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How Tech Giants Like Google and Apple Want to Improve the Internet

How Tech Giants Like Google and Apple Want to Improve the Internet

This week, Google, Apple, Facebook and other major tech companies announced that they had joined forces to launch Web Platform, a repository of knowledge and best practices for web technologies. As with Wikipedia, anyone can contribute, and hundreds of people already have. Along with volunteers from some of the “steward” companies — which also include Adobe, HP, Microsoft, Mozilla, Nokia and Opera — Web Platform is run by members of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), an international group focused on creating web standards. The team is headed by Doug Schepers, a W3C developer relations lead. In an email interview, Schepers discussed how business owners…

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“The Hardest Thing For Any Entrepreneur Is To Start”

“The Hardest Thing For Any Entrepreneur Is To Start”

Twitter and Square co-founder Jack Dorsey took the stage at the GigaOm Roadmap conference to talk about his experience being well, basically a jack of all trades (rimshot). Dorsey revealed that both his own and his family’s experiences with entrepreneurship were inspiration for his two current startups — both of which remove friction from human communication and industry, a process Dorsey described as “getting rid of the ‘conceptual debris’.” Dorsey has long identified with the struggles of entrepreneurs; He brought up the example of his mother, who ran a small coffee shop in St. Louis, “Starbucks came and it didn’t go so well,” he…

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6 Tips To Get Your Startup Off The Ground And Score A Seed Round

6 Tips To Get Your Startup Off The Ground And Score A Seed Round

Editor’s note: Anthemos Georgiades is the CEO of Zumper, a new platform for apartment rentals being built from the ground up. Prior to Zumper he worked at the Boston Consulting Group and as an Economic Advisor in British politics. You can follow him on Twitter. Zumper’s seed round story is far from perfect. Like most first-time founders, we screwed stuff up at every stage, from having no estimation of what valuation cap we should set, through to really stupid meeting scheduling, which led us to take several quite important calls from our Zipcar. Which echoed. A lot. Despite the challenges,…

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Intel to use London as a smart city lab

Intel to use London as a smart city lab

Chip maker Intel has set up a laboratory in London to test the technologies that could power the cities of the future.   The Collaborative Research Institute for Sustainable Connected Cities was unveiled at 10 Downing Street. Intel is partnering with Imperial College and University College London. The aim of the institute will be to find real-life applications for technology to enhance city life. Initially a dozen researchers will work at the institute. It will aim to solve problems related to the environment, as well as the social and economic issues faced by growing cities. “In 2050, most of the…

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