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Camping out at AOL: Teen entrepreneur lives on AOL's couch for two months

Posted May 25, 2012 - 6:21 pm

SiliValley entrepreneur Eric Simons crashed on AOL's couches and ate its food for free after a four-month AOL-sponsored incubator session ended before Simons was ready to leave.
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Steve Blank says Facebook killing Silicon Valley

Posted May 22, 2012 - 10:54 am

Blank says Facebook has changed the equation of startups and venture capital for the worse.
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How many more Scott Thompsons are out there?

Posted May 14, 2012 - 1:41 pm

Scott Thompson may be gone from Yahoo, but many of you still are reporting to a phony running your own department or company.
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The unforgivable heresy of Sheryl Sandberg

Posted April 17, 2012 - 8:02 am

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg thinks it'd be great if tech workers didn't put in stupidly long hours at the office. Don't count on her triggering a Silicon Valley revolution.
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U.S. cities with the fastest growth rate for tech jobs

Posted March 12, 2012 - 11:15 am

While there are more technology jobs today than last year in many parts of the United States, online job board Dice identifies the fastest-growing metro areas for tech employment.
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Other Steve Jobs quotes Virgin America could have used on its planes

Posted January 24, 2012 - 4:46 pm

Silicon Valley-based airline Virgin America has put a quote from Steve Jobs on one of its planes as a tribute to the late Apple co-founder. But why stop at one?
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More on why it sucks to work at Zynga

Posted November 28, 2011 - 1:17 pm

Zynga's uncompromising and driven work culture may make it hard for the social gaming company to keep top talent and close acquisitions.
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Mark Zuckerberg really doesn't care all that much for Silicon Valley

Posted October 31, 2011 - 11:28 am

The Facebook founder laments the short-term focus of Silicon Valley start-up culture.
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An award Mark Zuckerberg truly deserves

Posted August 4, 2011 - 4:18 pm

GQ names the Facebook founder and CEO the worst-dressed male in Silicon Valley. There are other contenders.
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Google in the early days

Posted April 28, 2011 - 9:58 am

Go back in time to the halcyon days of December 1999, when Google was just a hip startup.
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5 reasons Silicon Valley might stumble coming out of recession

Posted February 12, 2010 - 10:29 pm

Cisco CEO John Chambers' optimism on tech's rebound from the lagging economy was tempered this week by the findings of a group of Silicon Valley nonprofits.
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Clearwire Woos Developer Crowd with Free WiMax

Posted September 17, 2009 - 5:28 pm

Clearwire, the foremost flag-bearer for the WiMax flavor of 4G wireless service worldwide, has launched a free WiMax network for the developer community in Silicon Valley.
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Salaries Up, Jobs Down in Silicon Valley

Posted September 14, 2009 - 9:04 am

A U.S. government study found that the Silicon Valley high-tech workforce has declined by 16.5% since 2001 while payrolls have increased by some 36%, leading some to say that lower-level jobs are being exported to lower-paying areas of the U.S.
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Silicon Valley looking for a poet laureate

Posted February 4, 2009 - 10:00 am

Santa Clara County, the heart of California's Silicon Valley, has a reputation as a cultural wasteland where the closest thing you can get to high culture is a showing of Monty Python And The Holy Grail. But that's all about to change.
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Too old for tech? Not these Silicon Valley CEOs

Posted October 30, 2008 - 2:24 pm

Silicon Valley is the stage where wunderkinds emerge and are feted: Yahoo's Jerry Yang and David Filo, Netscape's Marc Andreessen, Google's Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg -- all in their 20s when they hit it big. But there are exceptions to the rule.
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