Indian entrepreneurs are everywhere in Silicon Valley. And a new report on the Bay Area Indian community measures the ties between Silicon Valley and India.Here are some facts from the report, “Global Reach,” by the Bay Area Council Economic Institute:-...
Posted in Silicon Valley Watcher - conversations and observations at the intersection of technology and media on November 20, 2009 12:57 PM
Wednesday 8am Silicon Valley news report: The Perfect Strategy for the Cloud -CloudComputing With the evolution of the cloud, it's not hard to see why so many young startups are jumping into the arena. The key for many companies looking...
Posted in Silicon Valley Watcher - conversations and observations at the intersection of technology and media on April 29, 2009 04:55 AM
Newsome sends Wi-Fi to voters [AP] Hoping to break a political impasse, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom has submitted a ballot measure asking voters whether they support blanketing the city with a wireless Wi-Fi system that would enable free Web...
Posted in Silicon Valley Watcher - conversations and observations at the intersection of technology and media on August 8, 2007 01:41 PM
Reyes, ex-Brocade CEO, convicted on all counts [AP] Former Brocade Communications Systems Inc. CEO Gregory Reyes was convicted Tuesday of defrauding investors in the first stock options backdating case to go to trial. The guilty verdict on all counts is...
Posted in Silicon Valley Watcher - conversations and observations at the intersection of technology and media on August 7, 2007 03:00 PM
Amazon sells DRM-free MP3s (Mercury News) David Grisman sues YouTube (AP) Brocade CEO's defense slapped down by well-connected judge (WSJ Law Blog) Thumbnails are fair use, appeals court says (BBC) Google moves towards universal search (Guardian) Tech Museum names Quattrone...
Posted in Silicon Valley Watcher - conversations and observations at the intersection of technology and media on May 17, 2007 08:03 AM
The US Attorney's Office for Northern California is being gutted - perhaps on orders from Washington, perhaps just because of greener fields in Silicon Valley lawfirms - and the stock options backdating investigations will more than likely grind to...
Posted in Silicon Valley Watcher - conversations and observations at the intersection of technology and media on January 22, 2007 09:24 PM
By Richard Koman for SiliconValleyWatcher Having fun: USAToday says that Web 2.0 is giving Valley entrepreneurs a chance to start companies that are more about people than business. And they're loving it. Andy Halliday started OurStory, a sort of storytelling/scrapbooking...
Posted in Silicon Valley Watcher - conversations and observations at the intersection of technology and media on August 31, 2006 08:20 AM
It's never a great idea for a multibillion corporation to have an irreplaceable leader. But clearly, that is the case for Apple. What would the investment community think of Apple if Jobs were gone? Who is the brilliant lieutenant who...
Posted in Silicon Valley Watcher - conversations and observations at the intersection of technology and media on August 28, 2006 12:01 AM
By Richard Koman for SiliconValleyWatcher.com After Apple announced they would restate all their earnings post-2002, the stock naturally fell but not as much as one might have suspected. Conventional wisdom was that investors were holding out hope that the restatements...
Posted in Silicon Valley Watcher - conversations and observations at the intersection of technology and media on August 11, 2006 10:59 AM
By Richard Koman for SiliconValleyWatcher.com Restating earnings is never a good thing. Even worse when the SEC is investigating all of Silicon Valley and an internal investigation has already shown that improper options were offered to chief executive. Thus sits...
Posted in Silicon Valley Watcher - conversations and observations at the intersection of technology and media on August 4, 2006 10:24 AM
As the SEC and other law enforcement agencies investigate whether executives and companies committed crimes by backdating stock options, the list of Silicon Valley companies under investigation looks like a client list of one firm: Wilson Sonsini. Actually, that's something...
Posted in Silicon Valley Watcher - conversations and observations at the intersection of technology and media on August 1, 2006 12:02 PM
By Richard Koman for SiliconValleyWatcher.com On July 20, the full force of the law came down on former executives of Brocade Communications, when the SEC, the US Attorney's Office and the FBI filed charges against Gregory Reeves, the company's former...
Posted in Silicon Valley Watcher - conversations and observations at the intersection of technology and media on July 31, 2006 12:58 PM