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The Innovator's Cunundrum

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. -- FT Lex, July 29, 2020 Socioeconomic systems in transition are impossible to navigate. Plenty of people bet and lost - in many cases quite tragically - during the 1918 Russian revolution, the great depression that began in 1929, the 2008 financial crisis, as well as in many other transitions in between.

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Customer Conversations - How Intuit and Edmodo Innovate using.

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Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Customer Conversations - How Intuit and Edmodo Innovate using Amazon RDS. From tax preparation to safe social networks, Amazon RDS brings new and innovative applications to the cloud. Whats unique and innovative about your service? Comments ().

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Understanding Bitcoin’s Impact on Self-governing Quark Fusion Reactors

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In the 21st century, two groundbreaking innovations have captured the world’s imagination: Bitcoin, a decentralized digital currency, and quark fusion reactors, representing the future of energy. Such reactors would leverage advanced AI and monitoring systems, reducing human intervention. At first glance, they may seem unrelated.

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Expanding the Cloud – An AWS Region is coming to Hong Kong

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In 2008, AWS opened a point of presence (PoP) in Hong Kong to enable customers to serve content to their end users with low latency. These companies include Cathay Pacific, CLSA, HSBC, Gibson Innovations, Kerry Logistics, Ocean Park, Next Digital, and TownGas. Since then, AWS has added two more PoPs in Hong Kong, the latest in 2016.

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COVID-19 Triggered the Turning Point

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The end of the Turning Point marks the start of the Deployment Period , when the production capital of that age’s innovators starts taking over, and new lifestyles create demand for new products and services, new jobs and new skills. . These cycles and bubbles of innovation happen every several decades.

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Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers - All Things Distributed

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Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Managing databases has been a stumbling block for many of our customers, shifting their time away from developing innovative applications to the â??muckâ?? All Things Distributed. Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers. Comments (). Amazon RDS for SQL Server.

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Zombie Businesses

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Revenues plummeted at the end of 2008. This prevented companies from losing employees with systemic knowledge of the business and intimate knowledge of customers. The people who got salary bumps in the boom years from 2006 through 2008 became "high-salary outliers" in 2009. Companies retrenched by laying people off.