by Alex Funkhouser
Twenty years after Larry Page and Sergey Brin set out to organize all of the internet’s information, the search engine they named Google has morphed into a dominating force in smartphones, online video, email, maps and much more.
That resounding success now has regulators and lawmakers around the world questioning whether the company has become too powerful as its ubiquitous services vacuum up sensitive information about billions of people hooked on its products.
Not bad for a company that started 20 years ago Friday with an initial investment of $100,000. Google and its sibling companies operating under the umbrella of Alphabet Inc. are now worth $800 billion.
Google’s search engine remains entrenched as the internet’s main gateway, and its digital advertising business is on pace to generate about $110 billion in revenue this year. Much of that revenue now flows through Google’s Android operating system, which powers 80 percent of the world’s smartphones. Google also runs the biggest video site in YouTube, the most popular web browser in Chrome, the top email service in Gmail and the maps that most people use to get around.
Read the complete article: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/business/ct-biz-google-20-years-20180907-story.html
by SherlockTalent
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Leading Marketing Technology company in Boca Raton, FL is looking for a few talented Senior Backend Engineers to join their growing team as full time employees (this is not a contract role).
- As a Sr. Backend Engineer you will help specify, design, and develop software and lead responsibility for different areas of the architecture.
- This position requires a deep understanding of API integration, data integration, and general information exchange in a SaaS environment.
- We need someone who can be a major contributor in a small, dynamic work environment and has a strong balance of technical and people skills.
Responsibilities:
- Tackle some of the most challenging problems you can face developing high availability services that need to scale exponentially
- Help evaluate and choose emerging technologies, new service protocols, and architectures, self-healing capabilities, performance and code quality tooling, etc.
- Write high quality, maintainable .Net code with extensive test coverage in a fast-paced startup environment
Experience:
- Distributed Systems
- .Net Engineers OR Java Engineers that are cool with .NET Core (100% Linux)
Benefits:
- 100% paid Medical, Dental and Vision coverage for full time employees.
- 100% supported annual gym membership
- 401K Plan
- Flexible time off
by SherlockTalent
IOT Security and Risks. How Machine Learning Can Mitigate
Discuss a number of challenges that exist in identifying compromises in IoT environments. We will then discuss in detail the AI and ML-based analytics and deployment methodologies that can be used to identify compromises in this area. We will show several examples of compromises and how they were identified with AI and Machine Learning algorithms..
About Pete Nicoletti
Pete has 31 years of progressive responsibility in the deployment, marketing, sales, product development, engineering design, project implementation and operation of information technology, IaaS/SaaS/PaaS, cloud, data center operations, the entire spectrum of security technologies, compliance frameworks, Global Security Deployments and operations and Managed Security Service Provider services and operations.
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by SherlockTalent
In Support of the CIO Council Scholarship Fund
Welcome to the 11th Annual CIO Golf Outing
With sponsorship opportunities starting at just $300, we’ve made taking part in the most anticipated golf outing of the year easier than ever.
Good to know: You sponsorship dollars contribute directly to the success of the CIO Council Scholarship Fund which to date has awarded over 20 scholarships to deserving young students in the Miami-Dade and Broward Counties.
Our Golf Packages include:
- Awards and Prizes
- 1st Place Foursome Award
- 2nd Place Foursome Award
- 3rd Place Foursome Award
- Men’s and Ladies’ longest drive
- Men’s and Ladies’ closest to the pin
- Breakfast
- Practice Range
- 2 Roaming Drink Carts
- Golf Cart and all fees
- 4-person scramble
- Mulligans available for purchase during registration
- Catered luncheon and awards reception
- Great raffle prizes
- Tremendous networking and camaraderie
- Fees support the CIO Council Scholarship Fund
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11th Annual CIO Golf Outing
by SherlockTalent
In this session; Mike Maier, CTO of the City of Fort Lauderdale, will discuss the Anonymous attack on the city in late 2014 in his presentation “Life After an Anonymous Attack on My City”. Mike will share how things were handled in the direct aftermath of the attack and how the city subsequently changed its ways – both technologically, and behaviorally, in the time since. Attendees will not only get the opportunity to learn from Mike’s experiences; they will also be networking with other local IT executives and enjoy dinner in a comfortable atmosphere.
Please note: If you register and you do not qualify, it can take up to 20 business days to refund your registration fee.
Looking forward to seeing you all there!
