Barghoorn focussed on Australia, Cloud on Death Valley, others on China and Brazil, trailing graduate students behind them.

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All eyes are on the cloud in Silicon Valley and Washington DC.

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Two other additions that are quite unique, The Ranch at Emerald Valley and Cloud Camp, are part of our development of what we are calling The Broadmoor Wilderness Experience.

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Drive just 10km east from Papallacta and you enter the Amazon Basin's cloud forest, which covers the slopes and the valley in green growth.

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On our first day on Maui, we took a ship-organised excursion to the steepling gorge of Iao Valley State Park, where misty wisps of cloud leant a volcanic air to the long-extinct peaks.

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Tom Kemp writes on mobile, cloud and security technology as well as entrepreneurship and life in Silicon Valley.

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In Silicon Valley, this is considered one form of the big trend called cloud computing.

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Of course Silicon Valley neighbour Google, which has long been a player in the cloud computing world giving away free apps like Gmail and Google docs, would wholeheatedly agree.

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Mountain View, California and Oslo, Norway - February 15, 2013 - Opera Software announced today that it has acquired Silicon Valley based Skyfire Labs, a leader in mobile video optimization and cloud solutions for mobility.

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Silicon Valley is also home to a new generation of enterprise software startups harnessing momentum in cloud services, social networks, mobile computing and big data to introduce fundamentally new ways for businesses to do just about everything.

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