Startup Genome released a report on the world's top startup ecosystems. ...
03:36 PM, Mar 25, 2013
Adria Richards took a photo of two men and posted it on Twitter with their alleged comments. ...
01:15 PM, Mar 23, 2013
Menlo Park: In Silicon Valley, where sudden wealth is hardly something new and CEOs favour hoodies over bespoke blazers, Facebook's IPO on Friday didn't bring everyday life to a halt. Employees weren't popping champagne corks at company headquarters, at least not where anyone outside could see them. And locals had plenty to do - from finding a job to locating the next Facebook. The company's sprawling headquarters along the southern...
12:52 PM, May 19, 2012
Palo Alto: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other executives addressed about 200 prospective investors at a hotel luncheon in Silicon Valley. Yesterday's event was the last of the bigger road show events that Facebook Inc. is holding ahead of its initial public offering of stock, which is expected late next week. The luncheon was held at the Crown Plaza Hotel in Palo Alto, California. Zuckerberg arrived in a caravan of...
06:09 PM, May 12, 2012
San Francisco: Social-networking site Facebook is halting the sale of its shares on secondary markets effective next week as the company prepares to hold its initial public offering in May, according to a person familiar with the matter. Facebook recently asked firms that arrange trading of its privately held shares to stop doing so, a move intended to reduce churn in its valuation that could complicate matters as it sets...
10:54 AM, Mar 29, 2012
San Francisco: Josh Buckley, chief executive of an online gaming start-up, is looking forward to next month's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, particularly for the parties and the accompanying schmoozing with industry A-listers. There's one problem: Buckley, who will turn 20 this week on February 22, may be turned away from many of the parties because he is not old enough to drink. His fake ID was recently confiscated,...
02:05 PM, Feb 21, 2012
San Francisco: Silicon Valley legend Steve Jobs relinquished the reins at Apple Inc to right-hand man Tim Cook on Wednesday, after 14 years in command at a company he brought back from the brink and turned into the world's largest technology corporation. Jobs, who fought and survived a rare form of pancreatic cancer and revolutionized the technology arena with the iPhone in 2007, is deemed the heart and soul of...
07:10 AM, Aug 25, 2011
Los Angeles: As it turns out, Justin Timberlake's role as Napster founder Sean Parker in The Social Network was a wink and nod to the celebrity's little publicized role in driving Silicon Valley start-ups. But his involvement in the technology industry drew public notice this week with news that Timberlake, whose character in the Oscar-nominated movie helped shape Facebook's early days, will take a stake in Myspace, the ailing social...
08:49 AM, Jul 01, 2011
Dubai: Kerala could well become an IT hub as the advantages enjoyed by Bengaluru, the country's 'Silicon Valley', start to wear thin, said a senior IT official in Dubai. Gigo Joseph, CEO of Infopark Kochi said the congestion in India's leading IT hubs has presented Kerala with the unique opportunity to market itself as an alternative investment destination for IT and IT-enabled services companies. "Moreover, it can benefit from IT...
06:15 PM, Jun 26, 2011
San Francisco: Google Inc co-founder Larry Page will take over as CEO from Eric Schmidt, a surprise that signaled Silicon Valley's most powerful Internet company was taking the offensive against fast-moving rivals like Facebook. Schmidt will step aside on April 4 and make way for Page - who created the company with fellow Stanford University alumnus Sergey Brin in 1998 - to take the reins of a company that has...
07:49 AM, Jan 21, 2011
Bangalore/Rajouri: A heavy downpour brought life to a standstill in Bangalore on Friday and claimed the lives of 17 people at Rajouri in Jammu and Kashmir. Massive traffic jams and waterlogging was reported in various parts of Bangalore, which just can’t handle the heavy rains. The infrastructure is pathetic and the government is just not doing anything. Bangaloreans were frustrated after being stuck in traffic and rain for nearly four...
11:24 AM, Sep 25, 2010
New Delhi: For many people, the city of Bangalore, also known as Bengaluru, conjures up an image of a metropolis that plays host to the headquarters of some of the world's biggest software companies. But dubbing Bangalore 'the Silicon Valley of India' has started to irritate local residents and even those who have made it their home as they argue the Karnataka capital is much more than just an IT...
12:27 PM, Sep 02, 2010
Engineers plan to revolutionise the way people work, play and live. ...
12:13 PM, Feb 05, 2010
Investigators in US county conclude their investigation of academic's death. ...
09:14 PM, Jul 17, 2009
Asians in the county grew by 3.4 per cent year to year. ...
02:09 AM, May 15, 2009
Aftershocks of the recession could be felt in Silicon Valley for years to come. ...
03:42 AM, Apr 15, 2009
Kosmix founders Anand Rajaraman, Venky Harinarayan are from Silicon Valley. ...
11:25 PM, Apr 02, 2009
Kosmix founders Anand Rajaraman, Venky Harinarayan are from Silicon Valley. ...
11:25 PM, Apr 02, 2009
IT professional found dead, suspected of killing himself after murders. ...
03:17 PM, Mar 31, 2009
