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Intel Corp. will pay $1.25 billion to make peace with Advanced Micro Devices Inc., as the companies whose microprocessors run nearly all personal computers finally found common ground in a bitter and colorful dispute that caused international antitrust trouble for Intel.
With his campaign for governor off to a sluggish start, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom enlisted former President Bill Clinton on Monday to help him raise political funds and the visibility of his candidacy.
The Republican race to challenge liberal stalwart Barbara Boxer for her U.S. Senate seat next year is shaping up as a likely contest between a socially conservative state lawmaker and a former Silicon Valley chief executive whose views are barely known to GOP voters in the state.
A Silicon Valley engineer charged with fatally shooting three former co-workers has decided to represent himself in his murder trial.
A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced Silicon Valley financier William "Boots" Del Biaggio III to more than eight years in prison for bilking investors and banks — including one he helped launch — out of millions of dollars in a desperate attempt to buy a pro hockey team.
A federal judge has sentenced a Silicon Valley financier to more than 8 years in prison for bilking banks and investors out of millions of dollars in an attempt to buy a pro hockey team and finance a lavish lifestyle.
AOL LLC has tapped former Yahoo Inc. executive Brad Garlinghouse for a key position that is meant to beef up the struggling Internet company's presence in Silicon Valley.
Silicon Valley billionaire Tom Siebel says he's recovering from broken ribs and legs after an elephant charged at him and a tour guide in the Serengeti a month ago.
A federal appeals court has tossed out the criminal conviction of the first Silicon Valley executive to go to trial in a stock options scandal that triggered investigations at hundreds of companies and charges against at least a dozen executives.
American presidents rewarding top campaign fundraisers with plum ambassadorships has long been common practice for both parties. But should "bundlers" get these jobs? Are they qualified?
Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman has a big cash advantage over her Silicon Valley rival to become California's next governor, according to new campaign finance reports. State Attorney General Jerry Brown, meanwhile, had a sizable lead among Democrats.
Prosecutors won't seek the death penalty in the case of a Silicon Valley engineer charged with fatally shooting three people at a Santa Clara high-tech firm.
Silicon Valley is joining the mayor of New Jersey's largest city to create a "blueprint" to organize residents into shared interest groups.
Yahoo Inc. has hired a cost-cutting specialist as its new chief financial officer, signaling the Internet company's determination to weed out the bureaucracy that has been dragging down its profits for the past three years.
Silicon Valley financier William "Boots" Del Biaggio III was scrambling during the summer of 2007 to buy a significant portion of the NHL's Nashville Predators.
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is a scrappy underdog whose 40-year history in the computer chip business has been punctuated by bursts of technological innovation and severe downturns. Now it is celebrating a $1.45 billion antitrust fine against the Silicon Valley rival it blames for many of its woes: Intel Corp.
Intel Corp. was fined a record $1.45 billion by the European Union on Wednesday for using strong-arm sales tactics in the computer chip market — a penalty that could turn up the pressure on U.S. regulators to go after the company, too.
If the Obama administration is serious about more aggressively responding to antitrust complaints, some of technology's biggest companies could have to rethink their business strategies or expansion plans.
Silicon Valley, the nation's center of high-tech innovation, is exporting a new kind of product — frustrated former CEOs leaping from the boardroom to politics with promises to return economic luster to the Golden State.
If IBM Corp. had managed to buy longtime rival Sun Microsystems Inc., it might have been as incongruous as waking up to a big blue sun.
Sun Microsystems Inc.'s scramble to find a suitor landed the slumping server and software maker in the arms of Oracle Corp., which agreed to pay $7.4 billion in cash for Sun in a startling marriage that would transform Silicon Valley and the computing industry.
Forget, for a moment, computer viruses and sophisticated cybercrimes. A hacksaw and a few other tools were probably all it took for someone to sever eight fiber-optic cables in Silicon Valley this week, knocking out cell phone, landline and Internet service.
Cell phone, Internet and landline service is back in Silicon Valley after one or more vandals apparently severed eight fiber-optic cables.
A Silicon Valley businessman has been indicted on charges he illegally sold microwave amplifiers to China in violation of U.S. export laws.
Without IBM Corp.'s $7 billion takeover offer, Sun Microsystems Inc., a Silicon Valley rebel known for independence, is possibly alone again. Unless a new suitor somehow emerges, Sun will have to overcome the wobbly finances that forced it to shop itself around.
