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Twitter - Can it Escape the Valley?

April 29th, 2008 · No Comments

Twitter, an absolute obsession, nay, a way of life for some, is not even on the radar for many people outside Silicon Valley. The root of this lies in the fact that Silicon Valley is the first to know about new technology, either by word of mouth or by targeting of PR and marketing […]

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Motricity to leave Durham for Bellevue WA; Layoff 250 employees

April 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

This is not breaking news, but one of the Triangle’s most successful tech startups, Motricity, is moving their headquarters at the American Tobacco Campus in Durham for the greener pastures of Bellevue, Washington. Motricity has been both a symbol of the kind of success tech companies can have in the Triangle area, and of […]

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Ryan Allis Wants YOU to Help End Poverty and buy his Book

January 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment

Ryan Allis, the Triangle area wunderkind, iContact CEO, and host of some of the best meetups in the land wants to add another item to his resume - Bestselling Author. Ryan’s written a book called “Zero to One Million” about how he built a company (two companies actually) to the level of $1 million […]

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Google Maps at the Gas Pump - Teams with Gilbarco

November 7th, 2007 · No Comments

Greensboro, NC company Gilbarco is teaming up with Google to offer directions via Google Maps displays installed directly into gas pumps. No, this doesn’t mean cheaper, ad-supported gas, but it does mean that the search giant will be more ubiquitous than ever, especially in light of the GPhone platform announcement a few days ago.
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SeeMeWin Relaunch Goes Live Tonight

October 17th, 2007 · No Comments

For anyone who read my post last week about life-casting lotto website See Me Win, there is good news. The site, which had been down for some redesigning, will be broadcasting live starting at 10PM tonight. I got a message from one of the site’s founders, Duke grad Breck Yunits, saying that they’ve […]

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Moby Dick on my iPhone? Lulu.com offers eBook Publishing

October 12th, 2007 · No Comments

Mooresville-based Lulu Press announced last week that they will now help authors publish their works in ebook form to be consumed by the most cutting edge literati among us. The new service, called “eBook Optimization,” allows formatting of a high quality PDF to be read on either an iPhone or the much less heralded […]

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TechJournal South Deck Party - October 18th in Durham

October 9th, 2007 · No Comments

TechJournal South is hosting their Triangle area get together next week on Thursday October 18th from 5:30-9:30 at the Durham Centre Building.
The event draws a few hundred members of the information technology and biotechnology sectors. The crowd tends to be a good mix of people involved with web technology, biotech, and some […]

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Site Profile: SeeMeWin.com

October 8th, 2007 · No Comments

If you haven’t heard of SeeMeWin.com, then you probably haven’t heard of anything like it either. The premise is simple - watch people scratch lotto tickets, 24/7, hence the name See Me Win. The obvious question is, why in the world would I want to watch that?
Before we answer that, let’s take a […]

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