Following the resignation of Hewlett-Packard’s chairman Ralph Whitworth earlier this week, the company on Thursday named CEO Meg Whitman to fill the post.
Google may not have solved all the challenges of mobile advertising but Thursday it reported solid revenue gains that appeared to soothe analysts’ concerns. The giant Internet company also announced that Chief Business Officer Nikesh Arora is leaving to run a unit of SoftBank, the big Japanese tech firm.
Venture capital firms in the valley invested $7.1 billion in private tech firms and startups in the second quarter this year, a 45 percent increase over the first quarter — which, until now, had been the largest fundraising quarter since 2000
In his first interview about the coastal access battle at Martins Beach, venture capitalist Vinod Khosla told this newspaper he doesn’t intend to back down, blasting news coverage of the controversy and accusing his opponents of “blackmailing” him into giving up his property rights.
Los Altos’ worst-kept secret is out. Anne Wojcicki, a member of Silicon Valley’s high-tech royalty, is behind a company that helped spruce up the downtown.