Former AMD chief identified as leak in Galleon insider trading caseThe far-reaching insider trading scandal now appears to have reached the top ranks of the high-tech industry with reports Tuesday that Hector Ruiz, former CEO and chairman of Sunnyvale chip company Advanced Micro Devices, leaked confidential AMD information to alleged conspirator …
Silicon Valley warning: Detroit still doesn't get itSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – From Detroit's union halls to its boardrooms, the consensus belief is that billions of dollars in federal investment and loans kept the American auto industry from collapse.
Synthetic Lifethe world will be changed by the ability to routinely read genetic sequences into computing systems and then store, replicate, alter and insert them back into living cells. More Articles
Unemployment Rate in the Silicon Valley Remains BrutalWhile the Valley fared better than the rest of California, and the tech industry is pulling out of free fall, 11.8 percent is a nasty unemployment number.
First California cleantech mission to Israel hailed as a success"Venture capitalists and representatives of some of the biggest companies in the US who came to Israel as part of the first California Israel Chamber of Commerce (CICC) cleantech delegation were "blown away" by the level of innovation and complexity they encountered during their …
There have been lots of pessimism about Japan's future in Japanese blogosphere lately, but I don't necessarily agree. Here is one breath of fresh air.Mr.
Rumor Mill: Apple May be Looking to Buy TwitterRumors popped up that Apple may be looking to buy Twitter. "Apple is in late stage negotiations to buy Twitter and is hoping to announce it at WWDC in June," said a normally reliable source this evening, adding that the purchase price would be $700 million in cash.
Obama Names First U.S. Chief Technology OfficerUS President Barack Obama on Saturday named a Harvard-educated Indian-American to the newly created post of Chief Technology Officer in an appointment much-awaited by Silicon Valley.
In Silicon Valley, Recruiting Clashes With Immigration Limits - NYTimes.comMOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Where's Sanjay?
California to order cuts in greenhouse gasesCalifornia air regulators approved requirements Thursday to compel chipmakers in Silicon Valley to severely cut greenhouse gases spewing from semiconductor plants.
Wave-Powered Monitor Is Moving Beyond Listening to Whales "This is a transformational development," said Jim Bellingham, the chief technologist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. "I wish I had invented it."
Palo Alto Online : New 'greenprint' could map way for next boomClimate Prosperity Project kicks off in Silicon Valley.
Tech Gurus Use Power of Web to Help VeteransUSAtogether has no office or employees, keeping the operation "outrageously efficient," Mahler said.
Cash Rich Tech Companies Cutting JobsTough times call for tough measures and we can see that in the increasing numbers of layoffs among large tech companies.
As times get worse, Silicon Valley turns to verseUndaunted by an economic outlook that is anything but lyrical, Silicon Valley is looking for a poet laureate. He or she will be expected to not only write, but also work to make poetry more accessible to people in their everyday lives.
Hawaiian Shirt King Who Dressed Elvis DiesThe guy who outfitted Elvis w/Hawaiian threads has passed. Persons he knew extrapolate his influence to surfers, Silicon Valley and "casual Fridays."
Washington Is Killing Silicon ValleyA great article about how with the best of intentions, Washington is killing the greatest wealth creation enterprise in the world, Silicon Valley. Why do we tolerate this crap?
Washington Is Killing Silicon Valley: Entrepreneurship was taken for granted. Now we're seeing a lot less of it.For more than 30 years the entrepreneurship-venture capital-IPO cycle centered in Silicon Valley has generated new wealth, commercialized innovation, and created new companies and industries. It's also spun off millions of new jobs.
A Wrench in Silicon Valley's Wealth MachineA very interesting article about how the valuations of silicon valley startups with mass potential have fallen dramatically. Will they now apply for bailout money?
First Full Road Test For the 2009 Tesla RoadsterFor a while there, we feared for Tesla and its plans of a high-performance Roadster leading to an executive-class Whitestar sedan, both state-of-the-art electrics.
Laid - Off Silicon Valley Worker Kills Three: Police A man laid off recently from his job in Silicon Valley shot and killed three people, believed to be former co-workers, at an office park on Friday, police in the ailing U.S. technology hub said.
A radical business plan for Facebook: Charge people. Slate MagazineA couple of weeks ago, TechCrunch, a blog that hit it big by chronicling the rising fortunes of Web startups, launched a decidedly downbeat new feature: a layoff tracker.
Netflix, TiVo team up for streaming moviesHome entertainment trendsetters Netflix and TiVo are finally joining forces to deliver more movies and old TV episodes to their mutual subscribers, consummating a relationship that was supposed to come together four years ago.
Posted 03:45 EST, 27, Oct 2008 - TheDeal.com It's the auction that could bring free Internet to the masses.
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