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Ashlee Vance’s comprehensive piece on Microsoft in the New York Times yesterday raised a few question that are often pondered here in Silicon Valley: can big companies run a decent 40-yard dash?  And do they want to anyway?
Vance gives plenty of column inches to critics’ who characterize “Microsoft’s path as a long spiral toward irrelevance.”  Author Nicholas G. [...]

Less than 48 hours after hearing U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra address a gathering of Churchill Club members at the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley, I find myself a bit skeptical about what I heard.
Big picture, I’m delighted we now have a Chief Technology Officer, and I’m heartened that he’s ostensibly focused on [...]

Even Robert Scoble admitted it’s not easy being a one man news brand today. “It’s hard to get that traffic to build a business,” he said, while acknowledging he had a staggering 90,000 followers on Twitter. “You’re scratching for every viewer to come along.”
If it’s hard for him, it’s hard for anyone. And, of course, [...]