silicon valley
RSS silicon valleySilicon Valley moves to Singapore
News Shrugging off Asia's economic gloom, the Singaporean government has just announced a $2.9bn project to develop its own Silicon Valley. Scheduled for development over the next 15 years, Singapore's... [21 Sep 1998]
Silicon Valley hit by outsourcing protests
News The exodus of information technology jobs out of Silicon Valley and the US to foreign countries is certainly on the rise. They also have more relaxed environmental and labour regulations than in the US... [17 Sep 2003]
Silicon Valley firms invest in Northern Ireland
News Plans by a number of leading Silicon Valley firms to establish facilities in Northern Ireland in the wake of the peace agreement have been welcomed by the province. The Northern... [01 Jul 1998]
The Bloor Perspective: C&W thinks big, Silicon Valley thinks young, and gadgets get Linux
Comment The failure rate amongst start-ups in the IT and dot-com sectors is frighteningly high, not just in Silicon Valley but everywhere. Gary Law, VP of Sunnyvale-based Brightlink Networks, is reported to have... [24 Jul 2000]
Silicon Valley rents fall as downturn hits home
News Perhaps the most concrete sign of the slump to hit the once mighty Silicon Valley was revealed today - house rents in the San José area of California have fallen by almost a quarter since last year.... [18 Jan 2002]
Silicon Valley appeals for cash injection
News Silicon Valley, long heralded as a free-market dream, faces stagnation without a serious financial injection from the US government, according to 3Com CEO, Eric Benhamou. He told... [23 Apr 1999]
Ex-PM Mahathir’s dream - Silicon Valley in Malaysia
News From answering Detroit with the Proton Saga car, just-retired Malaysia prime minister Mahathir hoped to turn Malaysia into another Silicon Valley. The report cited two examples, First... [17 Nov 2003]
Torvalds leaves Silicon Valley
News Linux leader and founder Linus Torvalds is moving with his family to Portland, Oregon, farther from hectic Silicon Valley and closer to his employer, the Open Source Development Labs in Beaverton. And... [14 Jun 2004]
Brown takes cue from Silicon Valley
News He said the government's goal is to double the amount of employees in share ownership schemes, in an effort to "emulate Silicon Valley". The UK Chancellor, Gordon Brown, presented his pre-Budget report... [03 Nov 1998]
Hong Kong builds own Silicon Valley
News Hong Kong has announced plans to develop its own Silicon Valley. The proposal to invest HK$13bn (£1.04bn) to create a hub of high-tech companies were announced in financial secretary Donald Tsang's... [05 Mar 1999]
Photos: Inside HP's garage - the Silicon Valley birthplace
Photo In 1938, after returning from stints at General Electric and MIT, respectively, David Packard and William Hewlett, with the encouragement of their former Stanford University professor, Fred Terman, went looking for a place to set up... [29 Jun 2009]
Is Silicon Valley becoming a high tech Skid Row?
News Falling demand for office space in Silicon Valley saw rent fall by 30 per cent last year as companies in decline continued to close offices and lay off staff. This time last year concerns were already... [03 Jan 2003]
Kurzweil and friends launch Silicon Valley university
News Starting this summer, some of the world's leading thinkers in exponentially growing technologies will be gathering annually at Nasa Ames Research Center, in the heart of Silicon Valley, for 10 weeks of... [03 Feb 2009]
Will Silicon Valley ever recover from the downturn?
News High tech execs debating the future of Silicon Valley are in no doubt that the once lucrative Bay Area will rise again - though the question of 'when? The general consensus was that... [20 Jan 2003]
Bangalore dreams of a second Silicon Valley
News And he added: "One thing that is an interesting component, that's different to Silicon Valley, is that the country is going through a change from developing to developed country and there is a sense of... [02 Apr 2007]
