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December 11, 2013 10:44 AM
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Tool Upgrade Would Have Prevented Train Crash

Tool Upgrade Would Have Prevented Train Crash | Crowd Funding, Micro-funding, New Approach for Investors - Alternatives to Wall Street | Scoop.it
Federal safety officials say a technology upgrade they've been recommending for years would probably have prevented the Dec. 1 train derailment that killed four people in New York. The National Transportation Safety Board said a tool called ...
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And this is also a reason to make sure that your company as a TPM (Total Preventive / Predictive Maintanence) program in place, especially if lives are potentially at stake.  When will people learn to get on board w/ a TQM (Total Quality Management) program?  

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December 10, 2013 11:55 AM
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Kickstarter of the Week: Mini Satellite Is Propelled by Water

Kickstarter of the Week: Mini Satellite Is Propelled by Water | Crowd Funding, Micro-funding, New Approach for Investors - Alternatives to Wall Street | Scoop.it
On this episode of Kickstarter of the Week, we are propelling a tiny solar-powered satellite into space using only water for fuel.
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Now where is that plasma engine that I've got laying around?

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December 9, 2013 9:36 AM
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'Make-a-thon' to design tactical vehicle via online collaboration

'Make-a-thon' to design tactical vehicle via online collaboration | Crowd Funding, Micro-funding, New Approach for Investors - Alternatives to Wall Street | Scoop.it
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(from the Curator of IoT & Wearbles): This is where the US military joins the rest of the development community and goes crowd soucing for a better solution for the troops, 

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December 5, 2013 4:34 PM
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Excellent Example of Crowdfunding - AIRTAME: Wireless HDMI vs. Apple TV

Excellent Example of Crowdfunding - AIRTAME: Wireless HDMI vs. Apple TV | Crowd Funding, Micro-funding, New Approach for Investors - Alternatives to Wall Street | Scoop.it
With the AIRTAME HDMI Dongle you can display your computer screen (Mac, Windows or Linux) on your TV, Projector and Monitor - Wirelessly. (Another Danish startup doing well. @airtame seems to beat AppleTV to me, and got crowd funding of $180k.
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Excellent Example of Crowdfunding - AIRTAME: Wireless HDMI vs. Apple TV

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December 5, 2013 4:27 PM
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Regulators mulling rules to allow crowdfunding in Canada - Financial Post

Regulators mulling rules to allow crowdfunding in Canada - Financial Post | Crowd Funding, Micro-funding, New Approach for Investors - Alternatives to Wall Street | Scoop.it
Financial Post Regulators mulling rules to allow crowdfunding in Canada Financial Post Canada's biggest capital markets regulator is preparing rules that would allow equity crowdfunding for the first time, something early-stage companies have been...
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And now the Canucks are getting in on crowdfunding, there really isn't any issue of if they should, just how it should be regulated

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December 4, 2013 2:16 PM
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Good Analysis of the VC world | Venture Capital Survey Silicon Valley Third Quarter 2013

Good Analysis of the VC world | Venture Capital Survey Silicon Valley Third Quarter 2013 | Crowd Funding, Micro-funding, New Approach for Investors - Alternatives to Wall Street | Scoop.it
VC Experts provides data on private company valuations, share prices, deal terms of financings, as well as industry leading information and documentation for participants in the Private Equity & Venture Capital industries.
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Good Analysis of the VC world | Venture Capital Survey Silicon Valley Third Quarter 2013

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December 2, 2013 7:23 PM
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Crowdsourcing Business Ideas: How to Do It

Crowdsourcing Business Ideas: How to Do It | Crowd Funding, Micro-funding, New Approach for Investors - Alternatives to Wall Street | Scoop.it
Crowdsourcing is often used as a means to generate funds for a small business, but what about generating ideas? Four experts share the benefits of harnessing the power of a crowd, and some tips for how to do it successfully.

