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There was a subtle but significant shift in the Silicon Valley universe just the other week. On 12 October, Arthur D Levinson — chairman of Genentech — resigned from Google's board
Read full article...Social networking site’s 25-year-old chief hints at his ambitions as the industry’s Web 2.0 Summit takes place in the US
Everyone here is expecting Apple to announce at least one new product in the next month or so, just in time for the end-of-year shopping season.
Americans have been marking the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing with a mixture of pride and regret
It’s taken a while, but President Obama has his technology team in place. What’s most striking to us in California is how few of them have any association with the foremost regional generator of tech innovation (which would, ahem, be us)
We're getting more information about the Andreessen Horowitz venture fund, news of which first leaked out last month
At the end of a positively fatal month for famous Americans, things are looking up for Steve Jobs. For one thing, he's back to work
If a tree falls in the forest and no one tweets about it, did it happen? Or, at the very least, was it something about which any of us should care?
Netscape founder Marc Andreessen and his business partner Ben Horowitz have just finished raising a new $300 million (£183 million) early-stage venture fund, further evidence that investors here are still willing to make bets on promising Valley start-ups
After the giddy fun of last week's Maker Faire, the wacky science festival for inventors, the mood here has turned decidedly melancholy
The Bay Area’s Maker culture, which I wrote about a few months back, had its fourth big annual outing last weekend when some 80,000 people attended the two-day Maker Faire in San Mateo, at the Valley’s northern edge
This morning, I met my friend Sharon at Fraiche, Steve Jobs' favourite yoghurt shop, to talk about the social media campaign she's developing for a new book on working families
It's become something of a perfect PR storm. Back in March, Craigslist was sued by a Michigan sheriff for knowingly promoting and facilitating prostitution, just the latest US law enforcement official to blame the site for the prevalence of prostitution in his or her jurisdiction
Much soul-searching here this week after a 17-year-old student at Palo Alto’s Gunn High School was killed by a commuter train. All the evidence points to suicide and many are asking how much the Valley’s intensely competitive culture was to blame
The greatest fortunes in California’s first gold rush were made by the likes of Leland Stanford and Collis P Huntington, shopkeepers who sold the miners their shovels. The pair of Sacramento outfitters went on to become two of the Big Four investors in the Central Pacific Railroad, America’s first transcontinental railroad, and respectively built the best university and the finest library in the state
The Valley is full of people who shift regularly between here and Mexico, from tech manufacturers running maquiladoras just across the border to regular working folks
While the Valley is home to some of the nimblest new businesses on the planet, it has its fair share of lumbering heavyweights. And in the past few weeks, some of the heaviest have been forced into strategic moves that will be reverberating around here for a while
Supplicants to the VC gods on Menlo Park's Sand Hill Road have a swanky new place to stay. The luxurious Rosewood Sand Hill has just opened, right next to some of the most-famed VC offices in the region. Rooms are gorgeous but pricy; more for the hedge-fund crowd than boot-strapping entrepreneurs.
Tech cheerleader and prolific tweeter Robert Scoble suggests in a recent blog that Silicon Valley, if not the entire state of California, might soon see a huge brain drain. Could he be right?
Yes, there is a Stanford Mobile Phone Orchestra. It's been performing for over a year now. There's also a Stanford Laptop Orchestra. Both work out of the university's center for computer research in music and acoustics and are founded by Ge Wang, a Stanford assistant professor of music.
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