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FCC Doles Out $100K to Open Source Community Apps Challenge Winners

Michael Cooney | Network World | December 16, 2011

The $100,000 challenge: Develop useful, localized open source apps that make local public information more personalized and usable. With that idea as the backdrop the Federal Communications Commission and the Knight Foundation today awarded Code for America developer Ryan Resella the $30,000 Apps for Communities Challenge grand prize.  Resella won for his YAKB.us app, a real time bus Read More »

WhatsApp Shows How Phone Carriers Lost Out On $33 Billion

Olga Kharif, Amy Thomson and Patricia Laya | Bloomberg | February 21, 2014

Facebook Inc. (FB)’s $19 billion purchase of mobile-messaging startup WhatsApp Inc. is a stark reminder of how much money phone carriers are losing out on as competitors let users text and chat at no charge. Read More »