Latest Silicon Valley Stories
San Jose Satellite Office Will Streamline Patent Process for Innovators WASHINGTON, July 2, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- TechNet, the bipartisan policy and political network of CEOs that promotes the growth of the innovation economy, today celebrated the announcement of a Silicon Valley regional branch of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). With 25% of US-origin patents coming from California - almost three times more patent filings than any other state - the San Jose...
SAN JOSE, Calif., June 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- San Jose & Silicon Valley is world renowned for its entrepreneurship that has led to hi-tech giants such as Cisco, Ebay, and Adobe, but in the 1960s, San Jose was known to the world as Speed City. The height of Speed City was back in 1968 after sprint greats Tommie Smith, John Carlos, and Lee Evans won medals at the Olympic Games in Mexico. Coincidently, in this Olympic year of 2012, the heritage of the Speed City era and the...
PALO ALTO, Calif., June 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced that SAP in Silicon Valley, California, has been named a "Bay Area Top Workplace" for 2012. This distinction was presented by the Bay Area News Group, a collective of publications that includes the San Jose Mercury News and the Oakland Tribune. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110126/AQ34470LOGO) The award is based on the results of a survey conducted among employees and designed to...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Ford Silicon Valley Lab now officially open for business in Palo Alto, Calif. Ford frames Silicon Valley Lab's mission around three priorities: big data, open-source innovation and user experience to enhance future personal mobility The Ford Silicon Valley Lab (SVL) is now officially open for business, ready to engage the tech community in the quest for the next great idea. Ford Executive Chairman Bill Ford today comes to the...
HOUSTON, June 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Integrated Electrical Services, Inc. (NASDAQ: IESC) announced that it has further expanded its data center technology infrastructure service capabilities. The IES Communications Division, based in Tempe, Arizona, has expanded its physical infrastructure and expertise to Silicon Valley in northern California. With data center and other mission critical projects for some of the leading U.S. companies in the region, IES has opened a Santa...
LONDON and SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Silicon Valley Bank, financial partner to the technology, life science, cleantech, private equity and venture capital industries, opened a full service commercial banking branch in London today to serve both local and international businesses. The first US bank to open a commercial banking branch in the UK in several years, Silicon Valley Bank is offering a full suite of products and services to innovation businesses in...
SAN FRANCISCO, June 5, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Motion To Dismiss Cancer, a team formed to raise money for the Roger Royse 2012 Man of The Year campaign benefitting The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society ("LLS"), is announcing the final round of the "2012 Venture Capital Master's Lunch Series" auction where anyone can bid to win private meetings with some of Silicon Valley's top venture capitalists and start-up founders--with all proceeds supporting LLS and its work with blood...
Motion To Dismiss Cancer, a team formed to raise money for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society is announcing the final round of the “2012 Venture Capital Master’s Lunch Series” auction where anyone can bid to win private meetings with some of Silicon Valley’s top venture capitalists and start-up founders—with all proceeds supporting LLS and its work with blood cancer research. The final round, running from 12:00pm PDT on June 4–7, brings together some of Silicon Valley’s...
Enid Burns for RedOrbit.com Utter the word start-up, and probably Silicon Valley comes to mind. While the area across the bay from San Francisco used to draw businesses funded by venture capital - Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg made the move across country to headquarter his business in Palo Alto - a new crop of start-up companies are setting up shop in San Francisco. Where Silicon Valley once was a hotbed for new tech companies, the city is seen as "boring" by some of the younger...
Digital Journal among 20 standout companies heading to C100 event. Toronto, ON (PRWEB) May 23, 2012 Digital Journal is proud to announce it has been hand-picked from hundreds of companies across Canada as one of the 20 most promising startups by the C100, an organization representing accomplished Canadian entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley. Twice a year, the C100 holds an event called 48 Hours in the Valley designed to offer 20 of Canada's most promising startup companies a chance to visit...
