USERS of one of the fastest social networking crazes on the planet will gather in the region tonight as part of an international money-raising
event which will bring together 175 cities. Followers of online messaging tool Twitter will meet in Newcastle as part of Twestival &ndash a festival giving ‘‘Twitterers’’ the chance to meet each other face-to-face and to raise money to deliver safe drinking water to developing nations. Tonight’s gathering at The Other Rooms will put Newcastle in the company of cities all over the world also hosting a Twestival, including Berlin, Madrid, Sydney and New York. EXPERTS have sounded a note of caution to investment-hungry science and technology start-ups in the region despite new figures revealing soaring levels of venture capital spend in the sector. A DEAL worth close to &pound8.5m will see software developed in Sunderland used by American law enforcers in the fight against crime in the US. THERE were more job cuts in the North East yesterday as it was revealed that 5,000 people have already lost their posts in the region during this quarter. Find your new job:
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