PRWeb.com Press Release Feed - PRWeb Press Release Account Feed http://www.prweb.com PRWeb.com Press Release Feed - Press Releases en xml@emediawire.com xml@emediawire.com 30 Entrepreneur Leverages Silicon Valley Experience In Writing Best-Selling Thrillers: Keith Raffel Applies Six Rules for Start-Ups to New Career As Author http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/10/prweb3086514.htm Silicon Valley entrepreneur Keith Raffel has applied six tenets he followed in founding a successful Silicon Valley start-up company to his current career as a best-selling author. Raffel's second novel, Smasher: A Silicon Valley Thriller, is out this month. It tells the story of a technology entrepreneur who is battling a ruthless Silicon Valley billionaire for control of his company. When his wife is run down by a car, the stakes are raised: he is forced to use his brains and business acumen as he races to find her attacker. (PRWeb Oct 22, 2009)

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]]> http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/10/prweb3086514.htm cPacket Whitepaper Says Precise Measurement is Key to Algorithmic Trading Platforms; Beating Network Latency is Crucial for High Frequency Traders http://www.prweb.com/releases/network/latency/prweb2921724.htm Network latency - the milliseconds or microseconds of time it takes to transmit trades electronically from an algorithmic trading platform to the market - is one of the most critical factors in optimizing trading profits. Applications such as high frequency trading and derivative pricing are sensitive to variations in latency of a few milliseconds to microseconds or less, and the differences can literally be measured in "millions (of dollars) per millisecond." Silicon Valley's cPacket Networks has released a whitepaper written to help traders understand both the technical and operational issues in network latency, and how these issues can impact the bottom line. The paper provides vendor-agnostic facts and observations that help stakeholders assess their current situation, develop intuition about critical bottlenecks, and create a strategy for implementing systemic latency improvements. (PRWeb Oct 20, 2009)

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