Word: siliconing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...tide against school vouchers appears to be building: On Election Day, voters in California and Michigan overwhelmingly defeated voucher propositions by a margin of 2-to-1, despite a $30 million pro-voucher campaign spearheaded by Silicon Valley venture capitalist Tim Draper. In Washington, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Colorado and Arizona, voters approved significant spending increases for public schools, another signal that the public isn?t convinced of vouchers? potency...
...Napster will be profitable. But that's what Bertelsmann's millions are all about--a vast new effort to overcome the technological and fiscal hurdles. Napster, which has been in a hiring freeze while it fought the court action, now is one of the few places in Silicon Valley with a HELP WANTED sign on its door. Fanning has big plans for a next-generation service with enhanced file-sharing and instant-messaging capability...
...NASDAQ crash may have left New York City's Silicon Alley a boulevard of broken dreams, but William O'Shea, 24, is one dotcom entrepreneur who hasn't been discouraged. O'Shea and two friends came up with the idea for their new company, RedFilter, last year in his Brooklyn apartment. O'Shea calls it "a remote control for the Internet": go to RedFilter's website, enter your age, pick the subjects you're interested in, and RedFilter spits back a series of sites custom-picked for your tastes. RedFilter's survival secret: it sells its filter technology to other...
...Napster are often misidentified and of poor quality. If Napster distributed songs off its own servers, which it could do legitimately in the future, it could ensure their quality and reliability. Just months ago P2P seemed an ascendant technology on the mind of every entrepreneur in Silicon Valley; now it appears as just a temporary solution to a sclerotic industry...
...mail chime and PlayStation 2. Our next President may preside over the first catastrophic terrorist attack and will appoint Supreme Court Justices who may completely reshape the social landscape. But these questions seldom come up in the national political conversation. Today's ambitious girl from the sticks might think Silicon Valley a more happening place...