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Ten Questions to Ensure a Viable Business Model

Original post by MARTIN ZWILLING via BI You can’t succeed in business without an operational model that delivers value to customers at a reasonable price, with an underlying cost that allows you to make a profit. There are no “overrides” – for example, businesses don’t thrive just because they offer the latest technology, or because everyone wants […]

Amazon’s AWS Now Offers A Push Notification Service For iOS, Android And Kindle Apps, Widening Its Toolkit For Mobile Developers

Original post by INGRID LUNDEN via TC Amazon continues to “push” further into the space of becoming a one-stop shop for mobile developers looking to make, host and distribute apps, and in the latest development, today the company’s Amazon Web Services divisionannounced the launch of SNS Mobile Push, which lets developers set up and send notifications — those little […]

@Amazon divisions @AmazonKindle & @AwsCloud join forces and partners with @Techmeetups to organise a twin city #Hackathon (#TMUHack) in #London & #Berlin

Global giant Amazon has chosen to work with Techmeetups to organise its first twin city Hackathon In Europe. The Hackathon will be held in europe’s two most exciting tech hubs – Tech city or London Silicon Roundabout as we like to call it and Berlin’s Silicon Allee. This time around Amazons consumer products division makers […]

Hackathon links humanities and sciences

Original post by UW-Madison Jillian Sayre contends that Herman Melville’s whaling ship Pequod and its encounters with other boats at sea may have toted meaning beyond the characters onboard. An associate lecturer of English at UW–Madison, Sayre is using computing in innovative ways to glean new insight from the literary classic “Moby Dick,” examining whether networks of […]

How Hackathons Could Save The World

Original post by Lauren Orsini via readwrite Earlier this month, LinkedIn held its third annual LinkedIn Intern Hackday. The popular event, which offers the winner a $10,000 scholarship, is packed with young people hopped up on caffeine, struggling to finish an app before the 24-hour deadline. There are a lot of silly concepts, as you’d expect from college-age […]