Via TechinBiz
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How to Do Crowdsourcing - read on

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December 2, 2013 9:42 AM
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Open Innovation | Samsung Semiconductor Global Website

Open Innovation | Samsung Semiconductor Global Website | Crowd Funding, Micro-funding, New Approach for Investors - Alternatives to Wall Street | Scoop.it
Samsung's open innovation. Open innovation is a Samsung initiative to identify and grow the technologies and infrastructure of the future.
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Samsung's Open Innovation website for more information on crowdfunding and other aspects to the Samsung Open innovation model, check here

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December 1, 2013 11:22 PM
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Crowdfunding Mailbox: Toymail, Quebee Cameraman, Chronic Illness Becomes ... - Crowdfund Insider

Crowdfunding Mailbox: Toymail, Quebee Cameraman, Chronic Illness Becomes ... - Crowdfund Insider | Crowd Funding, Micro-funding, New Approach for Investors - Alternatives to Wall Street | Scoop.it
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Crowdfunding Mailbox: Toymail, Quebee Cameraman, Chronic Illness Becomes ...
Crowdfund Insider
Perhaps a Crowdfunding Sunday?
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interesting little website for identifying different crowdfunding opportunities, as well as where to suggest your crowdfunded activitiy

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December 1, 2013 11:19 PM
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three Crowd Funding campaign videos are the best example of Crowd Funding video and Video SEO - Crowdfunding Planning | Your Complete Solution for CrowdFunding |Planning for CrowdFunding the Smart Way

three Crowd Funding campaign videos are the best example of Crowd Funding video and Video SEO - Crowdfunding Planning | Your Complete Solution for CrowdFunding |Planning for CrowdFunding the Smart Way | Crowd Funding, Micro-funding, New Approach for Investors - Alternatives to Wall Street | Scoop.it
CrowdFundingPlanning is a Complete Solution for a Fast and Successful CrowdFunding campaign empowering SMBs, Start-ups, Entrepreneurs, CF Expert Professionals and Investors Community.

Power of the Crowd, Expert and Cloud Sourcing.
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More great crowdfunding examples

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December 1, 2013 11:17 PM
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Crowdfunding a New Danger for Clients? - On Wall Street

Crowdfunding a New Danger for Clients? - On Wall Street | Crowd Funding, Micro-funding, New Approach for Investors - Alternatives to Wall Street | Scoop.it
Crowdfunding a New Danger for Clients?
On Wall Street
The SEC voted unanimously in October to advance rules that would permit startup businesses to cast a wider net in raising capital through online crowdfunding portals.
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WS now claiming its a threat to their clients, more likely a threat to them  

 

Too late, they are now disrupted, $$ will migrate away from traditional Wall Street investments towards a crowd funding model, WS has proven it can't be trusted to invest with.  

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November 27, 2013 9:50 PM
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Congress aims to cut off patent trolls’ food supply

Congress aims to cut off patent trolls’ food supply | Crowd Funding, Micro-funding, New Approach for Investors - Alternatives to Wall Street | Scoop.it
"Don’t feed the trolls!”
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(from the Curator of IoT & Wearables): This is welcome news for all, patent trolls are a blight on innovation and invention, everyone should be telling their congress persons and senators to be supporting this bi-partisan bill

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November 27, 2013 1:52 PM
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Ex-Nokia Engineers Launch New Smartphone

Ex-Nokia Engineers Launch New Smartphone | Crowd Funding, Micro-funding, New Approach for Investors - Alternatives to Wall Street | Scoop.it
HELSINKI (AP) -- A team of ex-Nokia engineers is launching a smartphone based on the former world No.
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(from the Curator of IoT and Wearables): Note to Self:  Listen to your engineers when they tell you your design sucks and needs to be improved  Because this is one of those lessons when MSFT s/w is not the answer and then your (best?) engineers quit and do their own startup and then tell you off in the marketplace for not listening to them the 1st time they told you that you needed a better solution.  

 

 

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December 11, 2013 9:51 AM
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How Israel is rewriting the future of cybersecurity and creating the next Silicon Valley - Feature - TechRepublic

How Israel is rewriting the future of cybersecurity and creating the next Silicon Valley - Feature - TechRepublic | Crowd Funding, Micro-funding, New Approach for Investors - Alternatives to Wall Street | Scoop.it
If you're looking for the rise the next Silicon Valley, the place to watch is the Negev region in Israel. Its new cybersecurity juggernaut is breaking new ground in public-private partnership.
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This is a solid example of how a nation and # of companies can come together to really boost the economic destiny of its citizenry.  We know of no other country in the middle east who is investing so much and is so tech / engineering friendly as Israel is, and we agree they are gettng much clser to the 2nd Silicon Valley

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December 9, 2013 6:11 PM
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Intel Capital Invests $65M In Startups Ranging From Interactive Video To Wireless Electricity | TechCrunch

Intel Capital Invests $65M In Startups Ranging From Interactive Video To Wireless Electricity | TechCrunch | Crowd Funding, Micro-funding, New Approach for Investors - Alternatives to Wall Street | Scoop.it
Intel Capital has announced investments in 16 companies, totaling $65 million. The investments spanned cloud services, datacenter technologies, mobile and..

