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How an Entirely New Autistic Way of Thinking Powers Silicon Valley

In today's business world, disruption is a constant force that never lets up. At the annual WIRED Business Conference: Disruptive by Design, we celebrate the creative power of bold new ideas and the people that make them happen. See the event ...
UC sex assault cases mishandled federal complaint alleges

Attorney Gloria Allred said that some of the complaints allege a hostile environment for women and others charge colleges with violating the federal Clery Act, which requires accurate reporting of campus crimes. Women "will no longer accept the status quo where rapes and sexual assaults are swept under the rug and condoned by college administrators," Allred said in a statement released ...
Oakland City Council New budget rules approved amid tensions

OAKLAND -- With just over a month to adopt a budget, Oakland council members approved rules aimed at preventing a repeat of last year when the final budget plan was introduced at the last minute with no chance for public vetting.The new law, passed 6-2 after a testy debate, forbids council members from submitting major budget amendments within three days of the final meeting when the budget is ...
Coming up 3D printing for Bootstrappers

The Bootstrapper's Breakfast happens on the fourth Friday of every month in Mountain View. The talk at the monthly Bootstrappers Breakfast Meetup in Mountain View this week is about how to leverage 3D printing for startup and small businesses. Paul Spann of Spann Enterprises, a longtime mechanical engineer at various Silicon Valley tech companies, is making the presentation. He believes that ...
Tampa Bay Area Drying Out as Holiday Weekend Approaches

According to Bay News 9 Meteorologist Juli Marquez, rain chances are only 20 percent today as showers move inland and to the other side of the state."After our wet days, rain chances start dropping and drier air moves in," Marquez said. "It will be partly sunny today with some slight chances of isolated showers and storms - mainly to the east of the Bay area. It will remain warm ...

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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

Based on the acclaimed young adult novel of the same title by Irishman John Boyne, Mark Hermans The Boy in the Striped Pajamas gives us a childs eye view of unimaginable evil, which makes said evil all the more grotesque. What is most unnerving about the f ... ...

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Paper Battery Co. of Troy wins Silicon Valley hot 50 tech startup honor

The Paper Battery Co., a Troy, NY startup developing a paper-thin energy technology, has been named to a Silicon Valley list for the 50 hottest early-stage tech companies. ...
Google expanding Fiber to Raytown Mo.

Raytown, Missouri, is the latest Kansas City suburb to get approval for a Google Fiber expansion. Raytown, Missouri, is the latest Kansas City suburb to get approval for a Google Fiber expansion. The city approved Google Fiber on Tuesday night, according to the Google Fiber blog, and it becomes the tenth Kansas City-area expansion. Google didn't disclose when the network would go live, ...
LinkedIn acqui-hires polling startup Maybe

LinkedIn Corp. has acqui-hired social polling startup Maybe, whose engineers are now working in LinkedIn's mobile divison. LinkedIn Corp. has acqui-hired social polling startup Maybe, whose engineers are now working in LinkedIn's mobile divison. Maybe was shut down, according to TechCrunch, and all five of its employees, other than founder Omar Hamoui, are working at LinkedIn. Terms of ...
Intel Names Krzanich as New CEO

POSTED May 2, 2013 SANTA CLARA - Intel Corporation announced that its board of directors has unanimously elected Brian Krzanich as its next chief executive officer (CEO), succeeding Paul Otellini. Krzanich will assume his new role at the company's annual stockholders' meeting on May 16. Krzanich, Intel's chief operating officer since January 2012, will become the sixth CEO in ...
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YesGraph raised $1.2 million. Here are the latest fundings from Silicon Valley companies, announced or filed recently with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The Funded is a recurring feature where we post new fundings that cross our desks, as well as an archive of past fundings. Click here to search the database. Palo Alto-based YesGraph Inc. raised $1,201,979 in equity and series ...

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Teenage Indian hacker gets paid by US organization for dropping off college

An Indian immigrant is set to become the most accomplished hacker in US as he is being paid for dropping college studies and engaging himself in Silicon Valley's entrepreneurial environment.

Diwank Singh Tomer, 19 has enrolled himself with the Facebook's first investor and the co-founder and former CEO of PayPal, Peter Thiel, who is paying 100,000 dollars to 20 teenagers to launch a business of their own, ABC News reports.

Tomer, who is designing an interactive learning environment with funding from the Thiel Foundation, had dropped out from an Indian University after continuing only for less than a month when the computer science major realized that he can launch a startup to help people learn to code while learning coding basics himself.

Tomer said that he believes that dropping out is an important part of the growing up process, adding that instead of promoting students to ask questions, traditional Indian schools force the students to only appear smart.

The unconventional entrepreneur also said that people learn best when they have access to mentors and the ability to learn in a way that suits them.

The Thiel Foundation mentors the young entrepreneurs during the two year fellowship as they pursue advance studies and practices in everything from robotics to fashion but does not entitle them to join school or get employed during the period without special approval from the foundation. ...