washingtonpost.com - 1/27/2009
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Could Silicon Valley become another Detroit? It's hard to imagine as you crawl along the traffic-choked lanes of Routes 101 and 280 between San Francisco and San Jose, past office parks and gleaming campuses still buzzing with energy despite the recent recession-related layoffs and cutbacks. Yet ...
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Silicon Valley Almost Suggests That Detroit Should Be Left To Die in Washington Post
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... There is a very interesting article in the Washington Post today that basically sets Silicon Valley against Detroit, hi-tech against automobile industry, and poses a question of which industry actually deserves to be supported by the government during the current recession. The article quotes executives from HP, the largest hi-tech company in the world with net profit of over $8 billion last year, basically claiming that the leadership of the US in technology is in danger and could be totally lost in the next years if the government does not do something to support the ...
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