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  • Amalfi Semiconductor raises $8M

    San Jose Business News - Local San Jose News | The Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal
    7 Feb 2012 | 3:19 pm
    Amalfi Semiconductor Inc. has raised $8 million of a $12 million offering, according to a regulatory filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday. The Los Gatos-based fabless semiconductor company listed the following related parties on the filing: Derek Best, Mark Foley, Greg Hildebrand, Kenneth Lawler, Peter Moran, Barry Schiffman, Baker Scott, Alireza Shirvani, Daniel Wark and Bruce Weyer. Click here to read the SEC filing. Written by Lisa Sibley. She can be reached at 408...

  • Woman Fatally Stabbed Boyfriend

    Menlo Park Patch
    7 Feb 2012 | 6:04 pm
    Police in East Palo Alto have arrested a woman suspected of fatally stabbing her boyfriend at their home Tuesday, a police sergeant said.Officers went to 1240 Camellia Drive after receiving a 911 call shortly before 8:30 a.m. from 33-year-old Natisha Anderson, who said she had "cut" her boyfriend, East Palo Alto Sgt. Jeff Liu said.Arriving officers found the victim, 34-year-old Charles Perry, suffering from a stab wound to the leg, Liu said.Anderson told officers at her home that she was responsible for cutting her boyfriend, who was the father of her 4-year-old son, Liu said.Perry was…

  • Venture capitalists favor Silicon Valley, but Silicon Alley is rising fast

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    Grace Nasri
    7 Feb 2012 | 11:08 am
    VC investment dollars by sector, Q4 2011 (MoneyTree) Despite a still sluggish economy, venture capital firms poured a total of $28.4 billion into 3,673 deals last year—one of the highest levels of dollar investments of the decade—with the majority of deals going into the software and biotechnology industries. The annual figures represent an increase of 22 percent in dollar terms and a 4 percent increase in the number of deals compared with the 2010 figures, according to The MoneyTree Report by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association, based on data from Thomson…

  • South Bay student talks science with Obama

    San Jose / Valley News
    <p class="bylinejb">By Sharon Noguchi<br /></p><p class="bylineaffiliation"><a href='mailto:snoguchi@mercurynews.com'>snoguchi@mercurynews.com</a>
    8 Feb 2012 | 12:45 am
    2 high school kids from South Bay attend White House Science Fair

  • Censor test for Twitter: Brazil sues over accounts that help avoid drunk-driving traps

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    Levi Sumagaysay
    7 Feb 2012 | 1:24 pm
    Yes, we’re on the censor ship for the second day in a row. It was only a matter of time before Twitter‘s recently announced policy on censoring tweets in certain places would be put to the test. (See On the censor ship: Twitter policy…) Here’s what might be among the the...
 
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  • Censor test for Twitter: Brazil sues over accounts that help avoid drunk-driving traps

    Levi Sumagaysay
    7 Feb 2012 | 1:24 pm
    Yes, we’re on the censor ship for the second day in a row. It was only a matter of time before Twitter‘s recently announced policy on censoring tweets in certain places would be put to the test. (See On the censor ship: Twitter policy…) Here’s what might be among the the...

  • Where’s the dislike button? Rounding up discontent before Facebook IPO

    Levi Sumagaysay
    7 Feb 2012 | 12:37 pm
    If this were your Facebook news feed, this would go under the section titled “Reuters and others recently posted about discontent before the IPO.” • One of the biggest stories from last week’s filing was the extraordinary control CEO Mark Zuckerberg would retain even after...

  • Quoted: Oops, wrong code: Security cameras breached

    Levi Sumagaysay
    7 Feb 2012 | 9:45 am
    “We are scrambling to discover how the code was introduced and at this point it seems like a coding oversight.” — Zak Wood, director of global marketing for Trendnet, a Southern California company whose breached security cameras allowed public viewing of live footage from inside its...

  • Off topic: Endowments go to the toilet, scientist photos, pedaling to school, talking NFL players on ESPN, free the whales?

    Levi Sumagaysay
    7 Feb 2012 | 7:27 am
    Beyond the john: Some colleges are selling naming rights to restroom stalls. A photo blog to show This Is What A Scientist Looks Like. From the Netherlands, a pedal-powered school bus. This New York Times infographic shows that Super Bowl-winning NFL quarterback Eli Manning did not even crack the...

