Silicon Valley

Is Tech Dead In Chicago?

Brad Spirrison and Howard Wolinsky | Posted 08.22.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Google, Feedburner, Bill Gates, Board of Trade, Microsoft, Larry Ellison, Technology, Chicago Tech Industry, Silicon Prairie, Silicon Alley, Chicago Tech Businesses, Silicon Prairie Chicago, Silicon Valley Chicago, Chicago Startups, Chicago Tech Companies, Chicago Tech, Silicon Valley, Chicago Tech Center, Chicago Technology, Chicago News
Brad Spirrison and Howard Wolinsky

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.

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Google Goes Big for Geothermal

Josie Garthwaite | Posted 08.21.2008 | Green

Read More: Google, Energy, Alternative Energy, Microsoft, Green, Clean Technology, Geothermal Energy, Venture Capital, Silicon Valley, Green News
Josie Garthwaite

Google, Inc. announced plansto invest $10 million in an energy technology known as enhanced geothermal systems, or EGS.

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Where's China? Tech Gurus Can't Find it on the Map

Rebecca Fannin | Posted 07.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship, Technology, China, Silicon Valley, China Silicon Valley, Silicon Dragon, Innovation, China Tech, Business News
Rebecca Fannin

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.

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All is Not Well in Silicon Valley

Aaron Greenspan | Posted 07.17.2008 | Business

Read More: Oil Prices, Investing, U.S. Economy, Facebook, Business, Technology, Myspace, Economy, Silicon Valley, Business News
Aaron Greenspan

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.

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China Gains Tech Trophy; Wake-up Call to the West

Rebecca Fannin | Posted 06.16.2008 | Business

Read More: China Products, New Technology, Inventions, Information Technology, Technology, China Economy, China, Silicon Valley, Business News
Rebecca Fannin

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.

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Wake up, Silicon Valley! Chinese Lessons for American Entrepreneurs

Rebecca Fannin | Posted 06.10.2008 | Business

Read More: Internet, Silicon Dragon, Chinese Economy, Venture Capital, China Economy, China, Internet China, Silicon Valley, Business News
Rebecca Fannin

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.

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Blow up the Beltway

Dave Winer | Posted 06.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Lewis Farrakhan, Clinton, Angels Will Sing, Joe Lieberman, Obama, Mccain, Fairy Tale, Lindsey Graham, Beltway, Silicon Valley, Botox, Barack Obama Grassroots, Barack Obama Internet Campaign, Politics News
Dave Winer

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...

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The Question Concerning Digital Technology

Hugh McGuire | Posted 05.21.2008 | Business

Read More: The Internet, Web 2.0, New Technology, Mobile Phones, Wireless, Technology, Silicon Valley, Heidegger, Business News
Hugh McGuire

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.

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Silicon Valley Beard-Off!

Fortune | Michael V. Copeland | Posted 05.07.2008 | Business

Read More: Silicon Valley CEOs, Silicon Valley Beard Off, Silicon Valley Beards, Silicon Valley, Business News

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...

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Netflix: Don't Call Us Obsolete

Fortune | Michael V. Copeland | Posted 04.18.2008 | Business

Read More: Reed Hastings, Netflix, Blockbuster, Silicon Valley, Business News

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 ...

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Netflix: Don't Call Us Obsolete

Fortune | Michael V. Copeland | Posted 04.18.2008 | Business

Read More: Reed Hastings, Netflix, Blockbuster, Silicon Valley, Business News

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 ...

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Valley Workers Go "Topless" At Meetings

Los Angeles Times | Jessica Guynn | Posted 03.31.2008 | Business

Read More: Iphones, Information Technology, Topless, Mobile Phones, It, Business Meetings, Topless Business Meetings, Gadgets, BlackBerry Ban, Silicon Valley, BlackBerrys, Business News

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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Solar-Power Users Go Green To Save Green

USA Today | Paul Davidson | Posted 03.31.2008 | Business

Read More: Southern California Edison, Solar Power, Power Purchase Agreements, Solar vs. Electric, Electrical Power, PPA, Sun Run, Silicon Valley, Business News

For years, Bruce Crawford dreamed of putting solar panels on his one-story house to cut his power bill and "do something good for the environment." Bu...

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Microsoft-Yahoo Takeover Glitch: Can't Find Dissident Yahoo Board Members

Silicon Alley Insider | Henry Blodget | Posted 03.27.2008 | Business

Read More: Brian mcAndrews, Yhoo, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft-Yahoo, Microsoft, Hostile Takeover, Yahoo Shareholders, Bill Gates, Yusef Medhi, Msft, Jerry Yang, Silicon Valley, Business News

One of the next steps in the Microsoft-Yahoo melodrama (MSFT) (YHOO) is for Microsoft to nominate a slate of directors to replace the ones it will try...

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Is Vinegar The Secret Ingredient For Biofuels?

