The CEO of one large Valley company told me that his IT department simply stopped buying HP PCs while it was deciding if HP still wanted to be in the business.
The decision makers in large Silicon Valley companies are predominantly iOS users, and that means the cool toys are going to make their debut on the handsets in their pockets.
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But the difference is not as large as Silicon Valley likes to think.
But as they sip glasses of sweet cardamom tea, the bucolic bliss is shattered by a large blast in the valley below.
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There is no reason why Asia should not produce such talent indeed, a surprisingly large number of Silicon Valley start-ups have been founded by expatriate Indians or Taiwanese.
There is, however, one function that the company continues to fulfill: it operates a well at the foot of a valley where a large population brings its buckets for water.
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The charges follow a large-scale investigation by Thames Valley Police into corruption, fraud and money laundering.
This won't be because the Silicon Valley tech vote is large and decisive.
In this case, Walmart will buy the electricity it generates under a 15-year power purchase agreement with Foundation Windpower, a Silicon Valley company that installs large turbines for businesses.
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Were Netanyahu to apply Israeli law to the large settlement blocs and the Jordan Valley or establish security zones along Gaza's borders with Israel and Egypt, he would likely instigate a full breach of relations with Washington.
Silicon Valley is part of a large and highly-educated nation that currently has a high unemployment rate.
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Typically this happens in the interior of large continents, in a protected river valley or on mountain slopes shrouded in mist.
Silicon Dragon has been hearing too about a new, large RMB fund from a significant Silicon Valley venture firm.
Some Silicon Valley hardware makers have raised large rounds recently.
Until recently, critics were saying that, if she has two degrees (in economics and medicine), can look back at four years spent in Silicon Valley and boast such a large brood, it was only because she came from a family rich enough to pay for generous child care.
Thames Valley Police said the charges follow a large-scale investigation into corruption, fraud and money laundering.
In some sense, the companies are strange bedfellows: Nest is the quintessential Silicon Valley startup and Reliant is part of a large East Coast-based energy company called NRG.
Gaurav Dalmia of First Capital India, a private-equity boutique, says this ranges all the way from big foreign funds negotiating equity stakes in large Indian public companies to Indian entrepreneurs returning from Silicon Valley to put their money into tech start-ups.
As part of the project for the World Student Games, the council built large sporting facilities in Sheffield to host events, including Don Valley Stadium, Ponds Forge, Sheffield Arena and Hillsborough Leisure Centre.
He rose within the ranks of SAP, a company that looms large in customers and influence globally, but is a foreigner in Silicon Valley.
Silicon Valley, New York and London have deep pools of such investors because they have had large numbers of startups for years, he says.
The Valley grew out of a handful of extremely successful technology companies where talented employees exited, with large payouts in hand, to start new companies.
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In Silicon Valley, stock options have had a powerful effect: they lower the barriers between small firms and large.
Dozens of large international firms like Microsoft, Intel and IBM also have offices in the city which is often called the Silicon Valley of India.
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