  • On the censor ship: Google in India; Bradley Manning to stand trial

    Levi Sumagaysay
    6 Feb 2012 | 1:14 pm
    A couple of quick follow-ups about censorship-related news: • Google has reportedly given in to India’s censorship demands, removing some content today. A couple of weeks ago, a judge warned that India, “like China,” could block sites that don’t comply with an Indian law...
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  • Masur Gains Senatorial Endorsement

    8 Feb 2012 | 7:30 am
    Senator Leland Yee announced Tuesday that he is endorsing Shelly Masur for San Mateo County Supervisor, increasing the pressure on the other five who have expressed intent to run for the District 4 seat. Rose Jacobs Gibson will conclude her term this year, vacating the seat.    Yee and other prominent individuals in San Mateo County’s Asian American and Pacific Islander community are banding together to publicly support Masur, who currently serves on the Redwood City School Board.   “As a school board member and non-profit executive, Shelly has worked to solve problems…

  • Two Women Attacked at Stanford

    7 Feb 2012 | 9:20 pm
    Two separate assaults on female students at the Stanford University campus were reported this weekend, including a sexual assault at a sorority.A student told university police that at around 2 a.m. Sunday a man she did not know entered her unlocked room at the Phi Sig sorority located at 1018 Campus Drive, Stanford University Department of Public Safety spokesman Bill Larson said.The sorority had held a party at the house earlier that night, said Larson, suggesting that the doors were unlocked, which is how the suspect entered the house.The victim said the man climbed into her bed…

  • Woman Fatally Stabbed Boyfriend

    7 Feb 2012 | 6:04 pm
    Police in East Palo Alto have arrested a woman suspected of fatally stabbing her boyfriend at their home Tuesday, a police sergeant said.Officers went to 1240 Camellia Drive after receiving a 911 call shortly before 8:30 a.m. from 33-year-old Natisha Anderson, who said she had "cut" her boyfriend, East Palo Alto Sgt. Jeff Liu said.Arriving officers found the victim, 34-year-old Charles Perry, suffering from a stab wound to the leg, Liu said.Anderson told officers at her home that she was responsible for cutting her boyfriend, who was the father of her 4-year-old son, Liu said.Perry was…

  • Flood Park Isn't a Good Place for a Fire Station

    7 Feb 2012 | 5:00 pm
    Menlo Park Firefighters would like to go on record and state that we believe that our Fire Chief's desire to purchase Flood Park with the intent of relocating 2 firehouses onto the property is a poor one. We believe this for two reasons. Most importantly we understand how much our community and the citizens we serve want to keep this property available as a park. Secondly, from an operational standpoint, the Fire District's seven stations are currently positioned in areas that serve our community better than a relocated station to Flood Park. We ask that you not be led astray when you hear…

  • Court Rules Prop 8 Unconstitutional

    7 Feb 2012 | 3:24 pm
    A federal appeals court in San Francisco Tuesday ruled that Proposition 8, California's ban on same-sex marriage, is unconstitutional. The 2-1 ruling was issued Tuesday morning by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in a civil rights lawsuit filed in federal court in San Francisco by two same-sex couples in 2009. Proposition 8 was approved by state voters in 2008. Its sponsors appealed to the 9th Circuit after U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker ruled in 2010 that the measure was unconstitutional. Today's decision can be appealed further to an expanded 11-judge panel of…
 
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  • Apple Restores Qihoo 360 Mobile Apps In The App Store

    Jordan Crook
    8 Feb 2012 | 7:31 am
    On Saturday, February 4, something strange happened to Qihoo 360, a security software company. Their apps, at least the ones in the Apple App Store, were missing. After reaching out to Apple, the company learned that Apple had removed their apps based on “unusual user rating activities by unknown sources on certain Qihoo 360 applications.” There was no further explanation. However, today Apple has reinstated Qihoo 360′s iOS apps, without asking the company to modify any of them. Seems fishy, right? Bloomberg reports that these “unusual user rating activities”…

  • Nine Months From Launch, Chartboost’s Mobile Ad Marketplace Reaches 1 Billion Impressions

    Rip Empson
    8 Feb 2012 | 6:58 am
    Mobile advertising took off in 2011, as tablets went mainstream and it seemed as if half of the world woke out of a daze to find they were holding some sort of Apple device. Meanwhile, advertisers and developers are increasingly relying on mobile and in-app advertising to boost revenues as consumers become more comfortable with being served ads while on the go. The mobile app community needs to monetize via ads, which is why San Francisco-based startup, Chartboost, launched a direct-deals advertising marketplace for mobile gaming in May of last year. For those unfamiliar, Chartboost’s…

  • Blip COO: “We Essentially Doubled Revenue In 2011″

    Erick Schonfeld
    8 Feb 2012 | 6:45 am
    Blip.tv is going through some changes, with founder Mike Hudack gone and a search for a new CEO still ongoing. But the company raised a $6 million C round from its two main investors in December, and now just added to that with another $6 million credit facility from Silicon Valley Bank. There is also a new logo, and the company is now called just Blip. So how is the indie Web video distribution service doing? “We essentially doubled revenue in 2011,” reports COO Steve Brookstein. He tells me that revenues in 2011 were $10 million, and the company expects to nearly double again…

  • Sprint Sold 1.8 Million iPhones Last Quarter, 40 Percent To New Customers

    Robin Wauters
    8 Feb 2012 | 6:21 am
    Sprint Nextel this morning released its earnings for the fourth quarter of 2011 as well as the full-year results. The company reported a net loss of $1.3 billion for the quarter, and $2.9 billion for the whole of 2011. The company reported total net subscriber additions of 1.6 million during the quarter, the best quarterly result in six years and bringing total subscribers to the highest level in Sprint’s history. Now serving roughly 55 million customers, the company said it is seeing “strong iPhone sales”, selling 1.8 million of the popular smartphone in Q4, of which 40 percent…

