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Nine startups vie for IBM global entrepreneur honors

Big Blue will host the SmartCamp Global Finals next week in San Francisco, bringing the best and brightest startup companies from around the world together with VCs and other leaders from the entrepreneur community.

Facebook IPO filing could come next week

Sources close to the matter said regulatory paperwork could be filed as early as Wednesday.

New Hanover County lighting up commercial Wi-Fi

Friday's scheduled launch in Wilmington represents the first time the public has been able to access a commercial broadband network carried on TV White Space frequencies.

Report: Electronic health records still need work

America may be a technology-driven nation, but the health care system's conversion from paper to computerized records still needs lots of work.

HIE struggles in U.S.

AT&T posts 4Q loss on charges; revenue increases

Together with considerable charges for adjustments in the value of the company's pension plans, the breakup of a deal to buy T-Mobile USA and a writedown of the value of its phone-directory business, AT&T reported a massive loss on Thursday for the fourth quarter of 2011.

UHS officially changes to Vidant Health in eastern NC

Eight hospitals in eastern North Carolina marked the "birthday" of Vidant Health this week by unveiling new signs.

Twitter may censor tweets in individual countries

Twitter said Thursday that it has refined its technology so it can censor messages on a country-by-country basis.

Twitter Censorship

Red Hat updates messaging, real-time and grid platform

Enterprise MRG 2.1 release features new technologies geared for the cloud to financial services to telecommunications, the company announced this week.

Latest news from Google, Megaupload, FBI, and Nokia

Lawmakers press Google on privacy policy changes; Megaupload closure forces cloud storage questions; FBI plans social network map alert mash-up application; Nokia profits dive, new phones yet to take off

NeoNova makes Google Apps available to businesses

RTP managed services firm is an authorized reseller of Google Apps and now Google Apps for Business.

Entrepreneurship remains at heart of Tech Wire mission

From launch day, coverage of entrepreneurs and the companies that sprout or support or fund them has been the focus of this news site. A review of a archive stretching across 10 years provides some numbers you may find surprising.

Play ball: New building in Durham to mix baseball, business

Diamond View III, will cover 130,000 square feet and overlook Durham Bulls Athletic Park as part of the American Tobacco Historic District, which has become a high-tech hotbed. The new structure will complement two others that already line the stadium's outfield.

From left to right, office buildings to line Bulls outfield

Just how hot is Apple? $215,000 in sales per employee

Inside the numbers: Apple's net income over the past three months of $13.1 billion was more than the combined total of Intel, Microsoft, Google and Yahoo - combined.

SC firm signs licensing deal for molecular diagnostics technology

Cooperative Diagnostics technology will be utilized by UK-based Lab21 Limited for development of personalized medicine tests.

Google Maps alerts; VMware counters Red Hat; Angry Birds on Facebook; GSK's angry partner; NEC cutting jobs;

In the Bulldog: Google is adding public alerts to its Maps service; VMware launches virtualization marketplace; Angry Birds to hit Facebook on Valentine's Day; Xenoport says GSK violated deal; Lenovo partner NEC cutting 10,000 jobs.