First White House Chief Technology Officer, Aneesh Chopra, steps down
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He was appointed with a fair bit of fanfare as the United States' first Chief Technology Officer back in May of 2009, but it looks like Aneesh Chopra has decided that it's now time to make room for the nation's second CTO. The White House confirmed today that Chopra is...
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The Future Of Advertising Is Facial Recognition
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If Rana el Kaliouby has her way, you will never have to channel surf again. Affectiva, the company that el Kaliouby founded with MIT colleague Rosalind Picard, develops technology that reads minute facial expressions to measure emotion. A television equipped with a webcam and Affectiva's technology could determine which shows you...
Dysonics launches Kickstarter to fund its first wireless motion sensor for headphones
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Audio tech startup Dysonics has launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign to fund Rondo Motion, the first wireless motion sensor for audio headphones. Rondo Motion uses a motion-sensing module that detects the movement of your head. If you turn your head in one direction, Rondo Motion modifies the sound in...
Former Google executive joins Square
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Francoise Brougher, former vice president of SMB global sales and operations at Google, has joined Square as business lead to aid in the company’s growth operations. Brougher, who spent eight years at Google, was most recently entrusted with leading global teams in charge of acquiring, growing, and retaining small...
Sponsored post: Hadoop and the data warehouse: when to use which
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Teradata will bring together two of the most trusted experts in their fields to examine how big data technologies are being used today by practical big data practitioners… About the speakers: Eric Baldeschwieler (aka “E14”), CTO and founder of Hortonworks, and Hadoop luminary will provide perspective on the role of...
Hearsay Social Brings Its Social Media Tools To Europe With New London Office
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Hearsay Social, a Sequoia- and NEA-backed company that helps large organizations manage their social media presence across local branches and sales teams, is announcing that it has opened an office in London. Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Steve Garrity said is the first step in the company’s European expansion. The...
Obama's former tech chief now developing a mobile commerce app
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Harper Reed, the chief technology officer behind the successful 2012 Obama reelection campaign, is presently working on a new mobile commerce app. Speaking at the NEXT13 startup conference in Berlin today, Reed bemoaned the current state of mobile payments — pointing out, among other things, how anachronistic the shopping...
Change.org and U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services join HealthBeat 2013 roster
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HealthBeat 2013 — May 20-21 in San Francisco — is putting the long-established and respected giants of the health care world on stage with CEOs of Silicon Valley’s most disruptive health technology companies. Together, they’ll debate how IT can drive out inefficiencies on the hospital, practice, and patient levels. They’ll...
Huawei: US market no longer focus for its carrier business
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After facing a congressional battering over security concerns, Huawei's carrier networking group is no longer focused on the U.S. market, and instead expects to find ample business in other parts of the world."Apparently, due to whatever the geopolitical reasons, we are not focusing on the U.S. market," said Li...
Ben Finkel revealed as CTO of Jelly, a mystery mobile-first product from Twitter co-founder Biz Stone
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Ben Finkel has been revealed as the co-founder of a mysterious tech start-up called Jelly, which was formally unveiled by Christopher Isaac “Biz” Stone earlier this month. Stone says that the pair drew up the idea while walking through the Yerba Buena Park in San Francisco, presumably while they were...
Ben Finkel revealed as CTO of Jelly, a mystery mobile-first product from Twitter co-founder Biz Stone
Encouraging Female Engineers Is Key To Facebook's Recruitment Strategy
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Facebook Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer and Director of Engineering Jocelyn Goldfein spoke at the she++ conference today, making Facebook by far the most represented company at the Stanford conference. Their public remarks and comments shed light on Facebook’s aggressive strategy to recruit talented engineers to join their “deep bench”...
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