Intel Capital has announced investments in 16 companies, totaling $65 million. The investments spanned cloud services, data-center technologies, mobile and consumer-related services.

The investments are as follows:

CloudFX of Singapore is a cloud strategy consulting company that helps companies re-architect IT infrastructures, operations and helps institute DevOps style practices.Cloudian of Japan and the United States, is an object storage platform that is compatible with Amazon Web Services, Citrix Cloud Platform, Apache CloudStack, OpenStack and other cloud services.CSDN is a Chinese company that provides a community website and services platform for IT professionals in China. According to Intel Capital, it has 27 million registered users and 500,000 enterprise partner members. The company owns several Chinese IT communities such as CMDN, a mobile developer community and IT recruiting website Pongo.DotProduct provides software for real-time capturing and processing of 3-D data on Android tablets. Use cases include documenting crime scenes to imaging movies sets for gaming and entertainment applications.Wayz Japan is a service to store, manage, access, share and organize files anywhere on any device.Interlude is an Israeli platform provider to create interactive videos that allows viewers to determine what happens next in the viewing experience.  Its authoring platform.-Treehouse, allows video creators to map, build and publish Interlude videos on Web, mobile and social platforms. Pretty cool.Lintes Technologies, is a Taiwan-based company that makes the Thunderbolt peripherals that provide high-speed data transfer. According to the company website, Thunderbolt was developed by Intel, and brought to market with technical collaboration from Apple.Perpetuuiti TechnoSoft Services of Singapore and India, offers advanced data recovery technologies that help businesses in complex  IT environments, orchestrated across virtual and physical computing resources in different data centers.Prism Skylabs, which today received $15 million in funding, helps companies use footage from existing security cameras to provide retailers and other businesses with “web-style analytics.”Reduxio Systems, of Israel, boasts it offers infinite data recoverability through real-time primary storage deduplication and protection technologies.Rocketick, also of Israel provides software simulation acceleration for chip verification, helping reduce time-to-market of new designs.Savaari Car Rentals is an online car rental company that offers car rentals across 60 cities in India to both retail and corporate customers.SBA Materials develops “nano-porous dielectrics” that for example, can help improve the performance of advanced chips used in mobile devices while reducing their power consumption.SkySQL, of Finland, announced it has raised $20 million to deepen its support for MariaDB, the fast growing open-source relational database and the emerging database of choice for Wikipedia.WiTricity specializes in wireless electricity. The company was founded in 2007 with clients in consumer electronics, automotive, medical devices and defense.

Intel Capital is an active venture group. According to CB Insights, it is the third most active investor in security technology companies. The analyst group reports that it has recorded the highest number of security exits among investors since the start of 2012. Among Intel Capital’s recent security exits include FireEye and Palo Alto Networks.

For links to each of those companies, click on the title to see the original article on TechCrunch.

 

 


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About time the motheship spent some $$

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December 7, 2013 7:33 PM
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3 Trends Changing Our World

Demographic shifts are having a profound effect on our future: from health care and retirement to energy use and technology. For more information, visit: htt...
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(from the Curator of IoT & Wearables): This is a surprisingly excellent presentation on trends that will effect everyone on the planet, as well as the affect that it will have on future business and technological trends, solutions and investments as a result.

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December 5, 2013 4:29 PM
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Local Motors Launches Crowdfunding Campaign for Motorized Cruiser - Crowdsourcing.org

Local Motors Launches Crowdfunding Campaign for Motorized Cruiser - Crowdsourcing.org | Crowd Funding, Micro-funding, New Approach for Investors - Alternatives to Wall Street | Scoop.it
Local Motors Launches Crowdfunding Campaign for Motorized Cruiser Crowdsourcing.org According to the co-creation company, the crowdfunding campaign is the first “Local Motors-sponsored crowdfunding effort dedicated to bringing the designs of...
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Didn't I see these motorized cruisers in the 1920's and 30's?

