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By LAURA IMPELLIZZERI SAN FRANCISCO - Tom Perkins co-founded the firm that helped spawn Google, Amazon and Genentech. He married - and divorced - romance novelist Danielle Steel. And his resignation from Hewlett-Packard Co.'s board revealed the spying that rocked that Silicon Valley institution.

Tom Perkins secured a place in Silicon Valley lore long ago as the co-founder of a venture capital firm that financed revolutionary companies like Genentech Inc. and Google Inc.

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NEW YORK - Brand name novelist Danielle Steel has reached agreement with New Line Home Entertainment for film rights to at least 30 of her books, including such best sellers as "Safe Harbour,""Ransom" and "Second Chance." The films are expected to be exclusively for television and home video.