  • Social Marketing Platform Extole Raises $10 Million

    Leena Rao
    8 Feb 2012 | 6:00 am
    Extole, a startup which offers a suite of social media marketing has raised $10 million in Series C round funding, led by Shasta Ventures with participation from existing investors Norwest Venture Partners, Redpoint Ventures, and Trident Capital. This brings the company’s total financing to $22 million. Extole’s technology makes it easy for brands to power social referral programs, social promotions, social testimonials, and social analytics. Products such as Refer-A-Friend and SocialBuilder are designed to enable brands to leverage referral marketing services and viral Facebook…
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  • Jerry Yang’s departure from Yahoo is as sad as it is overdue

    Chris O'Brien
    17 Jan 2012 | 6:09 pm
    The decision by co-founder Jerry Yang to resign from the Yahoo board is as sad as it is overdue. No matter how rudderless Yahoo had become in recent years, Yang deservedly remains a Silicon Valley icon. He was there at the start of the Internet era, along with co-founder David Filo, building one of the first [...]

  • Zynga revenues still growing but users declining as competitors close the gap. Can CastleVille win some new fans?

    Chris O'Brien
    4 Nov 2011 | 1:54 pm
    Zynga released its latest quarterly earnings number in an updated prospectus. Dean Takahashi at VentureBeat has a good overview of the numbers: “Zynga reported net income of $12.5 million in the third quarter ended Sept. 30, down 54 percent from $27 million a year ago, according to anupdated S1 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. [...]

  • Update to Zynga IPO filing provides grist for critics and fans

    Chris O'Brien
    13 Oct 2011 | 6:04 pm
    While Zynga’s update to its IPO filing today doesn’t have huge news, it does include two important clarifications that will provide fodder for both critics fans of the company. First, the bottom line: The clarifications confirm that users are playing Zynga games for shorter periods of time. That’s going to fuel critics. But, the company also [...]

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    14 Sep 2011 | 2:00 am
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    10 Sep 2011 | 2:00 am
    Vint Cerf responded to MSNBC PG&E Names Utility Leader Anthony F. Earley Jr. as Chairman, CEO and President | PG&E Currents snopes.com: Al Gore Invented the Internet Inventing the Internet. Did Al Gore Invent the Internet? CEO Profile: Tony Early - DTE Energy CEO - The CEO Q Magazine's Awards Covering Most Respected CEOs, Top CEOs, and Best CEOs National Energy & Gas Transmission - Home Peter A. Darbee Profile - Forbes.com
 
 
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  • Group lists who 'owns' Congress members

    7 Feb 2012 | 6:52 pm

  • LinkedIn buying startup Rapportive

    7 Feb 2012 | 4:57 pm
    LinkedIn Corp. is reportedly acquiring a startup, San Francisco-based Rapportive, for an undisclosed amount, according to All Things Digital on Tuesday. The Mountain View-based professional networking company (NYSE:LNKD) declined to comment as did Rapportive CEO Rahul Vohra. Rapportive specializes in "a browser plugin that overlays Gmail with contextual information about email contacts." The deal has not officially closed, though LinkedIn reportedly offered Rapportive “low teens” of millions in cash, according to All Things Digital citing unnamed sources familiar with the transaction...

  • Stanford undergrad degree bumped 3% to $216K

    7 Feb 2012 | 3:38 pm
    The cost of going to Stanford University will rise by 3 percent in the next school year, jumping to $54,506 including $12,721 for room and board. That means next year's freshman class will pay at least $216,000 for their undergrad degree, barring any more increases before 2016. General graduate, graduate engineering, law and first-year MBA students will also experience a 3 percent tuition increase, while medical students will see their tuition go up 3.5 percent. That means a two-year business degree will now cost about $110,000, without the room and board fee...

  • Silicon Valley Index shows tech revival drives recovery

    7 Feb 2012 | 3:30 pm
    Silicon Valley’s economy is recovering nicely thanks to the technology sector, but the region is still marked by a widening income gap and government financial woes. That’s according to a report released Tuesday by Joint Venture Silicon Valley and the Silicon Valley Community Foundation. In their annual Silicon Valley Index, the groups said the region added more than 42,000 jobs last year, a 3.8 percent increase that outpaced the country's 1.1 percent growth during that period. The valley's unemployment rate fell to 8...

  • Amalfi Semiconductor raises $8M

    7 Feb 2012 | 3:19 pm
    Amalfi Semiconductor Inc. has raised $8 million of a $12 million offering, according to a regulatory filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday. The Los Gatos-based fabless semiconductor company listed the following related parties on the filing: Derek Best, Mark Foley, Greg Hildebrand, Kenneth Lawler, Peter Moran, Barry Schiffman, Baker Scott, Alireza Shirvani, Daniel Wark and Bruce Weyer. Click here to read the SEC filing. Written by Lisa Sibley. She can be reached at 408...
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    Sal Pizarro

  • Pizarro: New Los Gatos Library set to open Saturday

    <p class="bylinejb">By Sal Pizarro<br /></p><p class="bylineaffiliation"><a href='mailto:spizarro@mercurynews.com'>spizarro@mercurynews.com</a>
    7 Feb 2012 | 11:59 pm
    A host of events are planned this weekend around the library's grand opening celebration.

