Money and Finance
- The Untold Story Of Larry Page's Incredible Comeback - By Nicholas Carlson
Link to article: The Untold Story Of Larry Page's Incredible ComebackBy August 2001, Schmidt had fully extricated himself from his responsibilities at Novell. He became Google’s CEO — so-called adult supervision for Page and his co-founder, Brin....
- Factory Of Life
Synthetic biology was born a little more than a decade ago, an offshoot of traditional genetic engineering but distinct in its ambitions, precision and mind-set. Instead of randomly tweaking the genetic blueprints of living organisms and then working...
- Cost Of Gene Sequencing Falls, Raising Hopes For Medical Advances
Remember the Steve Jobs comment: “I think the biggest innovations of the twenty-first century will be the intersection of biology and technology.” MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — In Silicon Valley, the line between computing and biology has begun to blur...
- American Icon - By Walter Isaacson
The saga of Steve Jobs is the Silicon Valley creation myth writ large: launching a start-up in the proverbial garage and building it into the world's most valuable company. He didn't invent many things outright, but he was a master at arranging...
- Facebook Co-founder Mark Zuckerberg Opens Up
Found via Simoleon Sense.Today, at least one out of every fourteen people in the world has a Facebook account. Zuckerberg, meanwhile, is becoming the boy king of Silicon Valley. If and when Facebook decides to go public, Zuckerberg will become one of...
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PBS American Experience Episode: Silicon Valley
In 1957, decades before Steve Jobs dreamed up Apple or Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook, a group of eight brilliant young men defected from the Shockley Semiconductor Company in order to start their own transistor business. Their leader was 29-year-old Robert Noyce, a physicist with a brilliant mind and the affability of a born salesman who would co-invent the microchip -- an essential component of nearly all modern electronics today, including computers, motor vehicles, cell phones and household appliances.
- The Untold Story Of Larry Page's Incredible Comeback - By Nicholas Carlson
Link to article: The Untold Story Of Larry Page's Incredible ComebackBy August 2001, Schmidt had fully extricated himself from his responsibilities at Novell. He became Google’s CEO — so-called adult supervision for Page and his co-founder, Brin....
- Factory Of Life
Synthetic biology was born a little more than a decade ago, an offshoot of traditional genetic engineering but distinct in its ambitions, precision and mind-set. Instead of randomly tweaking the genetic blueprints of living organisms and then working...
- Cost Of Gene Sequencing Falls, Raising Hopes For Medical Advances
Remember the Steve Jobs comment: “I think the biggest innovations of the twenty-first century will be the intersection of biology and technology.” MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — In Silicon Valley, the line between computing and biology has begun to blur...
- American Icon - By Walter Isaacson
The saga of Steve Jobs is the Silicon Valley creation myth writ large: launching a start-up in the proverbial garage and building it into the world's most valuable company. He didn't invent many things outright, but he was a master at arranging...
- Facebook Co-founder Mark Zuckerberg Opens Up
Found via Simoleon Sense.Today, at least one out of every fourteen people in the world has a Facebook account. Zuckerberg, meanwhile, is becoming the boy king of Silicon Valley. If and when Facebook decides to go public, Zuckerberg will become one of...