Silicon Valley is the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California in the United States. The term originally referred to the region's large number of silicon chip innovators and manufacturers, but eventually came to refer to all the high tech businesses in the area. Even though it's not truly a valley, it is a metonym for the high-tech sector generally.
Source: Sacramento Bee
Carl Guardino is CEO of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, an association of 375 CEOs throughout the Bay Area. Most of us in the Golden State agree: California is in crisis. A state budget deficit eclipsing $15 billion, the nation's third- ...
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Source: San Francisco Chronicle
When it comes to sports, how deep are the corporate and private pockets in San Francisco and Silicon Valley? Bottomless. Consider: -- The Giants built a new home in San Francisco because they got major financial backing and ...
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SAN JOSE, CA, May 27, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- The San Jose Short Film Festival was founded to showcase Silicon Valley's leadership role in contemporary filmmaking and support independent filmmakers from around t ...
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Source: Digital Spy
The old adage is that something is only worth as much as someone is willing to pay for it. But, in the digital world, a games development is increasingly worth as much as someone is willing to pledge to it. 2012 has seen the Kickstarter crowd-so ...
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Source: The Next Web
Welcome to the latest Last Week in Asia round-up, our selection of the key stories and developments from across Asia’s growing technology and Internet spaces. Following much speculation, the struggling US firm finally announc ...
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Source: Real Clear Markets
I teach entrepreneurship for about 50 student teams a year from engineering schools at Stanford, Berkeley, and Columbia. For the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps this year I'll also teach around 150 teams led by professors who want to co ...
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Source: Contra Costa Times
The commission voted 4-1 on Wednesday at its meeting in Monterey to throw out its rules for giving the presidency of the powerful panel to the person who is most senior in their term. Richards was the no vote. ...
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There’s been a lot of linkage this week to David Lowery’s Meet The New Boss, Worse Than The Old Boss?. Lowery is a music-biz insider, and something of a self-proclaimed geek; and he really, really hates people like m ...
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Source: Boston Herald
Greater Boston is the 10th most expensive market for companies looking to relocate their corporate headquarters with strong appeal for Canadian businesses that want to set up shop in the United States, but ...
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