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Silicon Valley Tech Companies Jump on the Super Bowl Bandwagon

With the historic Super Bowl 50 coming soon to that great entrepreneurial gridiron known as Silicon Valley, local tech companies large and small are getting in on the action. Headquartered smack dab in the middle of what SB50 host committee’s Keith Bruce calls “the heartbeat of the world’s digital economy,” giants like Apple, Google and

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Ride-hailing company Lyft Inc. said Monday it’s partnering with General Motors Co.

With the investment, Lyft is much smaller than Uber, the giant of the ride-hailing space.Here are some of the major players who are changing the way we get from Point A to Point B. Funding: More than $10 billion from traditional venture investors, institutional lenders and tech giants like Google, Microsoft and China’s Baidu, which

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Comcast Tests Gigabit-Speed Internet Service in Philadelphia

Google Fiber, the gigabit-speed Internet service that is slowly rolling out to cities across the country, may soon have some competition from an established service provider. Philadelphia-based Comcast has announced that it is testing a new protocol known as DOCSIS 3.1, which it said has the potential to boost download speeds to the gigabit level.

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Google To Invest $600M in New Clarksville Data Center

Gov. Bill Haslam announced Tuesday that Google will invest $600 million to bring the company’s eighth U.S. data center to Clarksville and create 70 new jobs. “We are grateful for Google’s significant investment in Tennessee and the new jobs that will be created in Montgomery County,” said the Republican governor. “This is one of the

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Google Starts Testing Password-Free Logins Using Your Phone

Passwords — especially weak ones or those used across multiple systems — can create all kinds of vulnerabilities and security headaches for people and businesses. The test was brought to light yesterday when reddit user rp1226 posted documents and screenshots from Google’s experiment on the Android subreddit. The work depicts Jobs in his trademark black

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Lenovo Tapping Google’s Project Tango for First Smartphone

Computer tech company Lenovo is dancing its way into the smartphone market — with Google. Lenovo took the lid off plans for its first consumer mobile device at CES 2016 in Las Vegas this week. “To break new ground in today’s hypercompetitive smartphone and tablet industries, we must take innovation risks — it’s the only

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