Nokia Late to the Silicon Valley Party

Google chairman thinks it should be easier to wipe information off the Internet. He, more than anyone, knows that Internet is like an elephant, never forgetting anything.

More than six months ago, TechCrunch shone a light on Shirley Hornstein, a master photoshopper who pretended to know important people to make herself credible in Silicon Valley.

Trader Mark submits:Silicon Valley has very much become a reflection for greater America. While it (Silicon Valley and America) still has a role in manufacturing, increasingly our knowledge / service-based economy focuses new ventures on things like social media. So Walmart, World of Warcraft, and Facebook nation it is.

Facebook's sprawling Menlo Park campus is surrounded by water on three sides. It's beautiful now, but in 50 years its location could be problematic. According to ClimateWire, Facebook and 256 other Silicon Valley tech companies sit in a dangerous flood zone.

When we sat down with Intuit CEO Brad Smith recently and started talking about the company, he called the top maker of finance software a "30-year-old startup."

By James Kwak Whenever someone criticizes “Wall Street,” someone else tries to defend Wall Street by saying that without it we wouldn’t have Silicon Valley and all of its wonders. Most recently, A.S. at Free Exchange says this:

The Republican National Committee announced Tuesday it is searching for a new chief technology officer to lead a digital makeover that will put data and technology at the center of its operations. It's part of a broader effort to modernize the party in the wake of its 2012 election losses.