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5 hot IT leadership trends — and 4 going cold

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Amid disruptive leaps in technology, leaders who will succeed in the near future, say experts, are the ones who stay focused on a decidedly low-fi resource: their employees. Hot: Soft leadership skills Tech leaders frequently mention soft skills as a key aspect of successful teams, and they prioritize those skills when hiring. “In

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Magdrive secures seed funding for new propulsion system which could take us to the stars

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A startup with a new type of spacecraft propulsion system could make the interplanetary travel seen in “Star Trek” a reality. Magdrive says its engine can deliver both high thrust and high efficiency in one system. Magdrive has just closed a £1.4 Magdrive prototype render. Image: Magdrive .

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S3 Ventures, Tacora close on new funds to boost Austin startups

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Brian Smith was an early believer in the city, founding S3 Ventures with a $20 million first fund after a career as an electrical engineer at companies like IBM before starting his own company, Crossroads Systems. In fact, the firm believes that Texas is going to be the second-largest tech ecosystem in the U.S.

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Balancing latency and sustainability

CIO

In the Equinix 2023 Global Tech Trends Survey (GTTS), 68% of global IT leaders said that the environmental impact of their IT equipment and infrastructure is something they measure and actively try to limit. This could allow you to run even very large model training workloads without the need for power-hungry cooling systems.

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Nigeria’s Helium Health acquires Qatar’s Meddy in rare Africa-GCC deal

TechCrunch

Nigeria-based health tech startup Helium Health has acquired Meddy , a Qatar-headquartered and UAE-based doctor booking platform for an undisclosed amount. The company could have built out these services but acquiring Meddy presented a better option due its expansion play. Helium Health. “But

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IT’s ‘war for talent’ is a losing battle

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A recent report from Korn Ferry Institute predicts that by 2030 the tech industry labor-skill shortage will reach 4.3 The traditional answer would be your hiring competitors, which, with every company becoming in some sense a technology company, is just about every business out there. trillion in unrealized annual revenues.

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Q1 2021 in Review: Planbox Future-Fits Innovation Practices

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By 2030, Forrester predicts that a new set of leaders will emerge who will take customer obsession into the future. According to Forrester’s Q3 2020 North American Future Fit Technology Survey, companies that are future-fit deliver revenue growth at 2.7 times the industry average. Product Highlights. About Planbox.