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Catching Up On Readings: Flipside of IoT
This feature from The New York Times looks at how a new era of Internet Attacks is being powered by Internet of Things (IoT) everyday devices connected to the Internet. The recent attack on the infrastructure of the Internet, which made it all but impossible at times to check Twitter feeds or headlines, was a remarkable reminder about how billions of ordinary web-connected devices can be turned to vicious purposes. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links. >>>
Catching Up On Readings: Nobel Prize for Literature and Economics 2016
The Nobel Prize for Literature and Economics were announced last week. This feature from The New York Times looks at the radical decision of awarding the highest literary award to Bob Dylan, the poet laureate of the rock era. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links. >>>
Catching Up On Readings: Nobel Prizes 2016
Last week, the winners of the prestigious Nobel Prizes in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, and Peace were announced. These features from The Guardian look at the top contenders for the Nobel Prize in Economics and Literature. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links. >>>
Catching Up On Readings: 2016 IPO Market
This feature from The Wall Street Journal looks at the global IPO market and the factors affecting it such as the US elections and the Brexit vote. This year, Asia-Pacific has topped the leaderboard accounting for 53% of deal value, followed by EMEA with 29% and the Americas at 18%. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links. >>>
Catching Up On Readings: Disrupt SF 2016
The three-day TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2016 wevent as held in San Francisco from September 12. This TechCrunch article covers the highlights of the event. The winner of the Startup Battlefied this year was visual e-sports analytics platform Mobalytics. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links. >>>
Catching Up On Readings: Tech M&A 2016
After a brief lull in 2015, there has been a spurt of acquisitions by tech giants this year led by Microsoft’s $26 billion acquisition of LinkedIn and more recently the $9.3 billion acquisition offer for NetSuite. This VentureBeat feature looks at the Tech M&A scene in 2016. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links. >>>
Catching Up On Readings: Startup Transatlantic M&As
The Startup Transatlantic M&As. US vs EU report is going to be presented at the European Innovation Day conference on September 12th in Mountain View, Calif. The report which looked at over 6,000 startup deals over the past five years says that US acquirers completed 82% of the deals. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links. >>>
Catching Up On Readings: VMWorld 2016
VMWorld 2016 was held in Las Vegas last week and covered the latest in latest in virtualization, SDN, containers, hyperconverged infrastructure and mobile management. This feature from Network World covers the hottest products from the event. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links. >>>
