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FTC Gives Ed Felten Freedom to Tinker

John Paczkowski in News on November 4, 2010 at 11:55 am PT

Looks like the Federal Trade Commission got its first choice of Chief Technologist, because it’s hard to think of anyone better to serve in that capacity than Princeton computer science professor Ed Felten, a guy whose CV makes everyone from Microsoft to Diebold shudder in embarrassment.

Seven Reasons Tech Start-Ups Are Setting Up Shop in New York

Alexander Hotz, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on August 19, 2010 at 11:12 am PT

When Carter Cleveland, the CEO of the art-trading website Art.sy, moved his fledgling company from Palo Alto, Calif., to New York City he left behind arguably the best place to start a tech business in the U.S.

Kindle on Campus, Fall 2009: Will You Be One of the Lucky 300?

Peter Kafka in Media on May 6, 2009 at 12:24 pm PT

All geared up to use a Kindle DX when you head back to school next fall? The odds are against you: Amazon and six colleges are conducting the most preliminary of tests. Which means only a few dozen students at each school are going to get their mitts on the $489 gadgets.

Clearspring Plus AddThis–But Does That Add Up to a Real Business?

Kara Swisher in News on September 30, 2008 at 4:45 am PT

In a move to dramatically increase its traffic and give it more tools to offer publishers, Clearspring Technologies said it will acquire AddThis, the top bookmarking and content-sharing tool on the Web. As with many social-networking start-ups, whether this disparate traffic can be easily translated into a revenue-generating business remains to be seen. The McLean, Va.-based Clearspring–one of several widget networks seeking to connect publishers and advertisers with social tools by helping them embed small pieces of content across Web and monetize that content–would not disclose the price it paid for the Princeton, N.J.-based AddThis.