The World Wide Web is getting crowded, or so they say, so the international nonprofit that governs the way the Internet operates decided to see if there was any interest in creating new domains to conquer. Well, yes, and nearly 2,000 requests were submitted – along with nearly $400 million in application fees – to […]
Technology
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Retaining Boston’s tech cluster
Today marks the fourth day of South by Southwest (SXSW), a conference that attracts almost 50,000 people and showcases the latest in music, film, and technology each year in Austin. Back here in Boston, the business pages are highlighting our own cluster of tech companies in areas like social networking, retail, and health care; the […]
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Who will like Facebook’s IPO?
How much are our jokes, our stories, our likes and dislikes, our pictures, our family and friends worth? To you, priceless, but on the open market, perhaps as much as $100 billion. We could find out as soon as today with the expected Facebook initial public offering getting ready to be unveiled in documents that […]
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Common ground for strange Web bedfellows
President Obama came out against some of the provisions in the two bills in Congress that would put the boot on online piracy so you’d think the remaining Republican contenders would make it one of their top priorities to pass the bills, no? You would be wrong, Bucky. At last night’s debate, all four GOP […]