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NEWS ABOUT: Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley stories: 69 news summaries

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Net Startups Go Gaga
Over Silly Company Names

New web companies follow Google's example and embrace goofy monikers

Aug 29, 07 2:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - Following in the Google tradition of using a goofy name to stand out from the Silicon Valley pack, a new generation of internet startups is sporting wacky monikers that may rile investors and confuse consumers. Young companies resort to names like Tagtooga and Qoosa to carve out unique identities and... More »

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Yahoo • Google • Internet • Silicon Valley • eBay • Squidoo • Xoopit • startup

Advertisers Will Soon Be Facebooking You, Too

Social-networking site to allow targeted ads based on user profiles

Aug 23, 07 1:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Facebook is at work on a way to sell ads based on information users and their friends post on the site, the Wall Street Journal reports. A basic version of the service could launch this fall, and the social-networking titan eventually might allow marketers to predict products and services users... More »

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Yahoo • Google • Internet • Viacom • Microsoft • Silicon Valley • advertising • Facebook • Mark Zuckerberg • online ads • AdWords

US Visa Logjam Triggers Reverse Brain Drain

Thousands of skilled workers wait for documents

Aug 23, 07 7:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - Just as the US tightens immigration controls, a huge backlog in processing visas for legal migrants is causing a "reverse brain drain," forcing sought-after scientists, engineers, doctors and entrepreneurs to return to their home countries, according to a report released yesterday. One million would-be immigrants are competing for... More »

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immigration • Silicon Valley • visa • immigrant • reverse brain drain • brain drain

Four Square
Gets Serious in Silicon Valley

Playground game is the latest sport adopted by 'rejuveniles'

Aug 18, 07 5:59 PM CDT
(Newser) - The latest craze to take root in Silicon Valley doesn’t involve codes or algorithms, just squares. That is, four squares, taped onto a carpet, or painted onto asphalt, for the classic elementary school game of four square. The game requires four players to hit a rubber ball back and... More »

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Silicon Valley • game • four square • playground games • Meebo • LinkedIn • Mountain View • Christopher Noxon • rejuveniles

A Million Here, a Million
There ...

... and before long, some Silicon Valley hotshots are feeling pretty average

Aug 5, 07 3:33 PM CDT
(Newser) - Millionaires are a dime a dozen in Silicon Valley, where a seven-digit net worth was once a ticket to the good life. Today, lower-level millionaires have to clock 12-hour workdays just to stay afloat. The Times reports on some living embodiments of "be careful what you wish for." More »

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Silicon Valley • wealth • money • millionaires • digital elite

Tech Companies Cool on Indian Outsourcing

Rising labor costs
make hiring at home more attractive

Jul 3, 07 10:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - India, the destination of choice for American tech companies looking for sophisticated but cheap labor, is beginning to lose its appeal, the Wall Street Journal reports. Rising pay scales are making it  too expensive to justify the complications of globalizing. Now some are outsourcing their outsourcing to slower climes like... More »

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technology • Silicon Valley • India • globalization • wages • Bangalore

Battle for Tech-Savvy
New Grads Heats Up

Geeks are a hot commodity on the job market

Jun 29, 07 9:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - Demand for students and recent grads with top-notch tech skills is higher than it's been in over a decade, thanks in part to banks and securities firms waging the recruiting wars alongside Silicon Valley giants such as Google. Bloomberg goes inside the process of wooing the so-called millennials, born between... More »

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technology • Google • Wall Street • Silicon Valley • recruits • finance

(Newser) - Think Iowa Caucus folkways meets Silicon Valley tech savvy: A group of high-tech entrepreneurs are using online and offline social networking to evaluate, pick, and support their presidential candidate. The groups skip traditional intermediaries—namely, political parties—to meet directly with candidates, then use their widespread (and wealthy) social networks... More »

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social networking • Silicon Valley • campaign fundraising • Election 2008

Techies Click With Obama

Silicon Valley elite are replacing Clinton with a next-generation model

Mar 26, 07 12:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - Silicon Valley techies are forsaking  Hillary for Barack—and among the defectors are some of Bill's biggest fundraisers. Obama's is grabbing particular notice among the young and newly wealthy, with deep pockets and little political experience. "In the lexicon of high tech, Barack Obama is the next-generation solution,"... More »

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Barack Obama • technology • California • Democrats • politics • Silicon Valley • campaign fundraising • Election 2008

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