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Palo Alto

Start Ups

Meet Pebble, a Kickstarter Success

Neighborhood watch time: Precursor to the iWatch? different? better? I don’t know but it’s here now: Meet Pebble Check emails, texts, lots more..go to the site and check them out. But do look at reviews – they go from bad…

General

Signs of the Times

And here at Philz, downtown Palo Alto, an invite to female engineers for a meetup at Wealthfront It is a presentation to develop street cred. Interesting topic – the equalization of gender power. How come 30 years of women’s…

General

Secret Mountain Lab

Sometimes it is so much fun to sit at Cafe Venetia in Palo Alto besides the good coffee and veggie quiche. This is one of them. A Palo Alto institution as much as Cafe Venetia.…

spying
Government & Technology

Big Data, Big Brother, and Small Returns for Some

I said it before: Big money follows big data follows big disruption. The Silicon Valley Business Journal recently wrote about Sequoia Capital Investor Michael Moritz arguing the position that collectively we are creating a massive data factory by our willingness…