  • Pizarro: World War I exhibit rolls into Silicon Valley

    <p class="bylinejb">By Sal Pizarro<br /></p><p class="bylineaffiliation"><a href='mailto:spizarro@mercurynews.com'>spizarro@mercurynews.com</a>
    7 Feb 2012 | 12:20 am
    'Honoring Our History,' a traveling exhibit on a 75-city tour, makes stops at San Jose's Winchester Mystery House on Tuesday and the San Mateo County History Museum in Redwood City on Friday.

  • Pizarro: Japanese museum exhibit looks back at agricultural legacy

    <p class="bylinejb">By Sal Pizarro<br /></p><p class="bylineaffiliation">Mercury News
    4 Feb 2012 | 10:15 pm
    While the display at the Japanese American Museum in San Jose is about the farming life of Japanese immigrants and their families in Santa Clara County, it's a story of the valley's agricultural past that anyone can appreciate.

  • Pizarro: 'Disney on Ice' partners with San Jose Library literacy program

    <p class="NormalParagraphStyle">By Sal Pizarro<br><a href='mailto:spizarro@mercurynews.com'>spizarro@mercurynews.com</a>
    3 Feb 2012 | 10:46 pm
    By donating free tickets to its upcoming show at HP Pavilion, the Disney people are just the latest example of visiting groups that leave behind a lot of goodwill in the community.

  • Pizarro: Taking a look at how the media look at women

    <p class="bylinejb">By Sal Pizarro<br /></p><p class="bylineaffiliation"><a href='mailto:spizarro@mercurynews.com'>spizarro@mercurynews.com</a>
    2 Feb 2012 | 11:54 pm
    Two upcoming events in San Jose examine how women and girls are portrayed in the media and how our culture changes our perceptions of them.
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  • Silicon Valley execs to converge in southeast for Techovate 2012 - Siliconrepublic.com

    8 Feb 2012 | 4:57 am
    Siliconrepublic.comSilicon Valley execs to converge in southeast for Techovate 2012Siliconrepublic.comThey headed over to Silicon Valley and knocked on doors to forge links with the diaspora in Northern California. Their aim was to network and make connections to help develop growth within the Irish SME sector. "We saw a unique opportunity to develop

  • The Facebook Stimulus: How the $5 Billion IPO Could Change Silicon Valley - The Atlantic

    7 Feb 2012 | 7:36 pm
    The AtlanticThe Facebook Stimulus: How the $5 Billion IPO Could Change Silicon ValleyThe AtlanticThanks to the impending, record-breaking Facebook initial public offering, as well as a slew of other recent tech deals, Silicon Valley is gearing up for what could be the flushest times since Google went public in 2004. No matter that Facebook CEO The Internet Identity CrisisAdweekall 2 news articles »

  • App developer: Missing the Silicon Valley bandwagon starts the journey for Khan - The Express Tribune

    7 Feb 2012 | 7:32 pm
    The Express TribuneApp developer: Missing the Silicon Valley bandwagon starts the journey for KhanThe Express TribuneBy Farooq Baloch Employment offers from Microsoft or Apple – and that too in the world's IT hub Silicon Valley – is the ultimate dream for most IT professionals. Sharyar Muhammad Khan, a young talent from war-stricken area of Swat, was fortunate to

  • Report: Silicon Valley sees growth in jobs, wealth - CBS News

    7 Feb 2012 | 5:31 pm
    Report: Silicon Valley sees growth in jobs, wealthCBS News(AP) SAN FRANCISCO — Silicon Valley is creating jobs and wealth for highly skilled workers but may be leaving some residents behind as employment closes in on pre-Great Recession levels, according to a report released Tuesday. The 2012 Silicon Valley

  • Report: Silicon Valley economy sees growth in jobs, wealth, but some residents ... - Washington Post

    7 Feb 2012 | 5:25 pm
    First Coast NewsReport: Silicon Valley economy sees growth in jobs, wealth, but some residents Washington PostSAN FRANCISCO — Silicon Valley is creating jobs and wealth for highly skilled workers but may be leaving some residents behind as employment closes in on pre-Great Recession levels, according to a report released Tuesday. The 2012 Silicon Valley Index Silicon Valley economy recovering faster than nationCNETReport: Silicon Valley sees growth in jobs, wealthThe News JournalSilicon Valley Recovering Faster Than NationWall Street Journalall 179 news articles »
 
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    Silicon Valley Watcher

  • PRWatch: Example From A VC On Writing A (Linkless) News Release...

