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Microsoft offers tech courses to Indian academia

Original post by NYDaily News  Bangalore, Oct 21 — World’s largest software major, Microsoft Corporation is offering its new education programme to the Indian academia for capacity building through faculty and making students more employable. “Our new education programme will help academic institutions across the country with relevant topics, partner with us for technology innovation […]

Joanna Shields leaves Facebook to join UK’s Tech City

Original post by Dave Lee via  BBC Facebook’s European boss Joanna Shields is to leave the social network to lead the UK government’s investment group for technology start-ups. The Tech City Investment Organisation (TCIO) supports firms based near the Silicon Roundabout area of east London. Ms Shields will replace current head Eric Van Der Kleij in January 2013. […]

ACE partners with Pyrks for entrepreneur Starter Kit

Original post by JACKY YAP via e27 Singapore entrepreneurship support organizations ACE has partnered with Pyrks to offer a Starter Kit to entrepreneurs. Action Community in Entrepreneurship (ACE) is among the biggest supporters to entrepreneurship in Singapore. Their latest initiative involves putting together an online package of exclusive deals and special rates on items that startup founders typically […]

New York Is No Silicon Valley Yet, But It’s Making Progress

Original post by Jennifer Peltz via HUFF POST  New York’s mayor has made no secret of his quest to have the Big Apple rival Silicon Valley as a high-tech hub. The city isn’t there, at least not yet, but it can point to a series of promising signs. Tech titans including Google and Facebook have ramped […]

7 apps making the most of HTML5

Original post by Peter Wayner via PC ADVISOR HTML5 is more than a few years old and no longer a curiousity. Web pages that used to simply emulate a piece of paper are now expected to do something snazzy to justify their existence. Thanks to HTML5, along with innovations in JavaScript and CSS, interactive logic is […]