Silicon valley

The name ‘internet’ is a shortening of the ‘internetworking’ allowed when one computer network could collaborate with another. read more

Atre, 50 -- owner of digital marketing company AtreNet Inc which caters to Silicon Valley corporate businesses -- was kidnapped from his house around 3 a.m. “during a crime” on Tuesday said Police. read more

Though Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), Colombo (Sri Lanka), Dhaka (Bangladesh), Dubai (UAE), Kathmandu (Nepal) and Singapore were among foreign centres where the IIT JEE (Advanced) 2019 exam was held, it has never been conducted in the US. read more

India’s achievements should be applauded, but it is just getting started, with a golden opportunity to play a prominent role in global energy as well. read more

Updated workplace guidelines for “Googlers” called on them to be responsible, helpful, and thoughtful during exchanges on internal message boards or other conversation forums. read more

Svitolina’s superior serving was the difference in the one-sided match as the Ukrainian set up a tantalizing quarter-final meeting with Greece’s Maria Sakkari on Thursday. read more

The passage of the Bill was hailed by Indian professionals from across the US, particularly those from the Silicon Valley in California, Seattle area in Washington state, the Greater Washington DC area and the tri-state area of New York, New Jersey and... read more

The pair’s ascent is rapid even by Silicon Valley standards, where dropping out of Stanford to launch a startup is almost a cliché. read more

The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says sarin is a chemical warfare agent that is a clear, colourless, odourless and tasteless liquid. It can evaporate into the environment, prompting symptoms within seconds. read more

A delegation from the Silicon Valley, including Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and Dropbox co-founder and CEO Drew Houston, recently went all the way to Italy’s hillside hamlet of Solomeo for a meeting with the fashion designe... read more

Bangalore is paying a heavy price for its success since marketing itself as a tech hub in the late 1990s and attracting top firms, by losing it lakes and gardens to buildings. read more

Thousands of people live in RVs across San Francisco and the broader Bay Area because they can’t afford to rent or buy homes. read more

The value of the stake held by Garrett Camp, the inventor of Uber, ahead of the company’s first day of stock trading on Friday rounds around $3.7 billion. read more

From the Ugg to the floater and the platform sneaker, a timeline of our obsession with cult hideous footwear, and why the unattractive is so irresistible. read more

Tech world now wants it to be regulated by government. This is a big departure from the open internet that Silicon Valley had been evangelising all along read more