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HIGH TECHNOLOGY MEETS
HIGH FINANCE
Confluence’s Unity Platform™ Automates Fund Administration Worldwide

By Jackie Hunter, TEQ Intern
Integrity. Imagination. Discipline. Service.
At Pittsburgh-based Confluence, a recognized global leader in fund automation administration, these are the values that have led to success and innovation. Although the company was founded in 1991 by its current President and CEO, Mark Evans, the Confluence of today is vastly different than the original model. [...]

POWERING UP
BPL Global Unleashes Smart Energy Grid Management Platform; is positioned for Continued Growth

By Matt Pross, TEQ Staff Writer
mpross@pghtech.org
The United States is in the midst of the largest energy grid modernization in its history. Last June, as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, President Obama announced the availability of $3.4 billion in grants to invest in smart grid technologies and the nation’s electric transmission infrastructure. Since [...]

SURVIVING THE SQUEEZE
Trends from the Biotechnology and Medical Technology Industries

How has biotech and medtech held up during the global financial crisis? Join Ernst & Young and the Pittsburgh Technology Council on March 11, 2010 as Jason Hillenbach moderates a panel discussion with several distinguished life sciences executives from Pittsburgh. Hillenbach will also present key findings from the Pulse of the industry medial technology report [...]

BUILDING SMARTER POLYMERS
Using revolutionary technology, ATRP Solutions increases the application of polymer science

BUILDING SMARTER POLYMERS <br/> <em>Using revolutionary technology, ATRP Solutions increases the application of polymer science</em>

By Jackie Hunter, TEQ Intern
jhunter@pghtech.org
We can all probably identify a product that contains polymers. Grocery bags, water bottles, children’s toys—the buzz word, when it comes to polymers, is usually “plastic.” Be careful not to stop there, though; “polymer” and “plastic” are not interchangeable. In fact, polymers are used in almost all of the products that [...]

Sultan of Storage
Ron Bianchini starts his third venture to introduce “demand driven storage” solutions

Sultan of Storage <br/> <em>Ron Bianchini starts his third venture to introduce “demand driven storage” solutions</em>

By Jonathan Kersting, Associate Publisher/Editor, TEQ magazine
jkersting@pghtech.org
By all means, Ron Bianchini is a technology and entrepreneurial machine. On top of that, he’s one of the nicest guys you could ever hope to meet and his enthusiasm for technology, in particular data storage, is amazing and contagious.
Ron has a deep history starting and successfully selling tech [...]

THE INTERNET WITHOUT GOOGLE IN CHINA?

By Andrew Chen, President of American Chinese Business Associates, chen@amcba.com
What if Google search is not available in the United States? Think again, what if Google search is not available in China? This is the exact problem happening in China right now.
On January 12, 2010, Google announced that it is “no longer willing to continue censoring” [...]

ROBOTIC SNAKES, TRUNKS, TAILS AND TENTACLES

By Tom Imerito, Science Communications

Before I met CMU’s Dr. Howie Choset, my notion of robots had largely been informed by the likes of Elektro, the giant Westinghouse robot, and R2D2 of Star Wars fame. After meeting Howie, as he prefers to be called, my ideas about how robots move changed forever. During a visit [...]

COMPUTING IN THE CLOUD

By Tom Imerito, Science Communications

“Our world is awash in data,” CMU Dean of Computer Science, Randy Bryant said.” Bryant’s comment refers to the one zettabyte (that’s 1021 or one billion trillion bytes) of digital data generated around the world each year. The numbers are so mind-bogglingly large that they demand new ways of [...]

WELCOME TO eTEQ
Crickets be Damned!

By Jonathan Kersting, Associate Publisher/Editor, TEQ magazine
jkersting@pghtech.org
I know that it’s been a down economy (to put it lightly) for what seems like forever, but you’d never know it by the amount of positive news emanating from technology companies right here in the Pittsburgh region.
I’ve been covering the region’s technology/advanced manufacturing industry for nearly 15 years [...]

Fast-tracking Commercialization
Wellspring Worldwide’s software platform streamlines bringing new technologies to market

By Jackie Hunter, TEQ Intern
jhunter@pghtech.org
If it is possible for a company to go more international, that is what Wellspring Worldwide has just done with the acquisition of Flintbox, a Vancouver-based online global intellectual property exchange. Wellspring, a technology commercialization company with offices in Pittsburgh and Cambridge, UK, has had an international reach from its inception.
“Our [...]

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