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Google announces economic growth for North Carolina

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 Fiber for RTP Communities

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 Digital Thing Just May Catch On

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 [...]