Dave Jaggar & The History of ARM Microprocessors (video)

Dave Jaggar: "A History of ARM Microprocessor and it's Rise and Fall"

A "Talks at Google" video published Jun 20, 2019,: Dave Jaggar discusses his inspiring career that led to the ARM architecture which effectively powers the digital world, being the reason that your phone is small and doesn't burn a hole in your pocket. Moderator: Raymond Blum. Transcript (auto-generated, unedited).

In the late 1980’s Acorn, a British one-hit-wonder computer company, faced imminent extinction, with its only assets being 18 months of life support rations and perhaps the worst microprocessor ever designed. What they did right was to hire Dave Jaggar, with the ink still wet on his master's thesis.  Over eight years Dave systematically defined the entire ARM architecture, enabling  it to be a popular embedded controller for the digital revolution, with around 100 billion units shipped.  As ARM’s Head of Architecture Design, Dave authored the ARM Architectural Reference Manual and is the Founding Director of the ARM Austin Design Center. More on ARM architecture.

ARM Holdings is a British multinational semiconductor and software design company, owned by SoftBank Group and its Vision Fund. Processors based on designs licensed from ARM, or designed by licensees of one of the ARM instruction set architectures, are used in all classes of computing devices (including in space). ARM is viewed as the most important chip design infrastructure provider in the world as its microchips go into more than 90% of world’s mobile devices.

On June 22, 2019, SoftBank Group Corp. founder Masayoshi Son said he wants to  re-list ARM Holdings Plc as a publicly traded company within the next five years (the British chipmaker was acquired for $32 billion in 2016):

"I don’t know which market it will be, but ARM will be preparing for IPO within the next five years. Arm management is all excited about it. We are excited"--SoftBank’s founding Chairman and CEO Son, June 22, 2019.

Arm Limited a/k/a Arm Holdings: 

• Number of employees: about 6,250 (2018)
• Owner: SoftBank Group 75%; Vision Fund 25%
• Headquarters: Cambridge, England, UK
• Domain: arm.com

Jaggar's book: Arm Architecture Reference Manual
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SAP CEO Bill McDermott On The Alibaba $BABA Cloud Deal (video)

SAP CEO on the Company's Cloud Deal with Alibaba

Bill McDermott of SAP says China is a "massively important market" for SAP. CNBC video above published Oct 12, 2018. See also: SAP on Alibaba Cloud Solution | alibabacloud.com.

SAP SE is a German-based European multinational software corporation that makes enterprise software to manage enterprise resources, business operations and customer relations. SAP is headquartered in Walldorf, Baden-Württemberg, Germany with regional offices in 180 countries.

$SAP

• Stock: NYSE: SAP
• Principal domain: sap.com
• Twitter: @SAP
• CEO: Bill McDermott (May 21, 2014–)
• Revenue: 23.46 billion EUR (2017)

William R. "Bill" McDermott is an American businessman and the CEO of the technology company SAP SE. During his tenure as co-CEO and CEO, SAP's market value has increased from $39 billion to $144.7 billion.
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High-Tech Farming, Growing Kale in a Factory (video)

This High-Tech Farmer Grows Kale in a Factory

In the kale-filled facility at vertical farm startup Bowery Farming, it’s a piece of proprietary software that makes most of the critical decisions -- like when to harvest and how much to water each plant. But it still takes humans to carry out many tasks around the farm. Katie Morich, 25, loves the work. But as roboticists make gains, will her employer need her forever? Bloomberg.com video published Sep 20, 2018.

At Bowery, we're committed to growing the purest produce possible. To us, that means using zero pesticides and non-GMO seeds. We distribute our greens locally and control the entire process from seed to store.

Editor's note: the marriage of agriculture and technology is an evolving story. Bowery Farming's focus on fresh produce involves locally grown produce with consistent quality control and production management in order to serve as a trusted, reliable source to its customers and consumers.

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IBM $IBM Q2 2018 Earnings LIVE Webcast, July 18, 5pm EDT

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The International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is an American multinational technology company, founded in 1911, headquartered in Armonk, New York (US), with operations in over 170 countries.

