Silicon Valley – Science, Technology, Society

Silicon Valley is Hacking Your Food | Inc.com

Posted on August 21, 2013October 2, 2013 by timbatchelder

Silicon Valley is Hacking Your Food | Inc.com.

Silicon Valley’s answer to SXSW: Iggy Pop, Big Data, self-driving cars (bizjournals.com)
10 Silicon Valley businesses hit the Inc. 500 (bizjournals.com)
Brazilian government launches Silicon Valley office (zdnet.com)
Hey everyone, Jeff Bezos lives in Seattle and Amazon is not a ‘Silicon Valley’ company (geekwire.com)
Leading BPO Customer Experience Management Firm, TMone Celebrates Its 10-year Anniversary and Seven Consecutive Years on the Inc. Fastest-Growing Private Companies List (sys-con.com)
Top 5 jobs in Silicon Valley (tech.fortune.cnn.com)

Silicon Valley Goes Hollywood: Top Coders Can Now Get Agents

Posted on April 30, 2013June 30, 2013 by timbatchelder

Ashlee Vance, businessweek.com

(An earlier version of this story ran online.)

Max Nanis’s website prominently features about two dozen head shots of the skinny, scruffy 22-year-old Southern Californian with his shirt off …

RT @Techmeme: Silicon Valley Goes Hollywood: Top Coders Can Now Get Agents (@valleyhack / Businessweek) http://flip.it/8vMDb http://flip.it/mGvsQ http://flip.it/Xvjbf

Silicon Valley Goes Hollywood: Top Coders Can Now Get Agents

How Silicon Valley’s Tech Reign Will End (developers.slashdot.org)
Hollywood, Silicon Valley quarrel over digital media (theneteconomy.wordpress.com)
IN SEARCH OF CHEAP HELP: The Hill: Silicon Valley prepares to push House toward immigration reform… (pjmedia.com)
The Next Silicon Valley Could Have Been In Israel (gizmodo.com.au)
Instagram, Vine competition expose what’s wrong with Silicon Valley’s current MO (bizjournals.com)
A set of tools to nurture your own Silicon Valley (innovationrainforest.com)

Age of context

Posted on February 25, 2013June 15, 2013 by timbatchelder

Age of Context Draft Introduction
Shel Israel, forbes.com

[NOTE: I am writing a new book called Age of Context with Robert Scoble. We hope it will be ready at the end of September. This is a draft introduction. It will be changed several times before we publish the book and what we want the m…

The age of context: Robert Scoble explains how technology helps us make sense of the world [Video] (thenextweb.com)
Google Glass’s #1 Fan (forbes.com)
Robert Scoble and Jaron Lanier on wearable technology (bbc.co.uk)

The No-Hire Emails That That Incriminate

Posted on January 30, 2013February 12, 2013 by timbatchelder

The No-Hire Emails That That Incriminate Apple, Google, Adobe and More
Jamie Condliffe, gizmodo.com

A court filing has just been made public which sheds light on the “no-hire” gentleman’s agreements that have pervaded the tech industry—and reveals how Steve Jobs threatened litigation to prevent companies from stealing his staff.Notably, former P…

The No-Hire Emails That That Incriminate Apple, Google, Adobe and More http://flip.it/KUy5M http://flip.it/81Irf

The No-Hire Emails That Incriminate Apple, Google, Adobe and More (gizmodo.com)
The No-Hire Emails That Incriminate Apple, Google, Adobe and More (gizmodo.co.uk)
Breakfast Wrap: Best Of Wednesday Night (gizmodo.com.au)
The no-hire paper trail Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt didn’t want you to see (theverge.com)
Juliana Mensch Murder Suspects Leave Behind Incriminating Texts, Google Searches, Cops Say (jtm71.wordpress.com)
Steve Jobs and the art of the curt email (tech.fortune.cnn.com)
Steve Jobs threatened patent suit to enforce no-hire policy: filing (reuters.com)
Apple’s (AAPL) Steve Jobs Threatened Patent Suit to Enforce No-Hire Policy (wallstreetpit.com)
Your Boss is Checking Your Email — Here’s Why | CareerBliss (careerbliss.com)

The Happiness Machine

Posted on January 30, 2013February 12, 2013 by timbatchelder

Google Campus (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Farhad Manjoo, slate.com

A few years ago, Google’s human resources department noticed a problem: A lot of women were leaving the company. Like the majority of Silicon Valley software firms, Google is staffed mostly by men, and executives have long made it a priority to…

