MAMADOU NDIAYE grew up in Senegal. His parents were “not poor, but not rich”. He was fascinated by mathematics …
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The Nordic region is becoming a hothouse of entrepreneurship
— IN 2010 A GROUP of students at Aalto University, just outside Helsinki, embarked on the most constructive piece of student activism in the history of the genre. They had been converted to the power of entrepreneurialism during …
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How did Lenovo become the world's biggest computer company?
— How did Lenovo become the world's biggest computer company? — BEIJING | from the print edition — LENOVO started humbly. Its founders established the Chinese technology firm in 1984 with $25,000 and held early meetings in a guard shack.
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Huawei: The company that spooked the world
— The success of China's telecoms-equipment behemoth makes spies and politicians elsewhere nervous — BANBURY, a little English town best known for a walk-on part in a nursery rhyme and as the eponymous origin of a fruitcake …
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Did Eduardo Saverin do anything wrong?
— ACCORDING to the internet's hilarious headline writers, Eduardo Saverin, a Facebook co-founder, dis-"likes" America's tax rules and has “un-friended” the land of the free in order to dodge a potentially monumental tax bill after Facebook goes public.
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Space invaders
— America's Intel and Britain's ARM have long dominated different bits of the global chip market. Now each is attacking the other's stronghold — LAS VEGAS is a city of fast bucks, fast food and fast marriages. It could also be the place where a long war was declared.
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Great digital expectations
— Digitisation may have came late to book publishing, but it is transforming the business in short order — TO SEE how profoundly the book business is changing, watch the shelves. Next month IKEA will introduce a new, deeper version of its ubiquitous “BILLY” bookcase.
Windows Store Weekly — This week we take a look at: Star Trek App, Box, Fling Theory, StumbleUpon, and wordBrush.
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
DevOps: Improved Productivity, Higher Value — Those of us who have been aligned with DevOps for some time already know that the greater agility and closer collaboration it enables deliver real business value for our organizations.
Get Started with Hadoop on Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows — We are excited to release the Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows as a Generally Available product.
Skype in the browser — Whether you like the Skype app or not, until now, you've had no choice but to download something to make voice and video calls — either an app like Skype, or a Flash plugin (yikes) for your browser.