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December 5, 2013 4:26 PM
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How Crowdfunding Could Impact Cleantech Entrepreneurs (And Why It Probably ... - Energy Collective

How Crowdfunding Could Impact Cleantech Entrepreneurs (And Why It Probably ... - Energy Collective | Crowd Funding, Micro-funding, New Approach for Investors - Alternatives to Wall Street | Scoop.it
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How Crowdfunding Could Impact Cleantech Entrepreneurs (And Why It Probably ...
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Interesting "What If" analysis, worth it to read

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December 4, 2013 2:15 PM
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VC Experts | The Jobs Act: The Costs Of Title III Crowdfunding: Necessity to Audit the financials of crowd-funded ventures

VC Experts | The Jobs Act: The Costs Of Title III Crowdfunding: Necessity to Audit the financials of crowd-funded ventures | Crowd Funding, Micro-funding, New Approach for Investors - Alternatives to Wall Street | Scoop.it
VC Experts provides data on private company valuations, share prices, deal terms of financings, as well as industry leading information and documentation for participants in the Private Equity & Venture Capital industries.
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Lowering expectations for VC's,(and others) expressing the need to audit the financials for crowd-funded ventures, if you do crowd funding do not make this mistake!

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December 2, 2013 9:49 AM
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Samsung Global MRAM Innovation Program

Samsung Global MRAM Innovation Program | Crowd Funding, Micro-funding, New Approach for Investors - Alternatives to Wall Street | Scoop.it
Samsung Electronics, Co., Ltd. (SAMSUNG) has conducted the Global Research Outreach ("GRO") program, which is a call for research proposals from the world's leading universities, since 2009(GRO).
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Excellnt Approach by Samsung to help drive new tech advancements for MRAM (Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory) using an open innovatin framework.  Although it is NOT clear where the IP, royalty and revenue sharing is in their model, and so that is all up in the air and makes this a harder sell to the truly creative who would have something to add to this.

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December 2, 2013 9:40 AM
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Venture & Entrepreneur - Samsung Research America (SRA) - Research and Development

Venture & Entrepreneur - Samsung Research America (SRA) - Research and Development | Crowd Funding, Micro-funding, New Approach for Investors - Alternatives to Wall Street | Scoop.it
Open innovation with external partners enriches our research and development performance. Open Innovation is the key to Samsung new business creation. Many of our current products were created by incorporating the technologies from venture companies.
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And here is Samsung's version of Intel Capital but perhaps more user friendly than other corporate ventuiring firms?  We shall go forth and find out and let you know.

 

 

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December 1, 2013 11:20 PM
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Scientists calling on the crowd for funding - Crowdfunding Softlaunch - Crowd Funding Soft Launch

Scientists calling on the crowd for funding - Crowdfunding Softlaunch - Crowd Funding Soft Launch | Crowd Funding, Micro-funding, New Approach for Investors - Alternatives to Wall Street | Scoop.it
Our unique and powerful CrowdFunding preview platform helps, acquires,incubates, and accelerates CrowdFunding at its early stage.
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More software for Crodfunding, the competition for investment $$ is going to increase

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December 1, 2013 11:19 PM
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Local software may jumpstart crowdfunding - Northern Colorado Business Report

Local software may jumpstart crowdfunding - Northern Colorado Business Report | Crowd Funding, Micro-funding, New Approach for Investors - Alternatives to Wall Street | Scoop.it
Local software may jumpstart crowdfunding Northern Colorado Business Report FORT COLLINS – Crowdfunding – a high-tech, online method for raising small amounts of start-up cash - is poised to reach multi-million-dollar levels worldwide, and entities...
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New software for supporting crowdfunding, Wall Street, you are in trouble for being poor invesment analysts, as you do not pay attention to what people are really buying and why.  That is why your analysis' are mostly wrong.  You do not understand customers, yet you think you do.  Consider yourself served.

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December 1, 2013 11:13 PM
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Crowdfunding roundup: affordable custom molded earphones ...

Crowdfunding roundup: affordable custom molded earphones ... | Crowd Funding, Micro-funding, New Approach for Investors - Alternatives to Wall Street | Scoop.it
Rather than make you sift through all of these projects, we're tracking down the best or most notable crowdfunding projects from around the web and delivering them to you in a simple roundup. If there's a project that you've ...
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Nice approach to sifting through the different ventures gettting funding, worth a read to see whats going to be next

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November 27, 2013 3:21 PM
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Nanotubes and Raman technology: From the streets, to the lab and even your computer

Nanotubes and Raman technology: From the streets, to the lab and even your computer | Crowd Funding, Micro-funding, New Approach for Investors - Alternatives to Wall Street | Scoop.it
Commercially available as instrumentation designed for macro-size sampling, Raman spectroscopy drew interest for providing information similar but complementary to infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy for chemical identification.
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(from the Curator of IoT & Wearables): Raman technology unlocks carbon nanotubes potential In late September, Stanford Univ. researchers unveiled the first working computer built entirely from carbon nanotube transistors. The computer contains 178 transistors formed from several tens of thousands of single-walled carbon nanotubes.

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