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GeeRemit App Moves Money and Saves It Too

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For a fee, people send money to friends and family, pay bills, and buy groceries using a mobile wallet app. magazine included her on its 2020 Top 100 Female Founders list. The issue with a money-transfer protocol is that it needs to be fast and low-cost. For her development of geeRemit, Inc.

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

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The time was right because of the imminence of three hardware developments: the first low-cost, bit-mapped personal computer, the first low-cost laser printer, and a decline in price of high-density memory chips. Jobs had been facing a similar problem. Interpress, the page description language from Xerox Corp.’s

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Flight Simulator Gave Birth to 3D Video-Game Graphics

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In 1977, he wrote an article for Kilobaud: The Small Computer Magazine describing the “Sublogic Three-Dimensional Micrographics Package” he had created, which brought 3D to microcomputers outfitted with the popular Motorola 6800 microprocessor. “I Flight Simulator ’s first decade on the market was a time of smooth ascent.

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Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers’ Story

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make a low-cost “appliance”-type computer that would be as easy to use as a toaster. Whenever a competitor came out with a product, we would buy and dismantle it, and it would kick around the office.” It’s like buying a brand-new car complete with a chauffeur who insists on driving everywhere.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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This is the monthly flea market at Foothill College, and he rarely misses it. Engineering people tend to have a very haughty attitude toward marketing, but I discovered you learn a tremendous amount if you keep your eyes and ears open in the field.” Hoff said his toughest sell was to the Intel marketing department. Ted) Hoff Jr.

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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Despite complaints about quality control and the industry’s slowest disk drive, the Commodore 64 has been an unparalleled success, pushing a number of its competitors out of the market. The original intent had been a game machine, but at this point the personal-computer market was beginning to look promising.

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

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News | Markets | Technology | Personal Finance | Small Business | CNN.com RSS Newsletters Video Home Fortune 500 Technology Investing Management Rankings Warren Buffett takes charge Warren Buffett hasnt just seen the car of the future, hes sitting in the drivers seat. The E6 will hit the Chinese market later this year.

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