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...Apple CEO Steve Jobs about it, and he'll tell you an instructive little story. Call it the Parable of the Concept Car. "Here's what you find at a lot of companies," he says, kicking back in a conference room at Apple's gleaming white Silicon Valley headquarters, which looks something like a cross between an Ivy League university and an iPod. "You know how you see a show car, and it's really cool, and then four years later you see the production car, and it sucks? And you go, What happened? They had it! They...
...Silicon Valley, comeback stories comes in three sizes: large, extra-large and epic. So when Sun Microsystems and Google announced this week an agreement to distribute software together, some observers quickly pumped up the familiar Microsoft versus [insert latest tech threat here] story. Sun?s CEO is the fallen tech star Scott McNealy, who seems to be obsessed with vanquishing Microsoft. Google, the game-changing upstart, is now led by a battle-worn veteran, Eric Schmidt, who has been beaten up a couple times by Microsoft himself, but lived to fight another...
...Every epic needs a dramatic confrontation as its climax. Can Schmidt finally capsize his old rival? Steve Allen, an analyst with Sierra Tech Research, put Schmidt in Silicon Valley perspective: ?This is a story of redemption,? Allen says. ?Everyone loves a story of redemption. Here's a chance to come back the third time and see if he can do it. That's part of what's driving him. Google isn't going off to do that just because he has a personal vendetta. But that does play into the mix.?-With reporting by Amanda Bower/San Francisco
...Until now, podcasts were personal sound bites--a bit like audio versions of blogs. There has been no advertising. PodShow Inc., Curry's new, San Francisco-- based company, which aims to commercialize podcasting, just landed $8.9 million in venture capital from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital, the Silicon Valley powerhouses behind Yahoo! and Google. PodShow aims to bring podcasting to the masses. "Whoever wants to podcast should be able to do that for free--no matter what--and we're going to facilitate that. And if you want to kick it up and monetize it, make a business...
...billion to fund its next round of growth. The Big Three are investing aggressively in search technology, and with their deep pockets, they are likely to remain the innovation and market-share leaders for some time to come. But a crop of new start-ups, mostly clustered in Silicon Valley and Seattle, offer a glimpse of the next frontier of search, where imagination has no limits...