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Silicon Valley.(chapter focus)(Company overview)

Article from: Financial Executive Article date: January 1, 2009 Author: Raab, Marian

Area Covered: Silicon Valley, including the South Bay/San Jose, Calif.; the East Bay/Oakland, Calif.; and the Peninsula region within the San Francisco Bay Area

Year founded: 1976

Members: 561

Companies Represented: Adobe Systems Inc., Autodesk Inc., Agilent Technologies Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., eBay Inc., Electronic Arts Inc., Genentech Inc., Gilead Sciences Inc., Google Inc., Hewlett Packard Co., Intel Corp., Intuit Inc., NetFlix Inc., Oracle Corp., Salesforce.com Inc., SAP AG, Sun Microsystems Inc. and Yahoo Inc.

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