For a former child star, Soleil Moon Frye has done some very impressive networking.
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The Secret Life of Punky Brewster
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Alisher Usmanov is nicknamed ” the hard man of Russia ,” but he’s good at seducing the softies in California’s tech community: An investment firm he backs lead a $180 million investment in Zynga, the gaming company that trafficked in scammy ads. The investment firm, Russia’s Digital Sky Technologies, led a broader group of investors in putting money into San Francisco-based Zynga, according to the New York Times .
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Alisher Usmanov: The Scary Russian Oligarch Seducing Silicon Valley
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It appears Aaron Sorkin has confirmed many of the casting choices for his upcoming Facebook movie. If only Silicon Valley were this good looking. There’s someone from Gossip Girl , Melanie Griffith’s daughter — even a very built male model
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Facebook, as Cast by Hollywood
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Yahoo has apologized for providing lap dances on stage at a Tawian programming event. Critics aren’t mollified , and that’s probably just as well: it’s all but certain something like this will happen again soon. Certain, that is, if you judge from recent history.
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Yahoo Lap Dancers the Latest in a Chorus Line of Tech Sexism Scandals
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Larry Ellison threw a fantastic tantrum against the mindless cult of “Cloud Computing,” jargon for Web applications and a fascination of “nitwit” Silicon Valley investors, as Ellison calls them. But the Oracle CEO was himself once a “nitwit.” Just look: Attached is a video in which we’ve spliced Ellison’s rant, delivered last week at the Churchill Club and recorded by TechPulse 360 , with excerpts from an interview Ellison gave to Charlie Rose in 1996 . At the time, Ellison was campaigning for the world to adopt “Network Computers,” jargon for Web applications running on stripped down computer terminals.
When Pres. Barack Obama addressed the nation’s school children yesterday on the importance of education, students at Andrew Hill High School and Fischer Middle School in San Jose were listening. Silicon Valley De-Bug, Generation Engaged and Unity Care facilitated workshops with students right after Obamas speech to rate his address, and the majority of those who responded were skeptical of his …
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Students in San Jose Gave Obama a C- For Speech (New America Media)
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Photography Lounge wondered which of Silicon Valley’s two hottest startups had the coolest office.
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Twitter vs. Facebook: Who’s Got the Most Superficially Cool Offices?
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Yu Qun's journey into a low-carbon future began with a bad case of smelly fish. Scarcely had Mr.
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