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Apple is making a big expansion into Seattle, with plans to put 2,000 employees in two towers blocks away from Amazon’s HQ (AAPL)

Published: 25/06/2019

Apple announced its expansion in Seattle to a 650,000-square-foot office space by the end of 2019. Apple will increase its presence in Seattle to 2,000 employees over the next five years. This is doub ... Read more

Source: www.businessinsider.com
Bill Gates reveals why Warren Buffett was an invaluable source of support during the stormiest period of his career (MSFT)

Published: 24/06/2019

Bill Gates recently sat down for an interview at an event hosted by venture capital firm Village Global. In the interview, Gates credited fellow billionaire Warren Buffett as one of the people who has ... Read more

Source: www.businessinsider.com
Stripe CEO Patrick Collison announced his engagement over the weekend with a geeky joke on Twitter

Published: 24/06/2019

Stripe CEO Patrick Collison got engaged this weekend, and he announced it on Twitter Sunday with an industry joke. "Hit our engagement metrics this weekend! " Collison wrote on Twitter, with well-wish ... Read more

Source: www.businessinsider.com

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory network was hacked by targeting a Raspberry Pi that wasn't supposed to be connected to it

Published: 23/06/2019

An Office of the Inspector General report says that a hacker accessed the network of NASA 's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA in April 2018 by targeting an unauthorized Raspberry Pi , a ... Read more

Source: www.businessinsider.com
Here's the pitch deck a German software startup used to raise $10 million to move to San Francisco and take on Oracle

Published: 23/06/2019

ArangoDB offers a new kind of database software, one that supports different kinds of databases. What really makes it stand out, though, is that users of its software can search across the different k ... Read more

Source: www.businessinsider.com
Larry Ellison explains Oracle's restructuring and layoffs: Some of our business units are 'melting away' and 'we just don't care' (ORCL)

Published: 22/06/2019

Oracle has been conducting rolling layoffs worldwide since March, impacting all sorts of units, including its all-important cloud divisions. On Wednesday, Oracle founder, chairman and CTO Larry Elliso ... Read more

Source: www.businessinsider.com

Slack has made chat hot. But here's why Google's Gmail product boss says chat is going to be swallowed up by email. (GOOG, GOOGL, WORK)

Published: 22/06/2019

With Slack going public this week, Business Insider recently sat down with Jacob Bank, Gmail's director of product management, to learn more about Google's enterprise chat strategy. Bank said an impo ... Read more

Source: www.businessinsider.com
Google engineer, drag queen, coding teacher: Meet Anna Lytical, a YouTube star teaching HTML and making programming more inclusive

Published: 22/06/2019

"Anna Lytical," the drag queen persona of Google engineer Billy Jacobson, has a YouTube channel teaching beginners how to code. The aim of the channel is to make coding inclusive: "If we do not take ... Read more

Source: www.businessinsider.com
There's a fun Easter egg hidden inside Google Sheets that turns your spreadsheet rainbow in honor of Pride Month

Published: 22/06/2019

Google is a huge fan of hiding games and tricks, called Easter eggs , in its services. In honor of Pride Month , Google Sheets contains a special Easter egg that turns your spreadsheet into a colorful ... Read more

Source: www.businessinsider.com

Here are 6 female executives that show why the claim that male-dominated boards can’t find qualified women candidates is totally bogus

Published: 22/06/2019

Women are making marginal gains in landing board seats but continue to lag behind men in this important business position , according to theBoardlist, a network that helps connect startups with qualif ... Read more

Source: www.businessinsider.com
Getting your corporate data ready for prescriptive analytics: data quantity and quality in equal measures

Published: 21/06/2019

Good news: there's nothing special about getting your data ready for prescriptive analytics. Bad news: you need to do what's needed to get your data ready for any type of analytics - and that's hard w ... Read more

Source: www.zdnet.com
3 out of 4 mobile apps downloaded by consumers last year have vulnerabilities that could let hackers steal your passwords and other sensitive data

Published: 21/06/2019

A major chunk of the mobile apps we use have security weaknesses that can allow hackers to steal sensitive data , like passwords, financial information, personal data, and correspondence, according to ... Read more

Source: www.businessinsider.com

Qualcomm Ventures is hosting its first-ever pitch event for startups with female founders, with a $500,000 prize on the line (QCOM)

Published: 21/06/2019

On July 10, Qualcomm Ventures will host the Female Founder Summit, an event in San Francisco where 10 startups with female founders will pitch to a panel of judges. The winning startup will receive a ... Read more

Source: www.businessinsider.com
Slack had a great day! But if you actually look at the numbers, its business is incredibly overhyped. (WORK)

