Despite the fact that traveling and tourism often brings a fair bit of money and economic opportunity to the host country, the influx of foreign people and hotels can create unintended negative consequences on local communities and the environment...
Sections Three dominant tech policy issues A meme goes mainstream Gov 2.0 goes local Rise of the civic startups Emerging civic media Open source in government Open government goes global Federal open government initiatives Opening the People's Hou...
With 2011 leaving technology in overall good shape, with players from chips to software, computing and consumer electronics humming, the outlook for 2012 is even better. Assuming the U.S. economy continues its slow recovery, Europe starts to stabi...
Yahoo has won a lawsuit against spammers, a legal victory that also includes a default judgment of US$610 million. In the lawsuit, filed in May 2008, Yahoo targeted a variety of individuals and companies, accusing them of trying to scam people via...
"I have an engineer in Bangalore and he might be the best engineer we've got in the company. He's a rock star. What a find that this guy is now connected to our Austin team," he said. Increasingly, companies that embrace unified communications (UC...
The social networking software company--a perennial on the Inc. 5000--is seeking to raise as much as $117 million. Jive Software, which aims to be the Facebook for businesses, is seeking to raise as much as $117 million through an initial public o...
(Justmeans.com / CSR News) - Durban, South Africa - 30 November 2011 - The Government of South Africa and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, have appointed Cisco an official networking technology partner for the 17th Confer...
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The #140conf will be returning to the 92nd Street Y on June 19-20, 2012, where we will once again be exploring "The State of NOW." This event is expected to be the largest worldwide gathering of people interested in the effects of the real-time In...
The #140conf will be returning to the 92nd Street Y on June 19-20, 2012, where we will once again be exploring “The State of NOW.”here. This event is expected to be the largest worldwide gathering of people interested in the effects of the real-ti...
During an interview at the Web 2.0 conference on Monday, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo talked a lot about the company’s growth, including the fact that it now gets a quarter of a billion tweets a day and that sign-ups have exploded,thanks to the integr...
