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Google is looking rocky while Apple enjoys a second wind

26.10.09

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... 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

Space buffs set sights on topping the moon landing

24.07.09

Americans have been marking the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing with a mixture of pride and regret ... more

Reasons to be cheerful about business in Silicon London

20.07.09

It is a pleasant surprise to meet anyone who is optimistic at the moment. So I have liked spending time with people involved in London technology start-ups in the past week ... more

Internet stars logging on to a new fund for online start-ups

10.07.09

The dot-com era was resurrected today when four of the internet's most successful stars launched an investment fund for online start-ups ... 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

Why start-up fever will never cool for some of us

19.06.09

Netscape founder Marc Andreessen and his business partner Ben Horowitz have just finished raising a new $300 million (Ł183 million) early-stage venture fund, further evidence that investors here are still willing to make bets on promising Valley start-ups... more

All the fun of the faire as DIY goes back to the future

05.06.09

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 ... 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

Backroom boys who struck gold

08.05.09

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 ... more

Heavy mob are jostling for position

24.04.09

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... more

It's strictly business at these hotels

17.04.09

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We're still attracting the talent

03.04.09

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?... more

Idea and location in harmony

27.03.09

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Get street wise – Big Brother is googling you

25.03.09

If Google's aim is to be master of all it surveys, then the launch of Google Street View in the UK brings it that much closer to surveying, well, everything... more

Turning the tide is a hot issue

20.03.09

Back in 2005, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger formed a Climate Action Team to help California plan for global warming... more

A new era, star trek, and Mars

06.03.09

As Roy Greenslade noted in Wednesday's Evening Standard, US newspapers are enduring tough, and possibly fatal, times... more

A funding worry to chew over

27.02.09

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High fashion strikes gold in the East

28.01.09

ES Magazine's spies at the couture shows in Paris report that the atmosphere is "febrile" and that new clients are jostling with each other for the best seats... more

Up to 6000 jobs axed at Intel as sales drop

22.01.09

Technology: Bellwether technology company Intel is slashing up to 6000 jobs — more than 6% of its workforce — after a fall in fourth-quarter sales... 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

'The first bomb was like being punched by a ghost ...'

31.12.08

Sami Abdel-Shafi gives an eyewitness report on the fighting in Gaza City... more

Electric carmaker feeling flat

19.12.08

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The silicon chips aren't down yet

13.10.08

"How poor are you?" That's what formerly rich guys ranging from hedge-fund kings and tech pioneers to bankers and trust-fund heirs are now asking each other at dinners around town. ... more

New Media

08.10.08

London is one of the greatest digital hotspots outside California's Silicon Valley and these are the people leading the way... more

Who's in and who's out

18.08.08

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Black-balling bankers at the capital’s clubs

18.08.08

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Roundabout is London's answer to Silicon Valley

30.07.08

San Francisco may have its Silicon Valley for hi-tech companies but now London has its own, very British, internet hot spot - silicon roundabout... more

Key man heads for Yahoo exit

17.06.08

Jeff Weiner is leaving the company and three other Yahoo executives are reportedly on the move too... more

Brown's plan to make Britannia cool again

12.02.08

London will get a national film centre and a permanent home for its fashion week under Gordon Brown's plans to revive the "Cool Britannia" spirit of new Labour... more