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• TechCrunch Readers: God is Your Co-Pilot, and Stuff that Piggy Bank

  
  TechCrunch — Authority: 905
  When pitching to VC’s, entrepreneurs hype the heck out of their ideas, years of experience and management teams. But I’ve never heard of anyone touting their luck or connection to God. After reading the posts on TechCrunch, one could easily get the impression that God doesn’t play much of role in Silicon Valley. ...
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• Silicon Valley forum innovation: incentives for ethics in finance

  
  INNOVATION. International Journal by 2thinknow. — Authority: 127
  New Sury Initiative in Silicon Valley Seeks to Integrate Ethics, Innovation, and Finance SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 20 /PRNewswire/ — A new initiative in the Silicon Valley is creating a forum for the leading minds in ethical financial innovation, responsible risk management, and behavioral finance. Sharath Sury, ...
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• Silicon Valley Real Estate Housing Sales for the City of Sunnyvale ~ October 2009 ~ Stats, Pics & Graphs

  
  SiliconValleyBroker.com — Authority: 134
  View Larger Map The October 2009 Completed Sales Report for Sunnyvale Single-Family Homes saw a closing of 53 sales receiving 99.19% of list price . These closings represented a median price of $770,000 and an average price of $742,194. There were 63 new listings reported for October . Total ...
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• Heading North – CA Unemployment Up To 12.5%; Santa Clara County 11.9%

  
  Square Feet — Authority: 553
  The EDD released unemployment figures today, and the rate was up to 12.5% in October, a 20 basis point increase from September’s 12.3%. Last year, it was 8% in October signalling a 50% year-over-year increase! In raw numbers, year-over-year, we’ve shed nearly a million jobs in California alone total, nearly 700K ...
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• The WeeklyDIVA: Cash for caulkers

  
  DiscussionDIVAS — Authority: 112
  H ow aboutsome cash in return for weatherizing your home? Or a job? How about both? It’s thelatest idea circulating in Washington—governmentcash incentives to encourage you to plug up those drafty houses, insulate them,and switch to efficient light bulbs. If the title“cash for caulkers” rings like ...
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• Oracle Blinks

  
  Digital Daily — Authority: 699
  The European Union’s formal objection to Oracle’s (ORCL) proposed acquisition of Sun (JAVA) has evidently transformed the database giant’s intransigency into a grudging agreeability. The EU has extended the deadline or approval of the $7.4 billion merger to January 27 from January 19 at Oracle’s ...
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• Hey, Hey, Hey, Twitter! Heres the Real "Whats Happening!"

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 730
  BoomTown was intrigued when Mind-Your-Own Biz Stone, one of the co-founders of Twitter, penned a blog post yesterday about the microblogging service changing its prompting question. Now, above the little Twitter box, it reads, “What’s Happening?” and not the original tweet query “What are you doing?” ...
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• US Summer Trip 2009 in Las Vegas

  
  SkyMinds.Net — Authority: 123
  Voici la septième journée de l’ US Summer Trip 2009 . C’est aujourd’hui que nous quittons San Francisco. Paquetage de valises qui, curieusement, ont de plus en plus de mal à se fermer (la faute aux magasins de Fisherman’s Wharf !). A la réception de l’hôtel, le réceptionniste est plutôt rigolo : ...
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• GreenBeat 09: Khosla warns against Smart Grid hype, pushes storage

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 153
  “I’m not skeptical that the Smart Grid should exist,” famed Silicon Valley investor Vinod Khosla said, kicking off his conversation with VentureBeat editor Matt Marshall at VentureBeat’s GreenBeat 09 event today. “I wouldn’t be here if I was.” Khosla has been unofficially dubbed a Smart Grid skeptic ...
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• Maveron Casting for Consumer Investments in SF

  
  GigaOM — Authority: 793
  Though there’s no lack of venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, you can count one more. Maveron this week announced it is opening a San Francisco office, headed by partner Amy Errett, the former CEO of Olivia.com who joined Maveron as an entrepreneur in residence two years ago. Errett (a fly-fishing enthusiast, ...
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• MSN Head Greg Nelson Moves to MicroHoo Integration Role (Yahoo Picks Morrissey)

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 730
  Greg Nelson (pictured here), who has had the thankless job of running MSN for Microsoft, has left that job and been given the even more thankless task of running the integration of the complex search and online advertising partnership struck by the software giant and Yahoo. Microsoft (MSFT) sent out an internal email ...
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• Palm Drops iTunes Workaround, for Now

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 916
  Has Palm stopped battling Apple over whether or not Pre and Pixi owners can synchronize their handsets with iTunes?
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• Palm Drops iTunes Workaround, for Now

  
  Bits — Authority: 774
  Palm’s latest update to its mobile operating system now allows owners of the Pre and Pixi to use Yahoo’s instant messaging client and watch YouTube videos in wide screen view, among other things.Rich Pedroncelli/Associated PressThe Palm Pre.But one the feature not included in the update is the seamless ...
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• SunPower Completes 1-Megawatt Solar Power System at Agilent Technologies Headquarters

  
  GreenEnergyForEarth.com - Solar & Wind Power Products — Authority: 123
  Nov 19, 2009 – SunPower Corp. (Nasdaq: SPWRA, SPWRB), a Silicon Valley-based manufacturer of high-efficiency solar cells, solar panels and solar systems, announced the completion of a 1-megawatt solar power rooftop system on three buildings at Agilent’s headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif. This is SunPower’s ...
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• Entrepreneurs: Start. This. Company. Now.

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 162
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• Dan Levitan on Maveron’s Bay Area Expansion, Its Latest Stealth Startup, and His First Starbucks

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 708
  Venture Capital , startups , strategy Gregory T. Huang wrote: Seattle-based venture capital firm Maveron has been in the news a lot this month. There have been reports about its latest stealth startup, which is a new type of e-commerce play. Another report from VentureWire said Maveron will be ...
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• Yahoo Hires Amber Allman as New D.C. Director of Public Affairs

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 730
  Earlier today, BoomTown reported that Yahoo (YHOO) was poised to name a few new top execs at its Silicon Valley HQ. But, the company has also hired a new director of public affairs in the nation’s capital. After I queried the company, Yahoo confirmed that it has tapped Amber Allman , a vice president at 463 ...
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• SDForum to Present "How Green are You Going to Be?" on December 15 (Discount Available)

  
  Green VC — Authority: 421
  On December 15, SDForum will present the next program in its Green and Clean Evening Series entitled How Green are You Going to Be? This program will feature the following panelists, who will address the following: The greening of our society has been under way for well over a decade and changing our language ...
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• GreenBeat: Doerr wants to see more U.S. leadership in smart grid, cleantech

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 153
  “Ten years out we want lamps that use 2 percent the energy and put out the same amount of light,” Doerr said at the beginning of his talk at GreenBeat 2009 today — indicative of his interest and that of his firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in the newest, boldest investments when it comes [...]Related ...
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• Kosmix Hosts Girls In Tech: Resume Best Practices Workshop

  
  Kosmix Blog — Authority: 413
  Tomorrow night Silicon Valley’s Girls In Tech group will head over to Kosmix HQ for an evening of networking and career advice from some of the area’s coolest companies. If you are looking for a job, or want tips on how to sharpen up your resume, this is the place to be.  Here are all the details from the Girls ...
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