Tech will suffer from financial meltdown
Sometimes you have to look around outside of your own personal sector and reflect on the world at large. If you haven't noticed, our financial infrastructure is tumbling down around our ears.
Sometimes you have to look around outside of your own personal sector and reflect on the world at large. If you haven't noticed, our financial infrastructure is tumbling down around our ears.
Venture Capitalist John Doerr, appearing at the Web 2.0 Summit, said that there are thing that the incoming Obama administration can do to help the tech industry, starting with a focus on energy, basic research and higher education - the recipe that started the Internet.
From Net Neutrality to H1B Visas to data privacy and other economic and policy issues, the next U.S. president will influence many important developments in the technology industry. See what we know about the stances of Barack Obama and John McCain on the tech issues.
At a Churchill Club event in Menlo Park, Calif., Ira Ehrenpreis of Technology Partners moderates a discussion on how large companies like Peabody Energy and General Electric are seeking clean-tech companies to help green their business. The panelists are: Mike Biddle, CEO at MBA Polymers; Jennifer Fonstad, managing director at Draper Fisher Jurvetson; Dirk Michels, partner at K&L Gates; and John Woolard, CEO of BrightSource Energy.
If you think your job is stressful, just consider what Tony Clasquin used to do for a living: a pilot who used to work as an air traffic controller (ATC), he learned early on to manage "this very complicated 3D chessboard".
Chipmaker's venture capital division says start-ups that land funding are receiving larger sums, but number of investment deals is down.
Bringing all of that information together gives customers a comprehensive view of the services they receive from IT operations. That's our aim -- to provide customers with everything they need at their fingertips.
Even though total funding decreased for energy-efficiency companies, they accounted for the most deals during the year, a total of 78.
Silicon.com sat down with SAS's CEO in Las Vegas this week to find out his thoughts on cloud computing, succession planning and the iPhone.
Investors talking green investment and why they need governments to act first.