Google Fiber | WRAL TechWire - Part 11

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#WTWTrends for Tuesday: Google Fiber, Ebola, RTP Startups and Cam Newton Trending in the Triangle

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 Tuesday as curated by @WRALTechWire. Highlight your news for consideration using the hashtag #WTWTrends. If you are on a mobile device, click http://sfy.co/a03U8. The news, or for that matter no news, about Google Fiber coming to the Triangle today was popular among the tech Twittersphere in the Triangle. In other discussions, several North Carolina firms are at the forefront of developing new treatments for the Ebola virus but face challenges in testing and...

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No Google Fiber news today; Raleigh exec ‘still expecting year-end decision’

No commitment from Google today to bring Google Fiber to the Triangle but work continues toward that possibility. Gail Roper, chief information officer for the City of Raleigh, says she is “still expecting a year-end decision” from Google about whether the Internet giant will choose the Triangle for a Google Fiber network deployment. “We are still working with Google on an agenda of items and processes,” Roper said in an interview Tuesday morning at a fiber conference in Raleigh. Jill Szuchmacher, director of Business Development for Google Fiber, is among the speakers at the Fiber to the Home event....

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#WTWTrends: Google Fiber, #GivingTuesday, Christopher Chung, GSKImpact Trending in the Triangle

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 Tuesday as curated by @WRALTechWire. Highlight your news for consideration using the hashtag #WTWTrends. If you are on a mobile device, click http://sfy.co/rrLp. Need more confirmation that Google really likes North Carolina and the Triangle for a Google Fiber network? The Internet giant has filed legal paperwork in N.C. for “Google Fiber North Carolina LLC.” In other trending news, North Carolina’s new Economic Development Partnership has hired Christopher Chung as the organization’s new...

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TechWire: Fiber Transforms the Triangle

You’ve heard all the hype – we’re getting fiber. First from AT&T, and likely from Google Fiber and other players. But as much as we’re all celebrating faster and more reliable Internet at work and at home, there’s a whole lot else that one gigabit-per-second speeds allows in industries like health care, retail, banking and for next-generation startups. And that’s why ExitEvent partner WRAL TechWire is hosting the October 13 half-day event, “Fiber Transforms the Triangle” at SAS Institute in Cary. Power players in the fiberoptics and telecom space are on board to share their thoughts. There’s Steve Vanderwoude...

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