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Canada Comes to Silicon Valley to Poach High-Tech Workers Struggling with Immigration Problems
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Canada Comes to Silicon Valley to Poach High-Tech Workers Struggling with Immigration Problems

Canada has landed in Silicon Valley with a brazen message: Give us your smart, your restless, your huddled Googleplex workers yearning to breathe life into the...

Immigration Reform: Silicon Valley Hiring Practices Threatened
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Immigration Reform: Silicon Valley Hiring Practices Threatened

As Congress tries to tackle the many sides of immigration reform, one of Silicon Valley's most contentious debates is getting renewed focus: Should high-tech companies...

Intel Takes Big Step in Custom Chip Foundry Business
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Intel Takes Big Step in Custom Chip Foundry Business

Intel has agreed to make chips on behalf of Altera, a significant step toward opening its prized manufacturing technology to customers on a larger scale, potentially...

Silicon Valley Technology Could Be Key to Connect Cars For Safer Driving
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Silicon Valley Technology Could Be Key to Connect Cars For Safer Driving

While Google's self-driving car is getting heaps of attention, a lesser-known effort that would employ Silicon Valley technologies to make regular automobiles safer...

Does Rise of Biometrics Mean a Future Without Anonymity?
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Does Rise of Biometrics Mean a Future Without Anonymity?

Long envisioned as an alternative to remembering scores of computer passwords or lugging around keys to cars, homes and businesses, technology that identifies people...

Arturo Bejar, Facebook Director of Engineering
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Arturo Bejar, Facebook Director of Engineering

Facebook engineering director Arturo Bejar is a numbers guy by training. But he's also in charge of the giant social network's foray into what it calls "compassion...

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Silicon Valley Foreign Worker Search Speeds ­p After Lull

Technology firms have tripled their recruitment of foreign workers this spring after a hiring lull of several years—a development that is reigniting the debate...

Stanford Grad Student Investigates Online Privacy
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Stanford Grad Student Investigates Online Privacy

Stanford's Workshop on Internet Tracking, Advertising and Privacy last year was attended by executives from big valley tech companies, important privacy researchers...

Silicon Valley Tech Companies Struggle to Describe Themselves in Comprehensible Language
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Silicon Valley Tech Companies Struggle to Describe Themselves in Comprehensible Language

Google's easy. It helps you find stuff. Facebook—duh—lets you connect with friends. Even Intel's a no-brainer—they make those little pieces of whatever inside your...

High-Tech New Citizens Bemoan Long Path to Ceremony
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High-Tech New Citizens Bemoan Long Path to Ceremony

Twenty-one years after he set foot in the United States, Facebook engineer Wei Zhu was overjoyed to take his oath of citizenship Wednesday at a special Silicon...

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Companies Worry About Sec's Advice to Disclose Cyberthreats

Deluged by cyberattacks they've mostly hidden from the public, companies in Silicon Valley and elsewhere are being prodded by federal regulators to finally fess...

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Jerry Yang Leaves Yahoo and a Cautionary Tale Behind

It had to be hard for Jerry Yang to walk away from Yahoo on Tuesday. You know it had to be hard or he would have walked away years ago—which is exactly what many...
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