Published: 21/06/2019

Slack's debut on the public markets Thursday drew in investors who gave the company a valuation of more than $19 billion. The company could find it tough to live up to the expectations implied ... Read more

Source: www.businessinsider.com
UiPath CFO explains how managing the HP split and teaching herself to build bots led her to the $7.1 billion startup

Published: 21/06/2019

In January, Marie Myers became the CFO of robotic process automation startup UiPath , which is now worth $7.1 billion . Myers first learned of UiPath when she was managing the finances of Hewlett-Pack ... Read more

Source: www.businessinsider.com

Oracle spent $36 billion in one year buying its own stock back, and it raises some uncomfortable questions about how it’s spending its cash (ORCL)

Published: 21/06/2019

One of the oldest tricks in the book to keep investors happy when a company is going through a major transition is the stock buyback. Oracle has adopted this tactic with gusto in 2019. Big buybacks of ... Read more

Source: www.businessinsider.com
Inside Slack's direct listing: Here's what actually went down between the tech company and its Wall Street advisers

Published: 20/06/2019

Slack, which started publicly trading on Thursday, is the second large tech company to go public in a direct listing, an offering process that throws the traditional IPO on its head. Slack hired 10 di ... Read more

Source: www.businessinsider.com
Slack, the newly-public chat app worth about $20 billion, has a hidden meaning behind its name (WORK)

Published: 20/06/2019

Slack debuted Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker "WORK." Trading early Thursday saw the company's stock up over 50% from its reference price $26 per share. That values the compa ... Read more

Source: www.businessinsider.com

Slack stock is surging more than 50% on its first day trading in an unusual 'direct listing' (WORK)

Published: 20/06/2019

Shares of Slack began trading on Thursday more than 50% above the "reference price" it had set for its shares in an unusual "directly listing." The workplace chap app bypassed the traditional I ... Read more

Source: markets.businessinsider.com
Oracle is on pace for a record high after spiking on strong earnings (ORCL)

Published: 20/06/2019

Oracle climbed as much as 8% on Thursday morning after the firm reported better-than-expected earnings for the fourth quarter. The cloud and database company is set to open at a record high, whi ... Read more

Source: markets.businessinsider.com
MBAS 2019 On-Demand Featured Sessions: Power BI Roadmap and Vision

Published: 20/06/2019

The Microsoft Business Application Summit is behind us but that doesn’t mean there’s a lot of content we can share with the community. We recorded almost every session on site, and we made them availa ... Read more

Source: powerbi.microsoft.com

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Apple is making a big expansion into Seattle, with plans to put 2,000 employees in two towers blocks away from Amazon’s HQ (AAPL)

Bill Gates reveals why Warren Buffett was an invaluable source of support during the stormiest period of his career (MSFT)

Stripe CEO Patrick Collison announced his engagement over the weekend with a geeky joke on Twitter

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory network was hacked by targeting a Raspberry Pi that wasn't supposed to be connected to it

Here's the pitch deck a German software startup used to raise $10 million to move to San Francisco and take on Oracle

Larry Ellison explains Oracle's restructuring and layoffs: Some of our business units are 'melting away' and 'we just don't care' (ORCL)

Slack has made chat hot. But here's why Google's Gmail product boss says chat is going to be swallowed up by email. (GOOG, GOOGL, WORK)

Google engineer, drag queen, coding teacher: Meet Anna Lytical, a YouTube star teaching HTML and making programming more inclusive

There's a fun Easter egg hidden inside Google Sheets that turns your spreadsheet rainbow in honor of Pride Month

Here are 6 female executives that show why the claim that male-dominated boards can’t find qualified women candidates is totally bogus

Getting your corporate data ready for prescriptive analytics: data quantity and quality in equal measures

3 out of 4 mobile apps downloaded by consumers last year have vulnerabilities that could let hackers steal your passwords and other sensitive data

Qualcomm Ventures is hosting its first-ever pitch event for startups with female founders, with a $500,000 prize on the line (QCOM)

Slack had a great day! But if you actually look at the numbers, its business is incredibly overhyped. (WORK)

UiPath CFO explains how managing the HP split and teaching herself to build bots led her to the $7.1 billion startup

Oracle spent $36 billion in one year buying its own stock back, and it raises some uncomfortable questions about how it’s spending its cash (ORCL)

Inside Slack's direct listing: Here's what actually went down between the tech company and its Wall Street advisers

Slack, the newly-public chat app worth about $20 billion, has a hidden meaning behind its name (WORK)

Slack stock is surging more than 50% on its first day trading in an unusual 'direct listing' (WORK)

Oracle is on pace for a record high after spiking on strong earnings (ORCL)

MBAS 2019 On-Demand Featured Sessions: Power BI Roadmap and Vision

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