About IBM:

• IBM received a record-breaking 9,043 U.S patents in 2017, including 1,400+ artificial intelligence and 1,900+ cloud technology patents.
• 50% of the world's telecommunications IT infrastructure is managed by IBM Services.
• 87% of all credit card transactions and almost $8 trillion in payments are supported by IBM Z systems.
• Business focus: cloud computing, AI, software and services.
• $6.28 annualized payout has 18 years of dividend growth and a dividend yield of 4.52%. Valuation is "dirt cheap," and the dividend yield is at a 24-year high.--SeekingAlpha.com

IBM is the preferred IT provider for:

• 92 of the world's largest 100 banks
• 10 out of 10 of the world's largest insurers
• 8 out of 10 of the world's largest airlines
• 9 of the world's largest retailers

Principal domain: IBM.com.  Stock exchange: symbol || NYSE: IBM

Q2 2018 Earnings | ibm.com/investor/  Date/time: 18 July 2018,  5pm  EDT

Link to IBM's 2Q18 Earnings webcast

Q2 2018 highlights:

2Q18 press release (pdf, 88 KB) and 2Q18 charts (pdf, 263 KB) (embed below)

source: Statista.com

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Brynne Kennedy, CEO of Topia, Global Mobility Solutions (video)

Brynne Kennedy, CEO of Topia

Stanford Graduate School of Business video above published May 24, 2018: Topia (domain: topia.com) is a global mobility solution company that supports mobile employees around the world to help address the changing future of work, said Topia CEO Brynne Kennedy. The company is working with their customers to figure out out how to support employees given new technologies that are enabling an increasingly global workforce. "Teams need to form and un-form across borders quickly and repeatedly, and that situation is growing dramatically." During her visit to the Systems Leadership class on May 15, 2018, Kennedy discussed with Lecturer Robert Siegel how Topia will become strategic in helping companies manage their global teams and how Topia's software can be the infrastructure that helps manage this labor transformation.

Topia (formerly MOVE Guides and Polaris) provides global mobility management solutions to move and manage talent, enabling them to work everywhere. Headquarters: London & San Francisco
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Ganesh Bell, President, Uptake, Digital Industrial Transformation (video)

Ganesh Bell, President, Uptake

Stanford Graduate School of Business video above published May 24, 2018: Uptake (domain: uptake.com) is supplying software for the infrastructure that powers the world, said Uptake President, Ganesh Bell. The company is shaping a whole new technical stack for the digital industrial transformation. "Industrial companies previously operated with data that was predicated on physics-based analytics. But now machine learning and cloud technologies can really provide truly predictive analytics in ways which previously could not be done." During his visit to the Systems Leadership class on May 17, 2018, Bell discussed with Lecturer Robert Siegel how Uptake is developing software to work with industrial companies to deliver better customer outcomes.

Uptake.com, Chicago, IL
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GDPR: What Is It and How Might It Affect You? (video and podcast)

GDPR: What Is It and How Might It Affect You?

Wall Street Journal (wsj.com) video above published May 21, 2018: The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation on data privacy will come into force on May 25, 2018. This video explains how it could affect you, even if you don't live in the EU.

a16z Podcast: What to Know about GDPR with Lisa Hawke and Steven Sinofsky


"Given concern around data breaches, the EU Parliament finally passed GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) after four years of preparation and debate; it goes into enforcement on May 25, 2018. Though it originated in Europe, GDPR is a form of long-arm jurisdiction that affects many U.S. companies -- including most software startups, because data collection and user privacy touch so much of what they do.

"With EU regulators focusing most on transparency, GDPR affects everything from user interface design to engineering to legal contracts and more. That's why it's really about "privacy by design", argues former environmental scientist and lawyer Lisa Hawke, who spent most of her career in regulatory compliance in the oil industry and is now Vice President of Security and Compliance at a16z portfolio company Everlaw.com (she also serves as Vice Chair for Women in Security and Privacy). And it's also why, observes a16z board partner Steven Sinofsky, everyone -- from founders to product managers to engineers and others -- should think about privacy and data regulations (like GDPR, HIPAA, etc.) as a culture... not just as "compliance".

