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The phrase "Silicon Valley" has long been a household word - today they represent any techno park, any isolated area, which are concentrated high-tech production and development. But those who use this expression, as a rule, themselves know little about the history of the very - first - the Silicon Valley. Let's try to fill this gap. University Silicon Valley (Silicon Valley) - District of California, high-density high-tech companies - in the first place, computer and telecommunications. Silicon Valley is located in the San Francisco Bay: in fact it is the space between the cities of San Francisco and Los Angeles. Today the main factors of this valley, a phenomenon called the presence of Stanford University and major cities within less than an hour away, sources of funding new companies, as well as superb Mediterranean-type climate. It all started back in 1891 when the valley near the town of Palo Alto as a bequest large landowner Lilenda Stanford opened Stanford Universi...

In the first days of the new year, as in the past few weeks last year, IT-community of Russia and the CIS countries are actively discussing the short and medium term regional software market. However, even more so than many on the market, but the entire software industry in the post-Soviet space. Interestingly, the various participants in the debate are sometimes to the opposite conclusions. In 2007, the Russian market run software grew by 35%. According to experts, the turnover on the Russian market run in 2007 - m amounted to $ 3.7 billion turnover of Russian companies in the world - $ 1.7 billion in 2008 on the Russian market has already risen to five billion dollars. To obtain similar figures for the entire CIS, it is enough to increase the performance of the Russian one and a half times. The structure is sound boxed software sales in 2008, according to the study of association of independent software developers ISDEF, is as follows: 65% sales fall to corporate clients, 20% - in th...

Image via Wikipedia The phrase «Silicon Valley» has long become common nouns - now they refer to any techno, all separate areas of concentrated high-tech production and development. But those who use this expression, as a rule, very little is known about the history of the same - the first - the Silicon Valley. Let's try to fill this gap. University Silicon Valley - District of California, featuring a high density of high-tech companies - especially computer and telecommunications. Silicon Valley is located in the vicinity of the San Francisco Bay: in fact it is a space between the cities of San Francisco and Los Angeles. Today, the main factors of this valley, a phenomenon referred to as the presence of Stanford University and major cities in less than an hour away, the sources of funding for new companies, as well as superb Mediterranean-type climate. It all started back in 1891 when, in a valley near the town of Palo Alto as a bequest a large landowner Lilenda Stanford opened S...

Recently there was news: Google is planning to open its own venture fund that will invest in promising startups. It is expected that the Fund will lead the new David Dryummond, the chief lawyer company and Senior Vice President of Corporate Development, and Bill Maris, a former business partner and friend of Anna Voysitski, the wife of one of the founders of Google, Sergey Brin. Google scheme According to analysts, Google will invest primarily aimed at supporting those startups, which can be regarded as the main candidates to buy the search giant. By investing their own funds - even at the initial stage of relatively minor - Google will be competition to traditional venture capital companies and investment funds. In addition, it will be possible to avoid a sharp rise in prices startups in a situation where the company Brin and Page decided to acquire technology or the development of young companies. Of course, such a tactic in the IT-industry - does not know how Google. Own venture uni...