Optimizely aims to give Obama 2012 a data edge

With the 2012 presidential election promising to be one of the closest in history, President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney are bombarding voters in swing states with a flurry of ads and personal appearances in an attempt to gain an edge in the Electoral College delegate count.  

Y Combinator's Winter 2013 class is putting their money on hardware startups.  They recently voted on which of their peers were most likely to succeed, and the top two were both hardware companies, YC founder Paul Graham tweeted yesterday.

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:

You hear it all the time “It doesn’t matter where you build your startup.”, or “If you don’t build your startup in Silicon Valley, you don’t want to win bad enough”. Either way, Robert Scoble left a very thoughtful answer arguing for the types of things that happen in the valley that definitely gives you an advantage.

Facebook just dropped a love bomb on the app developers who play a crucial role in the social network's health, yet whose relationship with it is often fraught with tension.

Silicon Valley continues the prodigious job growth that has made it stand apart from the rest of America, George Avalos of the Oakland Tribune reports.

MENLO PARK, California (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics is looking for some Silicon Valley magic.