The Happiness Machine http://flip.it/mYVIV http://flip.it/sQE6T

The Happiness Machine

The Google Happiness Machine (breatheoutandsmile.wordpress.com)
How Google became such a great place to work. (slate.com)
Google Tracks Its Own Employees As Closely As It Tracks You On The Internet (businessinsider.com)
How Google obsessively monitors its employees to make sure they’re the happiest in the world (bgr.com)
Google’s employee experiments keep the happiness machine rolling (theverge.com)
The Happiness Machine (slate.com)
Farhad Manjoo: Why “Don’t Be Evil” is evil, and why Google isn’t so bad (nextlevelofnews.com)
The Next Frontier for Peer Production: Open Machine Learning Services (continuations.com)
Marissa Mayer Using Google Charm to Improve Yahoo Culture | CareerBliss (careerbliss.com)

NYC emerging as a social tech startup powerhouse

Posted on December 30, 2012January 3, 2013 by timbatchelder

Why 2013 Will Be a Big Year for NYC’s Tech Start-Ups!
Alan McGlade, forbes.com

New York City has a thriving start-up scene and now is firmly established as the number two innovation center behind Silicon Valley. The ramp in momentum can be felt across the city landscape from the mayor’s office where Michael…

RT @flipboardtech: http://flip.it/HpcmQ http://flip.it/k7zoM

500 Startups to launch NYC coworking space for its portfolio companies and early stage startups (thenextweb.com)
East vs. West: Which is best for small tech startups? (hiscoxusa.com)
Why 2013 Will Be a Big Year for NYC’s Tech Start-Ups! (forbes.com)
Greg David on NY: Is NYC in a tech bubble? Yes (mycrains.crainsnewyork.com)
Introduction to the NYC Startup Community (business.financialpost.com)

New York start-ups’ own flavour

Posted on December 25, 2012April 20, 2013 by timbatchelder

bbc.co.uk

How New York’s new tech firms differ from Silicon Valley rivals

RT @BBCNewsUS: Is NYC’s Silicon Alley a credible rival to California’s Silicon Valley? What is bringing start-ups to the big city? http://flip.it/jeKDV http://flip.it/ZhrRt

New York start-ups’ own flavour

Dubstarts jobs fair to link up start-ups with job-seekers (siliconrepublic.com)
Immigration and America’s high-tech industry (economist.com)
A comprehensive List of Tech London Start ups (semanticreatures.com)
Why the Lean Start-Up Changes Everything – Harvard Business Review (lifechngr.com)

Vinod Khosla says tech will replace 80% of what docs do

Posted on December 13, 2012April 10, 2013 by timbatchelder

Technology will replace 80% of what doctors do – Fortune Tech
cnn.com

Data-driven healthcare won’t replace physicians entirely, but it will help those receptive to technology perform their jobs better.

By Vinod Khosla

FORTUNE — Healthcare today is often really the “practice of medicine” rather than the…

http://flip.it/t2nZy

Vinod Khosla To Entrepreneurs: Venture Capitalists Are Not Your Friends (forbes.com)
Startup Grind Silicon Valley Hosts Vinod Kholsa (Khosla Ventures) (startupgrind.com)
One doctor’s personal motivation to go from anger to entering the arena of healthcare innovation (medcitynews.com)
Startups are about to blow up the textbook (tech.fortune.cnn.com)
Debra Chrapaty: Here’s Why I Left My Job As Zynga’s CIO To Run A Startup (embargozone.com)

Silicon Valley, meet Genome Valley

Posted on December 10, 2012May 28, 2013 by timbatchelder

Maggie Koerth-Baker, boingboing.net

More than 100 biomedical and life science companies are clustered in Genome Valley, a research park in Hyderabad, India. (Via Joanne Manaster)

Silicon Valley, meet Genome Valley

The Other Silicon Valley That The Tech Industry Is Leaving Behind [Video] (techcrunch.com)
Silicon Valley to boost clout in Washington (phys.org)
You’re comparing Boston to Silicon Valley. Stop it. It’s boring. (bizjournals.com)
The Real Silicon Valley Vs India’s Silicon Valley: An Entrepreneur’s Perspective (nextbigwhat.com)

Related articles

Rate this:

Share this:

Like this:

Related articles

Rate this:

Share this:

Like this:

Related articles

Rate this:

Share this:

Like this:

Related articles

Rate this:

Share this:

Like this:

Related articles

Rate this:

Share this:

Like this:

Related articles

Rate this:

Share this:

Like this:

Related articles

Rate this:

Share this:

Like this:

Related articles

Rate this:

Share this:

Like this:

Related articles

Rate this:

Share this:

Like this:

Related articles

Rate this:

Share this:

Like this:

Related articles

Rate this:

Share this:

Like this:

Related articles

Rate this:

Share this:

Like this: