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Upcoming June 4: TEDxSF - ALIVE! Maximum Living...
TEDxSF is coming up this Saturday at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts - Noon to 6pm. It's my favorite local event. Above is video from the one in November, with Jaron Lanier playing one of the...
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R&D Spending Is Not A Measure Of Innovaton
Irving Wladawsky-Berger takes a look at spending by large companies on research and development and their competitive advantage. He found little connection between the amount of R&D spending and...
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A Visit To SRI: Top Secret R&D In The Heart Of Silicon Valley
Tucked away in a quiet, tree lined residential neighborhood of Menlo Park, SRI International runs a massive 1 million square foot research lab in the heart of Silicon Valley, where many of its 2100...
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ARM Co-Founder Wins Silicon Valley "Visionary" Award
Herman Hauser, the co-founder of ARM, the British microprocessor company, will be honored with a prestigious 2011 Visionary Award from SDForum at a private ceremony on June 21.
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Signs: It's Not A Bubble Until...
I say Silicon Valley is in a boom period rather than a bubble. Others might disagree but everyone has some kind of warning sign to look for.For example: Mike Butcher, from Techcrunch Europe, Tweeted...
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Is Groupon IPO A Tech Company IPO?
Updated:Groupon filed for an IPO Thursday planning to raise $750 million reports The New York Times. The filing reveals very fast growth:
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Notes From 8th Innovation Journalism Conference
Last week's 8th Innovation Journalism Conference produced a lot of interesting sessions and sparked a lot of ideas.This year David Nordfors, the founder of the conference and Executive Director of the...
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Always Crashing In The Same Car? Here's How Silicon Valley's Boom Could Turn...
Are we in a bubble? is a common question as I chat with people at various events around Silicon Valley.The concern is that if it's a bubble then a crash is not far off. But I'm far more worried that...
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MediaWatch: The Strange Joys Of Blogging...
"I am no longer sure if I am in control of my blog, or if the blog could also be described as controlling me."This line jumped out at me as I was reading Irving Wladawsky-Berger's latest post: The...
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Impressive Lineup For Launch: Silicon Valley 2011
Tuesday at the Microsoft campus in Mountain View, Launch: Silicon Valley will be featuring 30 startups plus:
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Morris Jarvis: Intel's "Red Neck Rocket Scientist" Plans Space Launch
By Intel Free PressFor a self-described redneck, Morris Jarvis sure doesn't fit the mold. For one thing, he's a building information modeling project manager in suburban Phoenix, not a poor Southern...
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The New Media Digital Divide... Study Finds Elites Continue To Dominate
A study by Jen Schradie at UC Berkeley found that the digital divide is alive and well in the new media world despite proclamations of a new democratic leveling of online media through blogs, Tweets,...
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GrowLab Incubator Offers $25K Seed And $150K Follow-On Funding
There's a lot of competition these days to find the best startups and also capitalize on the Y Combinator model of incubation.
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Forsook! Google Can't Spell "Facebook"
I use GMail all the time and its spell checker is usually pretty good. But the other day I noticed it can't spell "Facebook."I tried some other computer company names but only Facebook was flagged:
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WPP Blacklists More Than 2,000 US Web Sites From Billions In Avdertising
Mark Sweney in the UK newspaper The Guardian reports that the WPP one of the largest marketing and advertising business groups, has pulled advertising from more than 2,000 web sites that it believes...
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Steve Jobs Returns (Again) For City Council Pitch For A Huge "Spaceship" Campus
That old Steve Jobs magic is not reserved just for the Apple faithful. He recently took a break from his medical leave to present at Apple's developer conference earlier this week. Now, he's also...
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Really?! MoFo Tech - A Newsletter From Silicon Valley Lawyers
I just saw "MoFo Tech" (above) an edgy-designed newsletter from Morrison & Foerster LLP, a top Silicon Valley law firm.It's certainly an attention getting title and look. And here's their web site,...
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A Silicon Valley Icon's Plans For A Silicon Valley Icon...
Silicon Valley looks pretty much the same today as it did when I first arrived in 1984 - it looks like a business park. Except for the names of the companies it looks like any business park in the...
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The 800lb Gorilla: Spotify US Launch Is Just Days Away
[I'm in London this week following keynoting a conference for Omnicom's European senior leadership teams. The following news was from a panel I moderated on Tuesday.]Spotify, the most successful music...
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IBM @100 Years - Global Innovation Is About Silicon Valley Not IBM
Congratulations to IBM and its 100 years in business - from making cheese graters to supercomputers, and much, much more.IBM is seen as very much an East Coast company yet its history shows a strong...
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