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R iptopia , a District start-up that landed $3.2 million in angel funding last month, promises no less than to help the world "achieve digital bliss." |
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G ary S. Murray II 's new vision for the WiFi world goes something like this: A twenty-something traveler is in an airport with time to kill. He checks for wireless Internet access, finds it costs $7.95 to log on, refuses to pay the charge and instead logs on to Ooh TV , the free alternative created by Murray's Landover-based company. After wading through an ad or two, the traveler is entertained with short docudramas about emerging rap stars, fashion models and local nightclubs. |
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R azorsight Inc. today will announce its first round of funding, a $10 million capital infusion from Sierra Ventures, a Menlo Park, Calif., firm that's become one of the most active outside investors in promising Washington start-ups. |
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Virginia's new secretary of technology is not a technologist and has never served in government before.
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WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. -- It was Easter Sunday and Patricia Santangelo was in church with her kids when she says the music recording industry peeked into her computer and decided to take her to court. |
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V ince Kelly is spending a lot of time lately trying to convince officials at the Homeland Security Department that he's got the solution, or at least part of it, to their emergency communication problems. |
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Today, JackBe Corp ., a three-year-old Bethesda start-up, will announce that it landed a $6.5 million round of funding from a Cincinnati-based venture capital firm. |
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Last month, Adam Goozh , chief executive of CreateHope Inc. , a firm that sells software to manage corporate giving programs, asked his 45 employees to pack up their desks and move their office from Bethesda to the District.
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This weekend, 23 robots will line up in a Nevada desert and attempt to race along a 150-mile course rife with sharp turns and steep cliffs. |
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S unRocket Inc. , a year-and-a-half-old Internet phone company based in Vienna, certainly has enough big-time competition. Vonage is out there, and so is Skype Technologies. |
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Ray J. Oleson started his career in government contracting as an assistant programming manager in 1966, the days "when real men programmed," he says. |
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First he started his own company, and now this political big shot is lending his name to a local tech company. Michael K. Powell , the former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, has agreed to join the board of directors of Reston-based ObjectVideo Inc .
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Just about every tech executive in the Washington area counts April Young among his or her most influential mentors. |
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Close observers of the local dealmaking community will recall that former Maryland congressman C. Thomas McMillen set up a company to make acquisitions in the homeland security sector in March. |
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Last month's suicide bombings in London wrought heartache and tragedy. They also prompted calls for greater surveillance technologies -- and cast an unexpected spotlight on Reston's tiny Ipix Corp. |
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While most of Washington's tech sector has sunk into heat-induced sedation, the folks over at Sprint Corp . and Nextel Communications Inc. are frenetically toiling away. As executives of the two companies wrap up a $35 billion merger, rank-and-file employees have been busy with a different task: interviewing for their own jobs.
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The driving range: a few golf balls, some old clubs and an open field. What more do you need for some good old-fashioned fun? |
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Two days ago Fairfax software company WebMethods Inc. put out a news release trumpeting its new executive hires. |
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Rain fell in sheets outside Bobbie Kilberg's McLean home last Thursday as the very important people of the local tech community filled her expansive halls. No letup was in sight, but at the stroke of 6:30, when the house couldn't hold another body, the sun broke through and the margarita machine was fired up. |
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It seems like every publicly traded tech company around the Beltway has spent the past year diligently preparing to meet the requirements of the new Sarbanes-Oxley financial regulations.
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