Google announced Tuesday in a special press conference at Johnny T-Shirt in Chapel Hill that in 2009 it generated $780 million for North Carolina businesses, website publishers, and non-profits. In total, the Internet giant generated $54 billion in economic activity across the US last year alone. These figures were unveiled at a series [...]
Google has launched a new “Google Fiber for Communities” project, planning to build and test ultra high-speed broadband networks in a small number of trial locations across the United States. Google will deliver Internet speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have access to today with 1 gigabit per second, fiber-to-the-home [...]
The CHAT Festival, held at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, kicked off yesterday with Keynote speaker Robbie Bach, Microsoft’s President of Entertainment & Devices division. Mr. Bach’s presentation addressed “The Future of Entertainment”.
Mr. Bach began his presentation by reminding the audience of how far we have come [...]