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Bicycling is the “new golf” in Silicon Valley. Even though the richest US citizens, with an income of over 100,000 dollars keep playing golf, according to Reuters, the past eight years, the popularity of the sport keeps getting reduced, year by year.

European politicians may be poring over the details of the rescue program but a small business on the other side of the Atlantic sees their customers multiplying, since their service is actually called “Grexit”.

Based in Palo Alto, California, a tech company called Grexit has seen an important “rise” in traffic to their website.

Apple on Feb. 17 was awarded a patent on a headset that could let iPhones be part of augmented or virtual reality displays.
      
The patent titled "Head Mounted Display Apparatus For Retaining A Portable Electronic Device With Display" depicts a large eyeglass-style frame into which a smartphone could be seated.
      

A transparency report by Google, which contains data on government requests for user information and requests to remove material from the net, says the US internet giant received four requests from the government of Kosovo to remove content.

The British Council, in cooperation with Snook, Google and the Future Library are organizing the first Culture Shift in Athens, between the 6th and 8th of March, 2015. The event will take place in the Ilioupolis Public Library.

Search engine Google has agreed to better inform users about how it handles their personal information after an investigation by Britain's data protection regulator found its privacy policy was too vague.
   

 Saudi Arabia's new leadership will push forward efforts to diversify the growing but oil-dependent economy, while easing procedures for investors, senior officials said on Jan. 26.

Google boss Eric Schmidt predicted on Jan. 22 that the Internet will soon be so pervasive in every facet of our lives that it will effectively "disappear" into the background.
 

BELGRADE/DAVOS - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic met in Davos, Switzerland, with Google Ideas Director Jared Cohen, and spoke with him about new technologies, possible cooperation between Google and Serbia, and the importance finding jobs for young and skilled software and new technology developers.

BELGRADE - On the second day of the World Economic Forum in Davos, held under the motto of The New Global Context, Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic will have a series of bilateral meetings, with the one with the First Vice-President of the European Commission, Frans Timmermans, scheduled to be the longest.