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Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Ryan Jones is the co-founder and CEO of Florence Healthcare , a leading clinical trial software company. Atlanta has emerged as a hub for health IT software, with Georgia currently boasting more than 200 healthcare IT companies and almost all of those companies located in or around the Atlanta area. This growth inspires the question: Why are so many healthcare technology companies choosing to set up shop in the South, rather than in traditional hubs like Silicon Valley or the Northeast? When we look at Atlanta, where my company is based, we can see that the city benefits from the same ingredients that supported growth at the tech hubs that came before it : a regionally-focused area of expertise (healthcare), an educated workforce and a tech-friendly regulatory environment and culture. By looking at how Atlanta has succeeded in attracting healthcare tech companies, we can see the benefit of betting on a niche. …

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SINGAPORE - To avoid the proverbial mistake of preparing for the last war, the Defence Science and Technology Agency (DSTA) needs to change the way it works, said the agency's chief executive Mervyn Tan. This includes how the agency delivers capabilities for the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) and increasing collaboration with start-ups, he told reporters on Saturday (Oct 16). While a more deliberate, sequential development process will still be relevant for multimillion-dollar defence projects that serve Singapore for decades, software must be continuously improved, Mr Tan said. DSTA is also looking at more tie-ups with academia and the private sector, including those not conventionally associated with the defence industry, such as those at the cutting edge of artificial intelligence (AI), 3D modelling and gaming, he said. Crucially, there is a need to invest in its talent, and train DSTA engineers to also have digital skills - from programming and cyber security, to user …

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Dixon Technologies (India) | In the last 6 days, the stock has risen 23 percent to Rs 17342.55, as on February 8 from Rs 14129.90 as on January 29, 2021. Domestic electronics manufacturing firm Dixon Technology has started manufacturing 5G millimetre waves smartphones which will be the first set of devices in the segment to be exported from India, a top company official said on Sunday. Dixon has set up a manufacturing unit with an annual capacity of 7 million 5G millimetre (mm) phones and is setting up another factory with annual capacity of 30 million smartphones in Noida. The Orbic Myra 5G UW smartphone, which can operate in high frequency bands, is also the first smartphone that has been partly designed in India, Dixon Technologies executive chairman Sunil Vachani told PTI. The company has bagged a contract from US-based Orbic which sells smart devices for US-based telecom operators. The company has bagged a contract from US-based Orbic which sells smart devices for …

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The pandemic generated tailwinds for many tech stocks in the e-commerce, cloud, gaming, and remote work markets last year. However, many of those stocks stalled out this year as infection rates declined, vaccination rates rose, and more businesses reopened. As that market sentiment shift continues, investors should pay more attention to tech stocks that should benefit from those reopening trends instead. Let's take a closer look at three of those companies: Impinj ( NASDAQ:PI ) , Adyen ( OTC:ADYE.Y ) , and Airbnb ( NASDAQ:ABNB ) . Image source: Getty Images 1. Impinj Impinj is a leading maker of radio frequency identification (RFID) chips, software, and readers.  Before the pandemic struck, Impinj's sales were booming as companies used its RFID chips to modernize their businesses, optimize their supply chains, and connect their infrastructure to the Internet of Things (IoT). Retailers also used its chips to track their products and sales trends to compete …

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Several companies have recently announced they are moving their headquarters away from the Silicon Valley area. Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) and Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPE) have already relocated, Tesla 's (NASDAQ: TSLA) CEO recently announced that he moved to Texas, and it's fair to say that there could be more to come. In this Dec. 14 Fool Live clip from our Industry Focus: Financials show, host Jason Moser and Fool.com contributor Matt Frankel, CFP, discuss some stocks to avoid and some that could be big winners. Matthew Frankel: When it comes to real estate, if you look at just office real estate, I would avoid any companies that have outside exposure to California. Boston Properties ( NYSE:BXP ) is one. Despite its name, it has a lot of San Francisco properties. Ticker symbol BXT. That's actually the biggest office REIT in the market. But I would look at some of the more localized ones. I know I talk about Empire State Realty ( NYSE:ESRT ) more …