 "The two break down the basics all about GDPR in this episode of the a16z Podcast -- the why, the what, the how, the who -- including the easy things startups can immediately do, and on their own. In fact, GDPR may give startups an edge over bigger companies and open up opportunities, argue Hawke and Sinofsky; even with fewer resources, startups have more organizational flexibility, if they're willing to put in the work."--source Andreessen Horowitz

Links mentioned in this podcast and other resources:

• a16z.com GDPR resources 

• GDPR compliance doc — Everlaw open-sourced this Google Spreadsheet tool, which combines documentation for GDPR Article 30: Records of processing activities; Article 32: Security of processing; and Article 35: Data protection impact assessment into one workbook (including a place to document Article 15: Right of access by the data subject)
• “Privacy by Design” foundational principles — by Ann Cavoukian, Ph.D., Information & Privacy Commissioner, Ontario, Canada
• Privacy and Security by Design: An Enterprise Architecture Approach — by Ann Cavoukian and Mark Dixon (Oracle)
• General Data Protection Regulation — a Stripe guide by Sára Gabriella Hoffman

• Be Prepared for the GDPR — Twilio whitepaper

• GDPR Resource Library | CarpeDatumLaw.com

Open-Sourcing our GDPR Compliance Preparation For Articles 30, 32, and 35 https://t.co/Om25wyhd4w

— Hacker News (@newsycombinator) May 19, 2018

Tech, finance and energy cos lead the pack preparing for GDPR-compliance pre-May 25 via @mcdermottlaw @legaltech_news https://t.co/CBH8nKzWR2 pic.twitter.com/EPbSSt9rAN

— Everlaw (@everlaw) May 4, 2018

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Google I/O 2018, May 8-10, Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View

A look back: Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s I/O 2017 keynote

Video above published May 17, 2017: Google CEO Sundar Pichai hosted his second Google I/O as the company’s CEO. He and other Googlers announced several new “AI first” products and features, including Google Lens, Smart Reply for Gmail and Google Assistant for iPhone.

Google I/O 2018

Google I/O 2018, May 8-10, Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, California

Website: Google I/O 2018 | google.com

Google Keynote at #io18 on Tuesday, May 8: 10-11:30 am PDT: Learn about the latest product and platform innovations at Google in a Keynote led by Google CEO Sundar Pichai.

Developer Keynote on Tuesday, May 8: 12:45PM - 1:45PM PDT: Learn about the latest updates to developer products and platforms at Google in a Keynote led by Jason Titus, Vice President for the Developer Product Group at Google.

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Cloudera $CLDR Cloud Technology "Could Lead To Explosive Growth"

Cloudera, Inc.
Domain: cloudera.com
Stock exchange: symbol NYSE: CLDR

See: Cloudera: Cloud Technology Could Lead To Explosive Growth - Cloudera, Inc. (NYSE:CLDR) | SeekingAlpha.com: "CLDR now has more than 50 large enterprise customers with annual recurring revenue in excess of $1 million, collectively contributing to roughly half of the company's subscription software revenue."
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Smartphone Maker Xiaomi Seeking A $50 Billion IPO Valuation (video)

Xiaomi Said to Seek $50 Billion IPO Valuation

Xiaomi is in talks with investment banks about a possible initial public offering (IPO) and seeking a valuation of at least $50 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. Bloomberg's Selina Wang has more on "Bloomberg Technology" on Dec 4, 2017.

Xiaomi Inc. a/k/a Mi, is a privately owned Chinese electronics and software company headquartered in Beijing. It is the world's 5th largest smartphone maker in 2017. Twitter handle: @xiaomi. Domain: mi.com.

"We are passionate about being the most user-centric Mobile Internet company, creating innovation that everyone can enjoy."

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Of the many key features of #MiRobot, which of these is your favorite?
A. Self-balancing system
B. Wireless smartphone control
C. Modular graphic programming pic.twitter.com/AaS6dAeiiU

— Xiaomi USA (@XiaomiUSA) November 30, 2017

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2017 Hurricane Season LIVE Feeds, Satellite Views, Weather App MyRadar

UPDATE 2018: go to 2018 Atlantic Hurricane Season Outlook & Updates.

