San Francisco

The US city of San Francisco requested permission from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to conduct trials at 3. 5GHz, with the hope that it can one day use the band to power its smart city implementations.

America Movil CEO and Chairman Carlos Slim Domit presents in the session entitled Connecting the Americas.

Pollen, a new financial technology company based in London and San Francisco, announced it will distribute more than $150 million of what it calls “Velocity Capital” in 2014, to enable developers to gain quicker access to the cash made by apps.

Mobile games network PapayaMobile has announced an accelerator programme for mobile social game developers

Los Angeles-based start-up nProgress has launched its ntro social discovery app, following the injection of US$1.7 million of angel funding