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Why Austin is Shaping Up to Be the Next Silicon Valley
According to the annual Kauffman Foundation report, Austin, Texas, ranked No. 1 for overall startup activity in 2015. Entrepreneurs are drawn to the Texas Greenbelt because of the increase in VC activity. New business is booming in Austin, and here's why the city is...
Facebook No Longer Counts Third-Party Apps And Still Has 1.55 Billion Users
Some say Facebook inflates its monthly active user count by including people who shared from or used a Facebook-connected third-party app. But today Facebook quieted those critics with a 10-Q update to its SEC filing that says it now only counts people who used...
Blue Coat acquires cloud security startup Elastica for $280M (Updated)
Update at 9:06 a.m. Pacific on Monday, November 7: Blue Coat has just announced the acquisition. The company paid $280 million for Elastica, not more than $300 million, according to a statement. Blue Coat Systems, a security vendor owned by Bain Capital, is...
YouTube Music is here, and it’s a game changer
YouTube is first and foremost a video portal, the world’s largest and most popular online collection of moving images. But it’s also a search engine, the world’s second largest, trailing only its parent company, Google. And while the library on YouTube is made up of...
25 Percent of Websites Are Now on WordPress
World Wide Web Technology Surveys (W3Techs) announces that a recent survey of websites has shown that WordPress, the popular open source publishing platform, is being used in over 25 percent of all websites. That’s not just 25 percent of all those using a service but...
Apple, Microsoft, and Google are trying to incite a quiet app revolution
Google, Microsoft, and Apple are all slamming full-speed into the same wall at the same time: The future they've built is so pleasant (or at least lucrative) that nobody wants to leave for the next thing. Reports have been circulating that Google is working on a...