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techcrunch.com - 11/16/2008
A Sad Day In Silicon Valley
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The San Jose Mercury News reports that a 47 year old man named Jing Hua Wu, after being laid off from his job at a fabless digital radio semiconductor startup in Santa Clara called SiPort , came back to the office on Friday afternoon with a gun and killed three people. Sid Agrawal, the ...
Everybody's Underwater In Silicon Valley
alleyinsider.com - 11/10/2008
Everybody's Underwater In Silicon Valley
— alleyinsider.com — As tech stocks plummet, more Silicon Valley workers find themselves holding worthless options -- the kind that... would allow them to buy company stock at higher prices than they are currently being publicly traded. They're "underwater." As of ... (more) Everybody's Underwater In Silicon Valley

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bizjournals.com - 11/24/2008
Even IPO stall won't prevent record - Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal:
— bizjournals.com — Despite a recent slowdown, 1996 promises to be a banner year for initial public stock offerings. More... than banner, in fact. "Even with the market coming down and some IPO s lately being put on hold, 1996 is still shaping up to be a record year," ... (more) Even IPO stall won't prevent record - Silicon Valley / ...

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Valleywag's closing shows Silicon Valley ain't Hollywood
latimesblogs.latimes.com - 11/13/2008
Valleywag's closing shows Silicon Valley ain't Hollywood
— latimesblogs.latimes.com — It's more than a rumor: The great Silicon Valley gossip-rag experiment has come to a humbling conclusion.... Two-and-a-half years after launching Valleywag , blog magnate Nick Denton has decided to fold it into Gawker, which covers the media ... (more) Valleywag's closing shows Silicon Valley ain't Hollywood

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Incredible Web Efforts Made to Shield Victims of Santa Clara Shooting
louisgray.com — ... , who had lost his job that morning, returned to the office and took the lives of three of his former colleagues, the CEO, VP of Operations and head of human resources. In such a difficult economic climate as we are facing now, many saw the horrible incident as one emblematic of the tough times. Michael Arrington of TechCrunch called it "a Sad Day in Silicon Valley." Knowing the startup culture well, and living in Sunnyvale, neighboring Santa Clara, I've been watching the story, and was somewhat relieved to learn tonight that ...

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