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Chicago-based ContextMedia says it will add 600 jobs by end of 2016

May 20, 2019 at 9:06 p.m.

ContextMedia, a Chicago-based health information provider that employs 200, will add 600 jobs by the end of 2016, co-founder and CEO Rishi Shah announced at a news conference Monday. Shah,...

Apple Pay utilizes biometric technology by requiring fingerprint authorization.

Why your bad password soon might not matter anymore

May 20, 2019 at 9:06 p.m.

Biometric markers could surpass passwords within 12 months. That would mean a shift from notoriously weak letter-and-number combinations to stronger, less hackable protection measures like fingerprint authentication. So said Mark...

YouTube co-founder Steve Chen donates $1 million to Aurora STEM school

May 20, 2019 at 9:06 p.m.

YouTube co-founder Steve Chen is often cited as one of the Illinois tech world losses to California, but he's putting his name on his high school alma mater in Aurora...

A board including Sittercity founder Genevieve Thiers will meet in March to select members for WiSTEM.

1871 won’t launch delayed women-in-tech vertical as an incubator

May 20, 2019 at 9:05 p.m.

1871 no longer plans to launch a women-focused tech vertical as an incubator, with the delayed initiative moving forward instead as a program for women entrepreneurs. Introduced last March as...

SBA announces microlending funds for Chicago businesses

May 20, 2019 at 9:05 p.m.

Small Business Administration Administrator Maria Contreras-Sweet visited Chicago Monday to announce $750,000 in funding for microloans to the Chicago Neighborhoods Initiative and said she wants to change SBA's image so...

Elmspring’s 5 new member companies combine condos, campsites, cannabis

May 20, 2019 at 9:04 p.m.

Five companies that hope to transform the real estate industry with technology have joined Chicago's Elmspring accelerator, the company announced Wednesday. Elmspring, based at the 1871 tech incubator, aims to...

Connect4Tots, available this fall, will deliver information about education, social services, children's health and city programs via text message.

How Chicago plans to use tech to help parents of toddlers

May 20, 2019 at 9:04 p.m.

Parents of toddlers will be able to sign up this fall for a City of Chicago program that will deliver information about education, social services, children's health and city programs...

VisaNow hires former Apartments.com president as CEO

May 20, 2019 at 9:03 p.m.

Former Apartments.com president Dick Burke is the new president and CEO of Chicago-based online immigration service provider VisaNow, the company announced Monday. Founder Bob Meltzer, a former immigration lawyer, has...

MRelief blends mission and technology to help needy Chicago residents

May 20, 2019 at 9:03 p.m.

Rose Afriyie grew up in the Bronx, N.Y., with four siblings and the help of social service programs such as the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children....

Hyatt names Gannett’s Banikarim as global CMO

May 20, 2019 at 9:02 p.m.

Maryam Banikarim will become Hyatt's new global chief marketing officer on Jan. 26, the company announced Wednesday. She will replace John Wallis, who started his career at Hyatt in 1981....

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