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Yahoo CEO on Local Content

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Blog powered by TypePad Member since 01/2005 « Frugal Innovation and Homemade Nuclear Fusion | Main | Wisconsin, Illinois Companies Feeling the Recovery » June 30, 2010 Yahoo CEO on Local Content Interesting interview with Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz in the Wall Street Journal  (registration required). 

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It Had to Happen. A Gig Economy SPAC

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A SPAC is a special purpose acquisition company.  Key quote: In a SPAC, a group of investors raise money for a shell company with no underlying business. The SPAC goes public, generally at $10 per share, and then starts hunting for a company to acquire. Leveraging data to constantly improve the product and operations.

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Wisconsin, Illinois Companies Feeling the Recovery

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Blog powered by TypePad Member since 01/2005 « Yahoo CEO on Local Content | Main | Non-Mortgage Debt and Working in Retirement » June 30, 2010 Wisconsin, Illinois Companies Feeling the Recovery The QPS Employment Group is a staffing and recruiting firm operating in Wisconsin and Illinois. 

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How Silicon Valley is Changing How and What We Eat

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According to Time's How Silicon Valley is Addressing the World's Food Crisis : the food industry and tech industry have started to intersect and companies like Google and Yahoo have major research projects related to the future of food. ." Food products and technology have become a hot area in Silicon Valley.

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Rage Against the Machines

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  A more balanced view of this issue is taken in Fast Company's Are Robots Going to Kill Your Next Job or Create It?  Yahoo's Whoa: That Police Officer is a. Furthermore, “rich” increasingly means “those working in technology.”  The authors of that study also felt 40%-50% of U.S.

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Venture Capital at Mid-Life

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My wife told me about an article on Yahoo (Buzz I think) today or yesterday about the thousands of inventors out there that can't get funding. Short and sweet. I actually didn't know there was too much capital chasing good deals. Maybe a VC specializing in individual inventors would flourish.

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Frugal Innovation and Homemade Nuclear Fusion

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Blog powered by TypePad Member since 01/2005 « Silicon Prairie | Main | Yahoo CEO on Local Content » June 29, 2010 Frugal Innovation and Homemade Nuclear Fusion One of the most powerful trends impacting business (and society) is the shift towards lightweight technologies. 

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