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Amazon’s new London center to focus on TV, film

Amazon’s new London center to focus on TV, film

Original post by Charlie Osborne  via CNET  The Web retail giant has chosen London as a new base for developing and expanding its on-demand television and film services. Online retail giant Amazon is to open an international design and development center in London. Amazon has rented an eight-story, 47,000-square-foot office situated near Barbican station. The new […]

Here Are Our Favorite Companies From The Fourth 500 Startups Demo Day

Original post by RYAN LAWLER via TC Today in Mountain View, Calif., Dave McClure’s 500 Startups unveiled the latest class of companies to participate in its Accelerator program. This batch had startups addressing an incredibly wide variety of spaces — from kid’s computer games to necktie shopping, and beyond. Founding partner Dave McClure said during today’s program that with […]

London’s Summer Olympics will be big business

Original post by John Boudreau via Siliconvalley The London Summer Olympics have yet to start, but the windfall from the global economic sports behemoth has already been felt more than 5,000 miles away at La Pastaia restaurant in downtown San Jose, where tables filled up with hungry customers attending the recent U.S. Olympic Gymnastics Trials at […]