Nathan Myhrvold News
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DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc., producer of the box-office hit “The Croods,” plans to nominate Universal Music Group Chief Executive Officer Lucian Grainge and former Hulu LLC CEO Jason Kilar to its board.
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Intellectual Ventures, the Bellevue, Washington-based company started by former Microsoft Corp. chief technology officer Nathan Myhrvold, said it has settled a patent dispute with Lattice Semiconductor Corp.
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Nathan Myhrvold -- the former chief strategist and chief technology officer at Microsoft Corp. -- opens a bottle of wine and pours it into a kitchen blender.
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“ Modernist Cuisine ” is six volumes long, runs 2,400 pages and weighs more than 18 kilograms (40 pounds). The cover price is $625 and it’s sold out on Amazon , where outside suppliers ask as much as $1,875.
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Oct. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg's Trish Regan visits Nathan Myhrvold, founder of Intellectual Ventures, and a semi-professional chef with a penchant for experimenting in the kitchen. Myhrvold appears as a part of Bloomberg Pursuits, airing on Monday, October 15 at 9PM on Bloomberg Television. (Source: Bloomberg)
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A cult food is a dish people are passionate about that has at least some of the following five characteristics:
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Patents rarely make headlines, but they did this month when Nortel Networks Corp., the defunct Canadian telecommunications giant, auctioned off its patent portfolio and drew an astonishing winning bid of $4.5 billion from a group of companies that includes both Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp.
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One reason “dismal science” aptly describes economics is that it so often winds up in a zero-sum trade-off of diminishing returns. That gets depressing when the global economy is in a sorry state, as it is now.
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As we lurch from one high-stakes political drama to another, it is natural to wonder why societies aren’t better at avoiding self-inflicted crises. Here in the U.S. earlier this month, the government barely dodged default, even though economists reached consensus months ago on when the debt limit would need to be raised.
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These days, one of the saddest stories on Page 1 is about newspapers themselves. All over the country, venerable old dailies are shedding reporters, editors and other workers.
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