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...think the billions in government subsidies for automobiles are all flowing to Detroit. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is ready to loan nearly $1 billion to Tesla Motors and Fisker Automotive, two fledgling automakers with deep roots in Silicon Valley and Southern California...
Wait a second: eBay bought Luxembourg-based Skype from the Scandinavians for $2.6 billion in 2005 - a lofty sum that made the heads of many in Silicon Valley spin. Can the founders now really hope to block the resale of Skype by pulling the technology on which it runs? "People are puzzled about how this happened," says analyst Stephan Beckert with Washington-based TeleGeography Research. "One thing I can say: You don't want to mess with Zennstrom...
...personal finances, but it's just too confusing - and boring! Secretly, we wish someone else would do it for us. This is the key factor behind the success of Mint.com, a website that was started three years ago by then 25-year-old CEO Aaron Patzer in his Silicon Valley apartment. Now it has been sold to Intuit for a stunning $170 million...
Setting the Record Straight In our article "China's Power Play" we should have emphazised that Lishen provides hardware manufacturing while Coda provides sales know-how and high-tech expertise [Aug. 31]. And also, Coda Automotive is based in Santa Monica, Calif., not Silicon Valley as we stated...
Each of the entrepreneurs has a strong connection to the Business School. Several ran companies that were the subject of HBS case studies. In addition, Bussgang had been a HBS Business Plan Contest judge and Decker had served on an advisory board for HBS’s Silicon Valley research center. Roberts said that the Rock Center chose alumni who have demonstrated an interest in both entrepreneurship...