Information Technology
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A year after IPO, Facebook aims to be ad colossusMay 17, 2013 5:56 pm - NEW YORK — It was supposed to be our IPO, the people’s public offering. Facebook, the brainchild of a young CEO who sauntered into Wall Street meetings in a hoodie, was ...
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Tableau Software soars in trading debutMay 17, 2013 11:07 am - NEW YORK — Tableau Software shares soared in their trading debut Friday after the company and some of its investors raised about $254.2 million in its initial public off...
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Syrian hackers compromise Financial Times blogs, Twitter accountsMay 17, 2013 11:07 am - LONDON — A clutch of blogs and Twitter accounts maintained by the Financial Times were hacked Friday, the latest in a series of cyberattacks claimed by the Syrian Electr...
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Hackathon aims to solve traffic problems around regionMay 16, 2013 1:36 pm - Typically, when you hear the term “hackathon,” you picture computer geeks sitting in a large room, rifling through untold number of passwords or other avenues to break i...
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Woodridge’s Navitas receives $150K award from Energy DepartmentMay 16, 2013 9:43 am - Woodridge-based Navitas Systems LLC has received a Small Business Innovation Research award of $150,000 from the U.S. Department of Energy. It marks the first SBIR award...
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Des Plaines firm to provide technology for Gulf Coast facilityMay 16, 2013 9:28 am - Des Plaines-based UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, said it has been selected to provide technology for the world’s largest on-purpose propylene production facility, located...
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Gogo receives license to operate Ku-band satellite aircraftMay 15, 2013 9:20 am - Itasca-based Gogo, the leader of in-flight connectivity and a pioneer in wireless in-flight digital entertainment solutions, said the FCC has granted the company a blank...
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BlackBerry CEO may announce lower-priced phoneMay 14, 2013 10:13 am - TORONTO — The CEO of BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion will deliver a keynote speech amid speculation that he’ll introduce a lower-priced version of the BlackBerry at ...
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Microsoft Windows 8 update will be freeMay 14, 2013 10:11 am - NEW YORK — Microsoft says a planned update to its Windows 8 operating system will be made available for free later this year. Microsoft Corp. announced the update last w...
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DMG/Mori Seiki opens doors to students, others during Innovation DaysMay 13, 2013 12:00 pm - Nearly 3,000 business and manufacturing executives as well as students and educators filled the demonstration hall this week at Hoffman Estates-based DMG/Mori Seiki to l...