Silicon Valley

Can This Man Bring Silicon Valley To Yangon?

Fri, 24 May 2013 07:18:00 GMT

Source: news.wbfo.org --- Friday, May 24, 2013
Like a proud father, Nay Aung opens up his MacBook Air to show me the Myanamar travel website he's built. But we wait 30 seconds for the site to load, and nothing happens. "Today is a particularly bad day for Internet," he says. This is life in Myanmar today: Even an Internet entrepreneur can't always get online. ...

Replicating the Silicon Valley culture

Fri, 24 May 2013 02:47:35 GMT

Source: btoprdfeeds.asiaone.com --- Thursday, May 23, 2013
May 24, 2013 12:54 AM THE national movement by the private and public sectors to seed and nurture Singapore start-ups is pausing for a stock-take on its 10th anniversary. ...

Group Discusses Restaurant Scores for Silicon Valley

Fri, 24 May 2013 01:12:37 GMT

Source: www.nbcbayarea.com --- Thursday, May 23, 2013
An advisory group met officially for the first time today to discuss restaurant scoring systems for Silicon Valley. The group was formed in reaction to an NBC Bay Area Investigation that revealed flaws in... ...

Cassidy: TiE's Vish Mishra embodies the secret of Silicon Valley

Fri, 24 May 2013 01:10:58 GMT

Source: www.mercurynews.com --- Thursday, May 23, 2013
Talk to TiEcon booster Vish Mishra and the mysterious magic that makes Silicon Valley work will soon become evident. His rise from immigrant to major player was the prototype for many who followed and the answer to the riddle of what makes Silicon Valley tick. ...

Silicon Valley Food Boomlet Gets Its First Big Acquisition

Thu, 23 May 2013 23:40:32 GMT

Source: www.forbes.com --- Thursday, May 23, 2013
The new food industry growing up in Silicon Valley achieved another major milestone today when Campbell Soup announced it will acquire Plum Organics for an undisclosed amount. ...

Homegrown talent: An answer to Silicon Valley's STEM shortage? (Video)

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:03:28 GMT

Source: www.bizjournals.com --- Thursday, May 23, 2013
If you’ve heard it once, you’ve heard it a million times: Silicon Valley has a serious tech talent problem. Microsoft Corp,’s can attest to that first hand. “We have 6,000 job openings – more than half of which are for high tech jobs – that we cannot fill,” said Sid Espinosa, Microsoft’s director of corporate citizenship at an event at the tech giant’s Mountain View campus on Thursday. “We have to go overseas.” In an effort to kill two birds with one stone – developing… ...

NVIDIA Co-Founders Receive Leadership Award from City Year Silicon Valley

Thu, 23 May 2013 21:17:37 GMT

Source: blogs.nvidia.com --- Thursday, May 23, 2013
NVIDIA co-founders Jen-Hsun Huang and Chris Malachowsky last night received the annual Citizen Leadership Award from City Year San Jose/Silicon Valley, in a gala charity dinner that raised nearly $400,000 for the education-focused nonprofit. Decked out in their rarely-seen black tuxedos, Jen-Hsun, our CEO, and Chris, a senior vice president and NVIDIA Fellow, were honored for their and NVIDIA’s philanthropic leadership. They announced that their families, the company and a group of NVIDIA partners contributed $100,000 to fund City Year’s work with at-risk students at a local grade school. Flanked by volunteers, Jen-Hsun (center) and Chris (right) were given commemorative jackets by City Year San Jose/Silicon Valley Executive Director Toni Burke (left) for their leadership. City Year partners with public schools and teachers in under-served communities to help keep kids in school and on track to graduation. It draws on teams of “corps members”—young people dedicated to a year of full-time service—that provide individual support to at-risk students, focusing on their attendance, behavior and academic performance. This year marks the fifth year that NVIDIA will partner with City Year for Project Inspire, and our third year of funding the A.J. Dorsa Elementary School, which supports the work of more than 10 corps members directly engaged in helping poor-performing students. ...

Six ways to bridge the Silicon Valley-China gap

Thu, 23 May 2013 19:23:45 GMT

Source: www.bizjournals.com --- Thursday, May 23, 2013
Not news: Chinese investment is pouring into Silicon Valley, and local companies are going after a piece of that action. News: This morning I spoke with six executives at that business crossroads who delivered six tips on bridging cultural and economic divides between Silicon Valley and China. Chinese companies: Understand that U.S. companies and consumers expect you to be as open and transparent as they are.Chinese companies: Reward your people for becoming name brands.Chinese companies: Break… ...

Nikola Tesla Takes Down Silicon Valley VCs, but Will It Get Him a Statue?

Thu, 23 May 2013 18:53:32 GMT

Source: www.adweek.com --- Thursday, May 23, 2013
Some days it seems almost anybody can make an enjoyable video promoting a Kickstarter project, but these guys get bonus points for simultaneously giving the venture-capital system a big poke in the eye. "Nikola Tesla Pitching Silicon Valley VCs" is a biting look at what might have happened if one of history's greatest inventors had to rely on today's venture capitalists. It also happens to promote a Kickstarter effort to build a WiFi hot spot statue of Tesla in Silicon Valley. What's interesting is that the video isn't some sort of populist celebration of Kickstarter. Instead, it depicts crowdfunding as a stopgap solution to the lack of large-scale vision among venture capitalists, whose tech-industry kingmaking is increasingly being called into question. The team behind the video, a creative project firm called Northern Imagination, admits the clip was pulled together quickly, which probably explains the strange audio levels and Tesla's questionable "Serbian" accent. But it has clearly struck a chord, inspiring GigaOm to write a 1,000-word essay on what the video "says about the state of Silicon Valley." In the meantime, the Tesla statue-raisers could still use your help. As of Thursday morning, they were still nearly $100,000 short of their goal, with only 10 days left. Via Boing Boing. ...