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How Stanford Almost Expanded To New York City
Ken Auletta of The New Yorker wrote a hard-hitting piece about how there are no walls between Stanford and Silicon Valley. Many of Stanford’s alumni have built some of the largest technology companies in the world and the pressure to live up to that amount of success is high.
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Categories Eric Schmidt, Peter C. Wendell, Scott Cook, Stanford University
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Google’s Stock Split Will Cause The New Half To Not Have Any Shareholder Voting Power
When Google announced that they are splitting the company into two halves, it turns out that the newer half will not have any shareholder voting power. Google will be joining the likes of a liquor producer, home builder, and several other media conglomerates that are controlled by families. The current shareholders would have a new nonvoting share for every share they own. This will help Google CEO Larry Page, Google co-founder Sergey Brin, and Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt retain a lot of power.
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Categories Eric Schmidt, Google, Joseph Grundfest, Larry Page, sergey b, Stanford University
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Google Being Sued By An Apple Safari User Because Of Privacy Violations
Google is being sued over a privacy breach through the Apple Safari web browser. Google was able to bypass computer settings that was designed to block the online activity of users. Safari is the primary browser on Mac OS X, the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. “Google’s willful and knowing actions violated” federal laws and other computer related statutes, stated the attorneys of Matthew Soble. The privacy violations were discovered by researchers at Stanford University. The Apple Safari settings were designed for blocking cookies used for following users’ activities on the Internet. Google was outed by the Wall Street Journal earlier this week. [BusinessWeek]
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Steve Jobs’ Last Words: “OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW.”
Mona Simpson is an op-ed contributor for the New York Times, a novelist, an English professor at UCLA, and she is the biological sister of the late Steve Jobs. On October 16, 2011 Mona Simpson delivered a eulogy for her brother at his memorial service at the Memorial Church of Stanford University. Her eulogy was published on the New York Times this past weekend. In the eulogy, Simpson revealed that before Jobs passed away, he looked at his sister Patty, then his children, and then his wife Laurene. Then he looked over their shoulders past them and said “OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW.”
Stanford Professor: Google Consumes 0.01% Of The World’s Electricity
Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) uses about 900,000 servers to power their cloud computing, advertising, web-productivity apps, social network, and Google search engine services. Those servers use 0.01% of the world’s electricity. Stanford University professor Jonathan Koomey made this prediction based on data centers making up 1.5% of worldwide electricity (2.2% in the U.S. alone). [Geek.com]
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Photo Of Silicon Valley Tech Titans and President Obama
The White House has uploaded some images on Flickr of President Barack Obama’s meeting with the tech titans of Silicon Valley. This photo symbolizes how the meeting went. The meeting was about how these executives plan to support entrepreneurship, increase exports, and strengthen the economy. The executives in this picture includes:
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Categories Art Levinson, Barack Obama, Carol Bartz, Cisco Systems, Cisco Systems Inc., Dick Costolo, Eric Schmidt, Facebook, Genentech, Google, John Chambers, John Doerr, John Hennessy, Kleiner Perkins, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Larry Ellison, Mark Zuckerberg, Netflix, Oracle Corporation, Reed Hastings, Stanford University, Steve Westly, Twitter, Westly Group, Yahoo!
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President Obama Meeting With Major Silicon Valley CEOs Today
President Barack Obama is making a trip to Silicon Valley today and is meeting with some major tech CEOs. The names of the executives that he is meeting was revealed by the L.A. Times. The meeting will be about supporting entrepreneurship, increasing exports, strengthening the economy, etc. Below is the list of people that he is meeting:
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Categories Art Levinson, Barack Obama, Carol Bartz, Cisco Systems, Cisco Systems Inc., Dick Costolo, Eric Schmidt, Facebook, Genentech, Google, John Chambers, John Doerr, John Hennessy, Kleiner Perkins, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Larry Ellison, Mark Zuckerberg, Netflix, Oracle Corporation, Reed Hastings, Stanford University, Steve Westly, Twitter, Westly Group, Yahoo!
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Stealth E-Commerce Company BeachMint Raises $10 Million
BeachMint.com is a social commerce company that has raised $10 million in funding. The investment was led by Trinity Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, Anthem Ventures, and Stanford University. BeachMint was founded by MySpace co-founder Josh Berman. Diego Berdakin is the other co-founder of BeachMint. Below is the full press release:
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YouTube Co-Founder Chad Hurley Offers Feross Aboukhadijeh A Job Through Twitter For YouTube Instant
Feross Aboukhadijeh is a computer science student at Stanford University that is expected to graduate in 2012. That is until he built YouTube Instant and the YouTube co-founder offered him a job through Twitter. Here’s how it all went down.
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Categories Chad Hurley, Feross Aboukhadijeh, Stanford University, YouTube, YouTube Instant
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Pulse iPad App Gets Praise From Jobs, Pulled From App Store Shortly After
Pulse News Reader was an application on the iPad app store. Essentially it was a RSS reader and news feed service created by a couple of Stanford University graduate students. The application was talked about by Apple CEO Steve Jobs himself at the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco.
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