{"id":4537,"date":"2016-05-24T14:43:28","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T18:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/05\/25\/going-high-tech-in-the-south\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T20:50:24","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T01:50:24","slug":"going-high-tech-in-the-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/going-high-tech-in-the-south\/","title":{"rendered":"Going High Tech in the South"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since they graduated from Furman in 2013, Brooks Buffington and Tyler Droll have developed one of the more popular apps on the planet, Yik Yak.\u00a0 Their company has raised a good deal of money from big-name Silicon Valley investors, and their anonymous messaging app has reached a mass audience.\u00a0 <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/20160523\/160529710\/yik-yak-co-founder-discusses-southeast-tech-scene-future-of-anonymous-messaging-app\">The Post and Courier<\/a><\/em><\/strong> in Charleston published an interview with Buffington, where he discussed the state of tech in South Carolina and the Southeast, as well as the challenges facing entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since they graduated from Furman in 2013, Brooks Buffington and Tyler Droll have developed one of the more popular apps on the planet, Yik Yak.\u00a0 Their company has raised a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":4487,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,20,33,46,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-business-and-accounting","category-computer-science","category-economics","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}