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...sector businesses. Labor markets are even getting tight in Italy, where jobless figures have long been in double digits. "From an intelligent secretary on up, you just can't find people," gripes Alessandro Ponti, head of Zetesis, an Internet services company in northern Italy. (Those laid-off workers in Silicon Valley might consider sending their résumés to Milan.) With more Europeans working and making more money, internal consumer demand ought to help offset the weakness in exports...
...there was a public debate about the failure of the school system," Wegelius says. "We thought, what if we could take the storytelling powers of the media world and marry that with the best academic content using new interactive digital technology - take Hollywood and Stanford and move them to Silicon Valley? Maybe we could create a completely new learning environment...
...about San Francisco is changing, and even people who aren't negatively affected are upset." Interestingly, she notes, many of the dotcoms reviled by artists and neighborhood activists started out like a lot of other quirky, creative San Francisco projects. "They just happened to coincide with the rise of Silicon Valley and the high-tech industry," Lloyd says...
...players like Openwave and Infospace to voice infrastructure start-ups like Telera, TalkTwo, NetByTel and Voci, as well as equipment providers like Lucent and Nortel, are picking up the same lines. "Our 800 number is just a continuous, live beta test," says Amol Joshi, co-founder of BeVocal, a Silicon Valley start-up that partnered with Qwest Wireless to launch its own portal. "We want to be the 'Intel inside' for phone companies...
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