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• DEMO and VentureBeat arrive in Austin for a reason — great tech companies

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 157
  Bookmark this categoryI’ve just arrived in Austin, Texas, and look forward to meeting local entrepreneurs.I was here just five months ago (see pics of that event), and there’s a good reason why I’m returning. Austin may be merely the 16th-largest city in the U.S., but after Silicon Valley there are almost no ...
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• Dept. of Energy unveils plans to jumpstart clean energy in the developing world

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 157
  Bookmark this categoryBy far, the most controversial issue at the U.N.’s climate talks in Copenhagen is how the developed world will help industrializing nations reduce greenhouse gas emissions while not sacrificing growth. Most believe this can’t be done, causing countries like China and India to balk at a ...
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• Silicon Laboratories C8051F91x/0x Microcontrollers

  
  Embedded Star — Authority: 134
  Silicon Laboratories announced the C8051F91x/0x microcontroller (MCU) family. The ultra-low-power C8051F91x/0x MCUs increase battery life in portable designs and other power-sensitive embedded systems. The new F91x/0x MCUs are ideal for applications where low power consumption is critical such as smart meters, RFID ...
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• Turnabout Is Fair Play: BoomTown Decodes Rupes Journalism-Is-Not-a-Free-Cow Op-Ed!

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 703
  Last week, BoomTown translated an opinion piece that Google CEO Eric Schmidt had published in The Wall Street Journal, which was focused on defending the search giant from criticism that it was, well, killing journalism. One of the louder critics, in fact, has been Rupert Murdoch, chairman and CEO of News Corp. ...
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• Coke says green strategy will win business

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  Having an integrated clean technology strategy will be a big part of winning business in the 21st century, a Coca-Cola executive told Reuters.com on Monday, and its investments in refrigeration will likely have the biggest impact on that strategy long-term. The worlds biggest soft drinks maker has hooked up with ...
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• A Venture Capitalist Begins a Fund of Funds

  
  Bits — Authority: 766
  Like many businesses these days, university endowments and state pension funds are stretched thin, short on staff and more in need than ever of good research to guide their investing. A venture capitalist has started a new fund of funds to help these institutional investors — known in the industry as limited ...
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• A Venture Capitalist Begins a Fund of Funds

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
  Cendana Capital, a new venture capital fund, will invest in other venture funds as well as buyout and distressed debt funds. It hopes to make it easier for institutional investors to diversify their private equity investments.
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• Sustainability Change Agent: Three Tips for Changing the World

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 650
  I had the pleasure of attending Sustainable Silicon Valley’s (SSV) two-day Sustainability Change Agent Training with Alan AtKisson, November 16th and 17th. It was a packed workshop full of information and interactive exercises.  Parts of it fully engaged me and parts of it left me feeling frustrated, so I decided ...
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• Maybe Googlers Eat Their Own Dog Food, But Will It Be Tasty to Anyone Else?

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 703
  Please see this disclosure related to me and Google. Leave it to Google to compare its most aggressive new product to date to one that often includes meat by-products, bone meal, brewer’s rice, corn syrup and– yum! –”dried animal digest.” But that’s exactly how the Silicon Valley search giant ...
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• Nexus Is a Perfect Name for the Trekkies of Google! (The Video Proof!)

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 703
  Please see this disclosure related to me and Google. Nexus? Well, it does sound futurey and all, but it got BoomTown to wondering how Google’s geektastic engineers settled on the name for their not-so-secret new smartphone , which is called the Nexus One. The codename for the project was Passion and ...
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• Not so secret SV leaders

  
  Open IT Strategies — Authority: 462
  The lead story on the Merc Sunday blared 10 Silicon Valley Superstars* *who you’ve never heard of [by] Chris O’Brien The ten names: Tim O’Reilly, founder of O’Reilly Media Steve Blank, serial entrepreneur, Berkeley lecturer, and author of The Four Steps to Epiphany Dave McClure, blogger , ...
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• [How Do They] Make Computer Chips (Silicon Wafers)?

  
  zedomax.com — Authority: 590
  ( Image Credit ) Have you ever wondered what computers chips are made from?  If you don’t know, you might be rather surprised to learn how they make computer chips or the semiconductors they call it. Computer chips are made from silicon wafers .  Silicon wafers are basically made from your regular ol’ sand. ...
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• Fusion Silicon Finger Tongs

  
  techviva — Authority: 149
  If you are one of those cooks that love deep fried foods or even other fried foods that can be turned with tongs, you are going to have to add these tongs to your kitchen gadgets. If you do deep fry, you know the perils that come with these delicacies, hot oil splashed on your [...]
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• Heres Why Banks Arent Refinancing Your Mortgage Even Though …

  
  Mortgage online — Authority: 160
  Current mortgage rates should be the answer to everyones prayers. But they arent.
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• The Mall Police: Me

  
  Silicon Valley Moms Blog — Authority: 465
  My mom was in a wheelchair when I was a kid. Shes all good now, but a few childhood things remain. One, having a mom in a wheelchair gets you to the front of every line at Disneyland. Two, wheelchair races are not for sissies;  and three, the closer you get to the holidays, the harder it is to navigate stores. As ...
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• Setting the table for entrepreneurship in SA

  
  Bad Entrepreneur — Authority: 111
  I have just read an extremely interesting article entitled: “Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship” which is an interview with Josh Lerner. The interview discusses the role that government must play in developing entrepreneurs and I thought it made for quite an interesting debate given ...
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• ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 12 December 2009

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 164
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• Climate Change Denial: A Lesson from Plato

  
  Kiwipolitico — Authority: 505
  Guest post by Ag.The Greek philosopher Plato (428/427-347 BC) is perhaps most famous for his suggestion in The Republic that the ideal political community ought to be ruled by philosopher-kings. This is somewhat of a shame because it obscures the fact that Plato never intended philosopher rule to be a practical ...
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• Fusion Silicon Finger Tongs

  
  Coolest Gadgets — Authority: 686
  Do you spend plenty of time in the kitchen whipping up delicious morsels for yourself and the family? Chances are the rite of passage to being a good chef often involves getting burned in the process, and we’re talking about physically as well as the food. With the Fusion Silicon Finger Tong s, things might change ...
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• Weekend Update 12.13.09–A New Hope

  
  Digital Daily — Authority: 706
  Just like other parts of the world, Silicon Valley has its own special magic during the holidays. We gather together around the old-timey glow of a CRT monitor and drag out our old CDs—especially the ones that say things like “Sign up for AOL now and receive 500 hours free.” With the familiar tone of a dial-up ...
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