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Former Twitter engineers raise $1.35 million for their mysterious new startup

Dec 26, 2013

Some former Twitter engineers have managed to raise $1.35 million in funding for their new San Francisco-based startup called Pushd. Not...

Could South Korea come to rival Silicon Valley?

Dec 24, 2013

Can South Korea's new culture of business and creativity eventually rival Silicon Valley? The number of tech startups has surged by...

Apple and Google topped news coverage in 2013, leaving Microsoft in the dust

Dec 23, 2013

Two tech companies lead the pack when it comes to commanding the attention of print media this year, and while...

San Francisco gives its main street free Wi-Fi, eyes citywide service

Dec 17, 2013

The city and county of San Francisco teamed up with Earthlink and Google nearly a decade ago to build what was planned...

Facebook video pitch deck shows it has gone to war against TV

Dec 15, 2013

Facebook believes its soon-to-be-launched video ad product will compete directly for TV ad dollars, and those going on YouTube, according...

Ford chairman invests in QuickPay, an app to make parking suck less

Dec 13, 2013

QuickPay, a startup that aims to improve the parking experience, has closed an additional $5.5 million in funding, bringing its total to...

New mobile app helps you find ‘cruelty-free’ places to eat

Dec 13, 2013

A lot of restaurants serves meat that comes from farms where the animals are cruelly abused, but how can you...

Google’s first data centers in Asia go online to help serve the growing Internet population

Dec 11, 2013

Google has announced that its two new data centers in Asia, based in Taiwan and Singapore, are now online. Following yesterday’s news...

Tech companies ask governments to reform surveillance practices

Dec 9, 2013

Eight top tech companies in the U.S. have asked governments around the world to reform surveillance laws and practices, and...

Facebook steps up Russian programming partnerships

Dec 6, 2013

Facebook has already augmented its base of mobile game developers by working with more than 50 Russian partners and spending...

Android’s share of global sales is growing 14-times faster than iOS’s share

Dec 5, 2013

Consumers continue to purchase more Android than iOS devices, the 3DS is less popular than the Amazon Kindle, and more...

First person to release an open source iOS 7 jailbreak will recieve a crowdfunded reward

Dec 5, 2013

A number of prominent people have grown tired of waiting for an iOS 7 jailbreak, months after its release, and...