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Tech Wildcatters hosts largest program in its 5-year history
San Francisco residents Ben Jorgensen, left, and David Martin of Klick Push chose to participate in the Tech Wildcatters seed accelerator program in Dallas because they felt the community was more willing to foster the tech startup. Dallas Tech Wildcatters this week hosted its largest program since the group's inception five years ago. The seed accelerator, which works to develop companies, ...
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Twitter Chat About Premature Births
. Because half a million babies are born premature each year, we asked parents of premature babies and experts in the field to join a conversation about innovations in care, what to expect at the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), and how parents have coped with the ups and downs of their child's health. The ...
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Twitter Launches Tool for TV Ads
Twitter is attempting to secure its position at the nexus between television and digital media, announcing a new TV ad- targeting programme along with a flurry of partnerships with media ...
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NuoDB co-founder and CTO departs succeeded by early employee
Seth Proctor, formerly a developer at NuoDB, has been named the company's new CTO. Cambridge-based NuoDB, developer of a database built to work in the cloud which aims to power the Web of the future, says co-founder Jim Starkey has retired from the CTO position at the firm. He has been succeeded in the role by company developer Seth Proctor. Starkey had spent three decades working in ...
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CORRECTED-Tiger Global invests $50 million in Automattics WordPress.com
SAN FRANCISCO May 24 (Reuters) - Automattic, the company that operates blogging service WordPress.com, announced a $50 million investment from hedge fund Tiger Global on ...
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Video Senators fans go pantless in Rihannaing Twitter trend
Rihanna's pantless pose on Twitter prompted Ottawa Senators blogger Eric Doty to create the "Rihannaing" hashtag. Now Sens fans are dropping their trousers for the ...
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Tables turned Facebook hit with social media campaign over sexist content
That's what's happening to American Express, Dove, Zipcar, Audible and more. (Screenshots of these images next to Facebook advertising have been posted online, it's extremely graphic content ...
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Is Google Angling To Outbid Facebook For Waze
Google Maps is a frontrunner in the mapping and navigation market for both traditional PCs and smartphones. However, startups have been known to edge in to take a little slice of the pie by offering unique features. Until Google tries to buy them. The search-engine giant is currently in talks to buy map software provider Waze Inc, ...
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Florida would provide parts to U.S.-produced Apple computer line
US-based Apple Mac line would include components from Florida, according to company CEO Tim Cook Florida got a bite of good news from Apple during Tim Cooks recent Senate hearing testimony on taxes, with the CEO announcing Florida would take part in a U.S.-based Mac line. He wasnt specific about where in Florida, but Cook did say Texas would be home base for assembling the Mac line. Illinois and ...
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Valley vintner gets weird on Tim Cooks tax problems
A toast to Tim Cook. Gilroy winery owner Thomas Kruse raises a glass in a photo for the winery's newsletter. Talk about seizing on current events for a little off-color company marketing. The Internet was consumed earlier this week with Apple CEO Tim Cook's appearance before a Senate committee to talk U.S. tax-dodging with overseas subsidiaries, particularly in Ireland (read more about ...
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Secret Twitter garden reveals itself when you tweet
(Credit: University of Lincoln) It's always good to stop and smell the roses, but sometimes you have to tweet to access them. At least that's how it works with an interactive Internet-connected garden created by the ...
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Under house arrest Chinese bishop uses social media to encourage pilgrimage
Imprisoned Bishop Ma Daqin of Shanghai used social media to lead the faithful in prayer on May 24 as Chinese Catholics observed the feast of Our Lady of Sheshan on May 24. Bishop Ma, who is living under house arrest at an undisclosed location in Shanghai, is recognized by the Vatican as the rightful Bishop of Shanghai. He has been denounced by the Beijing government since, at his episcopal ...
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Video Students create car that runs on social media
High school students from Kansas City, Mo., turned an old-school Volkswagen Karmann Ghia into an electric car that runs on social fuel. KCTV's Alice Barr ...
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Ashton Kutcher on Twitter Media kind of fed it up
Did the media really screw up Twitter? That's what actor Ashton Kutcher suggested when he spoke at the recent CTIA 2013 wireless conference. "Twitter's experience has changed for me, pretty drastically. It used to be sort of a personalized, experience for me, a really personal experience that I could share. I think for lack of a better verb, I think the media kind of f***ed it ...
