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What should Apple do with its $81bn?

20.10.11
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

Google and Facebook square up

12.08.11
Web giants both announce new features as they compete to attract users to their respective online services... more

Facebook twins drop case against founder Mark Zuckerberg

23.06.11
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

Can London’s Tech City really rival the Silicon Valley?

15.11.10
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

Star player in London’s video gaming explosion

10.11.10
Business interview: Phil Rogers heads the European end of a global giant. He wishes the UK Government would do more to encourage his industry... more

The real Facebook geeks behind The Social Network

20.10.10
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

East London may be the birthplace of a new Facebook

19.10.10
Britain’s economic future could come to rely on a cluster of web and technology outfits at Old Street roundabout... more

The Social Network is must-see story of Facebook friends and enemies

15.10.10
Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg is cast as a social reject in the must-see movie of his legal battle with his student investors... more

Innovators set to take up arms in patent war

27.09.10
In Silicon Valley: Fall is the time to get serious again about that hard-nosed, full-contact sport that is American capitalism at its best... more

Facebook’s Boy Wonder: the new Bill Gates?

21.10.09
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 ... more

If Twitter says it's news, does that always mean it is?

26.06.09
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

Change takes a turn for the worse in a sombre week

12.06.09
After the giddy fun of last week's Maker Faire, the wacky science festival for inventors, the mood here has turned decidedly melancholy... more

Teenagers are caught in a deadly drive for perfection

15.05.09
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

Cooling the fever over swine flu

01.05.09
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

Mudlarks are the makers

06.02.09
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

All credit goes to the Crunchies

16.01.09
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

Yoghurt is health kick for Apple

09.01.09
Where do you go if you want the inside scoop on Steve Jobs’s health? Try the reclusive Apple CEO’s favourite yoghurt store... more

The London galleries to watch

18.01.08
Forget Tate Modern - if you want to find your way around the capital's booming arts scene, here's where to start.... more


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