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Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. introduced tools to integrate their services with Google Inc.’s Glass, the computerized eyewear touted by the search provider as an alternative for smartphones.
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International Business Machines Corp. will offer its Watson technology, which beat humans in “Jeopardy!,” as a building block for startup companies making business software.
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Twitter Inc. Chief Executive Officer Dick Costolo said the online service for 140-character messages is increasingly being used to track personal health with wearable computing gadgets such as Nike Inc.’s fitness devices.
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Pearson Plc’s Penguin offered to overhaul pricing models for digital books to settle a European Union antitrust probe into whether they blocked competition.
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PG&E Corp. said gunshots damaged a substation in Silicon Valley, triggering an alert to conserve power in the region that is home to Apple Inc., Facebook Inc. and Google Inc.
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Hardware makers will tussle with application developers for the limelight at the South by Southwest Interactive festival, a conference better known for showcasing startups such as Twitter Inc. focused on software.
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Nat Goldhaber wants to find the next promising technology startup. He says he’s more likely to discover it among the chalkboards of Berkeley than the whiteboards of Silicon Valley.
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Neil Young, the rock singer who said he was prepared to brave “treacherous” venture capital markets to popularize his high-fidelity format for downloading music, raised $500,000 from an investment group last month.
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Barry Silbert was born to trade.
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Zach Sims didn’t let the fact that he’s not a programmer stop him from creating Codecademy, a startup that offers free online computer science courses.
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