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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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In addition to claims by M-Systems and IBM, perhaps the most complicated rivalry came from the Chinese company Netac Technology. An appeals court in the United Kingdom, however, was not persuaded, and Trek lost its patent there in 2008. It also claimed to have invented the flash memory stick. Meanwhile, the thumb drive lives on.

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A Small Startup Fights Rare Diseases With Big Data

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A Google search didn't yield an answer to that question. In fact, it's rare enough that Google didn't autocomplete the word even with 15 of its 19 letters typed in. Chris Bouton: Yeah, Entagen was a company that I founded in 2008 and we ran that company for five years and then it was ultimately acquired by Thomson Reuters in 2013.