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...Zuckerberg, 24, is a hot ticket on the conference circuit, and when I spoke to him, he had just returned to Palo Alto, Calif., from a major tech-industry event near San Diego. There he had been grilled yet again on whether he'd sell Facebook to Microsoft, whose minority investment gave Facebook a $15 billion valuation. (Microsoft, which tried and failed to buy Yahoo!, could use a new platform itself.) Yet again Zuckerberg said no, he's not selling out - he's just trying to build a great and viable platform and that takes time. Zuckerberg speaks...
...preseason, the Harvard men’s basketball team was considered to be full of talent, but it lacked a go-to guy. Fortunately, it didn’t take long for sophomore Jeremy Lin to establish himself in that role. The Palo Alto, Calif. native was the only player to start in all 30 games and led the team with 12.6 points per game, 107 assists, and 58 steals. “Jeremy’s been our best player. He’s played exceptionally well for us all year,” head coach Tommy Amaker said...
Lead researcher Nick Yee, a former Stanford graduate student who now works for the nearby Palo Alto Research Center, replicated his study, then appended a second part: an hour after their forays online, the same volunteers were told they were participating in an unrelated study about online romance. They were instructed to pick two potential dates out of nine photos in an online-dating pool. People who had used attractive avatars seemed to hang on to some of the self-assurance that came from being handsome, choosing better-looking dates than those who had homely avatars. "They thought they...
Ideo, the Palo Alto, Calif., design firm best known for creating the Palm V digital organizer, began its Transformation by Design department, one of the first in the country, under Peter Coughlan in 2002. Ron Volpe, customer vice president for supply chain at Kraft, turned to Ideo that year to help improve the relationship between Kraft and Safeway. Basic communication was not smooth, and there were some delays in getting products to market. Ideo gathered more than 80 employees from both firms, encouraging each side of the supply chain to weigh in. The changes that Ideo devised--new promotional displays...
...composed music for groups such as the Brattle Street Chamber Players, the Freshmen Musical, CityStep, and the University Choir. Off campus, the work of this year’s Louis Sudler Prize co-winner can be heard from such illustrious groups as the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra, and the New York Youth Symphony and can be found being performed all across Germany and Japan. Lim has always been a musical prodigy. The San Franciso native began playing the piano at age four. A year later, she had already composed her first piece, “Imagine...