“In the Studio,” Bump’s David Lieb Discusses Flock And A Shift To Background Services
"In the Studio" this week hosts a first-time founder and entrepreneur who began his career as an engineering student at two of the country's finest universities and played baseball for his college team, after which he worked at one of the country's largest technology research and product companies before enrolling in and dropping out of business school to work on building a company in Silicon Valley. David Lieb, the co-founder and CEO of Bump Technologies, has been focused on mobile since he dropped out of the MBA program at the University of Chicago to build this company. Since then, Bump has been growing (in terms of downloads) and drives a lot of sharing of photos and contacts among users, especially during weekends. Before starting Bump, Lieb finished engineering degrees working with robots and joined Texas Instruments, where he worked with algorithms. The timing of Bump couldn't have been better, with the rise of the iPhone and their innovative use of sensors drove them to enjoy great ...
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Neutrino-Powered Financial Trading In Our Future?
An anonymous reader writes "In a new feature on the future of high-frequency trading, Wired suggests that neutrino-powered financial trading systems may be coming soon, which would enable extremely low-latency information to be transmitted directly through the center of the Earth between major financial exchanges. If finance becomes the killer app for neutrino communication technology, it may ultimately make Neutrino SETI feasible. Quoting: 'It is only a matter of time, perhaps a few decades, says Alexander Wissner-Gross, a Harvard physicist, before some hedge fund decides it needs a particle accelerator to generate neutrinos, and then everyone will want one. Yes, they travel slower than light, but they indisputably can tunnel through the earth, cutting thousands of miles off an intercontinental message. And just a few days before the Battle of the Quants, right before the bad news about faster-than-light neutrinos, researchers announced they had sent a message by neutrino from the Fermilab ...
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