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Lollapalooza App Fails To Impress Due To Network Performance

This past weekend marked the 20th anniversary of Chicago’s most popular music festival, Lollapalooza. With headliners like Eminem, the Foo Fighters and Coldplay, it’s not surprising that Lolla beat its.

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Mineful Blows Away The Competition

Many startups begin in the same fashion: bootstrapping until they can find funding. And while they seek out these elusive monetary gains, they often end up becoming contestants in the.

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Let Advertisers Pick Up the Tablet

…Essentially, Amazon had become the first manufacturer to offer advertising-subsidized hardware. Techblogs were abuzz about this entirely new concept, and some proclaimed Amazon to be paving the way for the future of gadgetry.

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Patently Insane, Part 2: Fowl Play And How Writing And Coding Are Similar

Software patents are kind of like the government issuing a fiction writer the exclusive right to kill characters so as to evoke emotion.

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New World Ventures Invests in SinglePlatform

New World Ventures has announced their investment in one-stop digital portal SinglePlatform. The $3.25 million round was led by DFJ Gotham Ventures, with additional participation by First Round Capital and RRE Ventures, bringing SinglePlatform’s total funding to date up to $4.45 million.

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[Updated] Chicago Welcomes The Twenty Something Blogger Summit

Update: A Squared Group and 20-Something Bloggers are offering Tech.li readers a 50% discount on the 20SB Community member rate, using the code techli (it is designed for 20-somethings, but.

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Look And Donate Like Your Favorite Star With YouCeleb

Entire websites are devoted to identifying what celebrities are wearing and where to get that exact item or at the very least, a cheaper lookalike. But how about taking it one step further and having a Groupon-like place where proceeds from the sale go to the celeb’s charity of choice? Miami-based YouCeleb does just that.

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Patently Insane, Part 1: An Introduction

Whether you know it or not, patents on scientific discoveries and technological innovation effect your life in all kinds of tiny and insidious ways.

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Clearent Leverages Flexible Platform to Bring Innovations to Payment Processing

Entrepreneurs are never short on ideas, but they are often short on time. Bob Lozano, co-founder of Appistry, was in the midst of building his own venture when he saw a.

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Chicago Startups Come Together At TTO

We’re no Rebecca Black, but we think Thursday just became the new Friday. Thursday can thank the Tech.li team for boosting it’s street cred by kicking off ‘Tech.li Thursdays One’.

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