Sitting in a crowd in Omaha, Nebraska is not the most likely place that you’d end up listening to Ben Huh. He’s an outspoken guy with a happy demeanor and a reliance on LOLcat-infused slides to tell his story. He strides onto the stage ofBig Omahaand starts his prose. For those unfamiliar, Huh’s early years led him to the United States as an immigrant (Huh would state in passing, later, that the Startup Visa would have made his life so much more simple)....

Microsoft’s new stance on people hacking and tinkering with its products has been on display with its actions towardsexperimentation on the Kinect, but the company is also working to ensure that anyone who wants to play with its Windows Phone platform can do so. To that end, the company is working with a group ofpreviously renegade hackerswho built the most popular unapproved unlocking tool for Windows Phone handsets. Today the group unveiled that its eventual solution, built with the nod from Microsoft, should cost a mere $9....

Last night Chicago BarThe Hideoutwas the scene of almost paradoxical event, as Mayor Rahm Emanuel signed copies of the bookThe F***cking Epic Twitter Quest of @MayorEmanuel, and schmoozed with guests who had come to support his Twitter impostor. Dan Sinker, the man behind the Twitter account @MayorEmanuel rocketed to fame earlier this year with his filth-laden tweet stream impersonating then-candidate Emanuel, who is known for having a rather spicy vocabulary. The book contains all of Sinker’s tweets from the gag, as well as an explanation....

Chicago is working nights and weekends to become a respected technology hub, and not simply the ‘Groupon City.’ Momentum in Chicago, the nation’s third largest metropolis, is picking up, and fresh money is blossoming dozens of companies around the area. In fact, as time goes on, if the potential in some of Chicago’s smaller firms is fully recognized, in no more than one or two years the Windy City will be known for much more than a ‘group deal’ website and its horrific weather....

Chicago’s second escooter trial shows riders are losing interest Equity One of the primary questions the city wanted to explore in the 2020 pilot was whether e-scooters could effectively improve mobility for residents who face economic, health, mobility, or accessibility barriers, with officials saying these issues took on added significance due to the transportation challenges posed by the COVID-19 crisis. The city designated an equity priority area that included large portions of the South and West Sides, with each e-scooter vendor required to deploy 50% of their devices every day in priority areas....