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| Chicago's vibrant tech community fuels Web innovation - Medill News Service
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by Andrew Baltazar |
| Interactive timeline: Click here for larger version |
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Published Thursday, March 13, 2008. By Andrew Baltazar
A tightly knit technology community, backed by the growth of capital markets organizations and small businesses, is driving the development of new Web-based technologies in the city and has made the City of Big Shoulders a force to be reckoned with in the dot-com world.
In 2004 the founder of a Web design firm called 37 Signals, Jason Fried, launched Basecamp, a Web-based project management tool. Uncertain whether his first software product would be viable, Fried told himself that if Basecamp could not generate $5,000 in revenues per month throughout the first year, he would cancel it. |
| Cutting-edge software keeps Chicago Web sites up and running - Medill News Service
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Photo by Andrew Baltazar |
| HostedLabs founder Jason Rexilius and his team brainstorm features for the company's Internet software platform, which delivers a variety of services, such as hosting, data storage, database and global traffic routing, to growing Chicago-based Web sites. |
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Published Tuesday, March 11, 2008. By Andrew Baltazar
HostedLabs founder Jason Rexilius and his team brainstorm features for the company's Internet software platform, which delivers a variety of services, such as hosting, data storage, database and global traffic routing, to growing Chicago-based Web sites. |
| Chidtarod 2008: Chicago's Urban Shopping Cart Race - Chicago Methods Reporter
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Photo by Andrew Baltazar |
| Team Cool Runnings lifts their "bobsled" as they cross the finish line |
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Published Monday, March 3, 2008. Graphics, Interface and Photos by Andrew Baltazar
"More than 500 people raced shopping carts down the sidewalks, streets and alleys of Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood Saturday, March 1, 2008, as part of a food drive that combined athleticism, alcohol, trickery and lavish costumes."
USAToday.com and BoingBoing.com linked to this story |
| Wall Street not yet sold on Navteq-Nokia deal - Medill Reports, Chicago
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Photo by Andrew Baltazar |
| A Navteq geographic analyst plots his course before hitting the road in a GPS-enabled van to create a digital map of New Delhi. |
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Published Thursday, January 31, 2008. By Andrew Baltazar
Chicago-based digital map provider Navteq Corp. announced last October it would be acquired by Finnish cell phone giant Nokia Corp. for $78 per share. But Navteq stock has been languishing around $74 per share. How come? |
| Education may put an end to global woes - Hindustan Times, New Delhi
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Published Wednesday, November 21, 2007. By Andrew Baltazar
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) president Susan Hockfield and deans, directors and faculty from the prestigious school are touring Delhi, Bangalore and Mumbai this week to announce new educational collaborations with India that aim to solve global problems such as energy shortages, hunger and clean water. |
| Coming home to IT - Hindustan Times, New Delhi
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Photo by Ronjoy Gogoi, Hindustan Times |
| Cadence employees who spent years in the U.S. are now back in India |
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Published Tuesday, November 20, 2007. By Andrew Baltazar. Neha Mehta contributed
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Also picked up by Tech Banyan
According to a survey conducted by The IndUS Entrepreneurs network of technology professionals based in India and the US, as many as 60,000 Indian IT professionals have moved back to India in the last few years.
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Why return to India? --Flash Interactive-- by Andrew Baltazar (not published) |
| The Year of the Pig (nms midterm) |
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Sunday, February 18, 2007
Chinatown kicks off the year of the pig with a parade, marching bands and political campaign ads. Flip through the photos from the event.
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| Plugged in at IIT - Chicago Journal |
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Photo by CalCars.org |
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Published Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Todd Dore drives a total of 40 miles to and from Chicago each weekday. Yet he fuels his car less than twice a month.
That's because Dore drives one of the only plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) in the Midwest. |
| Vista expected to make debut - Northwest Indiana Times |
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Photo by Microsoft Corp. |
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Published Tuesday, January 30, 2007
It was supposed to be on home computers more than three years ago. But after numerous delays and redesigns, Windows Vista, Microsoft's newest version of the Windows operating system, will finally be on store shelves today.
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