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The CIO identity crisis; Apple car poised to shake up IoT conversation

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CIOs are at a critical point in their evolution, and they need to find a way to stay relevant in a corporate culture, according to author Jill Dyché. In part one of one of her two-part feature story, Senior News Writer Nicole Laskowski chats with Dyché about how to cure the CIO identity crisis. In...

Insight Venture leads $40 mln pre-IPO funding in Instructure

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Insight Venture Partners has led a $40 million Series E funding round in Instructure, which makes educational software. Other investors in the funding round include Bessemer Venture Partners and EPIC Ventures. Instructure has raised $90 million to date. The pre-IPO investment will allow Instructure to launch Bridge, a cloud-based corporate learning and engagement platform.

Apple sued for poaching car battery engineers

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Apple has been sued by electric car battery maker A123 Systems for poaching five of its employees to help set up a large scale battery division.Apple “embarked on an aggressive campaign” to poach employees from A123 to set up a battery division in June last year, the company said in a suit filed against Apple.The lawsuit adds fuel to reports that Apple has been developing an electric car in secret and has several hundred employees working on the project.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

T-Mobile hopes you’ll help win its next big battle in Washington

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T-Mobile's role as the insurgent "Uncarrier" has brought wireless consumers a number of perks: Free international roaming and an end to device subsidies, contracts and early termination fees, to name a few. Now, to keep that streak rolling, T-Mobile is trying something else: It's calling on consumers to advocate on its behalf in an obscure tech policy fight in Washington. […]

The Rackspace Method: 'Fanatical' Customer Service And Customer Support In The B2B Cloud

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Rackspace is a well-known provider of managed cloud space, serving over 300,000 customers of varied sizes worldwide. (These customers–odds are pretty good–include you, my entrepreneurial reader. So you may know directly–and I'd love to hear from you below–whether this approach is really working for you, the customers Rackspace is supporting.)

Sony looking to scale back mobile operations

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Japanese consumer electronics giant Sony indicated it may be ready to throw in the towel on mobile handsets. In review of its overall corporate strategy, Sony is trying to convince investors it is focused on profitability and “Return of Equity” and has accordingly classified its business units according to how much it thinks they will contribute to this aim.

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