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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

Patents—exclusive, government-granted rights intended to encourage innovation—protect pharmaceutical companies from competition and allow them to charge high prices. They are a price that we pay for a rising tide of innovation. What Is Economic Rent? For example, consider drug pricing. But not all rents represent abuse of power.

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Game changing — From zero to Autonomous Cloud Management today

Dynatrace

ACM is the culmination of our best practices and learning that we share every day with our customers to help them automate their enterprise, innovate faster, and deliver better business ROI. Market disruptions spark innovation and radical change. Embracing disruption and sparking innovation — the new way.

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Embark on a journey towards Autonomous Cloud Management with Dynatrace

Dynatrace

At Dynatrace, we went through such a transformation ourselves, back in 2011 when we saw the need to create a new platform that was purpose-built for these dynamic, cloud-native IT environments. When you make a change, make sure you have deployed AND tested your remediation strategy in case a fire breaks out. The Dynatrace journey.

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Driving Bandwidth Cost Down for AWS Customers. - All Things.

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 29 June 2011 09:55 AM. Often we think about innovation as going after new unchartered territories, but it is also important to innovate in those existing dimensions that will remain important for customers. Often customers are surprised about our strategy to help them drive their costs down.

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Tasktop’s Bookshelf

Tasktop

The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses. Published back in 2011, this has become an industry classic and is definitely required reading. For more information, visit: [link]. Author: Eric Ries. For more information, visit: [link]. Authors: Eliyahu M.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

Originally a punk hacker , Billy first worked as a web security researcher, innovating new ways to both attack and defend web applications. Earlier, he was the CEO and co-founder of Polar ( acquired by Google in 2014 ) and the Chief Product Officer and Co-Founder of Bagcheck ( acquired by Twitter in 2011 ).

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Sprint's Marathon

The Agile Manager

Which brings up Sprint in 2011. Perhaps Messers Elop and Ballmer do a deal with Sprint because they believe networks are integral to their "3rd platform" strategy. Data hungry devices should perform fast and reliably on WiMAX. As a means of getting customers hooked, that alone might be attractive to platform and hardware providers.