Silicon Valley News

• Silicon Valley giving hits skids… (Philanthropy Journal)
  Charitable giving in the Silicon Valley area of California has slowed, with donations from the wealthy directed through the Silicon Valley Community Foundation dropping to $46.2 million as of August, compared to $168 million for all of 2008, The Wall Street Journal reported Nov. 19 (see Silicon Valley giving story ) […]
• SEC CHARGES FORMER EXECUTIVES AT SILICON VALLEY COMPANY FOR INFLATING FINANCIAL RESULTS (Accounting Education)
  The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged two former Silicon Valley executives for improperly inflating the reported financial results at Santa Clara, Calif., semiconductor company Tvia, Inc. The SEC alleges that Tvia's former Vice President of Worldwide Sales, Benjamin Silva III of Fremont, Calif., made side deals with customers and conceale […]
• New Down syndrome treatment suggested by study in mice
  At birth, children with Down syndrome aren't developmentally delayed. But as they age, these kids fall behind. […]
• New Down syndrome treatment suggested by study in mice
  At birth, children with Down syndrome aren't developmentally delayed. But as they age, these kids fall behind. […]
• Police: Sexual assault victim ‘very uncooperative’
  The victim of a Nov. 12 sexual assault by two men near the footbridge to Palo Alto at the southern end of Alma Street in Menlo Park is being "very, very uncooperative" with investigators from the Menlo Park Police Department, police said. […]
• Silicon Valley stocks: Nasdaq falls, but AMD, Fortinet surge (San Jose Mercury News)
  Most of Silicon Valley's largest tech stocks lost ground today along with the Dow and Nasdaq, but shares of Sunnyvale network security company Fortinet soared in Silicon Valley's first IPO of 2009. […]
• Jeff Merkley’s Cozy Silicon Valley Party (The Source Weekly)
  It was just an intimate, friendly little gathering on the Google campus in Silicon Valley. The host was the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee […]