Startups Pitch to S.F. Tech Conference
New tech companies showed off their latest innovations along “Startup Alley” inside the annual TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco. (Sept. 13)
DETROIT (AP) — The Detroit Red Wings and city officials on Wednesday announced a $650 million plan for a new arena development for the NHL team in Detroit's downtown entertainment and sports district. Plans for the 18,000-seat arena were announced Wednesday at a meeting of economic development officials to approve the deal. Red Wings owner Mike Ilitch has long said he wanted a replacement for [...]
Read more →BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Gyula Horn, a former Hungarian prime minister who played a key role in opening the Iron Curtain, has died at the age of 80. He was best known internationally for his announcement as foreign minister in 1989 that Hungary would allow East German refugees to leave the country for West Germany, one of the key events that helped bring an end to communism in Eastern [...]
Read more →NORTH ATTLEBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — State police returned to the home of New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez on Wednesday, two days after a body was found about a mile away. Two troopers knocked on the door of Hernandez's sprawling house in an upscale subdivision Wednesday morning, but no one answered. The night before, police spent hours there as another group of officers searched an [...]
Read more →ISTANBUL (AP) — The U.S. team will face Spain in the Under-20 World Cup on Friday, with FIFA promising increased security following anti-government protests in Istanbul and other Turkish cities in recent weeks. Jim Boyce, chairman of the tournament organizing committee, acknowledged that security has been beefed up for the June 21-July 13 tournament. He said FIFA security experts were [...]
Read more →BERLIN (AP) — President Barack Obama should have felt right at home in his overnight visit to Germany, with summer weather that felt more like Washington than Berlin. Average highs are normally in the 70s in Germany's capital city in June, but they were in the 90s Tuesday as Obama spoke at the historic Brandenburg Gate nearly 50 years after President John F. Kennedy's famous cold war speech [...]
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