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Berlin Start-Ups: Cool and Commerce Coming Together?


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Since German reunification, artists and small companies have been drawn to east Berlin, where rent is remarkably cheap and theres plenty of space.

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When new businesses based on the computer chip began to cluster in Santa Clara Valley, it did not take long for someone to come up with the name Silicon Valley. That set a pattern, and soon there was Silicon Glen in Scotland, Kenya’s Silicon Savannah, Silicon Gulf in the Philippines, Silicon Taiga in Siberia—even the somewhat less romantic-sounding Silicon Roundabout in London.

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