President Obama had dinner Thursday night with twelve leaders of Silicon Valley’s high tech industries. Among the prominent guests were Steve Jobs, John Chambers, Eric Schmidt, Carol Bartz and Mark Zuckerberg. The dinner was hosted by John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
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Google has lost a valued client in the person of pundit Glenn Beck. The pundit has added Google to communists, fascists, and Islamic radicals aiming to establish a New World Order. And while he hasn’t directly called for a boycott of the search engine giant, he announced that he will be more circumspect about how he researches things online.
Proposition 8 is still in the courts, but Facebook took a major stand toward advancing the cause of gay rights by offering the option of adding “domestic partnership” and “civil union” to people’s relationship status.The option, however, is currently limited to a handful of countries, with various attitudes toward civil unions.
This month, the big news online is online news. On Feb. 2, Rupert Murdoch launched The Daily, the world’s first iPad “newspaper,” at a cost of $30 million. Stealing his thunder a couple days later, AOL announced its purchase of the Huffington Post for $315 million. And then, last week, Gawker Media relaunched its fleet of edgy blog sites with a radical redesign that fundamentally rejected the traditional blog format.
Trio Nobilis plays at Le Petit Trianon Theatre on Feb. 20 as part of the San Jose Chamber Music Society’s 25th season.
You may have heard the singular crack of a slapstick at the start of Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G. But once begun, the slapstick in “The Barber of Seville” at Opera San Jose goes totally viral. Argentine-born stage director José Maria Condemi left no sight gag or comedic epiphany unflipped.
Moffett Field was packed yesterday with local officials, military top brass, and the recipients of countless medals. They were there to honor Sergeant James Witkowski, better known as “Ski,” by dedicating a new $83 million Army Reserve Center to his memory.
High speed rail could get a boost now that Florida’s governor has turned down $2.4 billion in federal funding for his own state’s project. The money will be diverted to other states, willing to proceed with their own high speed rail projects. Among the top contenders are New York and California.
President Obama will be coming to Silicon Valley today to meet with local business leaders, including Zuckerberg, Schmidt, and Jobs. It’s a perfect match. Together the companies these three men represent have a market cap of over half a trillion dollars, and together with some of the other attendees at the meeting, there will be fabled amounts of money in the room.
Caltrain’s Lawrence Station in Sunnyvale may be the state’s next transit village, but will Caltrain continue to run there? The main attraction of transit villages is that they combine mass transportation, retail, and residential neighborhoods within a relatively dense area, ensuring that all benefit. But with Caltrain looking to slash services, transportation may be removed from the equation.