CNET News | Michael Kanellos | Posted 03.12.2008 | Business

Read More: Cellulosic Ethanol, Biofuels, Cellulose, Thermochemical Engineering, Alcohol, Ethanol, Hemisellulose, Biofuel Start-Up, ZeaChem, Bio-Fuels, Fermentation, Biological Fermentation, Lignin, Silicon Valley, Business News

To make ethanol, you want to make vinegar first, according to ZeaChem. The biofuel start-up, which has moved from Colorado to Silicon Valley, says it...

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100 Percent Written By Thumb

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 03.03.2008 | Business

Read More: U.S. Economy, Los Angeles, Silicon Valley, Business News
<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

Things to do this week: Not lose heart; keep on trucking; drink with my head, not over it; don't let the bastards get us down; let a smile be my umbrella; buy low and sell high; touch all the bases and make it home.

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Hollywood, Silicon Valley Team Up For Start-Ups

New York Times | Laura M. Holson | Posted 03.03.2008 | Business

Read More: Digital Media, Accel Partners, AT&T, William Morris Agency, Silicon Valley Venture Capital, Hollywood, Venrock, Silicon Valley, Business News

Hollywood and Silicon Valley have something of a Mars/Venus problem: the two sides are talking but they don't speak each other's language. A new ventu...

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The Best (And Best-Paying) Jobs For 2008

Portfolio Via MSNBC | Chris Dannen | Posted 02.24.2008 | Business

Read More: Software Engineer, Best Jobs 2008, Computer Software Engineer, Green Jobs, Best Jobs, Jobs, Financial Analysts, Community Service, New Jobs, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Dental Hygienists, Job Hunting, Veternarians, Recession, Social Service, Silicon Valley, Business News

If you're job hunting in the professional or service-oriented fields, we have good news. Of the ten categories into which the Bureau of Labor Statisti...

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The AOL Exodus Effect

Washington Post | Zachary A. Goldfarb, Kendra Marr | Posted 02.18.2008 | Business

Read More: Bethesda, Aol, Reston, Sprint Nextel, Bay Area, Silicon Valley, Business News

Barry Schuler moved to Washington from Silicon Valley to join AOL during its golden days, one of the many top technology professionals the Internet gi...

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Top Microsoft Web Executive to Depart

AP | JESSICA MINTZ | Posted 02.15.2008 | Business

Read More: Microsoft Yahoo, Yahoo, Windows Vista, Silicon Valley, Microsoft, Lou Gellos, Google, Business News

SEATTLE — Microsoft Corp. announced the departure of several executives Thursday, among them a Silicon Valley veteran recruited to help fix its ...

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Microsoft-Yahoo Linkup Hits The Pacific

Rebecca Fannin | Posted 02.11.2008 | Business

Read More: Microsoft Yahoo, Yahoo, Microsoft, Jack Ma, Hong Kong Stock Exchange, Alibaba, Jerry Yang, Silicon Valley, Business News
Rebecca Fannin

The Microsoft bid to buy Yahoo sent shock waves not only through Silicon Valley but also across the Pacific to China.

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The Top 10 State Tech Leaders

John Tepper Marlin | Posted 12.08.2007 | Business

Read More: Mit, Washington, Greater Boston, Innovation, Hudson River, Beltway, Silicon Alley, Eliot Spitzer, California, Virginia, David Hochman, Technology, Detroit, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New York City, New York, Michigan, Route 128, Stanford, Silicon Valley, Maryland, Colorado, Herman Hollerith, Nist, Albany, Army, Ohio, Noaa, Alfred Beach, Alexander Graham Bell, Microsoft, Karl Compton, Commerce Department, Thomas Edison, Texas, Poughkeepsie, Air Force, Fred Terman, Itac, Nasa, Sbir, Buffalo, Rochester, Navy, Doe, Guglielmo Marconi, Business News
John Tepper Marlin

Why do Colorado and Ohio rank higher than the Empire State in small business innovation?

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Silicon Valley at Oxford University

Jonah Peretti | Posted 11.20.2007 | Business

Read More: Silicon Valley, Entrepreneurs, Oxford, Business, Technology, Business News
Jonah Peretti

This weekend Oxford University hosted a gathering of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs to increase the probability of a European, Indian, or Chinese entrepreneur creating the next Google, Yahoo, or Microsoft.

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Murdoch Finds A Fan Club In Silicon Valley

New York Times | David Carr | Posted 10.29.2007 | Media

Read More: Rupert Murdoch, News Corp, Myspace, Silicon Valley, Media News

At the Web 2.0 Summit a few weeks ago, MySpace held an after-party at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. With a guest list of Silicon Valley lumi...

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Silicon Valley Golden Boys Feel The Itch To Repeat Startup Success

New York Times | Gary Rivlin | Posted 10.29.2007 | Business

Read More: PayPal, Startups, Slide, Wunderkinds, Golden Boys, Silicon Valley, Business News

Max Levchin is not easily distracted from his work. A few years ago, Mr. Levchin, one of the young princes of Silicon Valley, bought his first home, ...

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