Late in the fall, during a rare lull in his work on the Mars program, Grotzinger and I took a drive to Death Valley due east from his house in lush San Marino, across the front range of the San Gabriels, past Apple Valley and Barstow, and down into the great basin of the Mojave.
Bottom line: Apple, like Silicon Valley itself, is setting a pace way ahead of the rest of the economy.
The case is being tried in the U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, a short drive from Apple headquarters in Silicon Valley.
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As Isaacson writes, Hewlett-Packard ruled the Silicon Valley roost when Apple became Apple Computer Co. in January of 1977.
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Few people are as important to the signature companies of Silicon Valley, from Apple to Google, as Bill Campbell.
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In 2007, Apple, the powerhouse Silicon Valley juggernaut, taught me a lesson about speed and agility when it launched the first iPhone.
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For his part, Foursquare CEO and cofounder Dennis Crowley spent all last week meeting with all the big name companies in the Valley, including Apple, Facebook, and Twitter.
When the original iPhone went on sale, scores lined up outside of Apple's Palo Alto store, as Silicon Valley's great and geekly turned out to show their support for Apple's cutting-edge--and very expensive--new phone.
Mr. D'Aloisio has met with a number of Valley luminaries, including Apple's senior vice president of industrial design Jonathan Ive, according to people familiar with the conservations.
Asked to compare IBM with Silicon Valley giants Google and Apple, Rometty explained that IBM was the only technology giant with a commercial research organization with over 3000 people.
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That is especially true in Silicon Valley, where the death of Apple Inc.
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Critics complain that no one makes anything in Silicon Valley anymore, a two-decade-long gripe that arcs from Apple s decision to shut down its Fremont, California factory in 1992 through Intel s shuttering of its last Silicon Valley chip-fabrication plant in 2009.
Like any good Silicon Valley success story, the tale of Apple Computer begins in a garage.
Don Valentine, the great Silicon Valley venture capitalist whose Sequoia Capital funded Apple, Cisco, Yahoo, PayPal and Google, claimed he never backed a successful entrepreneur a second time.
Fred Anderson (another former Apple officer), and Roger McNamee (a Silicon Valley investor) will also join the board.
He went to Silicon Valley in 1986 and, after stints at Apple and Silicon Graphics, cofounded a digital-image-sharing outfit called Pictra.
And in recent years, Apple, Facebook, Google and other Silicon Valley giants have undertaken efforts, voluntarily and under pressure from groups like Greenpeace, to slash their massive electricity consumption and secure power from renewable energy sources.
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Sequoia Capital is one of the famed Silicon Valley venture capital firms, with past investments in Apple, Cisco, Google, and Oracle.
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In Silicon Valley, corporate execs at companies like Google, Apple, Facebook and Zynga like to think of themselves as making the world a better place.
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Apple alone is proof that innovation is alive and well in Silicon Valley.
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The unemployment rate in the Valley is falling, home prices have stabilized, and Apple products are so hot that they can't keep their store shelves stocked.
The 27-year-old studied business and communications at the University of Texas in Austin before moving to Silicon Valley, where she worked in product and marketing at Apple and Google.
Think Silicon Valley and chances are the companies that come to mind are Apple, Google, and Facebook.
As with most Silicon Valley companies founded by entrepreneurial wunderkinds (read: Apple, Facebook, Google), Hastings controls a large number of Netflix shares.
The conventional wisdom on the Street (and in the Valley) has been that tablet computers generally, and the Apple iPad in particular, are starting to eat into sales of conventional notebook PCs.
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So is Apple, Facebook, Google and all the major technology companies in Silicon Valley.
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The 61-year-old lives in the heart of Silicon Valley, and he worked at that holy grail of computers, Apple.
Meanwhile, Bloomberg reports that a number of high profile Valley execs have turned down the top job at AMD, including Apple COO Tim Cook, Oracle Co-President Mark Hurd, EMC COO Pat Gelsinger and Carlyle Group managing director Greg Summe.
Robison has been a technology executive in Silicon Valley for three decades, serving in leadership positions at Cadence Design, Apple Computer and Schlumberger Research.
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