Describe your Travel Experiences in a Photographic
Exotic journeys, family trips close to home or holiday travel. Enter the Chase Sapphire “Exceptional Experiences” Photo Contest with a shot that captures your experience and you’ll be entered for a chance to win an unforgettable trip through Peru which is the grand prize.
A Day of Events
All day you will find help that will enable you to tackle tough challenges.
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The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has a venture capital arm.
What Kind of Ventures Have They Funded?
One company received a recent infusion of cash from the CIA’s (In-Q-Tel) investment fund is Cleversafe, a startup that offers software to keep data stored in cloud networks secure by slicing it up and storing it in different locations. In-Q-Tel invests in startups developing technologies that could prove useful to the CIA and the national security community. In-Q-Tel invites startups to submit applications for funding through its website and issues a press release every time it funds a new company.
What technologies is the CIA interested in now?
The next big trend in data is going to be geolocation, and the power to predict where you’re going to go next and who you spend the most time with.
Apps Are In High Demand Across All Platforms
RIM is seeking to attract developers for its more business-like smartphones. BlackBerry still lags behind developer favorites like Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android smartphones but they want to change that.
2011 competition is for a Zero Environmental Footprint for a GSA building. Your design should challenge how we work from a environmentally friendly perspective. What we use, how we get where we need to go, hidden costs to our pocketbooks and the overall influence on our environment, across the whole design spectrum. Focus should be on one area that needs fixing—products, interiors, buildings, landscape, communication systems, or anything else you can imagine—and develop your idea fully, or develop a whole system of fixes.
