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...July the company acquired Shell Solar's crystalline-silicon solar business, which makes solar-grade silicon, wafers, cells and modules in California, Washington and Germany. This year revenues should increase 43%, to $630 million, making it the second largest integrated solar company in the world, after Sharp. For Asbeck, there's no question about which direction a solar company should go in: "You have to be fully integrated, or you don't have control...
...University of California in Los Angeles last week. "California is being given an opportunity and an obligation to do something remarkable to save the planet," Clinton told the crowd of 5,000. "You are dangerously dependent on unstable sources of oil, and your air is too polluted." Silicon Valley bigwigs, including Google founder Larry Page and venture capitalists John Doerr and Vinod Khosla - wagering that clean tech will be the next bonanza - have also ponied up several million in favor of the initiative...
Vinod Khosla knows how to balance risk and reward. The billionaire venture capitalist built his career making improbable technology bets - and more often than not getting it right. As a founder of Sun Microsystems and partner at Silicon Valley's storied venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Khosla and his colleagues backed some of the Internet's biggest sensations, like Google, Amazon, Excite and Netscape. Today, his deals assume a completely different type of risk: kicking America's dirty oil habit...
...legal means to be employed from June 2008 until October.Recent college graduates are not the only people adversely affected by the current H-1B policy, although their ordeals are the most immediate. The U.S. economy as a whole is also stunted by the cap. With current labor shortages in Silicon Valley and the southern California aerospace industry, and a low unemployment rate of 4.6 percent in September 2006, the U.S. is hardly overflowing with high-skill people out of work. Since the number of foreigners allowed to perform specialty occupations is not capped out of reasonable concern for national welfare...
Seniors are waiting to hear if they’ve been hired for lucrative jobs on Wall Street and in Silicon Valley, but international students are waiting to hear if they’ll even be allowed to hold jobs in the country.Harvard’s late graduation date—and an unusually high volume of visa applications—could put some seniors’ and recent graduates’ jobs in jeopardy.And with immigration reform efforts stalled on Capitol Hill, relief may be a long time coming.Some international students in the Class of 2006 were unable...