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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

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As author David Morton noted in his 2006 book Sound Recording: The Life Story of a Technology , 3M was one of the best-suited companies on the market to help Brush out. 3M got into the floppy disk market around the fall of 1973. Its former corporate parent 3M, meanwhile, has a market cap of $51.33 inch floppy.

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GeeRemit App Moves Money and Saves It Too

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The issue with a money-transfer protocol is that it needs to be fast and low-cost. There’s a certain segment of the market that’s attracted to the additional functions and features,” she says. We’ve done some market research, and potential customers are willing to pay up to 2 percent more for this service.”.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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Low Cost Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing of Reusable Sorbents for Energy and Water Industries, $150,000 Qualification of SAS4A/SASSYS-1 for Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Authorization and Licensing, $674,484 Advanced Reactor Concepts LLC, Chevy Chase, Md. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Ga. San Diego, Calif.

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DOE to award $118M to 17 projects to accelerate domestic biofuel production

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The pilot will consist of a low cost, easy to operate, air blown gasifier coupled with LanzaTech’s second generation bioreactor (2GBR). Project partners include Petron Scientech, Byogy Renewables, Birla Carbon, and Clark Atlanta University.

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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

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In 1984, the low-cost Macintosh from Apple Computer Inc., With the introduction of the Xerox Star in June 1981, the graphical user interface, as it is known today, arrived on the market. At almost $10,000, buyers deemed the Lisa too expensive for the office market. Cupertino, Calif.,

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