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Report: Tech Layoffs At Highest Level In Three Years

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You may not see it here in Southern California's high tech sector--which has been booming, due to a surge of startup and accelerator activity--but apparently, the technology sector has seen its highest level of layoffs in three years, according to a report today. Image courtesy Bigstock.com READ MORE>>.

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Bio Roundup: Theranos Cuts, Alnylam Stops, Nobel Eats Its Own & More

Xconomy

military’s high-tech think tank DARPA described Safe Genes, a new program to fund safety measures that can be built into genome editing technology or counter its potential wayward effects. —The 2016 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine went to Yoshinori Ohsumi of the Tokyo Institute of Technology.

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Entrepreneurship Is A Compulsion, Not A Choice

InfoChachkie

In your own startup, you might experience lean times, but you never will be crushed in a stampede, like a middle-manager in a corporate layoff. When high-tech businesses, founded by appropriately educated entrepreneurs who received money from sophisticated investors are considered, the survival rates are even more encouraging.

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