See also: 

• National Hurricane Center | nhc.noaa.gov and weather.gov

Satellite imagery: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/

• Hurricanes | Ready.gov: explains what actions to take when you receive a hurricane watch or warning alert from the National Weather Service for your local area, and also provides tips on what to do before, during, and after a hurricane.
• Early-season storms one indicator of active Atlantic hurricane season ahead | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | noaa.gov

• Google Crisis Map and also here.

NOAA (NWS & NHC) symbols:
D: Tropical Depression – wind speed less than 39 MPH
S: Tropical Storm – wind speed between 39 MPH and 73 MPH
H: Hurricane – wind speed between 74 MPH and 110 MPH
M: Major Hurricane – wind speed greater than 110 MPH

Info on Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale (see info at the end of this post)

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MyRadar | Hi-Def Mobile Radar | myradar.com: "The World's Most Popular Weather Radar App -- Over 25 million downloads" -- The weather app dominating the field of aviation with over 26 million downloads says thenextweb.com -- ACME AtronOmatic | acmeaom.com: "ACME AtronOMatic is a leading software application development company, with offices in Orlando, Florida, and Portland, Oregon. Since our inception in 1999, we've been developing applications that run the gamut from aviation-related web sites, providing flight tracking services to the aviation community, and to mobile applications such as MyRadar, a wildly-popular hi-tech, hi-resolution weather radar application for all of the popular mobile devices."
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Revised 2017 Atlantic Hurricane Season Outlook:

2017 Hurricane Season

Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale
The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale is a 1 to 5 rating based on a hurricane's sustained wind speed. This scale estimates potential property damage. Hurricanes reaching Category 3 and higher are considered major hurricanes because of their potential for significant loss of life and damage. Category 1 and 2 storms are still dangerous, however, and require preventative measures. In the western North Pacific, the term "super typhoon" is used for tropical cyclones with sustained winds exceeding 150 mph. source: National Hurricane Center, Miami

The End of Hurricane Maria - the final NWS NHC Advisory Sep 30, 2017

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Ex-Goldman Sachs Tech Exec Paul Walker Joins OpenFin Board

OpenFin: A Secure HTML5 Container for finance

Video above published Dec 8, 2015: OpenFin is the Leading Provider of HTML5 Container Technology for the Global Financial Industry. Built on Google Chromium and tailored for financial firms, OpenFin is a powerful HTML5 engine that enables seamless desktop deployment, native experience and application interoperability. The world’s largest financial institutions and trading platforms use OpenFin’s patented technology to deploy applications both in-house and to over 250 buy-side and 40 sell-side customers.

OpenFin-- "A Common Operating Layer for Financial Desktop Apps"--OpenFin software allows banks and hedge funds to create and upgrade trading applications quickly. OpenFin is used by 40 of the world's largest banks and trading platforms, currently powering applications on 125,000 desktops. The company has raised $22 million in capital, including a $15 million venture capital second round in February, led JPMorgan, Bain Capital Ventures and Euclid Opportunities. See also Ex-Goldman Sachs tech executive Walker joins OpenFin board | Reuters.com: "What got me excited about OpenFin is how they're making technology work across our industry to increase security and speed."--Paul Walker

Domain: OpenFin.co

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BSA Trade Agenda: Modernizing Digital Trade, NAFTA & Beyond

Modernizing Trade for NAFTA and Beyond | bsa.org (The Software Alliance)--BSA.org’s digital trade agenda is intended to create a modern trade agreement that recognizes the enormous impact software has on the US economy. BSA sent a letter (embed below) to the Trump Administration outlining these trade priorities and emphasizing digital trade’s role as an engine of growth for the American economy in the coming decades.

