Biz Break: For Apple, other Silicon Valley tech stocks, a midyear checkup
By Frank Michael Russell frussell@mercurynews.com Posted: 06/30/2011 01:34:53 PM PDT0 Comments|Updated: 3 years ago Today: Apple and the tech-heavy Nasdaq are up so far this year, but Apple has declined since reaching a record close in February. Plus: A new partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Midyear stocks: Tech-heavy Nasdaq risesIt's the last day of June - and the last stock-trading day of the first half of 2011.After a turbulent few months, the tech-heavy Nasdaq composite index (a favorite here in tech-heavy Silicon Valley) finished 4.5 percent higher than its closing level at the end of 2010.Several of Silicon Valley's largest tech stocks by market value also are in positive territory for 2011 - including Apple, Oracle and Intel. The blue chip Dow Jones industrial average (home to tech blue chips Cisco Systems, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft and IBM) was up 7.2 percent for the first half of the year. Solar power: The U.S. The conditions of the loan guarantees weren't disclosed.
Applied Materials reveals breakthrough in chip manufacturing
Applied Materials, the largest maker of chip making equipment, announced what it called a “breakthrough” technology in manufacturing chips that could become critical for continued technological progress in electronics for years to come. The advance comes in a category of chip-making equipment called “rapid thermal processing,” or RTP. That involves heating a chip material to levels of heat similar to that of jet engine within a very short period of time. “This represents multiple divisions in the company coming together to create a revolutionary technology,” said Sundar Ramamurthy (pictured at top), vice president and general manager in a division at Applied Materials. Applied has been making RTP machines for 15 years and nearly every chip manufacturer has one of its machines. The variation in manufacturing, caused by a breakdown in the ability to create exactly uniform chips, makes it much harder for chip makers to create cheap semiconductors.
How nonprofits can use crowdsourcing to work smarter and save money
Greenfunder funds socially responsible projects and businesses. Target audience: Nonprofits, social enterprises, NGOs, foundations, businesses, educators. This is part one of a two-part series on crowdsourcing. By Lindsay Oberst Socialbrite staff High-quality work at a low cost. Crowdsourcing refers to harnessing the skills and enthusiasm of those outside an organization who are prepared to volunteer their time contributing content or skills and solving problems, sometimes for free, sometimes for a fee. Crowdsourcing, a bit of a catch-all term, can be used to gather information, solicit advice, save money or get stuff done. We’ve seen the rise of community crowdsourcing with the advent of social media, but it’s always been part of the way society works. Here are a few quick, low-key ways crowdsourcing works Say you’re a nonprofit looking to improve your services. Or take blog posts. 3 examples of nonprofits using crowdsourcing Samasource The second is what he calls “curated crowdsourcing.”
Mark Suster: Understanding the Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries
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Page 2. >> Make Your Own Moleskine-Like-Notebook
Now comes the fun part. Measure off a length of upholsery thread equal to the number of signatures multiplied by the height of one spine. For instance this project has 8 (signatures) with a spine that measures 5 1/2" so; 8 x 5.5 = 44". Pick up one of your signatures and open it a little to the center. Pull the thread until all the slack is out of the signature while holding the short piece of thread at the bottom. Place another signature next to your first one and push the needle into the corresponding top hole of the second signature. I've noticed two things that happen to me when sewing signatures: I feel like I have only thumbs and I lose track of where I started. Okay, where were we? Place your third signature next to the first two and sew in and out like you did before, making sure to sew into the second signature. Here's a diagram of how the sewing goes throughout the eight signatures. This is called a kettle stitch and it's used to tie each new signature to the one before it.
Cisco Systems embraces “media company” concept with launch of The Network | Business
Posted on June 28, 2011 8:18 am by Shel Holtz | Business | Media | Social Media Cisco Systems may be under seige by investors—including no less than Ralph Nader—but at nobody can blame the company’s communications team of failing to do its part. Earlier this month, Cisco relaunched its corporate news site with a new name— The Network—and a new approach to sharing news and information. “A piece of content that is shared with a friend, or friends, or followers, or the world is the ultimate measurement of its success,” according to social media team leader John Earnhardt, writing on the Cisco blog, The Platform. The Network (whose name was selected as the result of a vote by more than 180,000 of Cisco’s followers) is the latest effort by a company to expand beyond traditional content and assume the characteristics of a media company. The idea is to produce sharable content that’s worth sharing. Cisco isn’t even mentioned in the article.
