Tech Town, NC

Economics, apparently. Even as Chapel Hill activates wi-fi hotspots downtown this month, there is a disturbing trend of failed Muni wi-fi networks in larger cities. Slate is running an excellent analysis of the problems many cities are encountering in their utopian pursuits of free city-wide wi-fi access. The article illustrates how economic realities have belied [...]

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Jason Caplain of Southern Capitol Ventures is being kind enough to host another Meet a VC Day this Friday, September 28th. The event offers entrepreneurs the chance to sit down for a 15 minute meeting with both a VC, Jason, and a successful entrepreneur, ChannelAdvisor’s Scot Wingo. The meetings will be held at the ChannelAdvisor [...]

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The social entrepreneur meetup this past Thursday was another success, featuring some presentations and an even broader array of attendees. This meetup was officially the seventh get together organized by Ryan Allis and the iContact crew, and they really seem to be building something worthwhile. The presenters represented both the social activist side and the [...]

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It’s that time again. Time to hang out with some of the most ambitious, intelligent, successful, fun, and lively people in the Triangle area, and try to somehow make them think I’m just like them. From the writeup on Ryan’s blog it looks like this one should be the most interesting yet, with a few [...]

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TechCrunch reports that Hulu has acquired Beijing-based video sharing site Mojiti.com. Not much has been written about Mojiti, which, just for references’ sake, has an Alexa ranking of 108,289 at the moment, so this acquisition is a bit of a surprise/out of left field. So why Mojiti? The selling point of Mojiti, as far as [...]

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