The full agenda:

We released our digital trade agenda, outlining priorities for the Administration's modern #trade agreements: https://t.co/Pio7rarusU #NAFTA pic.twitter.com/OkoGJILvEG

— BSA (@BSAnews) May 23, 2017

We need to modernize #trade for the 21st century - #NAFTA is the place to start. @BSAnews outlines our priorities: https://t.co/GnbNkbQCHP pic.twitter.com/yEzxnR5Qbo

— Victoria Espinel (@victoriaespinel) May 23, 2017

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See also: software.org -- BSA Foundation

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Nolan Bushnell Keynote: The Future of Technology (video)

Keynote "The Future of Technology", Nolan Bushnell

CeBIT Global Conferences - 23 March 2017: Keynote "The Future of Technology" / Nolan Bushnell, Founder Atari & Father of the video game industry 

Interview with Nolan Bushnell

Published on Mar 23, 2017: Nolan Bushnell is a technology pioneer, entrepreneur, engineer and published author. He is best known as the founder of Atari Corporation and Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theater. Often cited as the Father of the video game industry, Mr. Bushnell introduced videogames to the masses with "Pong" and many other legendary games.

Over four decades, Bushnell has been a prolific entrepreneur, founding numerous companies, including: Catalyst Technologies, the first technology incubator; Etak, the first car navigation system whose mapping is still the basis for car navigation systems today; Androbot, a personal robotics company; and ByVideo, the first online ordering system.

With his latest startup, BrainRush, he is intent on fixing education with software that uses gamification principles to "addict" students to learning. 

Nolan famously was also the first and only boss Steve Jobs ever had when he worked at Atari. In Walter Isaacson's book "Steve Jobs", Nolan is described as one of the most important mentors and influences in Job's life. Nolan published his first book in 2013, "Finding the Next Steve Jobs". In it he explains how to find, hire and nurture creative people.


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Splunk $SPLK Helping Companies Make Sense of Machine Data (video)

$SPLK shares UP 80.82% Feb 22, 2016 - Feb 21, 2017

How Splunk Helps Companies Make Sense of Machine Data:

Splunk President and CEO Douglas Merritt discusses revenues, cloud sales and the company’s focus on cybersecurity, with Caroline Hyde on “Bloomberg Technology,” February 9, 2017.

Splunk Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLK) is a U.S.-based multinational corporation headquartered in San Francisco, California, that produces software for searching, monitoring, and analyzing machine-generated big data, via a web-style interface. In 2015, Splunk acquired Caspida, a cybersecurity startup, for $190 million, and also "sealed a cybersecurity alliance" with U.S. government security contractor Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. to offer combined cyberthreat detection and intelligence-analysis technology. In 2016, Google announced that its Google Cloud platform will integrate with Splunk to expand in areas like IT ops, security and compliance.

Principal domain: splunk.com

Splunk®, Splunk>®, Listen to Your Data®, The Engine for Machine Data®, Hunk®, Splunk Cloud™, Splunk Light™, SPL™ and Splunk MINT™ are trademarks and registered trademarks of Splunk Inc. in the United States and other countries.

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Facebook At War With Ad Blockers, But Ad Blocking Trend Increasing

Facebook At War With Ad Blockers and Ad Blocking

After announcing it will force the delivery of ads to people who use ad blockers, Facebook is battling it out with at least one company that has already found a way around its anti-ad blocking effort. WSJ.com's Lee Hawkins explains. Originally published August 12, 2016.

The Digital News Report 2016, published by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, found at least one in five online consumers uses ad-blocking software across most major markets. Statista (see infographic below) reports the ad-blocking trend is here to stay: "usage of ad-blocking tools is by far the most prevalent among young consumers, indicating that the proportion of people blocking ads from their online experience will likely rise in the future."  Chart below shows how many people use ad-blocking software in selected countries:


source: Statista

Adblocking Goes Mobile - 2016 PageFair Mobile Report from PageFair

See also: 
•  Best Ad Blockers and Privacy Extensions | TomsGuide.com;  
•  Media Companies Beware, the Ad-Blocking Tsunami Is Coming for You | Fortune.com;
•  Ad blocking | Wikipedia.org; and
•  PageFair.com's 2016 Mobile Adblocking Report (pdf) which reports:

• At least 419 million people (22% of the world’s 1.9bn smartphone users) are blocking ads on the mobile web. 
• Both mobile web and in-app ads can now be blocked. 
• As of March 2016 an estimated 408 million people are actively using mobile adblocking browsers (i.e., a mobile browser that blocks ads by default). 
• As of March 2016 there are 159 million users of mobile adblocking browsers in China, 122 million in India, and 38 million in Indonesia.

