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Steve Brill’s Clear Card Gets Grounded

Peter Kafka in Media on June 22, 2009 at 8:38 pm PT

A system to speed elite travelers through airports shuts down after four years and $116 million. Its failure will rub some shine off a couple of well-known media types: The entrepreneur behind Court TV and some of the primary investors behind Twitter.

Silicon Alley vs. Silicon Valley

Marisa Taylor, Tech Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on June 3, 2009 at 8:01 am PT

Silicon Valley may be the place to be for Internet startups, but New York is the birthplace of cool, an attribute that comes in handy for launching some tech companies.