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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 […]

An Analysis Of Market Demand For Web Programming Languages

Original post by MARC GAYLE via TC Editor’s note: Marc Gayle is a Rails developer and founder of 5KMVP, where he builds Minimum Viable Products for just $5K. Follow him on Twitter. A few months ago, I got the idea that one way to get leads for remote freelance gigs was to scour Craigslist. So after doing the manual […]