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For Valley Engineers, Big Data and Networking Start-Ups Are Still Sexy

Mike Isaac in News on May 17 at 4:30 am PT

Consumer companies may be hot among investors, but big data and networking start-ups are hotter still to Valley engineering talent, according to a recent LinkedIn report. The study claims that analytics firms and networking start-ups like Cloudera and Arista Networks are garnering the most engineering mindshare. The study took into account the LinkedIn activity of more than 240,000 Bay Area engineers from January through March.

Who Put Sports in My Twitter Again? The Jeremy Lin Explainer.

Peter Kafka in Media on February 10 at 10:44 pm PT

A sports story made for social media.

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eBay’s John Donahoe Literally Starts Hammering Out the Plan for Mobile Payments

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 19 at 6:00 am PT

In an interview, eBay’s CEO provides a few details about the company’s mobile payments trial with Home Depot, and how it would expand from five to 51 stores across the country over the next week.

The New York Times Bits Blog Gets a Billboard

Liz Gannes in News on January 18 at 12:03 pm PT

Competition in the technoblogoverse just got a little fiercer! The New York Times Bits technology blog now has its very own billboard on Highway 101.

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Potential Windfalls Loom for Some Top Executives

Pui-Wing Tam, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on January 5 at 11:16 am PT

For some Silicon Valley executives, 2012 is getting off to a rich start.

Groupon Continues to Suck Silicon Valley Talent to Chicago–This Time From Google

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on February 4, 2011 at 10:15 am PT

Groupon is close to hiring yet another top executive from the Bay Area, a move that would be the latest in a string of high-profile hires for the Chicago-based company. This time, the social buying site is targeting Jason Harinstein, who is Google’s director of corporate development. Wait, here’s an update: Got him.

Nokia, Silicon Valley Giant?

Ina Fried in Mobile on December 17, 2010 at 5:20 am PT

When one thinks of Silicon Valley tech companies, Nokia is hardly a name that comes to mind. But the company has amassed a decent presence in the Valley, with about 500 people working on everything from research to inking deals with Web giants to building the features that the company hopes will someday soon return it to the forefront of the smartphone market.

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Music Video For Database Start-Up? That's How CouchOne Rolls

Deborah Gage, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 15, 2010 at 12:08 am PT

How does a small Bay Area start-up whose business revolves around arcane coding compete for developers with the likes of Facebook and Google? By making a rap video, of course.

Intern Becomes Real Live Blog Dude–ATD Hires Drake Martinet

Kara Swisher in News on November 9, 2010 at 10:29 am PT

It is always nice when an intern makes good, and that is entirely the case with Drake Martinet, who joins All Things Digital–as of yesterday, in fact. We could not be happier. Plus, we knew he was our kind of geek after he agreed to spend the night in a tent next to Robert Scoble, to cover last year’s Apple iPad release. Drake will be working on a range of things for ATD, from social and multimedia efforts to site analytics to discovering and writing about promising but nascent tech start-ups.

The Bay Citizen's Jon Weber–Editor of Web 1.0–Talks About Journalism 2.0

Kara Swisher in News on September 20, 2010 at 6:19 am PT

It’s been less than a year since the former top editor of the Industry Standard–the once high-flying (and then not so much) magazine of the Web 1.0 era–Jon Weber got back to the Bay Area from his stint away in Montana. His latest job–editor in chief of the Bay Area News Project, now known as the Bay Citizen, a wealthy-donor-backed, nonprofit endeavor online to focus on local news coverage, even as mainstream media outlets founder. BoomTown checks in on how it’s all going.