The brief history of internet startups is littered with sad accounts of sites that grew rapidly and showed tons of promise, only to falter under new management. In the early days of a site’s life, the founders are still at the helm, steadily pursuing their vision of revolutionizing the web. Full of zeal they launch [...]

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The announcement that Steve Jobs would be taking a leave of absence to focus on his health sent shock-waves through the tech and financial community this week. When you have a cult following like Apple’s Mac loyalists, the slightest shaking up in management can cause an uproar. To the tech elite Steve Jobs is Apple [...]

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This week in tech, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is behind bars and knee deep in a cloak and dagger style espionage scandal. Google goes head to head with Microsoft and Apple in the operating system wars via Chrome OS. They also debut the first demo laptop featuring Chrome OS and its cloud based computing architecture.  [...]

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The location wars are heating up as Facebook challenges Foursquare with its new ‘Places’ initiative. On World Tech Update this week Facebook introduces a location based service, Twitter creates the Tweet Button, Intel plans to buy security vendor McAfee, a Taiwanese newspaper reports that Apple is readying a new tablet similar to its iPad, a [...]

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MAcWorld was given an exlusive preview of the hightech badges being used at Defcon, “the world’s longest running and largest underground hacking conference”. On World Tech Update this week we show you exclusive video of the Defcon badge, Amazon announces a new Kindle, Panasonic shows off a 3D camcorder for consumers, General Motors announces pricing [...]

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