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Tuesday, 25th May 2010

Bloomberg Announces Funding, Calls For Startups in NYC

"Small businesses are the future of America," said New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg this morning at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in NYC. Bloomberg described New York City as "the place to come" for entrepreneurs and startups, announcing that the city-sponsored NYC Entrepreneurial Fund had made its first investment in local startup…

Mike Melanson comments

An Open API from MasterCard to Develop Applications? Priceless

In a press release this morning, MasterCard has announced that desktop and mobile developers will have access to an API from the credit card giant later this year. The company hopes that by opening its technology to developers, new and innovative e-commerce applications that leverage the MasterCard network will be created, potentially competing…

Chris Cameron comments

Does Facebook Need Its Own Anti-Malware Service?

Does Facebook need to run its own anti-virus and anti-malware security system? That's a question that may need to be addressed in the near future as the now almost 500 million users on the social networking service are facing regular attacks from rogue applications, phishing attempts and other sorts of hacks, not to mention the onslaught of…

Social Sarah Perez comments

You're So Hot You're Real-Time: Call For Startup Demos

On June 11 in New York City, Team ReadWriteWeb will convene some of the smartest people on the Web to talk about the state and future of real-time technology at the ReadWriteWeb Real-Time Summit East. As part of the value-packed activities that day, we'll have a post-lunch demo hour organized in an innovative format called Speed Geeking. This…

Marshall Kirkpatrick comments

Google's U.S. Economic Impact: $54 Billion for Businesses, Publishers and Non-Profits

Google plans to hold a number of events across the U.S. this morning where the company will highlight its economic impact on local economies. Ahead of these events, Google just released detailed data about how much economic activity the company generated for local businesses, website publishers and non-profits in the U.S. in 2009. Nationwide…

Frederic Lardinois comments

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