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RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. – Get the pulse of technology in the Triangle with the best in local technology, venture, biotech, and life science news on Wednesday as curated by @WRALTechWire. Highlight your news for consideration using the hashtag #WTWTrends. If you are on a mobile device, click http://sfy.co/stkV. Less than a year after acquiring a 100-acre tract of land along I-40, the Research Triangle Foundation is set to unveil the hub of its massive redevelopment project on Jan. 15. The news of RTP’s new era saw #Frontier trending earlier this day. In other news, the tenth day of...

Special to WRAL Tech Wire (Editor’s note: Now in its fourth year, the 12 Days of Broadband runs Dec. 4 through Dec. 19 highlighting a dozen innovations and stories directly impacted by the expanding reach of high-speed connectivity this year in North Carolina and throughout the country.) RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. – In September, Bob Lannon and Andrew Pendleton at the Sunlight Foundation put together a tremendous report categorizing 800,000 public comments on the FCC’s net neutrality plan. The authors were happy to share their research and story, making it a worthy inclusion to this year’s 12 Days of...

In September, tech giant Google announced that it had selected the Triangle as one of seven sites for the company’s Tech Hub Network. In October, Google Glass hosted their first public demo event at the American Tobacco Campus in Durham. Excited tech enthusiasts drove from Charlotte, Wilmington, Asheville and Richmond, VA, just to try on Glass for 15-minute segments. Over the winter, Google sent a team to Rocky Mount to film self-taught programmer, firefighter, and Glass Explorer Patrick Jackson in action as he continues to develop Firefighter Log, a Google Glass and web application to enable firefighters additional tools...

The next ExitEvent Startup Social coming up on Feb. 24 at the new American Underground @Raleigh will take place under new management. The American Underground, which is owned by Capitol Broadcasting, is expanding into the social events and news business with the acquisition of ExitEvent. Joe Procopio, a Triangle entrepreneur and a frequent contributor to WRALTechWire, sold the ExitEvent franchise to Capitol in a deal that is being formally announced today. Procopio will remain involved in Exit Event as a member of a board that has been formed to oversee its operation, according to Adam Klein, the director of...