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Entrepreneurs, VCs Gather in Silicon Valley

More than 4,000 entrepreneurs, business leaders, and investors are expected to attend an annual Silicon Valley entrepreneurship convention this week in Sa...  Read more

"Technology, especially electronics, is not what you might call my strong point. . . . I mean all I know about computers wouldn't cover a silicon chip."<...  Read more

Tech Speakers Wanted

Are you using open source in systems design? If so, I could use your help. Every year, the Read more

Royalty-Free Design Templates for Macs

Dec. 4, 2006 -- McAfee, a Santa Clara, Calif.-based security technology firm, released an updated online-security package for business on...  Read more

The Inc. Second 100

The runners-up to the 1981 INC. 100 are more profitable, more productive, and more stable.  Read more

Budget Databases

Controlling costs by using a word processor as a database.  Read more

Storm Clouds Over Silicon Valley

As blind faith in the infallibility of high-tech companies falters, the era of unrestrained growth in the Valley may be over.  Read more

Spammers Beware

In the largest anti-spam judgment to date, a California judge recently ordered a Los Angeles area company to pay $2 million for sending unsolicited...  Read more

Survey: Employees Want to Go Green

Most U.S. employees want to work for businesses that are environmentally-friendly, though many admit they are not doing enough to help create a greener wo...  Read more

Going Wireless in Your Office

Setting up a wireless local area network is easy and inexpensive but is it good for business?  Read more

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Remote Desktop PC Access

March 5, 2007 -- WebEx, a Santa Clara, Calif.-based software company, has partnered with mobile-technology provider SoonR to launch an ap...  Read more

New Corporate-Class VoIP Service

Dec. 7, 2006 -- 8x8, Santa Clara-based broadband VoIP services firm, has released a new a service plan that allows businesses to implemen...  Read more

Hotline

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McAfee SiteAdivsor for Firefox, AIM, and AOL Mail

Dec. 20, 2006 -- McAfee, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based security-technology company, announced Tuesday the release of a version of McAfee ...  Read more

Health Hazards? A Look at Cell Phone Safety

Get the low-down on what is harmful and what is speculation, when it comes to health hazards from cell phones.  Read more

Silicon Valley's Silver Lining

Susan Benner's article "Storm Clouds Over Silicon Valley" (September) portrayed the Santa Clara Valley as an area of congestion, pollution, greed, and cri...  Read more

Network: Reader Responses

Reader-to-reader advice.  Read more

The World is Not Enough

Bülent Çelebi is a worldly guy, having lived in Turkey, Hong Kong, and the U.S. before returning to Istanbul to establish AirTies--which has a su...  Read more

Tesla Employees Killed In Silicon Valley Plane Crash

Three employees of electric car maker Tesla Motors were on board a plane that crashed in Palo Alto, California, killing all on board. Tesla CEO Elon Musk tol...  Read more

Shoe-In

Silicon Valley is notorious for its fluid job market in which workers move from company to company. That can make it hard for small companies to retain va...  Read more

Internet: Web Sites We Love: CEOs Pick Their Favorites

Various CEOs share their favorite Web sites with readers.  Read more

The Inc. 500

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Introducing The 1986 Inc. 100

Like a bunch of adolescents, the companies on the INC. 100 are an unsettled lot. They have grown so fast that their knees ache. They have consumed capit...  Read more

Ed Zschau

"I had an awful lot to learn about business . . . I had the conglomerate mentality -- the view that, if you just build one product for one market, you weren'...  Read more

Letter From Silicon Valley: What's a Nice Systems Engineer Like You Doing in a Place Like This?

Every month a Silicon Valley club or hotel plays host to a networking party called the Layoff Lounge. Just another pink-slip party? Not really. Here's what h...  Read more

How to Spend Your Summer Vacation

Inc.'s guide to great company tours.  Read more

California Leads Tech Jobs

A report shows the state's high-tech employers create more jobs with higher wages.  Read more

Adventures in Never NeverLost Land

Inc.'s Road Warrior abandons maps in favor of the NeverLost global positioning system available in Hertz rental cars.  Read more

The Savvy CEO's Loan Pitch

Tips for fine-tuning your loan pitch, including seven things bankers look for when a business seeks financing.  Read more

E-Mail Grows Up

Various businesspeople tell how they are using different E-mail packages to handle a variety of tasks.  Read more

The Third Wave

U.S. entrepreneurs are filling new niches in the semiconductor industry.  Read more

The Return of the Floppies

Floppy disk drive company looks to innovate to compete with Japanese manufacturers.  Read more

Different Routes: Perennial Software Services Group

For David Fast, the issue is quality of growth. Fast is the founder and president of Perennial Software Services Group, in Santa Clara, Calif., a leading...  Read more

Communications: Bulking Up

A quick look at how a map-making firm turned to a superfast network to improve its out-dated technical infrastructure.  Read more

Software

A Santa Clara, Calif., company called Lightyear Inc., with a software product of the same name, is convinced that managers need help making decisions that...  Read more

10 Steps to Database Security

Most small and mid-sized businesses that build and administer databases focus on performance and availability. Security is usually an afterthought. Until you...  Read more