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Carl Guardino usually comes across as an amenable, mild-mannered Silicon Valley executive. But not on Monday. Not when he watched President Obama promising to end overseas tax breaks for U.S. companies that "create a job in Bangalore, India, (rather than) one in Buffalo, N.Y." Guardino, CEO of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, angrily described Obama's language as "not only discouraging, but divisive."

Cisco Systems Inc. is laying off 600 to 700 employees at its Silicon Valley headquarters as part of a previously announced restructuring, a source familiar with the move said Thursday.
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Austin, of course, plays home to the SXSW conference every year; that event is something of a requisite to attend for anyone in tech these days, and most of Silicon Valley ends up being there. Austin as the Next Web 2.0 Hub | Austin web

Intel is planning on moving into the mobile market by putting its chips into the world's largest mobile device maker's products.

Late Friday afternoon, 47-year old Jing Hua Wu, the recently fired lead product testing engineer of Siport (a semiconductor chip company), walked into the offices of his former employers, and shot to death the top management of the company.

The high court has directed the assistant solicitor general of India (ASGI) R P Shukla to obtain instructions from the central government and Australian high commission on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) petition seeking safety and security to the life and property of the Indian people in Australia .

Intel has unveiled a beta software Development Kit that lets developers create netbook applications, in advance of the launch of an iPhone App Store-like service

I get that it is cool technology, but I don't get the Imation Pro WX. It's the world's first Wireless USB disk drive, sure, but there are already drives that are Wi-Fi enabled. So, how is this different?

Silicon Image Inc., a leader in semiconductors and intellectual property (IP) for the secure distribution, presentation and storage of high-definition (HD) content..