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Watch out, Union Square. Here comes Apple!

Apparently unhappy with having simply a jaw-dropping store almost dead-center in the heart of downtown San Francisco, Apple now wants to relocate three blocks north to be totally dead-center. According to  the San Francisco Chronicle, Apple plans to open its new Read More →

Apple hits another insanely great milestone

It  took them nearly five years to do it. But Apple cheerfully announced today that its App Store had hit the 50 billion mark in apps downloaded since the store opened for business in 2008.  It had taken Apple nearly Read More →

Wiretap: Why Silicon Valley could be key to this month’s elections … in France.

Its deep pockets make Silicon Valley a prime locale for political fundraising on both sides of the aisle. But last week, the Bay Area was squarely in the sights of a politician from the other side of the Pond. It seems Read More →

With Twitter valued at $10B, investors speculate IPO is near

A quick math lesson from Twitter:
  • 140 -- characters in a tweet
  • 200 million -- daily active tweeters
  • 500 million -- tweets sent per day
  • 500 million -- Twitter accounts
  • Here's the big one -- $10 billion -- Twitter's estimated value, according to a May Read More →

Wiretap: Faces in new places

There's been a whole lotta shakin' going on around Silicon Valley in the past week. For those who keep track of such things, here's a belated sip from the firehose:   • Bubba MurarkaBubba Read More →

Gone, daddy, gone: KKR veteran Scott Wagner ditching Sand Hill Road for GoDaddy

GoDaddy.com isn't based in Silicon Valley, but it's become one of the more high-profile consumer Internet brands thanks to its rather tawdry Super Bowl ads featuring NASCAR's Danica Patrick. But since Read More →
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