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Giz Your Own Adventure: Lost in Redwood City

 The next morning, Secret Source makes a discovery: The phone has been killed remotely, and will no longer turn on. After playing with it a little, he discovers that the phone feels odd because it's a prototype iPhone in a ...READ»

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Being There

DreamWorks Animation couldn't find a videoconferencing system that made CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg happy--so it built its own.READ»

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Being There

DreamWorks Animation couldn't find a videoconferencing system that made CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg happy--so it built its own.READ»

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Road Rules - Rule 1

Don't eat where you sleep.READ»

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Fast Fixes, Loyal Customers

My Smartest Mistake: Mark Gainey, president, Kana Communications.READ»

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Let's Do Lunch

Fast Company rates Silicon Valley's new brand of corporate cuisine.READ»

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Fast Talk: Gamer Controls Music 2.0

Steve Schnur Worldwide Executive of Music and Marketing, Electronic Arts Redwood City, California Steve Schnur, 40, creates the soundtrack for all Electronic Arts video games, including such franchises as Madden NFL and Harry ...READ»

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Social Capitalists: Profiles

Aspire Public schools Founded: 1998 Redwood City, California Don Shalvey, Founder and CEO www.aspirepublicschools.org Entrepreneurship: A Innovation: B+ Social Impact: A Aspiration: A- Sustainability: A- "Hi, my ...READ»

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Man With a (Talent) Plan

Electronic Arts makes some of the world's most popular computer games. It's Rusty Rueff's job to fill the company with some of the world's best gamers and software programmers.READ»

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The Biology of Business

The old model: Companies live forever and the people die. The new model:READ»

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Silicon Valley's Best Bites

Everyone in high tech wants to eat Oracle's lunch. With a menu that includes spring-ginger-seared ahi tuna and caviar napoleans, it's no wonder.READ»

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Mica Eades

"For the last two or three weeks, I've been in the office from 6:30 a.m. until 9 or 10 p.m. running around like crazy. My coworkers have seen me literally running down the halls lately because I don't have time to walk between meetings."READ»

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Are High-Tech Women Crashing?

A new study by Deloitte Touche concludes that women in technology-driven companies are still bumping their heads on a glass ceiling -- and that if they had it to do over again, they'd choose another field. But might there be another way to read the data -- and to explain the problem?READ»

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Why " Real-Time" Business Takes Real Time

They have the technology: Using Internet-driven software, companies can now access up-to-the-minute sales and market data. Are they ready to flip the switch?READ»

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Unit of One Anniversary Handbook

We invited 30 leading figures from our first 6 issues to offer one new idea or one innovative practice that can make a difference to you.READ»

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Bootstrapping: Weapon of Mass Reconstruction

Sramana Mitra's Bootstrapping: Weapon of Mass Reconstruction is a book for our time, because it's something real out of Silicon Valley. No more stories about legendary VC fundings or startup-to-IPO in six months. In this, the ...READ»

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The iPhone 4 Leak Saga From Start to Finish

The story behind the leak of the next gen iPhone has it all: breaking news, legal maneuvering, inter-blog competition, checkbook journalism, and Nick Denton's tweets. Here's the full story--at least, as full as we know right now. [Updated at 4:20 EST]READ»

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Top Vertical Search Engines

Reporters and venture capitalists often ask me to name some of the top vertical search engines. Because I believe strongly that search will become a dynamic industry of very search specific sites and concepts, I decided to compile a ...READ»

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Social Capitalists

The top 20 groups that are changing the world.READ»

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What's New, What's Not

Unit of OneREAD»

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The E-Lance Economy

How Web sites are meeting the needs of Free Agent Nation.READ»

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Social Capitalists

The top 20 groups that are changing the world.READ»

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Building the New Economy

The new world of business is under construction -- and DPR Construction Inc. is building it. This company "Exists to Build Great Things." That means building things faster, smarter, and better than the competition. Does DPR deliver? Just ask its clients.READ»

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Choose Your Own Adventure: The Gizmodo iPhone Saga

 You've read bits and pieces and plenty of opinions on Gizmodo's next-generation iPhone scoop. Here's the long and the short of it.READ»

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What We Learned In The New Economy

What We Learned A Brief History Profiles Vocabulary Where Are They Now? What You Learned It's a foggy, rainy December afternoon at the port of Redwood City, California--the kind of day that makes reality hard to discern, ...READ»