Cramer: Silicon Valley Wasting Time, Money On Entertainment Looking for innovation? Superpundit Jim Cramer says there's more of it happening in the Ohio Valley than in Silicon Valley. This was one of a few pearls delivered by Cramer during TheStree [..]
TATA Interactive Systems At Full Steam Mumbai, India based e-Learning major TATA Interactive Systems is making it rain and how! From a Newswire press release: In the beginning of 2007, Tata Interactive Systems won a $3m order to design and develop e-learning solutions for an organisation... [..]
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Tom Freston Shows Up In Sun Valley, Gets A Job Offer The lure of Sun Valley is that moguls get to mingle with their peers. One potential downside: Awkward encounters like the ones we imagine Tom Freston has had with Viacom boss Philippe Daum [..]
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Everybody's Underwater In Silicon Valley As tech stocks plummet, more Silicon Valley workers find themselves holding worthless options -- the kind that would allow them to buy company stock at higher prices than they are currently being publicly traded.
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Silicon Valley Tumbling Into Recession It wasn't long ago that a new generation of digital entrepreneurs were dismissing the idea that what happened in the general economy would affect a newly revitalized Silicon Valley. As the New York Ti [..]
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Silicon Death Valley The Register's Ashlee Vance wriggles through a Las Vegas Mantrap to get the goods on the SuperNAP, a vast, superpowered data center being constructed in the Nevada desert by a shadowy hosting firm called Switch Communications. Writes Vance: This 407,000 square foot computing compound will house servers and storage systems owned by many of the world's most prominent companies. And, unlike most cent [..]
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Sun Valley 2008: Who Is This Year's Joost?* Who's coming to Sun Valley this year? The same people who come to Herb Allen's ultra-exclusive schmooze every year - the men (and occasional woman) at the top of the world's bigges [..]
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Sun Valley 2008: Who Is This Year's Joost? Who's coming to Sun Valley this year? The same people who come to Herb Allen's ultra-exclusive schmooze every year - the men (and occasional woman) at the top of the world's bigges [..]
The Uncanny Valley Explained (In Terms of Porn And Star Wars) [Media] The uncanny valley is that strange place in digital graphics where a human looks so almost real that the figure is actually more upsetting to the viewer than if they were playing, say, Rainbow Six Vegas 2 with two white sticks an [..]
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Silicon Valley Startups Cut Back Following Sequoia's terrifying pronouncements and the market's continuing plunge, Valley startups are turning tail. Cue the Wall Street Journal trend piece: "Venture Capital Financing Slows Amid Economic Downturn." [..]
What Recession?: Valley Adds (A Few) Tech Jobs In February Silicon Valley added 200 computer and electronics jobs from January to February pushing the unemployment rate down ever so slightly from 5.3% to 5.2%. Year-to-year the Valley added 3,100 tech jobs from last February. The national unemployment rate was 4.8% in February.
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