Articles tagged "silicon valley"

Meet the new cutting edge.

Today, as the second bubble slowly deflates, the network has evolved from curiosity to necessity, and as such is under greater threat than ever before.

The eggheads in America's tech epicenter are getting serious about sustainable food.

Hey, you all seem like the kind of folks who'd be interested in a free trip to San Francisco for an insider's look at Silicon Valley. Our friends over at General Assembly have managed, likely thro…

Our college education system is busted. State universities are horribly underfunded. Education's expensive. Robots want your future job. But it’s cool, because Silicon Valley is on the case.

Even if the technology to pull this off were ready, which it currently is not, are we really so eager to mark humanity’s first deep space expedition with an act of rapacious resource extraction?

In the beginning, Google was not going to be evil, Mark Zuckerberg said he cared about your privacy, and Twitter still dared to change the world, that curious abbreviated messaging platform that became “the SMS of the Internet.” The only rule - the p…

Everybody seems to have a million ideas about how Marissa Mayer could revamp Yahoo and make it a cool company again. These range from the simple suggestions like making Flickr cool again to the more eccentric plans like reviving GeoCities as a social…

Doctors in Silicon Valley are fighting back against the insurance companies in their quest to “earn a decent living,” setting a nasty precedent in the country’s already beleaguered health care industry.

There's a specific and stereotypical set of activities that spring to mind when you imagine what prison inmates do with their spare time. If there's a yard, they probably hang out, lift weights, get in fights, organize gangs. If there's not a yard, t…

Long an oasis of innovation and meritocracy, Silicon Valley has often represented all that is pure in capitalism, a place where guys dare to dream big and big dreams come true, making its players outrageously wealthy, but also producing the kinds of

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I was lurking around Twitter a couple mornings ago, doing my usual routine of checking up on old boyfriends, current crushes, and the Iron Sheik, and my entire feed was clogged with people losing their minds about the whole Instagram Facebook thing.

It’s only been a week, but already everyone’s acting like nothing’s changed. Facebook announced its astronomical $5 billion initial public offering last Wednesday, giving it a valuation somewhere in the ballpark of "$75 billion to $100 billion":ht…

Of course celebrities besides MC Hammer have started making moves in the startup scene, endowing hopefuls with not only money, but star power. Because if there's one thing celebrities are good at, it's spending their money on incorrectly spelled, mad…