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New iPhone Out Next Summer Rumor Has Sillicon Valley All Abuzz

New York Post | DAMON BROWN | Posted 03.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Iphone, Apple, Steve Jobs, New iPhone, Silicon Valley, New Iphone Next Summer Rumors, New Iphone Rumors, Business News

Silicon Valley is abuzz with reports that the next-generation iPhone will hit shelves this summer - with the ability to be a full-fledged games platfo...

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Chief Technology Officer to be Transformational?

David Kralik | Posted 02.27.2009 | Media

Read More: Chief Technology Officer, Center for Responsive Politics, Center for Responsive Politics Obama, Washington DC, The Center for Responsive Politics, Technology, Barack Obama, Silicon Valley, The Internet, Google, Obama Cabinet, Computers, Web, Websites, Internet, Obama's Cabinet, Media News

Technology and the Internet were crucial to helping elect Barack Obama president and it will be crucial to the success of his administration.

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"Mac Is Back?" Hey, It Never Left. Macintosh Turns 25

William Bradley | Posted 02.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Iphone, Ipod, Itunes, Steve Wozniak, Macintosh, Apple, Barack Obama, Steve Jobs, Microsoft, Desktop Publishing, Pixar, Ibm, Jerry Brown, John McCain, Gary Hart, Regis McKenna, Chiat/Day, Lee Clow, Apple II, Clio Award, California, Silicon Valley, Hillary Clinton, Business News

What will the Mac be in another 25 years? Undoubtedly part of my flying car.

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Too Big to Succeed

John Standerfer | Posted 02.23.2009 | Business

What we don't appear to understand yet is that no amount of money, time or regulation can possibly resolve this problem while a few banks continue to hold the entire nation hostage.

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Tech Sector Finally Hit With Job Losses

Bits | Matt Richtel | Posted 01.19.2009 | Business

Read More: Layoffs, Tech Sector, Economy, Silicon Valley, Financial Crisis, Job Cuts, Business News

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 01.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Leadership, Yahoo, Ceo, Corporate Boards, Yahoo!, Technology, Business, Silicon Valley, Business News

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.

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Richardson is the Innovator We Need in Commerce

Michelle Kraus | Posted 12.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Secretary of Commerce, Albuquerque, Obama Cabinet, Intel, President Elect Barack Obama, Sir Richard Branson, Governor Bill Richardson, Hollywood, Silicon Valley, Economy, Obama's Cabinet, Secretary of Commerce Bill Richardson, Bill Richardson, Politics News

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.

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Recharge America with Electric Cars

Gavin Newsom | Posted 12.22.2008 | Green

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."

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Laid-Off Silicon Valley Worker Kills Three

AP | TERRY COLLINS | Posted 12.16.2008 | Business

Read More: Layoffs, Jobs, Silicon Valley, Unemployment, Business News

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...

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Hollywood Under Siege

Jonathan Handel | Posted 12.13.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Silicon Valley, Hollywood, Movie Industry, Dvds, Film Industry, Entertainment News

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.

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Grassroots Organization Sends Campaigners Across the Country on Donated Frequent Flyer Miles

Natasha Chen | Posted 11.24.2008 | Home

Read More: Frequent Flyer Miles, Travel for Change, Florida, Volunteers, Ohio, Swing States, Stanford, Colorado, Barack Obama, Silicon Valley, Home News

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 ...

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How Poor Are You?

Vicky Ward | Posted 11.13.2008 | Style

Read More: Financial Crisis, Henry Paulson, Wall Street Crisis, Money, Economic Crisis, Silicon Valley, Great Depression, Style News

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.

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Tech Start-Ups: The Economy's Best Hope

CN Portfolio | Kevin Maney | Posted 11.10.2008 | Business

Read More: Tech Startups, Wall Street Crisis, Technology, Silicon Valley, Business News

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...

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"R.I.P. Good Times" -- Crisis Hits Startups

Silicon Alley Insider | Peter Kafka | Posted 11.09.2008 | Business

Read More: Tech Startups, Angel Investors, Finance, Economy, Startups, Venture Capital, Silicon Valley, Business News

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...

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Abu Dhabi Will Produce AMD Chips In Major Play For Technology Credibility

DealBook | Posted 11.08.2008 | Business

Read More: Uae, Atvanced Technology Investment Company, Computers, Abu Dhabi, Amd, Silicon Valley, Business News

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...

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Venture Capitalists Invest in Green

New York Times Magazine | Jon Gertner | Posted 11.06.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Al Gore, Sun Microsystems, I.P.O., Start-Ups, Capitalism, Ausra, Sunpower, Segway, Amyris, Think, Venture Capitalists, Environment, First Solar, Bloom Energy, Green Technology, Government Regulation, Silicon Valley, Green News

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...

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Credit Crisis Looms Over Silicon Valley

New York Times | BRAD STONE and CLAIRE CAIN MILLER | Posted 11.02.2008 | Business

Read More: Google, Financial Crisis, Silicon Valley, Financial Meltdown, Yahoo, Business News

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...

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Is Tech Dead In Chicago?

Brad Spirrison and Howard Wolinsky | Posted 09.22.2008 | Chicago

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 09.21.2008 | Green

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

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 08.05.2008 | Business

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

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 07.25.2008 | Business

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

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 06.24.2008 | Business

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

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 06.18.2008 | Business

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

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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The Question Concerning Digital Technology

Hugh McGuire | Posted 05.29.2008 | Business

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

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 05.15.2008 | 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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