10 Chicago entrepreneurs to follow on Snapchat
Snapchat is a party — and Chicago startups and entrepreneurs are offering you an invitation. Young users quickly grasped the magic of its rainbow-spewing selfies, but others are hopping on...
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Techstars Chicago names class for 2016 accelerator
Techstars Chicago announced its accelerator class for 2016 on Monday, naming a group of 10 companies that offer everything from packaged lunches to a connected tracker for children. The program...
Techweek CEO says Chicago event will focus on its serious side
Techweek CEO Amanda Signorelli is overseeing the tech conference and festival in its home base of Chicago for the first time this week, aiming to sharpen the focus on content....
City needs more detail in Array of Things privacy policy, experts say
The city of Chicago is preparing to install a network of sensors that will track people on city streets — walking, biking, driving — and privacy experts say it needs...
Online insurance company Insureon cuts 8 percent of staff
Insureon, a Chicago-based online small business insurance provider, laid off 20 employees on Friday — about 8 percent of its staff. The cuts come eight months after the company raised...
Driverless cars are coming. Are cities ready?
Chicago could see heavier use of roads and less revenue from traffic violations when driverless cars become the norm, a transportation expert says. Cities will need to adapt infrastructure and...
Array of Things map: Where Chicago sensors could be located
Devices designed to track weather and traffic patterns are scheduled to start going up around the city of Chicago in July as part of a project called the Array of...
Here’s how much the software industry adds to the Illinois economy
The software industry adds more than $16 billion to the Illinois economy annually, a report released Wednesday found. Illinois gets the eighth-most economic input from the software industry of any...
Dick Costolo at Pandoland: After Twitter, a new company, more comedy
Dick Costolo is happy to be a founder again. And to be making comedy again. The former Twitter CEO and Feedburner co-founder spoke in Chicago Tuesday at the tech conference...
Shark Tank casting call in Chicago gets founders fired up
"Shark Tank" wants entrepreneurs with passion — and it just met Sandra Whitted, who slept in her car for two nights to make sure she was first in line for...