    6 Feb 2012 | 11:17 pm
    Ben Horowitz, the slightly hairier one in the powerhouse VC duo of Andreessen Horowitz, wrote an interesting post about the future of networking that also serves as a very good example of what a news release could look like.

  • The Dirty Little Secret Of Silicon Valley's Startup Boom...

    3 Feb 2012 | 3:25 am
    In San Francisco cafes and bars, even on the street, I overhear people talking about their startup ideas, business plans, and goals. And there are tons of incubators, Angels, wannabe Angels, VC firms, making investments in startups.

  • The Art Of 'Goldilocks' SEO

    3 Feb 2012 | 2:52 am
    I always pay attention to Aaron Wall, who runs SEOBook, because he is always on the money. He is one of the very few Google Watchers that is consistently insightful and isn't afraid of writing hard hitting articles critical of Google -- if it's called for. Here is one of his latest infographics, and again, he is spot on about the changing trends in how Google views the web. It's shocking how much valuable advice he gives away:

  • Facebook's Hidden Gold Mine - What The Others Have Missed

    2 Feb 2012 | 3:07 pm
    Several reporters have pointed to a big risk that they discovered in Facebook's SEC filing: mobile.

  • A Tale Of Two Letters: Facebook's Vague Social Mission

    2 Feb 2012 | 4:42 am
    Facebook's IPO documents reveals a far different culture to that of neighboring rival Google...Mark Zuckerberg's letter to prospective shareholders was incredibly vague about his company's "social mission" and there was no announcement of a charitable foundation -- as Google had done when it filed its IPO papers eight years ago.
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  • It pays to time your tweets: SocialFlow debuts self-serve platform, moves to bigger office, eyes new funding

    Ben Popper
    7 Feb 2012 | 11:26 am
    Image via SocialFlow SocialFlow, which helps brands and publishers optimize their performance across Facebook and Twitter, is launching its self-service platform today. The company has had a banner year, growing from just 2 employees to more than 30 and graduating from the betaworks building to their own office on the east side of Manhattan. To get a sense of how the company works, let’s take the example from one of their clients, The Economist. With SocialFlow, which guides which messages The Economist puts out to its followers and when, the venerable publishers has grown its social…

  • Venture capitalists favor Silicon Valley, but Silicon Alley is rising fast

    Grace Nasri
    7 Feb 2012 | 11:08 am
    VC investment dollars by sector, Q4 2011 (MoneyTree) Despite a still sluggish economy, venture capital firms poured a total of $28.4 billion into 3,673 deals last year—one of the highest levels of dollar investments of the decade—with the majority of deals going into the software and biotechnology industries. The annual figures represent an increase of 22 percent in dollar terms and a 4 percent increase in the number of deals compared with the 2010 figures, according to The MoneyTree Report by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association, based on data from Thomson…

  • Razr-like Motorola Droid 4 lands on Verizon Feb. 10 for $200

    Sean Ludwig
    7 Feb 2012 | 11:01 am
    Motorola’s fourth-generation Droid smartphone with 4G LTE data speeds will launch on Verizon Wireless on Friday, Feb. 10 for $200 on a 2-year contract, the company announced today. The first Motorola Droid smartphone was one of the first great Android devices when it was released in November 2009. Droid 4 closely resembles the Droid RAZR, except the Droid 4 features a full QWERTY keyboard. The Droid RAZR was released to much hype in November, but that hype was later overshadowed by the Samsung Galaxy Nexus with Android Ice Cream Sandwich. On the spec front, the Droid 4 hopes to grab the…

  • Want to rent out the Bachelor mansion or Clapton’s pad? Here’s how you can

    Jolie O'Dell
    7 Feb 2012 | 11:00 am
    Say you want to rent out the Entourage house for your birthday or Eric Clapton’s old house for your rock-and-roll-themed wedding reception. Eventup, a marketplace for hard-to-get event venues, can make that happen. Eventup is a brand-spanking-new startup launching today in Los Angeles, and we have to say, a startup idea like that could only have come from Los Angeles, the longtime home of entertainment of America. “More events are thrown in LA than anywhere else; there are more venues here than anywhere else,” said Eventup CEO Tony Adam. “This couldn’t happen in…

  • At Hit Detection, it’s all about giving feedback to game developers — before anyone knows their games suck

    Dean Takahashi
    7 Feb 2012 | 11:00 am
    Hit Detection is one of those consultancies that has a hidden influence on video games. And if some of the games coming out these days don’t suck as much as they otherwise might, you can thank these guys. N’Gai Croal (pictured right) was a noted video game critic who left Newsweek in 2009 to become an advisor for game developers. He started Hit Detection in order to offer his keen insights on gaming to developers — before they were too far down the road with their game designs. In an age when video games costs hundreds of millions of dollars to make, getting an early…
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  • Report: Rapportive Acquired By Linkedin

    7 Feb 2012 | 5:41 pm
    San Francisco-based Rapportive, the developer of a Gmail plug-in for pulling in social networking information alongside your email, has reportedly been acquired by LinkedIn. Financial terms of the deal have not been announced, and the deal has yet to be confirmed by the companies. Rapportive was venture backed by Charles River Ventures, along with angels Dave McClure, Paul Buchheit, Jason Calacanis, Gary Vaynerchuk, Shervin Pishevar and Venture Hacks. READ MORE>>

