Tag: Silicon Valley

  • New York the Startup paradise — expanding into the US

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    If it attracts Austrian startups to the United States, then the Silicon Valley is often the big goal. This is not always useful. New York is home to big banks, hedge funds and insurance companies — a paradise for fintechs. Even interior design, fashion or media startups are better off here than in the deep tech region […]

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  • Silicon Valley is working with China to ease fears about AI

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    Hong Kong-Baidu has become the first Chinese company to join a US-led alliance on artificial intelligence that includes Silicon Valley’s biggest names. The Partnership on AI was established in 2016 to ease concerns about the development and use of the frontier technology. Fears over AI include the risk of machines becoming smarter than people, which Elon […]

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  • Why Silicon Valley Needs More Social Entrepreneurs

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    By Burt Dixon This is the script for a public lecture I gave at the American University of Rome in Rome, Italy on October 4, 2018. Since I ad-libbed a bit as I talked, it’s not a perfect representation of the lecture, but it’s about 90% there. This was followed by a Q&A with moderator Kyla […]

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  • Silicon Valley Pioneer Scott McNealy Says Tech Is Unstoppable

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    Technology has become an integral part of people’s lives — and it’s not likely to slow down anytime soon, said tech pioneer Scott McNealy. “It’s unstoppable,” McNealy, co-founder and former CEO of Sun Microsystems, said Friday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” “We’re getting more tech in our lives every day as we go to VR or AR and […]

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  • Silicon Valley Has A Culture Problem

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    When Emily Chang interviewed venture capitalist Michael Moritz in 2015, she wasn’t trying to “trap” him. But when the Sequoia Capital then-chairman suggested that hiring more women might mean “lowering our standards,” he set off a firestorm — and gave Chang the idea for a book. That book, “Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys’ Club of […]

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