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Good Energies, Google and Marubeni Investing in Offshore Wind Backbone

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Energy investor Good Energies, Google and Marubeni Corporation are investing in the Atlantic Wind Connection (AWC) backbone transmission project. Source: Google. Good Energies, an experienced investor in the development of renewable energy projects across North America, Europe and Asia, and Google are each investing 37.5%

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Autonomous driving visionary Dr. Lawrence Burns joining Neural Propulsion Systems as Executive Advisor; L4/L5 autonomous driving

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Dr. Burns is the former Corporate Vice President of Research & Development and Planning at General Motors ( earlier post ). He has also advised numerous companies—including Google Self-Driving Cars/Waymo for over a decade. He received a B.S. in Engineering/ Public Policy from the University of Michigan, and a Ph.D.

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100 Years Ago, IBM Was Born

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And a hundred years after that event, it serves as an important reminder that the world of computing and IT that IBM played a pivotal role in building has a longer history than we are likely to think. So let’s take a moment to contemplate the origins of an iconic corporation. to build the business. Enter Thomas Watson Sr.

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Meet Mr. Internet: Vint Cerf

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“The networks couldn’t be changed and couldn’t know that they were part of the Internet, because they already existed,” Cerf recalls recently in an interview at his office at Google, in Reston, Va. They went over to Engineering Building 1, where the computer was housed, and found the building locked. “I

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Transparency Depends on Digital Breadcrumbs

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history: into the violent overtaking of the Capitol building on 6 January 2021. But in order for investigators to identify suspects amidst a mob of thousands, it had to cast a very wide net and sought the cooperation of tech giants like Google, Facebook, and Snap and carriers like Verizon and T-Mobile.

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BMW Group Launches car sharing service “ReachNow” in Seattle

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With this service, we are building up on Drive Now, our extremely successful European business model, and bringing it up to a new level in the US. Car sharing for residential and corporate groups. Chauffeur service – book a car with a driver. Renting your own vehicle via ReachNow.

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“Inspiring Female Founder” – Jordan Brompton spotlighted in The Successful Founder

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As CMO, I’m responsible for overseeing the daily operations of the sales and marketing divisions, driving business growth and spearheading corporate collaborations. Rather than undertaking years of market research and spending millions of dollars on focus groups, we went on Google. How did the idea come to you for the company?

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