It’s nearly Labor Day, the kids are back in school, summer vacations are memories, and Silicon Valley is on the move. There’s hiring going on, a classic Carol Bartz internal Yahoo memo, and other interesting, if not amusing, news from the land of tech (where I happen to live and occasionally work):
There Are Jobs in The Valley!
Venture-funded technology firms are hiring, according to Business Week. Not only that, but most senior executives polled by audit firm KPMG are expecting a full industry recovery in 2010, ahead of the rest of the U.S. economy:
Amid the worst recession for tech jobs since the dot-com bubble burst, companies are eagerly adding workers in such fields as cloud computing, computer security, business analytics, and IT services for government and health-care providers. Even some companies hit hard by recession are slowly reopening their doors to new employees amid signs that the tech sector may rebound before other areas of the economy.
Sony and Google: TLFE
Sony Vaio PCs will soon be shipping with Google’s Chrome as their default Web browser. Take that, Microsoft!
Sick Lawyer Delays Rambus Antitrust Trial
Memory technology company Rambus’s long-awaited (six years, to be exact) antitrust trial against Samsung, Hynix, and Micron has been delayed three months because of a sick Samsung lawyer. According to the Honorable Judge Richard Kramer: “I don’t like it but when someone gets sick, someone gets sick.”
EBay Unloads Skype
Today eBay announced it will sell Skype to a group of private investors led by Silver Lake Partners for $2 billion - $600 million less than it originally paid for the Internet telephony company back in 2005. EBay CEO John Donahoe said “Skype … does not have synergies with our e-commerce and online payments businesses.” And how is that different today than in 2005?
Another Classic Bartz Memo
And, from Kara Swisher at All Things Digital, a classic internal memo from Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz, who has apparently had enough of the whining and hand-wringing over her search deal with Microsoft:
All the work, all the explaining, all the opinions!
I wanted to crawl into a hole and eat chocolate … Making the search decision and driving this much change for us was hard, but it is done.
So I am out of the hole, ready to attack the future.
So get out of the sugar low–we have work to do. Stop staring at our navels, stop arguing with each other. Stop debate, debate, debate, and let’s focus on the competition.
All righty then, let’s all get back to work.
