It is hard to find a chink in the armour of Wall Street's technology titans. Apple's figures may have disappointed Wall Street this week, but it is all relative... more
The Olympic rowing twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, made famous in the film The Social Network, have dropped their long-running dispute with Mark Zuckerberg over their claim that he stole the idea from them... more
In Silicon Valley: Politicians have been trumpeting the debuts of their various Silicon Glens, Fens, Polders, Bogs and Gulches for years - none has yet come close to matching the original... more
Hit movie The Social Network is the compelling true tale of the geeks who set up Facebook. So what happened to the group after the venture went viral? Nick Curtis reports... more
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?... more
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 ... more
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 ... more
Letter from Silicon Valley: Some of us here are still basking in the glow of President Obama's inauguration speech. We particularly liked the bit where he said: "it has been the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things...who have carried us up the long, rugged path towards prosperity and freedom."... more
It's awards season, of course, but here that doesn’t just mean the Golden Globes or the upcoming Oscars. The Valley cares as much, if not more, about the Crunchies... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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