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LOS ALTOS - Silicon Valley community colleges could be a big winner under a proposal announced on Monday by President Obama.

Facebook's IPO has raised hopes in Silicon Valley that the tech industry's days of wine and roses will soon be back with hundreds of startups going public.

Hortonworks , a leading contributor to Apache Hadoop projects, today announced that Founders Eric Baldeschwieler and Owen O'Malley will be speaking at two upcoming conferences in Silicon Valley: Cloud Connect on February 15 and O'Reilly Strata Conference on February 29.

NBS is an electronics manufacturer that helps build cutting-edge servers. And it's right here in the U.S. Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired There's a reason Apple is willing to take years of heat over the working conditions inside the Chinese plants building all those iPhones, iPads, and Macs.

NetHosting's CEO is scheduled to attend one of the Internet industry's foremost aggregation of cloud innovators and thought leaders, Cloud Connect 2012, to be held February 13th through the 16th at the Santa Clara Convention Center.

Hogan Lovells named Megan Dixon office managing partner for its San Francisco and Silicon Valley offices.

Chinese tech giant Huawei grew by being a "fast follower," John Roese, general manager of the company's North American R&D division, told me when I visited its Santa Clara campus recently, writes Diana Samuels on Silicon Valley BizBlog.

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Tenant improvements are being performed on the bottom two floors at 5450 Great America Parkway, and Dell plans to move workers in that space in July, according to Dell spokesman Jess Blackburn.

The value-add investor, which has been buying in the Bay Area and Silicon Valley recently, has completed the purchase of Prominent Pointe I & II, a two-building Class A office project totaling 261,243 square feet in northwest Austin.

The Canadian electronics contract manufacturer will be moving into a 79,085-square-foot, one-story building on 1855 Barber Lane by June, according to Craig Petersen, vice president for Kidder Mathews The privately held company currently leases about 49,000 square feet at 2801 Northwestern Parkway in Santa Clara but has outgrown the space, said ... (more)

Optimism was high Tuesday at the Davis Street headquarters of OSIsoft, the company helping the city build a "fiber optic loop" that San Leandro hopes will be an economic boon to the city.

Covington & Burling is adding a highly regarded corporate team to its Beijing and Silicon Valley offices, bolstering Covington's global transactional capabilities in the technology and life sciences sectors.

Silicon Valley developers are racing to erect office and R&D buildings to meet a fresh surge of expansions by tech companies that's turning the region into a commercial real estate boomtown.

Normally a cheering section for the high-tech industry, the report's author, Joint Venture Silicon Valley, warns "we don't see [our report] as a cause for celebration." However, the report focused on the growing divide: the rich grew richer, but the average family became poorer.

Wholesale data center developer DuPont Fabros Technology has signed new customer leases at its data centers in New Jersey and Silicon Valley, the company said today.

Attila Nemeth , a 26-year-old Hungarian citizen, was given 30 months in prison by J. Frederick Motz , a federal judge in Maryland.

In a head-scratching private market barter, illustrious venture firm Sequoia Capital has managed to secure an even larger chunk of up-and-coming Silicon Valley startup Evernote .

The NFL owners used Super Bowl week to hand the 49ers the next best thing to a championship – a $200 million loan to help pay for the future 49ers stadium in Santa Clara.

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