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Former Twitter engineers raise $1.35 million for their mysterious new startup
Some former Twitter engineers have managed to raise $1.35 million in funding for their new San Francisco-based startup called Pushd. Not much is known about the startup except that it's working...
Could South Korea come to rival Silicon Valley?
Can South Korea's new culture of business and creativity eventually rival Silicon Valley? The number of tech startups has surged by 80 per cent since 2011. “Korea is now the biggest startup...
Apple and Google topped news coverage in 2013, leaving Microsoft in the dust
Two tech companies lead the pack when it comes to commanding the attention of print media this year, and while they’re not necessarily surprising, they’ve completely blown out the competition....
San Francisco gives its main street free Wi-Fi, eyes citywide service
The city and county of San Francisco teamed up with Earthlink and Google nearly a decade ago to build what was planned as a citywide Wi-Fi network, only to see Earthlink retreat from its...
Facebook video pitch deck shows it has gone to war against TV
Facebook believes its soon-to-be-launched video ad product will compete directly for TV ad dollars, and those going on YouTube, according to a leaked sales pitch deck. After having carved out a...
Ford chairman invests in QuickPay, an app to make parking suck less
QuickPay, a startup that aims to improve the parking experience, has closed an additional $5.5 million in funding, bringing its total to $9 million. The investors include Detroit-based Fontinalis Partners, which was founded by...
New mobile app helps you find ‘cruelty-free’ places to eat
A lot of restaurants serves meat that comes from farms where the animals are cruelly abused, but how can you know which one? Fortunately, a nonprofit organization called America for Animals is...
Google’s first data centers in Asia go online to help serve the growing Internet population
Google has announced that its two new data centers in Asia, based in Taiwan and Singapore, are now online. Following yesterday’s news that the company has scrapped plans for a third data center in...
Tech companies ask governments to reform surveillance practices
Eight top tech companies in the U.S. have asked governments around the world to reform surveillance laws and practices, and asked the U.S. to take the lead. AOL, Apple, Facebook, Google,...
Facebook steps up Russian programming partnerships
Facebook has already augmented its base of mobile game developers by working with more than 50 Russian partners and spending more time with app developers in Russia than in any...
Android’s share of global sales is growing 14-times faster than iOS’s share
Consumers continue to purchase more Android than iOS devices, the 3DS is less popular than the Amazon Kindle, and more than half of the mobile-gaming audience is women. Market-research firm...
First person to release an open source iOS 7 jailbreak will recieve a crowdfunded reward
A number of prominent people have grown tired of waiting for an iOS 7 jailbreak, months after its release, and have banded together to create a crowdfunded reward for the...
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