Pioneering incubator TechStars rolls out its “microinternship” program in Boulder, CO. VentureWire spoke with TechStars’ David Cohen about his own formative experiences and early exposure to business and tech, why kids need role models beyond Beiber, and what TechStars CEOs get out of their time with tweens.
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Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics
A straight forward view of analyzing data and making your findings visual. They didn’t mention the part about choosing only the statistics which support your position. Or the section on how to make the data look better or worse. Perhaps it would be a good idea for folks to stop doing that. Visualize This: The…
Five Technology Titans Support Education
Melissa Jun Rowley describes how five industry giants are supporting education around the world. To make digital more accessible, and to enable people to stay competitive in the global economy, a number of tech and media companies are working to level the online playing field all around the world. Here are five of them. 1….
Teaching an old dog an old trick – Mainframes in the Clouds
According to Bruce Hoard more and more x86 workloads are returning to the big box. And with good reason. In his Mainframe Clouds Roll In article, Hoard talks about the factors that make mainframes great hardware for the cloud. From their time-sharing beginnings, mainframes were built from the ground up to perform work for different…
RAMCloud: When Disks and Flash Memory are Just Too Slow
As storage customers look for a way off the spinning disk merry-go-round, SSDs have become the hottest gadgets in the enterprise. But a team of computer scientists at Stanford University think they can do even better. The researchers have come up with a scalable, high performance storage approach dubbed RAMCloud — RAM because it stores…
Equinix Marketplace Seeks to Connect Customers
By: Rich MillerOctober 24th, 2011 Tweet When carriers and Internet companies go looking for business partners, sometimes they need look no further than the cabinets sitting beside them in the data center. This potential is seen in the Internet itself, which is made possible by physical linkages between networks. But it’s hard to form a…