TechFlash: Bill Gates on Microsoft Bob, patents and bioterrorism

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Bill Gates on Microsoft Bob, patents and bioterrorism Just days after Microsoft announced an internal reorganization aimed at improving its ability to compete, Microsoft founder and chairman Bill Gates took to the stage on the Microsoft campus in Redmond to talk innovation with a group of university researchers. Technology employment hits new, all-time high (Statistics) It's a good time to be in tech. That's the conclusion from a pair of technology industry analysts, who estimate American companies hired somewhere between 18,000 and 22,000 technical workers in June, depending on how strictly you define technical work. Nordstrom tracked shoppers electronically, unnerving some When Nordstrom Inc. last fall began following shoppers in its stores using the customers' wi-fi signals from their cellphones, it wanted to learn more about its customers' behavior and moods. HP appoints Ray Ozzie to board Hewlett-Packard Co. has appointed Ray Ozzie, former chief software architect of Microsoft Corp., and two other people to its board of directors. Big data project to advance Alzheimer's research Researchers focused on understanding and treating Alzheimer's disease will now have access to massive amounts of data, thanks to a collaborative effort between the Alzheimer's Association and the Brin Wojcicki Foundation, established by Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google, and Anne Wojcicki, the co-founder of 23andMe, a personal genetics company. Publishing this fall: Allrecipes magazine in print Meredith Corp., which bought Seattle online recipe company Allrecipes.com in 2012 for $175 million, said it will start an Allrecipes magazine this fall. National Tech News CenturyLink foundation, Innovate + Educate team up for teacher grants T. Rowe Price still opposes Dell buyout deal Paul Graham on scaling up the old-fashioned way SynGen gets FDA approval to market cord blood products Five Kansas City hospitals named to list of Most Wired Scottsdale's Skinz Golf teams with Ernie Els to raise money for autism research Hey, today is inaugural Social Media Giving Day Technology employment hits new, all-time high (Statistics) Revolution Labs announces first class of Milwaukee inner city startups Nashville software firm taps into, builds talent in Honduras

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