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1. digitalMBAs-Silicon Valley / MBA-related events
2. Upcoming Silicon Valley / Bay Area Events / Events
3. News / MBA News
4. Job Fairs / Job Postings

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1. digitalMBAs-Silicon Valley / MBA-related events
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Jul 9: CINA presents:
"The Funding Process and How to Present to the Investors"
6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
$10 members & students; $25 non-members
Fenwick & West, LLP, 801 California Street, Mountain View
http://cina.org/viewevent.php?eventid=250

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2. Upcoming Silicon Valley / Bay Area Events / Events
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a. Mobile Monday
What: July 2008 Mobile Monday (Metrics and Analytics)
When: Monday, July 7th, 2008 7:00pm
Where: Microsoft SF Campus, 835 Market St, 7th floor, San Francisco,
CA 94103
Who: Anyone interested in mobility
Cost: Nothing!
http://www.mobilemonday.us/?p=193

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b. Jul 10: MITCNC presents:
"Diane Greene of VMware"
6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
$20 members; $25 non-members
VMWare, 3401 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto
http://www.mitcnc.org/www/Events_Calendar.asp

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c. Jul 10: SVASE presents:
"Business Models that Work for Web 2.0 Based Startups"
6:00 PM to 8:30 PM
$20 members; $29 affiliates; $49 non-members
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, 950 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto
http://www.svase.org/?q=node/1401

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d. Social Networking Watch presents:
Social Networking Conference in San Francisco
DATE/TIME: July 10-11, 8am - 6pm
LOCATION: Mission Bay Conference Center at UCSF, 1675 Owens Street,
San Francisco
COST: $875.

The Social Networking Conference events focus entirely on successful
business management for the Online Community industry. It covers all
business aspects of the mobile social networking, business social
networking and enterprise social networking industries in the USA,
Europe and Asia.

Speakers include executives from companies and organizations such as:
Deutsche Telekom, Sybase365, IBM, Perey Research, Gemini Mobile
Technologies, Motorola, Twitter, Piczo, Visible Path, Neighborhood
America, Telligent, Social Networking Watch and others.

We are proud to announce that Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple,
is speaking at the Social Networking Conference on Thursday, July 10th
2008.

MORE INFO:
Website: http://www.snc2008.com/conference-sf-2008.php
Email: mark@...
Phone: 212-444-1636
Contact: mark@...

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e.GABA (German American Business Association) presents:
Managing Global Teams for Success
DATE/TIME: Tue, Jul 15, 6:00pm-9:00pm
LOCATION: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, 2475 Hanover Street,
Palo Alto
COST: $15 Members, $20 Non-Members, $30 at the door.

Today few disagree that globalization is critical for company success.
However, creating and managing a global team is challenging for
companies around the world. Collaborating to achieve project and
company goals while overcoming language differences and cultural
perspectives requires well-honed communication, teamwork and
management skills.

When the global teams is also 'virtual' with employees, suppliers and
partners spanning multiple time zones from Asia to the US, Europe and
the Middle East, an even greater level of respect, understanding and
skill is needed for success.

Complimentary appetizers and drinks will be served.

MORE INFO:
Website:
http://www.gaba-network.org/index.php?option=com_events&task=view_detail&agid=31\
7&year=2008&month=07&day=15&Itemid=116
Email: events@...
Phone: 650-386-5015
Contact: Caroline Raynaud

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f. The Churchill Club:
www.churchillclub.org

Tuesday, July 15
Women Tech Executive Roundtable: Cultivating Influence and Delivering
Results
Registration: 6:00 PM
Buffet: 6:00 PM
Program: 7:00 PM

Location:
Microsoft Corporation
1065 La Avenida
Building 1 - Silicon Valley Campus
Mountain View, CA 94043

Speakers:
Gina Bianchini, CEO, Ning
Charlene Li, Research Director, Forrester Research
Teresa Takai, CIO, State of California
Moderator:
Ann Winblad, Partner, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners


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g. Silicon Valley American Marketing Association (SVAMA) presents:
July 2008 Workshop: Understand and Execute Experience Marketing
DATE/TIME: Wed, Jul 16, 6:00pm-8:00pm
LOCATION: George P. Johnson Offices, 999 Skyway Drive, Suite 300, San
Carlos
COST: $25 Member, $75 Non-member, $25 Student, $60 Partner.

July 2008 Workshop: Understand and Execute Experience Marketing
Marketers face unprecedented challenges in the form of stiffening
global competition, tightening budgets and an avalanche of advertising
clutter.