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FTSE100 Hits New High on SoftBank & UK’s ARM Holdings $32 Billion Deal

FT Lex on SoftBank’s purchase of ARM Holdings:

Masayoshi Son, SoftBank’s founder and chief executive, is betting that Arm is 43 per cent more valuable than the market thinks it is. FT.com's Robert Armstrong examines whether he's right or wrong. 

UK's benchmark index FTSE100 is now UP 5.64% since the Brexit vote on June 23

On news of the SoftBank - ARM Holdings deal on Monday, July 18, 2016, the London Stock Exchange benchmark index FTSE100 rose, closing at 6,695.42, its highest level since August, 2015. ARM Holdings plc is a British multinational semiconductor and software design company (domain name: arm.com). Processors based on designs licensed from ARM, or designed by licensees of one of the ARM instruction set architectures, are used in all classes of computing devices such as microcontrollers in embedded systems (cars' ABS), smartTVs (Google TV), all modern smartwatches (such as Qualcomm Toq), as well as smartphones, tablets, laptops, desktops, servers and supercomputers/HPC.

Stock exchanges: symbols  LSE: ARM and NASDAQ: ARMH

Details of the deal:

• ARM’s headquarters will remain in Cambridge, England, UK, as well as its senior management team, and SoftBank pledged to at least double employee headcount in the UK over the next five years. ARM currently employs about 4,000 people.
• At £17 per share, the ARM acquisition is a 43% premium over last week's closing price.
• Post-Brexit UK welcomes ARM purchase in test of strategy: "Just three weeks after the referendum decision, it shows that Britain has lost none of its allure to international investors,” Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond said. “Britain is open for business -- and open to foreign investment. SoftBank’s decision confirms that Britain remains one of the most attractive destinations globally for investors to create jobs and wealth.”--Bloomberg.com
• ARM CEO says deal made regardless of Brexit, noting ARM's stock was up 15% since EU referendum (Brexit vote), see Accelerating Tech: Simon Segars, CEO of ARM, explains SoftBank’s offer for ARM (video)
• "As purely a designer of chips rather a manufacturer, Arm’s intellectual property model leaves it with a high profit margin. However, its revenues of about £1bn last year made it a minnow by global chip standards. The purchase price is equivalent to 70 times its net income last year, and more than 50 times earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation."--SoftBank to acquire UK’s Arm Holdings for £24.3bn | FT.com
• Amir Anvarzadeh, Singapore-based head of Japanese equity sales at BGC Partners Inc.: "... we believe if Son wanted to bet on the sterling recovering he picked a great name in the tech sector.”--SoftBank to Buy Britain’s ARM for $32 Billion in Record Deal | Bloomberg.com 

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IDC expects 2016 to be the Year of Platforms, Digital Transformation (video)

Leading Digital Transformation to Scale – IDC Futurescapes 2016 (video above):  "The "next chapter" of the 3rd Platform unfolds as we move from the foundation stage to mainstream adoption stage. With most organizations now utilizing third platform technologies to drive the digital transformation of their organization, the industry finds itself at an inflexion point – those organizations who can rapidly scale their digital transformation efforts by leveraging 3rd Platform technologies will be the thrivers in the digital economy."

IDC expects 2016 to be the Year of Platforms – IDC Asia Pacific held its fourth Asia/Pacific Telecom Summit titled “Connecting the Next Billion Users: An Opening Industry” at Singapore, 19-20 November 2015, sharing insights on the telecom industry’s shifting focus from CAPEX-driven infrastructure toward OPEX dominated software and services.

