Google is partnering with existing incubation labs around the world, announcing a Tech Hub Network that’ll launch with seven partners, initially located in North America. The first TechHubs include, 1871 (Chicago), American Underground (Durham), Coco (Minneapolis), Communitech (Waterloo), Galvanize (Denver), Grand Circus (Detroit) and Nashville Entrepreneur Center (Nashville). Google says they are all top notch […]

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TechCrunch reports that Intel has has bought Indisys, a Spanish startup focused on natural language recognition. The terms of the deal have not been disclosed, but it is reportedly “north” of €20 million ($26 million). Indisys has a deep background in computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and machine learning. It comes just two months […]

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Microsoft today announced that Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer has decided to retire as CEO within the next 12 months, upon the completion of a process to choose his successor. In the meantime, Ballmer will continue as CEO and will lead Microsoft through the next steps of its transformation to a devices and services company. […]

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The world’s most powerful media company and America’s most popular sport,may be coming together, writes Peter Kafka in All Things D. That could happen if Google buys the rights to the NFL’s Sunday Ticket package, the all-you-can-eat subscription-TV service currently owned by DirecTV, says Kafka. The current DirecTV deal ends at the end of the […]

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The Battery Powered Orchestra Workshop is the First Annual Interactive Electronic Arts Festival in Portland, Oregon dedicated to the art of salvaged sound, notes Portland’s Silicon Florist. Encompassing two days of workshops, performances and culminating in a DIY public jam session, BPOW wants to show Portland that even the simplest circuit configurations can bring forth […]

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Amazon today launched web applications through a new Mobile App Distribution Program. Developers can now submit URLs for their HTML5 web apps and mobile websites and have Amazon offer that content to millions of Kindle Fire and Amazon Appstore customers in a convenient way similar to native apps. Amazon says Web apps can reach customers […]

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