This multifaceted educational program will walk attendees through the
modern experiential discipline, establishing a baseline understanding
as well as some of the more advanced concepts that drive execution of
successful programs.

Speakers: David Rich, Scott Schenker, Rodrigo Espinosa, George P.
Johnson, Experience Marketing.

July 16th 2008 6:00pm - 8:00pm
999 Skyway Drive Suite 300
San Carlos, California 94070
$25 Member, $75 Non-member, $25 Student, $60 Partner

MORE INFO:
Website: http://www.svama.org
Email: svama@...
Phone: 866-206-9067 x3004
Contact: Angi Roberts

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h. Telecom Council of Silicon Valley presents:
Mobile Forum: Getting Mom to Use LBS
DATE/TIME: Thu, Jul 17, 8:30am-2:00pm
LOCATION: Microsoft Campus, 1065 La Avenida, Mountain View
COST: Free for members, $200 for non-members.
After years and years of technical talk, platform talk, business model
speculation, and ecosystem building, it looks like Location-Based
Services are finally here. Skipping past talk of tri-lateration and
TDOA, we will discuss services. How will location-awareness be
integrated into the mobile lives of end users? How will they interact
with position-aware apps? Will your mom ever use this stuff?

Take a look at our agenda: we'll hear from companies leading this
sector and from the innovators that will revolutionize the way people
use location-awareness. And there will be demos and startups after lunch.

MORE INFO:
Website:
http://guest.cvent.com/EVENTS/Info/Summary.aspx?e=b7d0d32e-6b7e-4a3c-b393-574b38\
ff7fb0
Email: council@...
Phone: 408-834-7933
Contact: Liz Kerton

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i. Global Women's Leadership Network presents:
Voices of Global Leaders
DATE/TIME: Sat, Jul 26, 9:00am-5:00pm
LOCATION: Santa Clara University Recital Hall, 500 El Camino Real,
Santa Clara
COST: Range $100-$175, includes breakfast and lunch (see website).

Join inspirational women from 14 countries for July 26th conference
and change the world by engaging with leaders right here in Silicon
Valley. The program will include a keynote address from Supriya
Banavalikar of The Hunger Project, a panel of global and local
leaders, and a small group discussions with YOU that will unite
participants from around the world as they engage in global issues and
real-life projects.

The Global Women's Leadership Network leads this groundbreaking
conference, which will be held on July 26, from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM at
Santa Clara University's campus. To find out more or to purchase
tickets, visit www.voicesofgloballeaders.org or call (650) 465-7321.

MORE INFO:
Website: http://www.voicesofgloballeaders.org
Email: GWLNdevelopment@...
Phone: 650-465-7321
Contact: Amy Franzblau


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j. Clean Tech Open presents:
Offices of the Future (hosted by PG&E)
DATE/TIME: Wed, Jul 30, 5:30pm-8:30pm
LOCATION: PG&E, 77 Beale Street, San Francisco
COST: $20 online, $30 at the door (cash only).

Office buildings account for almost 40% of the nation's total energy
consumption, but existing technologies can immediately reduce that load.
Technology advancements could cut energy consumption by over 75%. Hear
about the revolution for "Offices of the Future."

Utilities will present initiatives during a panel, moderated by Joel
Makower, founder of Clean Edge and Greener World Media, Inc. The
"Offices of the Future" panel will also include Greenplug, a company
that reduces plug load, and several policy and energy efficiency
market experts. The evening will also include a poster session from
Energy Efficiency Alumni and current contestants, as well as plenty of
networking opportunities.

MORE INFO:
Website:
http://www.cleantechopen.com/events.php?page=eventDetail_symposium2
Email: KRoberts@...
Contact: Katie Roberts

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k. Software Development Forum â€" www.sdforum.org
www.sdforum.com

Events for July 2008
07/08/2008 6:30 PM Search SIG: Social Search
07/08/2008 8:00 AM SDForum Quarterly Venture Breakfast with PWC
07/09/2008 11:45 AM PMI Silicon Valley Tools and Techniques Forum for July
07/09/2008 6:30 PM Emerging Tech SIG: No meeting this month.
07/14/2008 6:30 PM Marketing SIG: Startup Marketing Lab - apply now!
07/15/2008 6:30 PM Business Intelligence SIG: A Gentle Introduction
to R and its Applications in Business Intelligence.
07/15/2008 6:00 PM Digital Media Quarterly Series
07/16/2008 6:30 PM Venture Finance SIG: Term-sheet negotiation â€" Dos
and Don’ts
07/17/2008 6:30 PM SEM SIG: Leadership vs. Management
07/21/2008 6:30 PM Startup SIG: Joint meeting with Marketing on July 14th
07/22/2008 6:30 PM Web Services SIG: "zembly-Collaborative
environment designed for social applications
07/23/2008 6:30 PM SAM SIG: Pandora: Architecture lessons from the
first 13 million listeners
07/24/2008 6:30 PM Security SIG:
07/29/2008 8:00 AM Clean Tech Breakfast Series 4
07/31/2008 9:00 AM VC One-on-One Coaching with LEVP


