John S. Knight Fellowships Welcome Blogging While Brown Attendees to Revitalize Journalism With Entrepreneurship and Innovation
The John S. Knight Fellowships is giving Blogging While Brown attendees and other content creators the opportunity to be a John S. Knight fellow. Participants spend a year at Stanford utilizing the resources of the university and Silicon Valley as they pursue their own proposals for improving journalism with the program’s focus on journalism innovation, [...]
Read MoreThe Hottest Tech Cities for Employment
Tech boom? That must be focused in the Valley, right? Or at least, you would expect that any such rapid expansion would have the largest impact in that region. However, a new study by the Praxis Strategy Group has outlined a number of critical facts that bust that specific narrative. Among the highlights: In the Vally, tech employment is [...]
Read MoreStudents Circle Network CEO Steps Down to Focus on New Online University for African Students
Students Circle Network and Beni American University founder, Gossy Ukanwoke announced today he will step down as CEO. The Students Circle Network, a social network focusing on education for college and high school students has seen much success since its launch in 2010, but Ukanwoke feels it is time to put his energy into his new online [...]
Read MoreFacebook To Acquire Instagram For $1 Billion
Facebook has just finished a deal to acquire Instagram. The compensation will be approximately $1 billion in cash and stock. Instagram will remain a standalone app from Facebook, but the services will have increasing ties to each other. The transaction should go through this quarter pending some standard closing procedures Last year, documents for an standalone [...]
Read MoreObama Signs ‘Game-Changing,’ Crowd-Funding JOBS Act
President Obama called the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act a “game-changing” bill moments before singing it into law Thursday afternoon. The JOBS Act is a bipartisan bill which aims to make it easier for startups to grow, hire employees and contribute to the United States’ sluggish economic recovery. The bill classifies startups as “emerging growth companies” [...]
Read MoreTwitter To Set Up Office In Downtown Detroit
The state of Michigan is changing — a burgeoning startup scene has taken the stage, and what some may call a tech renaissance has swept across the state, namely in Detroit. So it shouldn’t be much of a surprise that Twitter, one of the biggest names in tech, is opening an office in downtown Detroit. The office will be [...]
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