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Stratfor CEO George Friedman's speech interrupted by an Occupy "mic check"

George Friedman, CEO of Stratfor, a global intelligence company, came to SXSW Interactive to speak about surviving technology. However, an Occupy “mic check” broke out over Stratfor’s alleged involvement in spying and trying to bring down the Occupy Movement. The alleged involvement stems from the December hacking of Stratfor, where customers’ credit cards were charged […]

Love, Music, and APIs panel

Matthew Ogle and Dave Haynes – Love, Music, & APIs Dave Haynes (VP Business Development for SoundCloud, founder of OpenMusicMedia) and Matthew Ogle (The Echo Nest music intelligence platform, former head of web product at Last.fm) presented information on how the love of music and application programming interfaces (APIs) are coming together.  Driven by their […]