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Google may start bidding war with Facebook over Waze
Google , maker of the Android operating system, is considering buying map-software provider Waze, setting up a possible bidding war with Facebook, people familiar with the matter ...
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How cat photos on caturday helped me understand Google+
Hello? Is anyone out there? Thats how a lot of people feel when they log on to Google+ and try to interact with friends and business connections, many of whom are off chatting on other social media platforms. The experience used to be a lonely one for me. The often non-chronological order of Google+s news feed confused me, too. That is until curiosity got the best of me, and I started watching ...
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Robots on the big screen have ties to Kansas City entrepreneur Video
Crackerneck is the name of a Golem Workshop prototype. When "Man of Steel" premieres next month, a Kansas City-area robotics engineer may experience a sense of dj vu. The debut will mark the second time Derek Scherer's handiwork has shown up on the big screen. Derek Scherer, who used to build battlefield robots for the U.S. Army, also played a part in the animatronic creatures in ...
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Washington University professor steers X Prize to Alzheimers
A Washington University professor and a team of experts won a brainstorming competition that led the X Prize Foundation to raise a $50 million prize to motivate scientists and researchers to find effective treatments and potentially a cure for Alzheimers disease. The X Prize Foundation awarded a $10 million prize in 2004 to the first company that built a spacecraft capable of carrying three ...
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ABQ Civic Tech Day seeks innovation through open data
The University of New Mexico will be the local host for a National Day of Civic Hacking event on Saturday, June 1. The University of New Mexico will be the local host for a National Day of Civic Hacking event on Saturday, June 1. The event, ABQ Civic Tech Day, is designed for programmers to work together to develop local apps, or ideas for their own projects, during hackathon sessions. Two of ...
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4 startups totally screwed if bridges keep collapsing and roads disappear
Trapped on a broken bridge, part of the Everett Collection. A s bridges collapse and roads erode, the burgeoning transportation startup scene could be looking at hard times. With the collapse last night of the I-5 bridge over the Skagit River in Washington state, its a good time to remember that without infrastructure beneath it, transportation innovation will hit a major pothole. But there is ...
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United offering more premium perks from New York
United Airlines says it now offers flat-bed seats and on-demand personal entertainment systems in premium cabins on every international flight from New York area airports. No matter what the surveys say about the quality of its service, Chicago-based United Airlines is charging ahead with upgrades of its service in a variety of ways. Today, United bragged that it is now the only United ...
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Compare Metrics filing reveals more funding details
A regulatory filing provided additional details about the Compare Metrics Inc. Series A financing announced earlier this week. The Austin-based software maker received nearly $4.4 million from 12 investors, according to a Friday filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Compare Metrics, founded in 2010 as Compare Networks LLC, develops search tools for e-commerce websites with a ...
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Man charged with making malicious comments about murdered soldier on Facebook
A 22-year-old man has been charged on suspicion of making malicious comments on Facebook following the murder of British soldier Lee Rigby. Benjamin Flatters, of Lincoln, was arrested last night after complaints were made to Lincolnshire Police about comments made on Facebook, which were allegedly of a racist or anti-religious nature.He was charged with an offence of malicious communications ...
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Dumping over text or Facebook More common than you might think
Chalk another one up for the power of mobile and social media – our love affair with our phones and our Facebook accounts has changed not only the ways we interact in real-life relationships, but also the ways we end them. In a survey released last week, Internet and mobile security software ...
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Taiwan forms cloud computing initiative to join Facebook project
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- In an effort to participate in Facebook's Open Computing Project (OCP), Taiwan's academia and enterprises yesterday joined forces, announcing plans to establish a certification center and standards to govern hardware specifications ...
Calcutta Spotlight
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Stephen Court disaster: any lessons learned?
Over 700 buildings in Calcutta are not compliant with safety regulations with regard to the risk of fire, and the Stephen Court disaster was a tangible example of what can happen when a fire breaks out in an unsafe building. Following that disaster, the local government seems to be taking a harder line on fire safety.
At 2.30pm on the 23 March, 2010, a devastating fire, allegedly caused by an electrical short circuit, ripped through the iconic Stephen Court building in Calcutta, destroying a large part of the 150-year-old office and residential block and killing over 30 people. Read more
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