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Startups compete for Silicon Valley investor interest at Bay Area tech event

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  Company founders from across different industries came together in mid-November to present their businesses to potential investors at an exclusive startup pitching event.  Held at Stanford University due to each founder’s connection to the institution and overall difficulty in finding investor backing in the industry, nine entrepreneurs explained how their product or service is

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Silicon Valley embraces self-driving cars while history shows how slowly the public accepts automation

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SUNNYVALE — The Tech Business Expo in downtown Sunnyvale brought together local residents and Silicon Valley tech companies on October 3rd, offering insights into public perception of autonomous vehicles and expert perspectives on the technology’s future.

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Women of Silicon Valley: A safe haven for women in technology

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SILICON VALLEY — Lea Coligado was 19 years old when she held a summer internship at a small software company in Silicon Valley. While there, she faced comments about how women don’t code because they are better at art and heard insinuations that women’s brains were just not wired to handle the algorithmic complexity that their male counterparts could. Instead of complimenting her code, she received comments about her clothes. 

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Bucking the national trend, H-1B visa applications continue to grow in the Bay Area

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PALO ALTO — Applications for the H-1B visa, the program that allows companies to hire skilled immigrants, grew 3.2 percent during 2017 in the San Francisco Bay Area. That may not seem like much, but it bucks a national decline in H-1B visa applications since Donald Trump was elected president.

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