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3. Silicon Valley News / MBA News / High-Tech News
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Harvard opens office in Shanghai
The Boston Globe. July 2, 2008
“Harvard University and Harvard Business School announced yesterday
the opening of a Harvard office in Shanghai and the university said it
plans to open another office in Beijing in the fall. The Shanghai
office will house a Harvard Business School researcher and be part of
a Harvard Business School network of international research centers
that include researchers in Japan, India, Latin America, and Europe.
The Shanghai and Beijing "locations will enable Harvard University to
explore a range of potential activities in support of its research and
teaching programs," the university and the business school said in a
press release.�
http://www.boston.com/business/ticker/2008/07/harvard_opens_o.html


Microsoft to buy search start-up Powerset
DEAL COMES IN WAKE OF YAHOO REJECTION OF OFFER TO BUY ITS SEARCH UNIT
FOR $9B
The San Jose Mercury News. 07/02/2008
“Microsoft announced plans to buy Powerset, a promising search
start-up, that focuses on "natural-language search," a form of
artificial intelligence that seeks to understand the meaning of both
user queries and Web pages. Ramez Naam, a Microsoft search executive,
said Tuesday that Powerset will complement existing technology
developed by Microsoft Research and help "take search to the next
level." The news of the deal comes less than three weeks after Yahoo
rejected a second Microsoft proposal to pay $9 billion in exchange for
Yahoo's search business and a 16 percent equity stake in the Sunnyvale
company. However, the Wall Street Journal reported late Wednesday,
citing "people familiar with the situation," that Microsoft was
talking to several partners about taking another run at Yahoo. Under
this scenario, Microsoft would buy Yahoo's search business and its
partner or partners, which reportedly are Time Warner and News Corp.,
would buy the rest.�
http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_9762214


Microsoft-Yahoo picture remains hazy
FOCUS IS ON SEARCH BUSINESS; AOL MIGHT ALSO BE INVOLVED
The San Jose Mercury News. 07/03/2008
“In the wake of Microsoft's failed bid to buy all of Yahoo, one thing
is clear: The two companies have what could be called a failure to
communicate. As the Microsoft-Yahoo takeover saga grinds into its
sixth month, contacts between the companies are continuing. But the
status of talks between them is an increasingly muddled mess
complicated by the fact that Time Warner's AOL has quietly been put in
play, according to sources familiar with the matter who have not been
authorized to speak by their employers. At the moment, Microsoft
remains interested in "an alternative transaction" along the lines of
a proposal that it made in mid-June to buy Yahoo's search business, a
source close to Microsoft reiterated.�
http://www.siliconvalley.com/ci_9773684


Yahoo Pursues Talks With Potential Partners
Discussions With Time Warner Resume As Microsoft Considers Its Next Move
The Wall Street Journal. July 3, 2008
“As Microsoft Corp. explores the possibility of making another move
for Yahoo Inc., the Internet company continues to flirt with other
potential partners. Yahoo has picked up discussions with Time Warner
Inc. over a combination, say people familiar with the situation. The
renewed talks come after a lull following Microsoft's withdrawal in
May of its $47.5 billion offer to buy Yahoo. The two companies are
talking about a structure they began discussing as an alternative to
Yahoo selling itself to Microsoft several months ago -- an arrangement
whereby Time Warner would fold its AOL unit into Yahoo and take a
minority stake in the combined venture. In April, those discussions
valued AOL at about $10 billion, excluding its dial-up Internet-access
business. But Yahoo's stock has since declined sharply. While
discussions between Yahoo and Time Warner have heated up, they aren't
as serious as they were in April and a deal remains a longshot, said
one person familiar with the situation. News Corp. has also been
hovering around the Yahoo camp. However, that contact has been more an
effort to monitor the situation than any real discussion about a
potential deal, according to people familiar with the situation. News
Corp. owns Dow Jones & Co., publisher of The Wall Street Journal.
Yahoo's moves show that two months after Microsoft withdrew its offer,
the company continues to face intense pressure to boost shareholder
returns on its own. Striking a search advertising pact with Google
Inc. hasn't allayed shareholder concerns about Yahoo's ability to
thrive independently.�
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121504216556524741.html


