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Growing startup scene, employer loyalty lure tech talent to Midwest companies

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When Abby Cohen and Andrew Brimer decided to locate their health IT startup, Sparo Labs, in St. Louis, neither one considered a Midwest location as a challenge to attracting top technology workers.“You can grow a great company anywhere as long as you can get the right people as part of your team,” said Cohen, whose company is developing hardware and software that allows people to track and monitor their asthma in real time using a smartphone.This theme is echoed by other Midwest technology and hiring professionals. While the central part of the U.S.

A Simple Approach To Managing Complexity

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It is common these days to assume that because the world is undergoing what is generally accepted to be unprecedented change brought about to a large extent by ever-smarter technology then business must necessarily be complex. Certainly, it can look that way and leaders are inclined to emphasize the challenges they say they confront on an almost daily basis. But does it follow that managing complexity requires complex management?

PGA European Tour CIO: "We're about to embark upon our most ambitious project yet"

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Mark Lichtenhein, CIO of the PGA European Tour, opens up about the mammoth technological undertaking involved in organising a large-scale sports eventThe next Ryder Cup, which kicks off on Friday, is not short on ambition. The tournament will bring together some of the worlds finest golfers and 45,000 fans at the Gleneagles Hotel in rural Perthshire.

Youtube Founders-backed BaaS Provider AVOS Cloud Announces Series A Funding

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  AVOS Cloud, a mobile backend as a service (BaaS) provider, announced today Series A funding from IDG Capital Partners. The China-based team declined to disclose the financial terms of the deal. A source close to the matter told TechNode that it’s US$5 million for 25% stake. More than 10,000 developers or businesses have adopted AVOS Cloud services since its launch in September 2013, according to the company. Its seed funding was provided by AVOS Systems, parent company of AVOS Cloud. Two Youtube founders, Steve Chen and Chad Hurley, established AVOS Systems in 2011.

BMC Software files patent infringement lawsuit against ServiceNow

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BMC Software has filed a patent infringement suit against ServiceNow, claiming its patents are violated by the rival’s IT management technologies.The company in Houston, Texas, has accused ServiceNow of allegedly violating seven patents in products in its offerings, which include incident and problem management, performance analytics, configuration management, including ServiceNow’s Configuration Management Database, discovery, orchestration, and change and release management.“BMC’s ability to earn sufficient profits from demand for its innovations is harmed when others freely use these pat

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