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About SiliconBeat

SiliconBeat is written by Mercury News technology reporters and columnists.

Elise Ackerman	Elise Ackerman has covered technology for the San Jose Mercury News since March 2000. She does not believe in oversharing. Twitter: EliseAckerman
Brandon Bailey covers several hardware and software companies, including Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Oracle and Adobe Systems.
John Boudreau	John Boudreau covers global business, the intersection of Silicon Valley and Asia. He also spends a lot of time in the world of Apple and just about everything else tech.
Jack Davis	Jack Davis has been crunching financial numbers at the Mercury News for 22 years. In Docu-Drama, he follows Silicon Valley’s paper trail, scouring SEC documents, lawsuits, and company spin in search of news you shouldn’t lose.
Steve Johnson has been with the Mercury News since 1980, except for a stint as a KRON-TV bureau chief from 1984-86. He was an assigning editor for two years at the Mercury News and as a reporter at the paper has covered a variety of beats, including national defense, immigration, ethnic diversity, energy, consumer affairs and family issues. He now primarily covers semiconductor and biotechnology companies.
Scott Duke Harris	Scott Duke Harris covers the entrepreneurial culture of Silicon Valley, focusing on startups and the venture capitalists that fund them. He joined the Mercury News in 2006, bringing more than two decades of journalism experience as a freelancer, senior writer for the Industry Standard (R.I.P..) and staff writer and columnist for the Los Angeles Times.
Pat May	Pat May has been a journalist for nearly 30 years, first at the Miami Herald and for the past 12 years with the Mercury News. As the creator, writer and blogger behind Pink Slip 2.0, Pat will be following the lives of three people recently laid off in Silicon Valley, facilitating an online community discussion around layoffs and how they’re affecting folks in and around San Jose. Twitter: PinkSlipProject
Chris O'Brien	Chris O’Brien is a business columnist at the Mercury News, writing about technology, business and innovation in Silicon Valley. Twitter: sjcobrien
Troy Wolverton	Troy Wolverton has been covering technology for 10 years as a reporter for the Mercury News, TheStreet.com and CNet News.com. During that time, he has covered such companies as Apple, Sony, Microsoft and eBay and reviewed or written about computers, video games, digital cameras, Web browsers, smartphones and digital media. Twitter: troywolv