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• Al Gore Receives Global Humanitarian Award in Silicon Valley

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 667
  Nobel Laureate and former Vice President Al Gore received the 2009 James C. Morgan Global Humanitarian Award this evening for his successful efforts to raise awareness about climate change. The award was inspired by Applied Materials Chairman Emeritus James Morgan’s belief that technology can be a tool to turn ideas ...
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• Google Search Stories–Including Batman!–Or Are They Anti-Bing Commercials in Disguise?

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 696
  It’s well known that Google doesn’t do much in the way of marketing around its search service. While you will catch advertising for the Chrome browser or for Android smartphones on the Web, given Google’s huge 70 percent market share in search, it hardly needs to attract users. So, then, what is one to make of ...
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• Weekend Update 11.21.09- The House of Cards Edition

  
  Digital Daily — Authority: 690
  In tough economic times such as these, even the biggest businesses get the urge to restructure, re-org and reshuffle. Kara began Monday with some of the hard facts from the pending AOL-TimeWarner (TWX) split. Stock issued for the post-spinoff AOL places the company’s total implied value at around $3 billion. ...
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• TechCrunch Readers: God is Your Co-Pilot, and Stuff that Piggy Bank

  
  TechCrunch — Authority: 903
  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: 130
  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: 564
  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: 115
  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: 690
  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: 696
  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: 124
  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: 790
  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: 696
  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: 768
  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: 125
  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: 161
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• Dan Levitan on Maveron’s Bay Area Expansion, Its Latest Stealth Startup, and His First Starbucks

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 712
  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: 696
  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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