Uber hailing rides in suburbs
Uber, the startup that provides on-demand limousine service using a smartphone, has ferried Chicagoans from River North to O'Hare airport and from the West Loop to Wrigleyville. Now the company...
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Cater2.me wants to feed you at work
Lunch is serious business for Cater2.me , a corporate catering startup that has joined the fray of companies jostling to feed Chicago's office workers. The company, founded by two friends...
With ties to ND, IrishAngels ready to back local startups
A new investment group with ties to the University of Notre Dame is launching in the Chicago area, adding to the number of funding sources for local startups and entrepreneurs.IrishAngels,...
AT&T says U-Verse service restored in Chicago area after outage
AT&T; said it has restored service to its U-Verse customers in the Chicago area after an outage that lasted just under two hours. Jim Kimberly, a spokesman for AT&T;, said...
Chicago startup Tap.Me acquired by New York advertising tech firm
Chicago-based startup Tap.Me, whose technology platform lets brands advertise within mobile games, has been acquired by MediaMath, a New York advertising technology firm. Financial terms of the transaction were not...
Dev Bootcamp coming to Chicago next spring
A new software development program is launching in Chicago in spring 2013, aiming to train programmers that can plug into the city's burgeoning technology and startup scene.Dev Bootcamp, begun in...
Motorola’s Brown named to Chicago Fed board
Greg Brown, chief executive of Schaumburg-based Motorola Solutions Inc., has been named deputy chair of the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank for 2013. Brown was designated deputy chair by the Board...
Heat is on Groupon’s Andrew Mason
In June 2011, Groupon Inc. Chief Executive Andrew Mason took the stage at a conference hosted by influential technology blog AllThingsD. When co-executive editor Kara Swisher asked him whether an...
Its job complete, Obama re-election tech team ventures forward
In spring 2011, Michael Slaby made a pitch to a small group of men at the West Loop offices of Sandbox Industries, a local venture capital firm and business incubator....
Groupon shares up 8% on N.Y. hedge fund investment
Groupon shares were up 8 percent, to $3.38, in late trading on the Nasdaq a day after New York-based hedge fund Tiger Global Management disclosed it had taken a 9.9...