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(Editor’s note: Former Triangle tech entrepreneur turned academic and author Vivek Wadhwa is an outspoken advocate of diversity in the technology industry. Today’s story first appeared in the Washington Post. Wadhwa is a frequent contributor to WRAL TechWire.) SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – A new messaging app, called Yo, has created a sensation in Silicon Valley. It is being hailed as the next big thing. The amazing breakthrough? Sending the word “Yo” to a contact with just one click. This app received justifiable ridicule from Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert and many others. But some technology industry moguls are taking it...

(Editor’s note: Former Triangle tech entrepreneur turned academic and author Vivek Wadhwa is an outspoken advocate of diversity in the technology industry. Today’s story first appeared in the Washington Post. Wadhwa is a frequent contributor to WRAL TechWire.) SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – Chile launched a grand innovation experiment in 2010: it paid foreign entrepreneurs to come and visit for six months. It offered them $40,000 plus free office space, Internet access, mentoring, and networking. And, by the way, they would get to live in one of the most beautiful places on this planet, where housing was relatively cheap and...

Editor’s note: Guest writer Vivek Wadhwa is an entrepreneur turned academic. He is a Visiting Scholar at the School of Information at UC-Berkeley, Senior Research Associate at Harvard Law School and Director of Research at the Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization at Duke University. You can follow him on Twitter at @vwadhwaand find his research at www.wadhwa.com. DURHAM, N.C. – LinkedIn Founder Reid Hoffman said, recently, “that if Web 1.0 involved go search, get data and some limited interactivity, and if Web 2.0 involves real identities and real relationships, then Web 3.0 will be real identities generating massive...

Editor’s note: Guest writer Vivek Wadhwa is an entrepreneur turned academic. He is a Visiting Scholar at the School of Information at UC-Berkeley, Senior Research Associate at Harvard Law School and Director of Research at the Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization at Duke University. You can follow him on Twitter at @vwadhwaand find his research at www.wadhwa.com. DURHAM, N.C. –Veteran NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw visited Silicon Valley last month to meet immigrant entrepreneurs. At Microsoft’s Mountain View campus, he met with a dozen of them. More than half said that they might be forced to return...

Editor’s note: Vivek Wadhwa is an entrepreneur in the Triangle turned academic. He is a Visiting Scholar at the School of Information at UC-Berkeley, Senior Research Associate at Harvard Law School and Director of Research at the Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization at Duke University. You can follow him on Twitter at @vwadhwaand find his research at www.wadhwa.com. DURHAM, N.C. – Prashant Gulati says that TechCrunch should be banned in the Middle East. That’s not because he isn’t a big fan of the site, but because he says it “puts some naïve and green young ones at a...

(Editor’s note: Vivek Wadhwa is an entrepreneur turned academic. He is a Visiting Scholar at UC-Berkeley, Senior Research Associate at Harvard Law School and Director of Research at the Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization at Duke University. You can follow him on Twitter at @vwadhwa and find his research at This excerpt is reprinted with permission.) By VIVEK WADHWA, special to Local Tech Wire DURHAM, N.C. – China may overtake Japan to become the world’s second-largest economy this year. On its heels is India; and countries such as Brazil and Russia are not far behind. What does this...