Word: silicon
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...will take a six-month leave of absence from Apple to tend to "health-related issues" has sent the company's stock tumbling and gadget-lovers pouring into online forums to gossip on the gravity of Jobs' condition. It's only natural that Apple's fans would fret: in Silicon Valley, Jobs is a mock-turtleneck-clad deity, a leader synonymous with his company's brand - and its success. But analysts believe Apple will be in good hands while the CEO convalesces. The man stepping into Jobs' New Balance sneakers, chief operating officer Tim Cook, is viewed as a brainy...
...increase citizen participation. During the campaign, Obama's team vowed to create a "Craigslist for service" along the lines of the Obama campaign's social-networking site, MyBarackObama.com. "We believe that real change can only come from the bottom up," Obama said in late 2007 on a visit to Silicon Valley. "And technology empowers people to come together to make that change." Indeed, rather than centrally control the flow of information, USAService.org has opened itself up to users to post and organize their own events with minimal supervision.(Read "The Case for National Service...
Indeed, when Munday replaced the gold plate with a silicon dioxide plate, the force became repulsive...
...union," says Shaiken. The battles over concessions have reopened old wounds in an industry long known for class warfare. Detroit's auto companies are organized around a strict hierarchy, with little of the "all for one, one for all" spirit that is more typical of start-up companies in Silicon Valley. Executives from Ford bluntly told union bargainers during one meeting last year that "shared sacrifice," a concept used during the industry's last crisis in the early 1980s, no longer applied because executives' high salaries were based on Ford's successful global operations...
...company followed that purchase a year later with the $2.7 billion acquisition of Genlyte, a big U.S. player that makes lights for offices, highways, factories and outdoor advertising. Those deals come on top of its own massive in-house research efforts in R&D labs from Silicon Valley to Eindhoven in the Netherlands...