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...more than 34 million people wasn?t hard: Plenty of Californians are angry after witnessing their state get sucked down a financial black hole during the past three years. In 2001, price gouging energy companies took advantage of botched deregulation to subject the state to rolling blackouts. Shortly afterward, Silicon Valley?s tech bubble burst, ending the state?s incredible economic growth. Now Davis and state legislators can?t seem to work together to pass a budget. It?s enough to make anyone call for heads to roll, and Davis certainly deserves some...
...Silicon Valley rumors abounded that Oracle was looking to buy someone out. The name mentioned most often was that of Tom Siebel, another of Ellison's estranged proteges and CEO of Siebel Systems. Siebel executive vice president David Schmaier, however, says the company is an "acquirer" as opposed to an "acquiree." (Ellison describes Siebel as "in play" but says the company is too vulnerable for him to consider purchasing...
...distinctly non-liberal-arts move, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences announces that it will begin assembling a program to give undergraduates the skills needed to become high-profile Silicon Valley entrepreneurs...
Gabrieli cites a widely-quoted speech by Summers in which he proposed Boston as a Silicon Valley East for biotech research as evidence of Harvard’s influence among academics and businesspeople alike...
...745i with iDrive, a silver dial coupled with a small screen that a driver can use to do everything from saving radio presets to activating the seat warmers. The system was widely panned. Car and Driver dubbed it "a lunatic attempt to replace intuitive controls with overwrought silicon...