  • CaseCentral Acquired by Guidance Software

    7 Feb 2012 | 3:56 pm
    San Francisco-based CaseCentral, a venture-backed developer of e-discovery software, has been acquired by Guidance Software. The deal is worth $17.1M now, plus up to $33M in earnout over the next three years. CaseCentral was venture backed by Advanced Technology Ventures, Housatonic Partners, and Staenberg Venture Partners. READ MORE>>

  • iHearMedical Locates $1.8M

    7 Feb 2012 | 2:25 pm
    San Leandro-based iHearMedical, a developer of hearing aid technology, said this morning that it has raised $1.8M in a second round of financing. Source of the funding was not announced. As part of the funding, iHearMedical said that Jonathan Leong, an executive in the commercial insurance industry, has joined the company's board. iHearMedical is headed by Adnan Shennib; the firm said it has previously scored funding from Aphelion Capital and Highlight Capital. READ MORE>>

  • Klout Buys Blockboard

    7 Feb 2012 | 1:39 pm
    San Francisco-based Klout, which measured "social influence" of people on the web, said today that it has acquired Blockboard, a developer of local community software. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. Blockboard provides a way for people to communicate with their neighbors. READ MORE>>

  • Ignite Game Technologies Wins $5M

    7 Feb 2012 | 1:32 pm
    San Francisco-based Ignite Game Technologies, the developer of racing games, said today that it has raised $5M in Series C funding, bringing its total raised to $17.5M. The firm--which debuted its first title, Simraceway, in November--said the funding came from both new and existing investors. Names of the new investors were not disclosed. The firm said it has added Dave Marrs to its board as part of the funding. Ignite is headed by Jonathan Haswell, and is trying to create an extremely realistic, immersive auto racing game, complete with a steering wheel. READ MORE>>
 
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  • January SVC Meeting Report

    admin
    31 Jan 2012 | 1:11 pm
    DJ Cline reports on the January SVC Meeting.

  • 2012 STC Touchstone Awards Report

    admin
    27 Jan 2012 | 9:09 pm
    STC Silicon Valley Chapter is happy to announce that the chapter web site won an award at the STC Touchstone Awards held in Berkeley on January 21. Here is DJ Cline’s report on the event.

  • February SVC Meeting

    admin
    27 Jan 2012 | 9:06 pm
    Please join us on February 23, 2012 for the February SVC Meeting; to be held at the Hola! Mexican Restaurant & Cantina, located at 1015 Alameda de las Pulgas in Belmont. The meeting starts at 6 PM. This month’s topic is Learning How to Communicate Better with Numbers with Randall Bolten. Directions to Hola! 1. Take highway 101 and get off at Ralston Ave. 2. Take Ralston west until you reach Alameda de las Pulgas. 3. Right before the signal, turn left into the shopping center. If you miss the first driveway, turn left on Alameda de las Pulgas, and turn left into the next shopping…

  • March SVC Meeting

    admin
    27 Jan 2012 | 9:04 pm
    Please join us on March 22, 2012 for the March SVC Meeting; to be held at the Santa Clara IHOP, located at 4200 Great America Parkway in Santa Clara. The meeting starts at 6 PM. This month’s topic is A Technical Writer’s Trip to Hollywood with Eliza R Sawyer. “A Technical Writer’s Trip to Hollywood” is a presentation on things Eliza learned by getting a certificate in screen writing through UCLA Extension, that have improved her technical writing. She was surprised by what she learned and how it relates to information architecture.. She will introduce the…

  • SDK/API Technical Writer – Emeryville

    admin
    27 Jan 2012 | 2:51 pm
    Organization: Gracenote, Inc Contact Name: Gracenote Staffing City: Emeryville Phone Number: (510) 547-9692 Job Title: API/SDK Technical Writer Duration: Staff Description Gracenote is looking for a Senior Technical Writer for B2B SDK/API documentation. This role is primarily responsible for writing developer-facing documentation. Other duties include helping develop scripts and processes to improve technical publications infrastructure. Required Technical Skills • At least 10 years of technical writing experience writing SDK/API developer-facing documentation • Technical degree in…
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  • Will the market like Facebook?