IDC dubbed 2014 as the year of continued infrastructure build to bring services closer to customers. 2015 was all about moving to 'Open’ in recognition of the shift towards Open Source technologies, Open Innovation, Open APIs driving new segments like IoT (Internet of Things) and towards the end of proprietary interfaces and better interoperability. The shift to ‘Open’ happened and Software-Defined Networks, Data Centers and Open Source were listed as the most sought technologies in the enterprise for 2015/16. 2016 is the year of the platform”, says Dustin Kehoe , Head of Telecom Practice, IDC Asia Pacific, a platform-based approach between telecoms and other competitors in their ability to link through storage, network and compute into an infrastructure that is software-defined. Platforms will extend even down to the data center infrastructure layer. Platforms will be able to resolve unaddressed areas of the market such as the general lack of orchestration to move workloads between networks and clouds.

Within the context of a Year of the Platform for 2016, some of the key IDC predictions include:

• By 2017, over 65% IT organizations will implement Hybrid IT Environments that leverages in-house and external 3rd party assets housed in off-site data centers.
• By 2016, 15% of Enterprises will have implemented a Software-Defined SD-WAN vendor solution or Cloud-based Managed Solution. This figure will jump to 60% by 2019.
• By 2018, more than 70% of enterprises will access public cloud IaaS and SaaS capabilities via aggregation hubs operated by network or interconnect providers
• Other predictions addressed opportunities in emerging market, cutting edge NFV capabilities, enabling technologies for Digital Transformation, the Mobile Enterprise and Customer First; for carriers.

“Software defined infrastructure and cloud orchestration will be the focus in 2016 and beyond."

On Twitter: @IDC

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Source: Press Release - Asia/Pacific Telecom Summit 2015: Singapore, 25 November, 2015


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Unicorn, Magic Leap, Replicating the Light Field, Visual Reality (video)

A New Way to Interact With Machines - Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz describes how his company will change the way people interact with computers and media at the WSJDLive 2015 conference in Laguna Beach, California. Published on Oct 21, 2015.

Replicating the Light Field, Visual Reality

Domain Name: magicleap.com

Magic Leap: "We created something new. We call it a Dynamic Digitized Lightfield Signal™ (you can call it a Digital Lightfield™). It is biomimetic, meaning it respects how we function naturally as humans (we are humans after all, not machines). In time, we began adding a number of other technologies to our Digital Lightfield: hardware, software, sensors, core processors, and a few things that just need to remain a mystery. The result of this combination enabled our technology to deliver experiences that are so unique, so unexpected, so never-been-seen-before, they can only be described as magical."

"Magic Leap was founded by Rony Abovitz in 2010. In October 2014, when the company was still operating in stealth mode (but already reported to be working on projects relating to augmented reality and computer vision), it had raised more than $540 million of venture funding from Google, Qualcomm, Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins, among other investors. Richard Taylor of special effects company Weta Workshop is involved in Magic Leap alongside Abovitz. Science fiction author Neal Stephenson joined the company in December 2014. Graeme Devine is their Chief Creative Officer & Senior VP Games, Apps and Creative Experiences"- Wikipedia

Magic Leap | CrunchBase: "Augmented Reality, Video, Hardware + Software, Technology, Wearables"

Magic Leap is a Unicorn and on its way to Decacorn status: Magic Leap close to raising $1 billion - South Florida Business Journal: "Dania Beach [Florida] startup Magic Leap is close to inking a $1 billion financing round, two sources close to the deal told the South Florida Business Journal.The transaction will value the company at over $4.5 billion, the sources said. That valuation is more than twice what the company tipped the scales at in its last financing round."

Magic Leap, Inc.
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Data Records, Hacker Threat, Safer Data Security, RRE Ventures (video)

Hacker Threat and Safer Data Security: A Timeline - Jim Robinson, RRE Ventures' managing partner, discusses protecting against cyber threats with Bloomberg's Cory Johnson and Carol Massar on "Bloomberg Advantage Primetime," October 1, 2015. Note his reference to blockchain technologies.

RRE Ventures is a New York City-based venture capital firm focused on investments across several disciplines, including software, internet, mobile, financial services, consumer and enterprise hardware, and other related technologies. Focus: Seed, Early Stage Venture, and Later Stage Venture Investments. Investment Size: 100k - 25M (sources: rre.com, wikipedia, crunchbase).

Domain name: rre.com

RRE Ventures Twitter handle: @RRE https://twitter.com/RRE

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