The Big Apple may not have California's weather, but tech fans at New York Internet Week say that in every other way the city is on course to become Silicon Valley 2.0.
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Tech Titans Say Internet Piracy Law Amounts To China-style Censorship
Technology entrepreneurs and executives from leading Silicon Valley firms such as Google, Twitter, eBay and LinkedIn issued an open, strongly-worded letter opposing a controversial, anti-piracy bill being debated in Congress this week. The letter’s signatories say the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), which aims to reduce the amount of pirated content on the Internet, goes too far, and could cost …
SV150 see most profitable year in history
Roaring back from the Great Recession, the 150 biggest public companies in Silicon Valley had their most profitable year in history in 2010, as their combined stock value climbed to the highest level seen since the Internet boom of 1999. The 2011 Silicon Valley 150 Search the SV150 database The list: Nos. 1-75 | Nos. 76-150 O’Brien: Cheer tech’s good fortunes Cassidy: Not all sharing the good …
Tech Giants Look to Buy Twitter, but for How Much?
As Internet valuations climb and bankers and would-be buyers circle Silicon Valley in an increasingly frothy tech market, many eyes are on one particularly desirable, if still enigmatic, target: Twitter. Discussions with at least some potential suitors have produced an estimated valuation of $8 billion to $10 billion.
On tech issues, Obama falls short of high expectations
WASHINGTON — He was the embodiment of the modern, high-tech president when he took office: the first to fully harness the Internet to build a political movement, the first commander in chief to carry a BlackBerry, the first to promise to instill Silicon Valley sensibilities in the federal bureaucracy.