    Bloomberg News
    2 Feb 2012 | 7:44 am
    By Elizabeth Ody and Margaret Collins Wealthy investors aren’t clamoring for a piece of Facebook Inc.’s initial public offering because some own the stock through private transactions while others shy away from risky technology deals, according to advisors. “It’s kind of the late arrivals who get excited around the time of the IPO,” said Jason Thomas, chief investment officer of Aspiriant, whose clients on average have about US$10 million under management with the Los Angeles-based firm. “Our clients remember the tech bubble very well, and are appropriately skeptical of being the…

  • What a Facebook IPO means for Silicon Valley

    public-sector-lists.com
    2 Feb 2012 | 7:35 am
    What a Facebook IPO means for Silicon Valley http://gigaom.com/2012/02/01/what-a-facebook-ipo-means-for-silicon-valley/

  • What a Facebook IPO means for Silicon Valley

    public-sector-lists.com
    2 Feb 2012 | 7:29 am
    What a Facebook IPO means for SiliconValley http://ping.fm/32yvX

  • Facebook Wants All Two Billion Internet Users, But Growth Rates Are Slowing

    Eric Eldon
    1 Feb 2012 | 7:53 pm
    Make no mistake about Facebook’s ambitions. “There are more than two billion global Internet users,” its S-1 filing states, “…and we aim to connect all of them.” As evidence of its ability to reach this goal, the company says that it already has some countries with above 80% penetration rates among users. The problem, as the filing also notes, is that “our rates of user and revenue growth will decline over time.” A quick analysis of the worldwide monthly and daily active user counts in the document shows this phenomenon is already in full…

  • IBM SmartCamp Finalist Profile: Palmap — Building Virtual Bridges, Online And Off

    turbotodd
    1 Feb 2012 | 7:21 pm
    Palmap’s Dr. Ronald Zhang explains to the IBM SmartCamp Global Finals audience how Palmap’s point of sale and indoor mapping technology will change the way people live and shop, not only in China but around the globe. Dr. Ronald Zhang left his home city of Beijing to attend the University of Central Florida, and didn’t go back home for eight years. When he returned, how found there were new buildings and roads and shopping malls, and he almost didn’t recognize the place, never mind couldn’t find his way around. After catching the American entrepreneurial bug during his time…
 
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    Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition blogs

  • Adding a little color to the site

    maiki
    3 Feb 2012 | 4:33 am
    One of the design goals for the new site is to incorporate more media in the presentation, and to make it easy for everyone to share. We hope to include a lot more photos in posts, so everyone can see how vibrant and diverse the cycling community is in Silicon Valley (and it doesn't hurt that nearly everyone has a camera on them at all times!). ^_^

  • Serving our country

    corinne
    2 Feb 2012 | 10:57 am
    This morning I happened to be in the office at 8:00 am when Peter Brull from the League of American Bicyclists called me to let me know that the LAB members had elected me to their board of directors. He's evidently on east coast time. I was invited to run for the LAB board by several of their existing board members. Although sitting on the board of an active national organization will take a lot of time, it fits well with SVBC's policy goal to spend a portion of our efforts on national-level advocacy. The SVBC policy advisory committee thinks it's appropriate to put a portion of our efforts…

  • New look, familiar challenges

    Anne Fisher
    1 Feb 2012 | 4:11 pm
    You probably noticed the re-do of our website. It is still a work in progress, causing us all various degrees of frustration, including for our web developer, who is working hard to get it finished. It is going to be great when it is finished. In addition to the redesign, which is a lot in itself, we moved to a new host. This will be better in the long run, as our former long-time host caused various problems and breakdowns from time to time. However, our email is tied up with our website, a connection that I don’t pretend to understand, and when the website was moved, the former host just…

  • The future of transportation is here

    1 Feb 2012 | 2:06 pm
    AttachmentSize CyclingGrowth.png36.68 KB annual_bikeped_funding.jpg29.67 KB This timely blog just in from SVBC Board of Directors member Ian Dewar. Listen up and act fast! The Future of transportation is here… and it does not look good for cyclists. On Thursday Feb 2nd, the House Transportation committee will take the first vote on the new transportation bill called the American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act. This bill shockingly eliminates all federal funding for biking and walking. This is a $260 billion bill that will support all federally funded transportation programs for the next…

  • Changelog

    maiki
    1 Feb 2012 | 12:19 am
    This will be the inaugural changelog. I am not going to follow any particular standard; rather, I will try to make it as readable as possible, so folks at home can play along. Feel free to leave comments if you want clarification on anything. ^_^ * Upgraded from Drupal 6.22 to Drupal 7.10 * Migrated to a new host, as the old host sucked on many levels. * Applied new theme (it is called Velocipede; not to be confused with the raptors with a similar name). * New site structure (ongoing; we are still sorting through the links, so leave a comment if your favorite page is missing). * Set up Mollom…
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    WebGuild

  • India’s Internet Laws Reveal A Backward Nation

    Daya Baran
    6 Feb 2012 | 10:23 pm
    You hear it on TV everyday India and China, India and China and how they are going to kick everyone’s behind. China, yes. But India is a joke. Everyone knows it but nobody says. Except for Hillary Clinton, as it was revealed in the Wikileaks documents. She said, paraphrasing here, [They are so delusional only they believe it]. Think about it, India does less trade with the U.S. than tiny Switzerland. Its embarrassing, yet India is of the opinion that they are the same as China, which is the U.S. largest trading partner and pretty much every other country’s. Today, India passed a…

  • See Who Is Making Millions In Facebook IPO

    Daya Baran
    6 Feb 2012 | 9:19 pm
    Over a 20 billionaires and 1,000 multi-millionaires are going to be minted when Facebook does its IPO. Here is diagram of who is making what.

