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    Ad:Tech And The Future of Advertising

    In 2010 businesses in the US spent $142.5 billion on advertising. Sarah Austin stops by Ad:Tech – one of the biggest and most relevant interactive marketing events of the year. What lies ahead for this massive market? What will be the impact of the rapid advancement of technology? We’re here to find out. Be sure to follow us on Twitter! And check us out on Facebook

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    Startup Bus 2012 Winner: Cerealize

    Pop17 went to Austin Texas this month to check out SXSW interactive. Last week we told you about one the most interesting events we saw – Startup Bus. The fan favorite and eventual winner was the team from Silicon Valley. Their startup was Cerealize: A website that lets build your own customized cereal and delivers it to your door. Since winning the competition, Cerealize has received some notable media attention from the likes of ABC, TechCrunch, Mashable, and many others. [...]

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    Black Girls Code Launch Party

    Black Girls Code is a program dedicated to helping young black girls get a start in the field of technology. The mission of BlackGirlsCode is to introduce programming and technology to a new generation of coders who will become the leaders and creators of tomorrow. Pop17′s Dani Bicknell meets founder Kimberly Bryant at the launch party. Find out more here Be sure to follow us on Twitter! And check us out on Facebook And stay tuned for more.

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    BandPage: The Biggest Music App on Facebook

    James ‘J’ Sider is the CEO and founder of RootMusic, the producer of BandPage – The most popular music app on facebook. With over 31 million active monthly users, BandPage is becoming THE music app on Facebook for artists and fans. J sits down with Sarah Austin and talks about his small town roots, how BandPage compares to Spotify, and the changing face of the music industry. Check out BandPage here Be sure to follow us on Twitter! And check [...]

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    How to Stand Out at a Tech Conference

    Conferences can be a bit much sometimes. Hundreds of people in the same space all trying to pitch their ideas and stand out. Well, Hermione Way (from TheNextWeb.com) has a seceret weapon. Watch as she weilds the ultimate power of cuteness to get as many business cards as she can. Check out more of Hermione at The Next Web Be sure to follow us on Twitter! And check us out on Facebook

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    Holiday Buying Guide: Tech!

    Sarah Austin and columnist John C. Dvorak discuss some great holiday gift ideas for the tech head in your life. Video games, cool iPhone accessories, and Amazon’s Kindle Fire all make the cut. Check it out as Sarah and John agree and disagree on these gadget gift ideas. Let us know what you think, and what YOUR best gadget gifts are. Be sure to follow us on Twitter! And check us out on Facebook for all the behind the scenes [...]

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    Rebekah’s Innovative Tech 2011

    Rebekah gathers some innovative Tech from 2011. Best of all, all of the listed Tech can be incorporated into your wardrobe! Follow us on for the latest updates! Like us on Facebook for the behind the scenes, pics, videos and much more! http://www.facebook.com/pop17

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    Global Youth Summit on Innovative Philanthropy and Social Entrepreneurship

    Global Youth Summit on Innovative Philanthropy and Social Entrepreneurship As technology continues to increase as rapidly as it has been for the past ten years, social and environmental forces will persist to escalate. Technology is the one utility that has heightened the worlds community inter-connectedly and inter-dependently. From all over the world people are seeking new innovative transformative ideas, new resources and different types of leadership to guarantee a positive, peaceful and sustainable future. Thus indicating that the future generations [...]

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    TechCrunch Disrupt 2011

    September 14, 2011 After 3 days of hard campaigning, rough interviews, gutsy presentations and the announced loss the beloved TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington, Disrupt came to the conclusion of who would take home the TechCrunch trophy cup. It wasn’t all that romantic though, we saw battlefield finalist suffering from elimination and even some people finding it impossible to get into the event. What we see is a lot of creative content; from people creating websites and applications to new innovative [...]

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    Google Goes Mobile

    This week Google is now staking in the mobile market, continuing to challenge Apple’s dominance of the mobile smartphone platform. This move signifies a shift in the cellular threshold.

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    Women of E3: Gamer Girls

    Being a girl in tech is great! We stand out like a soar thumb at E3 in attendees, however, are abundant in booth babes. Why is that? We need more girls at E3 because statistics show that most gamers are girls. Girls are generally casual gamers and dominate social games on Facebook. There needs to be more representation of the casual gamers like Sarah Carroll, 1/2 of Sparah, who gained some serious geek and digital cred from her appearance at [...]

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    Finally: iPhone4 in White!

    Typically, for any Apple launch there is a line around the store filled with the biggest fans. However, for the launch of the iPhone4 in white there was little hype. If you think that Apple fanatics buy every new product release then maybe this news is telling of our times. Is it that people don’t like the way it looks or are they just excited for the iPhone5? Rumors have it that the iPhone5 is launching later this year as [...]

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