In yet another example of Silicon Valley and Wall Street colliding, on April 2, 2013, Zanbato Inc.
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By any measure, the new billionaires of Silicon Valley and Wall Street pale alongside the robber barons.
Money is certainly not an issue for Messrs Gates, Lucas and Buffett (although it is often the main reason why the young and ambitious trek to Hollywood, Silicon Valley and Wall Street).
Throw together all the output from Hollywood and Silicon Valley to Wall Street and Tin Pan Alley, and you have a commercial empire that would have been the envy of the British East India Company or Cecil Rhodes.
Indirectly, Google proved there's no monopoly on brains in Silicon Valley or on Wall Street.
We can relish the latest clash of styles between cosseted, serene Silicon Valley and twitchy, aggressive Wall Street.
Yet Wall Street and Silicon Valley seem out of touch with tech's new and bleaker reality.
For Wall Street and Silicon Valley, Google is the great bright hope for an initial public offering that might revive tech stocks.
Three years ago, a retaining wall on the Bridge Valley Road, near the Portway, had to be repaired after it collapsed.
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The Valley elites look down at the Wall Street elites thinking one creates real stuff and the other just makes money off it.
The result could be a reordering of Silicon Valley that parallels the shakeup on Wall Street, with big, diversified firms snapping up smaller players that have made concentrated bets on the sorts of cutting-edge new technologies that troubled banks began chopping months ago.
My point is that Silicon Valley is not evil and neither is Wall Street evil.
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If Wall Street is a foggy valley of shadows where wise bankers pick the pockets of the wandering masses, then rating agencies act as the surrounding hilltops.
With Wall Street rigor and Silicon Valley edge, it, under the guidance of its vivacious Co-Founder and CEO Linda Rottenberg and board chair Edgar Bronfman Jr.
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These are the 1% of us, the rare giants of industry, commerce and finance who occupy Wall Street suites, Silicon Valley campuses, and all great cities in between.
"It was like a Wall Street version of a Silicon Valley garage start-up, " says Mr. Silbert.
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Lewis leaves no doubt as to where he thinks Silicon Valley's ascent has left his old Wall Street turf: in the dust.
Now LinkedIn's database was rich not just with Silicon Valley programmers and venture capitalists but also with Wall Street traders, Texas geologists and highly skilled professionals of all callings outside the U.S. Talent hunters were ready to pay big-time for a chance to connect with the entire LinkedIn community.
The guy moved markets on Wall Street, and now in Silicon Valley he dazzles venture capital partnerships with his deep technical insight and lightning-quick mind for numbers.
Kessler spent the 1980s as a chip analyst on Wall Street and the 1990s as a Silicon Valley fund manager.
No wonder the stuffed shirts of Wall Street and the T-shirts of Silicon Valley call the company "hot".
Shanghai, according to FORBES' managing director in Asia, Will Adamopoulos, buzzes like the 1980s Wall Street, the early 1990s Hong Kong and the late 1990s Silicon Valley, combined.
Apple has bought a company called WiFiSLAM, a 2-year-old Silicon Valley-based startup focused on indoor GPS, the company has confirmed to the Wall Street Journal and other outlets.
"Failure to carry out the sea wall repairs will leave the cliff face unprotected and would eventually leave Happy Valley Road at risk of collapse into the sea, " it said.
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Innovation on Wall Street built the Internet in the boom 1990s, including many of these great Silicon Valley companies.
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Padlocks have since sprouted from the Great Wall in China to the Brooklyn Bridge to the fence of a freeway overpass in Silicon Valley.
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