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Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Sebastian Böhmer, founding partner of First Momentum Ventures , faces something of a dilemma. On the one hand, he is determined to dispel some of the myths about where Europe’s most exciting technology businesses are to be found; on the other, he doesn’t want to invite too much competition. First Momentum, launched in 2019, focuses on opportunities in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, collectively known as the DACH region. “Capital is centralised but talent is not,” says Böhmer. “The DACH area has been something of a sleeping giant, but it has certainly woken up more recently.” The region, he points out, is home to no fewer than 160 Nobel Prize winners (second only to the US) and ranks fourth in the world on the number of patent applications its innovators file each year. Big-name businesses in the area include Celonis, Biontech, Personio, Curevac and Teamviewer. The DACH countries’ economies combined are worth more than …

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(CNN Business) Apple is set to kick off its second product event of the season, a month after introducing its new iPhone 13 lineup. At a virtual event on Monday at 1 pm ET, the company is expected to unveil two high-end MacBook Pro laptops powered by its next-generation silicon chip. It may also introduce an update to its entry-level AirPods that's more in line with the features of the AirPods Pro line. The iPhone 13 hits shelves Apple's event kicks off what promises to be a busy week in tech product launches, with several companies pushing out new gadgets ahead of the all-important holiday season. Later this week, Google will unveil its Pixel 6 smartphone and Samsung is hosting a mysterious press event that the rumor mill didn't even see coming. But these products are launching amid ongoing concerns about global component shortages and logistics issues. Apple, in particular, confronted supply constraints earlier this year …

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DETROIT: As a young adult, Javier Evelyn didn't always carry his epinephrine autoinjector, which dispenses the medicine he needs if he has a food allergy reaction. It wasn't cool to carry a clunky piece of equipment, he recalled. "I did not carry my device with me at all for most of college, so I was just really fortunate, to be real with you, when it came to not having any big scares as I was more independent down the road," said Evelyn, 38, a Chicago area native who is allergic to some tree nuts, fin fish and casein, a protein found in cheese. Evelyn, who has a tech background, moved to Detroit in 2013 and decided to create a more convenient device. His innovation: a cellphone case with an attached epinephrine auto-injector. "I really wanted to solve a problem that was personal to me," he said. "Something I cared about deeply. Being that I have this lifelong problem and I never really carried an EpiPen growing up because I thought it was not cool to carry.... Fast-forward in …

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Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Here are five things in technology that happened this past week and how they affect your business. Did you miss them? 1 —Twitter debuts new ad features and a revamped its algorithm ahead of an ecommerce push. Twitter announced this past week that it has overhauled the algorithm that impacts the advertisements that people see and updated its ad features. The changes come as the social media giant work to set the foundation to create new ecommerce functions in the future. Twitter also shared that it is in the process of developing tools to help businesses use ads to locate customers who are predicted to make more purchases directly in the app. (Source: Reuters ) Why this is important for your business: Is Twitter the right place for your business? Maybe so. The company is taking big steps to outreach to small businesses by making advertising easier and more competitive as well as doing its best to tone down some of …

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Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Collaboration has always been at the heart of making music. Thanks to a new generate of collaborative music apps, musicians can continue creating music together, even when a global pandemic has kept them apart. One example is Endlesss . Launched at the beginning of lockdown last year, the platform combines software recreations of drum machines, samplers, synths and FX, with a ‘tap to loop' workflow. It also accepts live audio for use with guitars, mics and other external instruments. Endlesss has enabled people from around the world to jam with each other remotely. This year band, The Veltrons, release their second album, having met on the app in 2020. The band members are yet to meet in person. Kevin Drew, the front man of Broken Social Scene, wrote an entire album on the app, which was released in July. CEO and founder Tim Exile believes that music has always been about performance and that the future of media will be …

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