  • Awesome Facebook Stats Pre-IPO

    Daya Baran
    6 Feb 2012 | 9:09 pm
    Here are some awesome stats from Facebook’s IPO documents filed with the SEC. The data was put together by comScore & Miniwatts Marketing Group for Reuters.

  • Absolute Power: Zuckerberg Is The Next Murdoch

    Daya Baran
    6 Feb 2012 | 8:53 pm
    Mark Zuckerberg is the next Rupert Murdoch, and given internet time he might get there in a couple of years not decades, says Rob Cox of Reuters He says that users and investors are ceding so much control over to Zuckerberg that it is bound to stop being in their best interest. Due to proxies, Zuckerberg’s shares have 10 times the votes of ordinary shares. That wields him 57 percent of the votes despite controlling 28 percent of the shares. That lets him overrule the majority. He says investors have allowed Zuckerberg to maintain an iron grip on Facebook (FB) because his dorm-room…

  • Halliburton Follows Clorox Dumps RIMM Goes iPhone

    Daya Baran
    6 Feb 2012 | 5:03 pm
    Halliburton (HAL), the oilfield services company, once a bastion for the Blackberry (RIMM), is dumping RIM’s platform and switching Apple’s (AAPL) iOS. “Over the next year, we will begin expanding the use of our mobile technology by transitioning from the BlackBerry (RIMM) platform that we currently use to smartphone technology via the iPhone,” the firm told employees in an internal newsletter. Halliburton is taking the same path for it 70,000 employees as Clorox (CLX) did last year, when it ditched the BlackBerry for the iPhone. The company once relied heavily on…
 
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    Downtown San Jose Real Estate

  • Two Rare Opportunities to Rent in Downtown San Jose

    Eric
    7 Feb 2012 | 5:24 pm
    Are you looking for a spectacular place to rent in one of the new high-rises in downtown San Jose? Look no further. Silicon Valley Lofts & Condos has two spectacular units available in two of downtown San Jose’s most desirable complexes – Axis and Plant 51. Rentals at Axis are very rare. We have a one bedroom, one bath condo on the 11th floor with spectacular views available for rent. There are designer upgrades galore, including gorgeous walnut hardwood floors, a designer paint palette, upgraded stainless steel appliances, granite counters, and much, much more. Axis has all the…

  • Gorgeous Plant 51 Loft for Sale

    Tony
    6 Feb 2012 | 7:36 pm
    Absolutely stunning 3-level loft for sale at Plant 51. This gorgeous loft is a spacious 1,444 square feet with 2 bedrooms and 2 full bathrooms. As you walk into the loft your eyes will notice the beautiful walnut hardwood floors that adorn the main level. As you continue in, you will see the see the 18-foot tall windows that span the height of the unit. These windows provide not only an abundance of sunlight but also amazing sunset views. The kitchen is complete with granite counters and stainless steel appliances, including the counter-depth refrigerator. This is an open floorplan with a…

  • New 2 Bedroom Condo Listing at The Plaza

    Tony
    2 Feb 2012 | 7:45 pm
    New listing at The Plaza in downtown San Jose. This condo for sale includes 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, and is approximately 1235 square feet. The condo is listed for $300,000 as a short sale. The condo features hardwood floors and plenty of space in the living room and kitchen. The Plaza is located in downtown San Jose just minutes away from the San Pedro Square Market, HP Pavilion, and many other restaurants and theaters. If you would like more information about this condo for sale at The Plaza, please contact Silicon Valley Lofts & Condos at (408) 297-5638. This property is listed by…

  • San Pedro Square Market Filling Up

    Eric
    24 Jan 2012 | 5:43 pm
    Have you been out to the San Pedro Square Market recently? If you haven’t, you’re missing out on one of downtown San Jose’s most unique venues. Vino Vino Wine Bar, Pizza Bucca Lupo, Crewners, and the San Pedro Market Bar have all been open for a while now. Vino Vino features wines-on-tap and a delicious menu of panini and other small bites. Pizza Bucca Lupo serves authentic Neapolitan-style pizza served searing hot from their gorgeous imported pizza oven. The San Pedro Market Bar recently started their $4 happy hour weekdays from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm and all day Sunday. And Crewners…

  • Silicon Valley International Auto Show Returns to Downtown San Jose

    Eric
    4 Jan 2012 | 4:13 pm
    The 2012 Silicon Valley International Auto Show starts Thursday and runs through Sunday at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center in downtown San Jose. Come test drive a Ford, Toyota, Chrysler, Chevy, Buick or GMC. See the latest electric vehicles such as the Ford Focus Electric, the Chevrolet Volt, the Nissan LEAF™, the latest from Fisker, and the CODA EV Sedan. Vehicles making their debut at the Silicon Valley Auto Show include the Fiat 500, the Hyundai Velostar, and the Mazda3. Other highlights of the show include: the Exotic Vehicle Collection featuring Bentley, Lamborghini, Aston…
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