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Dropbox Founder Drew Houston to build the next Apple or Google by Quoted News - Latest News on Jan 16, 2012Drew Houston was just an ordinary software engineer with bigger dreams he was determined to build his own company. He resigned from his $85,000-a-year day job and builds one of the fastest-growing companies Silicon Valley has ever seen. Houston used...

Robert Norton Noyce – Mayor of Silicon Valley by Jcyberinux on Dec 12, 2011Robert Norton Noyce – Mayor of Silicon Valley Robert Norton Noyce (December 12, 1927 – June 3, 1990), nicknamed “the Mayor of Silicon Valley“, co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel in 1968. He is also credited (alon...

Google Doodle : Robert Noyce by The Dee list on Dec 11, 2011Here is today’s (December 12, 2011) Google Doodle celebrating Robert Noyce’s 84th birthday. Robert Noyce is the founder of Intel and the co-inventor of the integrated circuit. One of his famous quotes “Knowledge is power. Knowledge...

Governor Jerry Brown Declares Sunday, October 16, 2011 as Steve Jobs Day by on Oct 15, 2011Steve Jobs day is on Sunday, October 16 to give honor to the late Apple CEO and co-founder, Steve Jobs was declared by California Governor Jerry Brown. Governor Brown (@JerryBrownGov) tweeted: “This Sunday will be Steve Jobs Day in the State of Cal...

Bloomberg Television Features Steve Jobs, Who Dies at Age 56 by Between Bites on Oct 5, 2011Bill Gates said, “I will miss Steve immensely.” Apple also mentioned that Steve Jobs is a tech visionary. Jobs, a computer entrepenuer fusing technology and artistry, started Apple with a high school friend in a Silicon Valley garage in 1976 bu...

Will Apple UNDERRATE Corporate Culture? by Mainbar | By Regel Q. Javines on Aug 31, 2011  Headlines that Steve Jobs resigns as Apple Computer Co. CEO ransacked the chambers of the world’s IT industry! While Apple may be confident to stay firm and cool, Apple investors and those ambitious may be divided flat…to some of them, the...

Tech Industry Leaders Meeting with US Pres. Barack Obama by Blessings in Life on Feb 18, 2011Technology industry leaders and CEOs had a meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama in California last Thursday. In this said meeting are Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Google Inc Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and other me...

Search for the School of Science and Engineering (SOSE) Dean of Ateneo de Manila University by Padre Faura's Notebook on Nov 23, 2010I.  FUTURE DIRECTIONS FOR SOSE Jim Collins, in his book, “Good to Great”, said that for a company to grow from good to great, one of the things the company must do is to identify the common denominator for its economic engine.  I think...

EMC purchases San Mateo-based Greenplum by OFW News On Web on Jul 7, 2010The latest  development in the high-stakes debate over "Big Data," EMC on Tuesday finally  announced its plans to buy Greenplum, a San Mateo startup that focuses in high-performance analytics software. EMC, is  a Massachusetts-...

HP p6340d With Windows 7 by Chopsuey Rice on Jun 6, 2010I got a new desktop yesterday. With a tight budget of 30,000 PhP, I stumbled upon the new HP p6340d and instantly fell in love with it. I bought my new baby at Silicon Valley in Trinoma as it goes with a UPS and a free HP Deskjet D2660 printer. The o...