Tech Sector Finally Hit With Job Losses
In the fine print of a jobs report published today is some mixed news for Silicon Valley. For the first time in this downturn, the region lost jobs; ...
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The New CEO at Yahoo is Urgent to Stop the Brain Drain
Penny Herscher | Posted 12.09.2008 | Business
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Seeing a VP engineering go to My Space and the director of search engineering go to Current TV -- and there are many of these -- tells the story of what's happening inside the company.
Richardson is the Innovator We Need in Commerce
Michelle Kraus | Posted 11.23.2008 | Politics
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Here we go again! All the media pundits seem to be missing the boat on the brilliance of the selection of Governor Bill Richardson as the next Secretary of Commerce.
Recharge America with Electric Cars
Gavin Newsom | Posted 11.21.2008 | Green
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Yesterday, joined by San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed and Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums, I announced a nine-step policy plan for transforming the Bay Area into the "Electric Vehicle (EV) Capital of the U.S."
Laid-Off Silicon Valley Worker Kills Three
AP | TERRY COLLINS | Posted 11.15.2008 | Business
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — A 47-year-old engineer arrested on suspicion of fatally shooting three of his co-workers had been laid off hours earlier a...
Hollywood Under Siege
Jonathan Handel | Posted 11.12.2008 | Entertainment
Why is traditional content losing its vigor? Everyone focuses on the culture of piracy, but there are other reasons as well. One is supply and demand.
Grassroots Organization Sends Campaigners Across the Country on Donated Frequent Flyer Miles
Natasha Chen | Posted 10.24.2008 | Home
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In the effort to send out volunteers to swing states, a grassroots organization started by a couple of Stanford students has turned into the main hub ...
How Poor Are You?
Vicky Ward | Posted 10.13.2008 | Style
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For a society that has pretended not to talk about money, while caring about little else, suddenly the experience of being nouveau pauvre is all that's on everyone's lips.
Tech Start-Ups: The Economy's Best Hope
CN Portfolio | Kevin Maney | Posted 10.10.2008 | Business
Silicon Valley has never been a place where people throw in the towel. The dot-com crash of 2000 didn't drain the life out of the tech start-up cultur...
"R.I.P. Good Times" -- Crisis Hits Startups
Silicon Alley Insider | Peter Kafka | Posted 10.09.2008 | Business
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Even the most blissed-out startup entrepreneur has got to have a sense of what's happened to the economy in the past few days -- and what that's going...
Abu Dhabi Will Produce AMD Chips In Major Play For Technology Credibility
DealBook | Posted 10.08.2008 | Business
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The real surprise is the identity of those other people, The New York Times's Ashlee Vance writes. The Advanced Technology Investment Company, an org...
Venture Capitalists Invest in Green
New York Times Magazine | Jon Gertner | Posted 10.06.2008 | Green
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One afternoon last May in Menlo Park, Calif., a venture capitalist named Ray Lane led me from his office to the parking lot, where an automobile had b...
Credit Crisis Looms Over Silicon Valley
New York Times | BRAD STONE and CLAIRE CAIN MILLER | Posted 10.02.2008 | Business
Since the credit crisis began gripping the financial world, Silicon Valley has watched from the sidelines, secure in the faith that it was insulated f...
Is Tech Dead In Chicago?
Brad Spirrison and Howard Wolinsky | Posted 08.22.2008 | Chicago
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Chicago will never and should never try to compare itself to Silicon Valley, Seattle or any of the other alleged "tech centers" throughout North America. The city's diversified economy is comprised of a completely different kind of DNA.
Google Goes Big for Geothermal
Josie Garthwaite | Posted 08.21.2008 | Green
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Google, Inc. announced plansto invest $10 million in an energy technology known as enhanced geothermal systems, or EGS.
Where's China? Tech Gurus Can't Find it on the Map
Rebecca Fannin | Posted 07.28.2008 | Business
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China was missing from talk at two major conferences in the Bay Area. The Valley doesn't want to admit its tech dominance is being challenged by a country that just a few years was a manufacturer, not an inventor.
All is Not Well in Silicon Valley
Aaron Greenspan | Posted 07.17.2008 | Business
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MySpace and Facebook have utterly failed to improve any significant aspect of the American economy -- and have "succeeded" at wasting millions of manhours that could have gone toward boosting our national productivity.
China Gains Tech Trophy; Wake-up Call to the West
Rebecca Fannin | Posted 06.16.2008 | Business
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Once it was Japan that threatened to be the major technological rival to the U.S. Now that trophy goes to China and its rapid climb from a low-cost producer to a high-tech inventive nation.
Wake up, Silicon Valley! Chinese Lessons for American Entrepreneurs
Rebecca Fannin | Posted 06.10.2008 | Business
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For energy, motivation and raw talent, American entrepreneurs cannot compare to their Chinese counterparts. No wonder investors from the U.S. are looking for the next Steve Jobs in the Middle Kingdom.
Blow up the Beltway
Dave Winer | Posted 06.08.2008 | Politics
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In US politics they talk about Inside The Beltway the same way the tech industry talks about Silicon Valley. Now, people may question whether Barack...
The Question Concerning Digital Technology
Hugh McGuire | Posted 05.21.2008 | Business
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I'm not interested in technology per se, I am interested in the ways we might use it to make our lives richer and more meaningful.
Silicon Valley Beard-Off!
Fortune | Michael V. Copeland | Posted 05.07.2008 | Business
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Ancient symbols of power and virility, beards have gone hand-and-chin with computers at least as far back as the Home Brew Computer Club and the early...
Netflix: Don't Call Us Obsolete
Fortune | Michael V. Copeland | Posted 04.18.2008 | Business
Netflix announces its first-quarter earnings after the bell Monday, April, 21. With a spate of upgrades by analysts during Q1, Netflix is expected to ...
Netflix: Don't Call Us Obsolete
Fortune | Michael V. Copeland | Posted 04.18.2008 | Business
Netflix announces its first-quarter earnings after the bell Monday, April, 21. With a spate of upgrades by analysts during Q1, Netflix is expected to ...
Valley Workers Go "Topless" At Meetings
Los Angeles Times | Jessica Guynn | Posted 03.31.2008 | Business
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As the capital of information technology, Silicon Valley may have more gadgets per capita than any other place on the planet. Yet, even here, "always ...
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