Tech Town, a cluster of technology companies, is nearby.
Philadelphia sets its sights on becoming America's next big tech town.
In our "Parable of Detroit" (October 22nd), we were a little unfair to note that there were "an awful lot of white faces" at Tech Town.
Amazon, of course, is a tech giant, and one would imagine that being a "tech town" is important.
General Electric 's CNBC cable news channel has run at least two profiles of Apple and Jobs since yesterday, calling the product news "the talk of the tech town".
Finally, the one we're most excited about: a big budget remake of High Noon relocated to tech town and starring our own Michael Arrington and Engadget's Joshua Topolsky….
The company, launched by a core group of researchers from the University of Southern California, reveals why Los Angeles is becoming as much of a tech town as Tinseltown.
This is as exciting as it gets here in Tech Town folks).. Libin said that all of the acquisitions were relatively small, for under $10 million in stock and equity, and that Evernote's acquisition appetite will only increase in 2012.
I was reasonably scathing about that whole "tech town" bullshit and I was quick to opinion-smack Tim Armstrong in the face over his promise that "90% of AOL content will be SEO optimized" by March.
But there are others too, including growing ad sales revenue by 20percentt, doubling engagement on the local Patch sites, organizing around "towns" (we are in Tech Town!), recruiting top talent, and expanding the Project Devil ads, which replace clutter on the page with one big ad incorporating different interactive elements like video or maps.
