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San Francisco | Monday, May 6th, 2013
Google is just as serious about providing in-the-moment information to users with emerging technologies such as Google Now, self-driving cars and Google Glass, as they are about their core search offering, CEO Larry Page said during the company’s recent earnings call with analysts. Those products, along with voice-based search and others, may be risky “big bets,” but Google doesn’t want …
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San Francisco | Thursday, April 25th, 2013
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings laid out an ambitious plan for Netflix’s future in a paper published on the company’s investor relations site. The plan paints Netflix as one of the driving forces behind a transition from linear television to a world of internet-delivered on-demand content. Hastings said that Netflix is now spending over $2 billion a year on …
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San Francisco | Tuesday, April 16th, 2013
Palantir Technologies Founder Joe Lonsdale, CMEA founder Tom Baruch and veterans from Khosla Ventures have founded a new Silicon Valley venture fund,Formation 8. The new investment firm has raised close to $450 million to invest in tech startups focused on enterprise and energy. While their main investment focus is on startups in the Valley, the firm is also active in China, Korea and …
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San Francisco | Monday, April 8th, 2013
It is no secret that Zynga has been losing top executives since late 2012. CEO Mark Pincus is implementing a revised strategy to hold on to his executive leadership team with new pay schemes, which effectively double the salaries of many key executives. Bonuses will now be tied to performance, increasing maximum payout potential for the top …
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San Francisco | Tuesday, March 12th, 2013
Sheryl Sandberg’s new book, “Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead,’’ is Sandberg’s call for women to “lean in” and more aggressively pursue their ambitions. The book released on Monday amidst a ton of debate, critique as well as support. In the weeks leading up to the book’s publication on Monday, Sandberg, who has not …
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