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Quoted: Zynga wants to be Player 2 in tax-break game

Quoted: Zynga wants to be Player 2 in tax-break game

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Twitter tax-break plan may be tweaked : City Insider The controversial proposed tax break for companies that bring new jobs into San Francisco’s Mid-Market and Tenderloin neighborhoods may be pared back. Service Employees International Union Local 1021, the largest city employees union that wields substantial political clout, has been a vocal opponent of the legislation that backers hope will keep the Twitter micro-blogging company in the city. The union’s leadership rounds at City Hall Tuesday pushing the idea of carving the Tenderloin out of the legislation. ”Let’s contain the area, narrow the focus,” Roxanne Sanchez, the local’s president, told City Insider. She said that the idea of providing any corporate tax breaks is the wrong way to go but that she may be willing to support a scaled-down version that would target businesses along the economically depressed stretch of Market Street between Fifth and 10th streets. Mayor Ed Lee is a strong supporter of the plan.

Pong Pong “The machine is broken.” That terse message summoned Al Alcorn to Andy Capp’s bar in Sunnyvale two weeks after Alcorn had installed the Pong arcade game. Pong’s problem? Popularity. $750,000 awarded to man for loss of Einstein papers in Lick fire Posted: 05/02/2012 10:35:42 PM PDT0 Comments|Updated: about a year ago Congratulations! You found a link we goofed up on, and as a result you're here, on the article-not-found page.

Dual-Booting Windows and Linux How to build a computer with two (or more) operating systems You don't have to give up Windows to try Linux. If you'd like to give Linux a try, but you can't (or simply don't want to) give up your Windows operating system or applications, and you can't afford to build two computers, then consider building a dual-boot system. A dual-boot computer is one that is capable of running two different operating systems (but not at the same time). Slideshow: Top 10 Largest First Rounds for Internet Companies this Year Forty-one million dollars for an Internet company. That’s what Sequoia Capital, Bain Capital Ventures and Silicon Valley Bank invested in Color, which makes a social networking application that lets users share photos with their smartphones. It’s an astonishing number.

Meet the ‘First Social Media Analyst on Wall Street’ Lou Kerner has dabbled in real estate, worked as a cable and satellite analyst at Goldman Sachs, and headed numerous companies, including two domain companies: The .tv Corp. and WildSites. Yet Kerner has seemingly found the role he was born to play as the self-described “first social media analyst on Wall Street.” He’s attracted quite an audience. For Europe’s start-ups, Silicon Valley still calls By Kim Hjelmgaard, MarketWatch LONDON (MarketWatch) — “Go West,” young technology company. That sentiment, with its compass-point directive, is both a rallying cry and a death knell in Europe’s war to assert the credentials of its homespun technology entrepreneurs. Divided by geography, language, regulation and, in some cases, just old-fashioned cultural prejudice, the region has struggled to shed fully its image as a place where men and women with ideas are born, but where they do not necessarily stay, prosper or secure funding.

Is Curation A Flash In The Pan? Posted by Tom Foremski - March 24, 2011 It's clear that the interest of Internet users can be very fickle indeed. Sites and services can have sudden boosts of popularity and then pretty much disappear from view.

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