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Retrotechtacular: Horseless Farming With The Ford Model B

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Does everyone watch a load of videos on YouTube that are somewhat on the unadmissibly geeky side? In my case I might not care to admit that I have a lot of videos featuring tractors in my timeline. The mighty Russian Kirovets hauling loads through the impossible terrain of the taiga, tiny overloaded 2WD tractors in India pulling wheelies, and JCB Fastracs tearing around the British Fenland. You can take the girl off the farm, but you can’t take the farm out of the girl.

So my recommendations have something of an agricultural flavor. Like the video below the break, …read more

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Pivotal scores $253 million Series C led by Ford on hefty $2.8 billion valuation

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ford-edge Pivotal has a couple of new friends with big wallets. Today it announced that Ford and Microsoft were joining EMC, VMware and GE as investment partners on a massive $253 million Series C investment with a whopping $2.8 billion valuation. It’s not a coincidence that Pivotal has been working closely with Ford over the last year to help it in its own transformation from a car company to… Read More Continue reading Pivotal scores $253 million Series C led by Ford on hefty $2.8 billion valuation→