Microsoft Seeks Partners For a New Run at Yahoo
Plan Would Lead To Effective Breakup; Yang's Second Thoughts
The Wall Street Journal. July 2, 2008; Page A1
“Microsoft Corp., positioning itself for a new run for Yahoo Inc.'s
search business, has approached other media companies in recent days
about joining it in a deal that would effectively lead to Yahoo's
breakup, say people familiar with the discussions. Microsoft has held
discussions with Time Warner Inc. and News Corp., among others, say
people involved in the talks. In the past, Microsoft has floated an
arrangement under which it would acquire Yahoo's search business and
another partner, such as News Corp.'s MySpace or Time Warner's AOL,
would combine forces with what remained of Yahoo. News Corp. is the
owner of Dow Jones & Co., publisher of The Wall Street Journal.�
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121496732802022117.html


Yahoo shares touching on pre-Microsoft level
CNET News. July 1, 2008
“Yahoo shares fell below $20 on Tuesday, coming within a breath away
from its previous trading level before Microsoft launched its failed
buyout attempt five months ago. Shares of Yahoo, which have been on a
steep decline since the company announced on June 12 that Microsoft
was no longer interested in buying the company and that a partial sale
of its search business to the software giant did not make sense for
Yahoo, dropped as low as 5.2 percent in intraday trading to $19.59 a
share, before recovering a portion of its lost ground to end the
trading day down 2.23 percent at $20.20 a share. That stock
performance has brought Yahoo virtually full circle to the level its
shares were trading prior to Microsoft publicly announcing its
unsolicited buyout bid on February 1, which valued Yahoo at $31 a
share. The day before Microsoft made its buyout bid public, Yahoo
closed at $19.18 a share. For Yahoo, its share price has gone on a
wild ride over the past five months, occasionally getting hit with a
case of whiplash.�
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9982179-7.html


The Facebooker Who Friended Obama
The New York Times. July 7, 2008
“… Mr. [Chris] Hughes, 24, was one of four founders of Facebook. In
early 2007, he left the company to work in Chicago on Senator Obama's
new-media campaign.… But in fact, working on the Obama campaign may
have moved Mr. Hughes closer to the center of the social networking
phenomenon, not farther away. The campaign's new-media strategy,
inspired by popular social networks like MySpace and Facebook, has
revolutionized the use of the Web as a political tool, helping the
candidate raise more than two million donations of less than $200 each
and swiftly mobilize hundreds of thousands of supporters before
various primaries. The centerpiece of it all is My.BarackObama.com,
where supporters can join local groups, create events, sign up for
updates and set up personal fund-raising pages. "If we did not have
online organizing tools, it would be much harder to be where we are
now," Mr. Hughes said. Mr. Obama, now the presumptive Democratic
nominee, credits the Internet's social networking tools with a "big
part" of his primary season success. "One of my fundamental beliefs
from my days as a community organizer is that real change comes from
the bottom up," Mr. Obama said in a statement. "And there's no more
powerful tool for grass-roots organizing than the Internet."�
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/07/technology/07hughes.html


Tesla will build electric car factory in Bay Area
The San Jose Mercury News. 06/30/2008
“Tesla Motors will build its electric-car factory in the Bay Area, not
New Mexico as previously announced, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said
this morning. Schwarzenegger, along with State Treasurer Bill Lockyer,
said California was able to provide Tesla with incentives, including
the waiving of state sales tax on $100 million worth of manufacturing
equipment, to entice the company to build its assembly plant here. The
exact site has not been selected, but it should be soon, said Darryl
Siry, a Tesla vice president. The company will seek a location not too
far from its San Carlos headquarters. Lockyer said Tesla had looked in
Hayward, but has now rejected that location. The announcement was made
at Tesla's headquarters here, after Schwarzenegger took a brief tour.
He spoke surrounded by three Tesla Roadsters. In early 2007, the state
of New Mexico said Tesla was going to build a 400-employee factory
there, to build its second model, a four-door, five-passenger sedan.
The plans were to break ground by spring of 2007, but that never
happened as Tesla ran into engineering delays with its first car, a
two-seat, $100,000 roadster.�
http://www.siliconvalley.com/ci_9745521


