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Canada may be lining Silicon Valley highways with billboards recruiting high-tech workers north, a move to promote its new Start-up Visa, take advantage of the States’ restrictive immigration policy and mock its slow pace of change. But ironically enough, the Canadian campaigns are in lockstep with U.S. senators in Washington D.C., who proved Tuesday they’re open and ready to create new U.S. laws that open a little wider the borders for the most promising migrant entrepreneurs and innovators. If…

If Sprint Nextel Corp. loses the acquisition of Clearwire Corp., the Overland Park wireless carrier risks losing some of the attention of its own suitors, a telecommunications analyst said Wednesday. Sprint (NYSE: S) upped the stakes Tuesday, when it increased its bid for Clearwire (Nasdaq: CLWR) to $3.40 a share, shortly before shareholders were set to vote on the Sprint deal. The vote was rescheduled to May 31. Sprint's last-minute move gives Clearwire shareholders more time to mull over a potential…

Let's see if Microsoft can keep Google happy In the wake of Google complaints about the YouTube app for Windows Phone 8, Microsoft today revealed that they have modified the app to address those complaints. The new version of the app is available from the Windows Phone Store, or soon will be. read more

Google Glass isn't even out yet and already, some casinos have banned it. They've done the same thing to Colin Jones. Now, the Seattle entrepreneur is illustrating just why the casinos have taken both actions. A professional card counter, he's using Glass (and Apple's IOS and Google's Android) to teach his skills to others. "We're looking at every legal ethical means in the same way that casinos do," Jones told me. "They do everything in their power to make sure that nobody gets lucky. We're just…

The one where we talk about the next Xbox This week on What The Tech, Andrew Zarian and I discuss the unveiling of the Xbox One. read more

Editors Note: This story was updated Wednesday to include comments from Amazon. There were rumors in March that Amazon Web Services had landed a deal with the CIA to provide a massive private cloud service to the spy organization worth about $600 million. Neither the CIA nor Amazon would confirm it. Then, Amazon received the special Federal Risk Authorization Management Program certification this month, making it easier for federal agencies to use the company’s cloud services. Now, AWS is hiring…

EMC subsidiary and virtualization company VMware (NYSE:VMW) will launch vCloud Hybrid Service on Wednesday, an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) product that allows companies to use both private and public cloud services. The offering directly competes with and will be more expensive than similar offerings from both Amazon.com and Microsoft, according to Bloomberg News. Palo Alto, Calif.-based VMware, which was founded in 1998 and acquired by Hopkinton, Mass.-based EMC in 2004, said in a statement…

A new service has recently rolled out called PartnerPulse, a Microsoft Partner Community where visitors can use search tools to locate a registered partner by location, product and competency. read more

In addition to the Xbox One unveil video, Microsoft has produced a dramatic piece enlisting the help of normal people, celebrities and even Bill Gates to build excitement about Microsoft's consumer entertainment release, the Xbox One. read more

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