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Silicon Valley Investor Aims To Create Tech Hub In Maine

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The city can’t hope to compete in every way with heavy-hitters like Boston, Seattle, San Francisco and Silicon Valley, which captured nine out of 10 jobs between 2005 and 2017. So it will have to go its own way with the new institute to be called the Roux Institute after Silicon Valley investor David Roux, its patron.

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Uber Eats Updates Its App To Pay Tab While Dining In

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The dine-in payment feature will launch in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Indianapolis, Philadelphia, New York City, Vermont, and Washington, D.C. The San Francisco-based company's app update comes as people rely on food delivery platforms to reduce face-to-face contact with people amid the pandemic. in an all-stock deal worth $2.65

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Tech Center: Fishers Deepens Its Technology Innovation By Launching IoT Lab

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Technology innovation can happen at any place at any time. While some cities like Kansas City hoped to attract entrepreneurs and technology innovators with its Google Fiber installation, it wasn’t enough. This city took a different approach to bring in the tech community.

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Outside The Box (And Inside The Storage Container) Solutions To Sky-High Rent

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Try finding a place to live in San Francisco with a $1,215 monthly rent budget. The average one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco is roughly $3,400 a month – though the average resident would note that anything under $4,000 is either a very good deal or is in a not-so-great neighborhood. Convents have been closing.

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Facebook Tracker: East, West And Everything In Between

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Announcing the decision, McAuliffe said, “Working with companies like Facebook and many others, we are advancing Virginia’s position as a global leader in the technology economy.”. Building upon its Boston-area staff, Facebook plans to open a new office in neighboring Cambridge next year. San Francisco, California.

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What Serving The Internet’s ‘Underserved’ Means For Payments

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communities. That matters because as time goes by and existing cities become prohibitively expensive — think San Francisco, New York City and Los Angeles, with Chicago, Boston and other areas not far behind — many younger, well-educated consumers are making moves to exurban or even rural areas, or smaller cities.

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As The FBI Fights Apple, The DOD Schmoozes Silicon Valley

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We don’t assume that we’ve thought of everything that we need to protect our network,” Carter said in San Francisco. This is the symbiosis that federal defense agencies find themselves in — without help from technologically superior private parties, there’s a chance they could be toast on the global stage.

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