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Israel Ramps ­p Its Cyberdefense Training
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Israel Ramps ­p Its Cyberdefense Training

Twice a week about 200 Israeli high school students in seven separate locations meet after school for six hours of extra classes.

Carly Fiorina on Marissa, Sheryl, and Women in Tech
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Carly Fiorina on Marissa, Sheryl, and Women in Tech

Before Marissa Mayer and Sheryl Sandberg became the faces of female leadership in Silicon Valley, there was Carly Fiorina.

For Ibm, Africa Is Risky and Rife With Opportunity
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For Ibm, Africa Is Risky and Rife With Opportunity

Tony Mwai moved back to his homeland of Kenya in 2009 to run IBM's East Africa operations, about 20 years after joining the company in New York.

Capcom Says Better Smartphones Raise Game-Development Costs
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Capcom Says Better Smartphones Raise Game-Development Costs

Capcom Co., the creator of the "Resident Evil" and "Street Fighter" video games, said improvements in smartphones are making it more expensive to develop games.

Hp Ceo Whitman Dubs Windows 8 a Work in Progress
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Hp Ceo Whitman Dubs Windows 8 a Work in Progress

There are plenty of Meg Whitman doubters out there. Some say the former EBay chief executive officer doesn't have the requisite big company experience to run a...

The Rise of the Corporate Sustainability Officer
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The Rise of the Corporate Sustainability Officer

Americans are discarding a growing pile of electronics.

Calculating a College Degree's True Value
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Calculating a College Degree's True Value

How much is a college diploma actually worth? The perennial question asked by every former English, philosophy, and art history major now has an answer in some...

Color-Sensing Toasters? A Student Reimagines the Home
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Color-Sensing Toasters? A Student Reimagines the Home

At 21, Basheer Tome has a rather well-defined notion of what he thinks the world needs: clever, useful, beautiful objects that elevate our homes well and truly...

Moocs Boost Online Public Health Education
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Moocs Boost Online Public Health Education

In the past four months, more than 222,000 students have enrolled in eight Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health...

Job Recruiters Turn to Linkedin, Social Media Startups
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Job Recruiters Turn to Linkedin, Social Media Startups

In his more than 15 years as a headhunter, Jeff Vijungco has tried Monster, Craigslist, CareerBuilder, and other online job boards. Lately the head of recruitment...

Tim Cook's Freshman Year: The Apple Ceo Speaks
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Tim Cook's Freshman Year: The Apple Ceo Speaks

Prior to his death on Oct. 5, 2011, Steve Jobs made sure that the elevation of Tim Cook—his longtime head of operations and trusted deputy—to Apple chief executive...

China: For Many Expats, It's Not Worth It
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China: For Many Expats, It's Not Worth It

Stay or go? That question has erupted in a public way among China's large population of expatriate businessmen, entrepreneurs, journalists, and academics, who the...

Would German-Style Apprenticeships Work in the ­.s.?
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Would German-Style Apprenticeships Work in the ­.s.?

In a world of high youth unemployment, where the supply of skilled labor often fails to match employer demand, Germany believes help can be found in its Dual Vocational...

H-1B Visas Hit the Cap, Sending Companies to Plan B
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H-1B Visas Hit the Cap, Sending Companies to Plan B

For Silicon Valley, a day of ritual disappointment came on June 12: The U.S. announced that the slots for 2013 H-1B visas had all been filled.

The Rise of the 'brogrammer'
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The Rise of the 'brogrammer'

Danilo Stern-Sapad writes code for a living, but don't call him a geek.

Microsoft's Design Drive
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Microsoft's Design Drive

 In 2010, Jon Bell was an interaction designer in the Seattle office of Frog Design, the company that created the beige cases for some of the iconic early Apple...

Reentry: From Nasa to Entrepreneurship
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Reentry: From Nasa to Entrepreneurship

During his five years as NASA’s chief technology officer for IT, Chris Kemp helped make millions of NASA’s images—such as rover tracks on Mars and lunar craters—available...

The Education of Google's Larry Page
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The Education of Google's Larry Page

Larry Page is surrounded.

It's a Man vs. Machine Recovery
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It's a Man vs. Machine Recovery

The U.S. produces almost one-quarter more goods and services today than it did in 1999, while using almost precisely the same number of workers.

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Retailers Are Losing the Software Talent Wars

For a decade, Target outsourced its website operations to Amazon.com. The Minneapolis retail giant began preparing two years ago to take control of the site when...
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