Science news articles about 'silicon valley'

Tesla Motors Inc. will build a 250 million dollar plant in California's Silicon Valley to produce its new battery-powered sedan, the company said Wednesday.

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, already the favorite of Silicon Valley, has released a last-minute campaign video outlining his views on technology.

Evidence is mounting that Silicon Valley, which previously had seemed relatively unscathed by the global economic crisis, is beginning to feel the pain.

A fatal workplace shooting has saddened friends, colleagues, and family members, and left Silicon Valley employees shook up.

Silicon Valley historian John McLaughlin figured maybe it was time to update his work.

PALO ALTO, Calif., Jan. 13 (UPI) -- Stanford University President John Hennessy says the school's new energy research center will bring fresh ideas to the Silicon Valley.

Firms devoted to clean energy and other "green tech" promise to revive a Silicon Valley economy sagging beneath a global financial meltdown and the US mortgage disaster, a report said Tuesday.

... A hacksaw and a few other tools were probably all it took for someone to sever eight fiber-optic cables in Silicon Valley this week, knocking out cell phone, landline and Internet ...

(AP) -- Silicon Valley, the nation's center of high-tech innovation, is exporting a new kind of product - frustrated former CEOs leaping from the boardroom to politics with promises ...

Bob Pease is a genuine Silicon Valley rock star who I never would have heard of had he not lost his job, or left his job. It's not entirely clear which.

Silicon Valley is mostly a world of practical technology—applying principles from pure science to create handy gadgets. But today, Hewlett Packard announced a new electrical component born of ...

... judge has publicly apologized and agreed to pay $100,000 to Silicon Valley billionaire Tom Siebel for besmirching him in a lawsuit she filed as an attorney more than a decade ago.

(AP) -- Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Jerry Yang is convinced that the company he started in a Silicon Valley trailer 14 years ago is worth more than the $47.5 ...

A Silicon Valley start-up called E-Fuel is showing exactly how ethanol can live up to its name as "the people´s fuel." The company recently announced that it will soon start selling a home ...

Orange County, Calif., has become a center for small eye care device makers in much the same way that Silicon Valley is a center for technology.