The number of officers issued with Tasers is to more than double, Thames Valley Police have announced.

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Serial entrepreneur and founder of SA Baxter, high-end maker of architectural hardware such as door knobs and lights in New York's Hudson Valley, Baxter has managed to clock double-digit sales growth during the recession.

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Ning, a Silicon Valley start-up, plans to almost double its mobile development staff to 17 to work on a hybrid instant-message and social network it launched in February, said Chief Executive Jason Rosenthal.

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The namesake of Moore's Law, which posits that computing power will double every 18 months (later updated to 2 years), Gordon Moore is a Silicon Valley legend.

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Like a flashback to 1990s Silicon Valley, Smith recounts that one employee, after six months on the job, received an offer to double his already high salary.

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