Google finds itself playing catch-up
MOBILE VETERANS LEAD ONCE-NIMBLE SEARCH GIANT IN RACE TO DEVELOP CODE
The San Jose Mercury News. 07/05/2008
“Making good software for mobile phones is hard - even for a
technically adept company like Google. Indeed, it's so difficult that
the fleet-footed champion of search advertising finds itself in the
unaccustomed position of playing catch-up to normally slow-moving
industry behemoths. As Google scrambles to release its mobile-phone
code sometime later this year, a non-profit consortium of some of the
world's biggest telecommunications companies and handset makers has
quietly beaten the search giant. The LiMo Foundation, created in 2007
by Vodafone, NTT DoCoMo, Motorola and four other telecom giants,
delivered its first phone in February. It now boasts 18, including the
Motorola RAZR2 V8 and MOTO Z6w. LiMo's early success illustrates the
stiff competition Google will face as it seeks to conquer a whole new
high-tech domain. The wireless industry has embraced LiMo, which has
attracted 40 companies as members and is rapidly growing. In contrast,
telecommunications carriers were at first wary of Google. Executives
from around the industry said they want to ensure that mobile devices
do not follow the path of personal computers and become dominated by
one or two gatekeepers.�
http://www.siliconvalley.com/ci_9793600


On Day Care, Google Makes a Rare Fumble
The New York Times. July 5, 2008
“Two months ago, Google held a series of secret focus groups with
employees who have children in Google's day care facilities. The
purpose was to gauge their reaction to the company's plan to raise the
amount it charged for in-house day care by 75 percent. Parents who had
been paying $1,425 a month for infant care would see their costs rise
to nearly $2,500 â€" well above the market rate. For parents with
toddlers and preschoolers, who were charged less, the price increases
were equally eye-popping. Under the new plan, parents with two kids in
Google day care would most likely see their annual day care bill grow
to more than $57,000 from around $33,000. At the first of the three
focus groups, parents wept openly. As word leaked out about the
company's plan, the Google parents began to fight back. They came up
with ideas to save money, used the company's T.G.I.F. sessions â€" a
weekly meeting for anyone who wanted to ask questions of Google's top
executives â€" to plead their case, and conducted surveys showing that
most parents with children in Google day care would have to leave
Google's facilities and find less expensive child care. Do you think
you know how this story ends? You're probably guessing that because it
involves "do no evil" Google, Fortune magazine's "Best Company to Work
For" the past two years, this is a heart-warming tale of a good
company reversing a dumb decision. If only.�
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/05/business/05nocera.html


Google, Zen Master of the Market
The New York Times. July 7, 2008
“…Google's huge, widening lead in that business suggests that while
some weapons of competition have changed, the market dynamics are
similar, say economists and industry experts. At this stage, they
note, Internet search appears to be a market that is winner take most,
if not all. Google, it seems, is the emerging dominant company in the
Internet era, much as Microsoft was in the PC era. The study of
networked businesses, market competition and antitrust law is being
reconsidered in a new context, shaped by Google. Google's explanation
for its large share of the Internet search market â€" more than 60
percent â€" is simply that it is a finely honed learning machine. Its
scientists constantly improve the relevance of search results for
users and the efficiency of its advertising system for advertisers and
publishers… But economists and analysts point out that Google does
indeed have network advantages that present formidable obstacles to
rivals. The "experience effects," they say, of users and advertisers
familiar with Google's services make them less likely to switch. There
is, for example, a sizable cottage industry of experts who tailor Web
sites to get higher rankings on search engines, which drive user
traffic and thus ad revenues. These experts understandably focus their
efforts on the market leader, Google â€" another network effect,
analysts say.�
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/07/technology/07google.html


Coming Soon: More Phones with Flash
WirelessWeek. July 01, 2008
“In the unique mobile ecosystem known as Japan, 85% of mobile phones
have Flash Lite in them. That's not the case for the rest of the
world, but several events are conspiring to change that. With Adobe
Systems' Flash on an estimated 98% of Internet-connected desktops, you
might assume it would make its way onto mobile phones in a big way.
That hasn't been the case â€" yet. The first phone with Flash Lite was
shipped in May 2003, and it has now been shipped on more than 500
million devices worldwide. That might sound like a lot, but you won't
find it on too many U.S. devices aside from Verizon Wireless. Adobe
wants to change that, and it's working with a bevy of heavy hitters in
its Open Screen Project to get Flash on more devices. "We're ecstatic
about seeing growth in mobile," said Anup Murarka, director of
technical marketing for the Mobile and Devices unit at Adobe. The
company expects more than 1 billion handsets and mobile devices to
ship with Adobe Flash technology by 2009.�
http://www.wirelessweek.com/article.aspx?id=161188&LangType=1033


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