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...mail looked harmless enough. Be at the Renaissance Austin Hotel, 20 minutes from the office, in about an hour. Just another stupid meeting, no doubt. But by the time Dell IT specialist Chuck Peterson walked into a room filled with 75 of his co-workers and a few managers he had never seen before, he knew what was up. "None of them would look at us," he says. "They had their backs to us, or they were looking at their feet...
...cuts as unnecessary and poorly handled--and antithetical to the company Michael Dell created. The Dell culture is fiercely meritocratic, with workers expected to do whatever it takes to make the company succeed. The reward: rich option packages that turned many thirtyish tech workers into millionaires or, as Austin calls them, Dellionaires...
...five chapters to be started this spring, the Harvard HSF Chapter will consist of the 26 Scholars who are currently enrolled at Harvard. The HSF will also form chapters at Stanford, Berkeley and Columbia universities and the University of Texas at Austin...
While Texas Governor Rick Perry was in Austin, his three-dimensional, holographic image stood before a crowd seated in an auditorium at the University of Texas-in Dallas...
Stanford's disappointment is shared by outfits like the Austin Entrepreneurs Foundation, which was formed at the height of the dotcom frenzy to fund Texas community groups. But of the 120 Internet and software companies that contribute their stock options, at least a dozen have closed their doors. Others have delayed making good on earlier commitments. As a result, the Texas foundation, which had expected to give away as much as $500,000 in grants, has been forced to disburse less than a third of that, or $150,000. Says director Paula Fracasso: "I read the paper every...