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Twitter Ipo Makes San Francisco the Sexy New Face of Silicon Valley
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Twitter Ipo Makes San Francisco the Sexy New Face of Silicon Valley

In case you haven't noticed, Silicon Valley has been pulling up some of its roots and moving north.

Tony Fadell, Ceo of Nest, on Making Home Devices Cool
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Tony Fadell, Ceo of Nest, on Making Home Devices Cool

Nest Labs' first product has made it the darling of both the clean tech industry and design crowd.

'hidden' Economy in Silicon Valley Built Without Advanced Degrees
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'hidden' Economy in Silicon Valley Built Without Advanced Degrees

Silicon Valley is world-renowned for the Nobel Prize winners and MacArthur "geniuses" behind theoretical breakthroughs in science, technology, engineering, and...

Sri International Is an Innovation Powerhouse Trying to Rise Above the Noise of Apple, Google, and Facebook
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Sri International Is an Innovation Powerhouse Trying to Rise Above the Noise of Apple, Google, and Facebook

When Intel worried years ago that its marvelous innovation wasn't being noticed by consumers-at-large, it launched the ubiquitous "Intel Inside" campaign.

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...

Researchers at Parc Give ­S a Glimpse of the Future
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Researchers at Parc Give ­S a Glimpse of the Future

It was a high-tech speed-dating session, Silicon Valley-style: I would sit in the storied memorabilia-laden Room 2306 in the bowels of PARC, the former Xerox research...

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...

Google's Android Chief Andy Rubin to Step Aside
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Google's Android Chief Andy Rubin to Step Aside

In a significant changing of the guard, Google said Wednesday that Android chief Andy Rubin, who built the company's phenomenally successful mobile software business...

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...

3d Software Key to Designing Many of Today's Consumer Products
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3d Software Key to Designing Many of Today's Consumer Products

While developing an electric bicycle for his San Rafael company, Marcus Hays had planned to insert a battery into one of the bike's supporting tubes. But then he...

Silicon Valley Job Growth Has Reached Dot-Com Boom Levels, Report Says
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Silicon Valley Job Growth Has Reached Dot-Com Boom Levels, Report Says

Silicon Valley's job growth has returned to dot-com boom levels, and San Francisco has emerged as a major new tech hub. But good times have not returned for all...

Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Other Tech Giants Rushing to Embrace Software
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Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Other Tech Giants Rushing to Embrace Software

Hewlett-Packard's purchase of Autonomy may have turned into a multibillion-dollar disaster, but it hasn't stopped HP—and other Silicon Valley tech giants—from making...

Asian Workers Now Dominate Silicon Valley Tech Jobs
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Asian Workers Now Dominate Silicon Valley Tech Jobs

Asian-Americans make up half of the Bay Area's technology workforce, and their double-digit employment gains came from jobs lost among white tech workers, according...

Stanford Grads' Companies Combined Equals 10th Largest Economy
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Stanford Grads' Companies Combined Equals 10th Largest Economy

If companies founded by Stanford graduates formed an independent nation, it would be the 10th largest economy in the world, according to a new study by two Stanford...

Cisco Looks to Be Noticed By the College Crowd
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Cisco Looks to Be Noticed By the College Crowd

If Annie Cheung's parents are looking for someone to blame for derailing her from medical school, they might point a finger or two at Cisco.

Robot Culture Blossoms in Bay Area
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Robot Culture Blossoms in Bay Area

They may not look exactly like their goofy, gangly ancestors on '60s TV.

Don't Tell Teenager Shachi Kakkar That Chip Verification Is For Nerds
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Don't Tell Teenager Shachi Kakkar That Chip Verification Is For Nerds

Anybody who's 17, or ever been 17, knows that any suggestions your parents make are nothing but lame. But every now and then, one of those lame ideas turns into...

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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Gild Promises True Meritocracy in Hiring, but Is that a Good Thing?

Even if it's just a myth, Silicon Valley loves to cling to the belief that it is a meritocracy.

For Popular Khan Academy, a Critical Voice Amid the Adulation
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For Popular Khan Academy, a Critical Voice Amid the Adulation

In the past year, education-reform icon Sal Khan has been lauded by Bill Gates as the "teacher to the world" and has been listed among Time magazine's 100 most...
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