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Berkeley Supports It Startups High Atop the Campus
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Berkeley Supports It Startups High Atop the Campus

High above the University of California, Berkeley campus, IT entrepreneurs are being given the opportunity to grow their startups in the four-month-old Skydeck...

Cios Reveal Second-Quarter Hiring Plans
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Cios Reveal Second-Quarter Hiring Plans

U.S. technology executives expect continued IT hiring in the second quarter, albeit at a slower pace than three months ago, according to the latest Robert Half...

DARPA Director Bolts Pentagon For Google
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DARPA Director Bolts Pentagon For Google

Darpa director Regina Dugan will soon be stepping down from her position atop the Pentagon's premiere research shop to take a job with Google.

Apple Pioneer Brings Emotion to Google+
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Apple Pioneer Brings Emotion to Google+

Andy Hertzfeld was ready to retire back in 2009, following a momentous 30-year plus career where he worked side by side with Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak to design...

The Best Cities For Finding IT Jobs in 2012
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The Best Cities For Finding IT Jobs in 2012

The best U.S. cities for finding IT jobs are Washington DC, Houston, Minneapolis, and San Francisco, according to a survey of three national staffing firms.

Re-Framing Talent For Our Times
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Re-Framing Talent For Our Times

Today's economy is characterized by rapid, volatile change and mounting competitive pressures. Companies need to re-define "talent" to meet these demands.

Khan Academy: The Future of Education?
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Khan Academy: The Future of Education?

Sal Khan is a math, science, and history teacher to millions of students, yet none have ever seen his face.

Where 4,000,000 Phones a Year Go to Be Resurrected
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Where 4,000,000 Phones a Year Go to Be Resurrected

The first thing I noticed when I stepped into Recellular's Ann Arbor warehouse was the flags. From the rafters, the flags of the world oversee the processing of...

Hail to the Geeks
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Hail to the Geeks

Basketball dominates the American sports landscape in March. So perhaps it’s fitting that the sixth annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, held last week...

An App That Helps You Cozy ­p to Strangers
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An App That Helps You Cozy ­p to Strangers

Paul Davison is in a hurry. Not just to board the plane that's about to take him to his father's retirement party in San Diego, or to get through the talking points...

What Geography Can Teach ­S About Basketball
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What Geography Can Teach ­S About Basketball

The annual Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, created in 2006, has become something like Bonnaroo for sports nerds. And if there was a breakout star at this year's...

Silicon Valley's Humble Billionaire
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Silicon Valley's Humble Billionaire

It's a Saturday afternoon in Palo Alto, Calif., and there goes David Cheriton, navigating the Silicon Valley suburb's tony downtown on his bike.

Berkeley Skydeck Provides Perch For Startups to Jump Into Market
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Berkeley Skydeck Provides Perch For Startups to Jump Into Market

Perched atop Berkeley's tallest building, the Berkeley Skydeck is a UC Berkeley campus-community partnership that could change the way emerging companies scale...

Dhs, Not Nsa, Should Lead Cybersecurity, Pentagon Official Says
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Dhs, Not Nsa, Should Lead Cybersecurity, Pentagon Official Says

In the midst of an ongoing turf battle over how big a role the National Security Agency should play in securing the nation’s critical infrastructure, a Defense...

How To Kill Patent Trolls
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How To Kill Patent Trolls

Firms that collect and enforce patents of dubious value—with no intention of creating the invention described in those patents—are the scourge of innovators everywhere...

The Management Team
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The Management Team

Joel Spolsky weighs in on how entrepreneurs manage their companies. Few have management experience, and sometimes adopt a "command and control" approach. However...

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Video: Touring the Futuristic R&d Lab Behind Apple's Siri

SRI in Menlo Park, California, has spawned everything from the computer mouse to ultrasound technology to the Siri "personal assistant" platform in the new iPhones...

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...

Windows Without Windows
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Windows Without Windows

Microsoft's new version of Windows is fantastic, jarring, and risky at the same time. Fantastic because it marks the clearest sign yet that Microsoft is embracing...

Engineering the Next Generation of STEM
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Engineering the Next Generation of STEM

Industry participants, reacting to the so-called engineering crisis, are doing what they can to foster science, technology, engineering, and math talent and encourage...
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