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CliQs Makes Friends From Facebook Acquaintances

The platform aims to establish connections between people through basic questions like “who is sexy?” or “who’s most likely to sing in the shower?” Users can pick one of their friends who best fits the category, and if that friend chooses them for the same question, the connection is revealed to both parties.

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Mayor Rahm Emanuel Wants University of Illinois Students To Choose Chicago Over Silicon Valley

Mayor Rahm Emanuel will do almost anything to keep the heavily recruited University of Illinois students from leaving the state to go work in Silicon Valley. This week, he appeared in front of a group of students at the Urbana-Champaign campus, imploring them to consider starting their careers in Chicago.

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CEO Sundays: Witness The Birth Of A Startup

In the fall of 2008, I was entering my senior year of college at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. With a degree in economics and a passion for global.

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Effimax Solar: Looking Towards a Better Tomorrow

A new nanotexturing method applied to solar panels and able to produce high-efficency silicon cells, Effimax Solar was one of two U of I startup finalists.

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How to Launch a Web App in 3 Minutes with Bloc

The programming education space is heating up as Jared Tame and Roshan Choxi launch Bloc, a site that lets you build and launch web applications in the browser

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Chicago And Champaign Spur Illinois Startup Growth

CHAMPAIGN, IL — It’s barely dawn in Champaign, and Yi Chen, 27, is in University of Illinois professor Logan Liu’s Nanobionics lab, poking delicately at gleaming blue wafers and crunching.

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Disrupting the Quality Control Industry: An Interview with Entrepreneur Matt Gornick

“I think I want to build a business because I saw my parents do it,” was Matt Gornick’s answer when I asked him why he splits his time between running.

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5Degrees – A Search For Tech Talent

I originally agreed to write for Tech.Li planning to document my summer internship at 5Degrees. However, since I started writing I have also been talking about tech talent in Chicago. Tech.

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Instarta Simplifies Polls With Text Messages

Politicians are known for having catchy campaign slogans and accusatory commercials, but they aren’t often known for having impeccable web design. Champaign-Urbana startup Instarta set out to correct this problem.

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