Tag: #Siliconvalley
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Google checking account service on its way: report
San Francisco, Nov 14 (AFP/APP): Google plans to launch a checking account service next year in a collaboration with Citigroup and a credit union in Silicon Valley, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. In a project code named Cache, Google is working on a system that will host checking accounts clearly bearing the brands…
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50 years after internet conception, dark side stirs fear
San Francisco, Oct 29 (AFP/APP): On October 29, 1969, professor Leonard Kleinrock and a team at the University of California at Los Angeles got a computer to “talk” to a machine in what is now known as Silicon Valley. The event gave birth to a network that later became known as the internet — hailed…