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Tech Policy Summit '08 Podcasts Available
Apr 8, 2008 | We're happy to report that the podcasts from the 2008 Tech Policy Summit, which took place at the Renaissance hotel Read More
Who Will Get H-1B Visas for FY 2009?
Apr 8, 2008 | Yesterday was the last day to submit H-1B visa applications for FY 2009 to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Read More
Latest Coverage of Tech Policy Summit '08
Mar 27, 2008 | Day two of Tech Policy Summit is well underway, with Summit emcee Steve Wildstrom of BusinessWeek interviewing Verizon EVP and Read More
Bill Gates' Visit to Capitol Hill
Mar 13, 2008 | During his testimony yesterday before the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Science and Technology, which celebrated its 50th anniversary, Read More
Companies Creating Home-Grown Engineers?
Mar 6, 2008 | There's an interesting article in today's Wall Street Journal about the lengths some companies are going to here in the Read More
New Data on CS Majors; Start of H-1B Season
Mar 5, 2008 | Data from the Computing Research Association (CRA) indicates that the number of undergraduates majoring in computer science at North American Read More
President's State of the Union: Tech Highlights
Jan 29, 2008 | As a follow-up to our earlier post about the President Bush's State of the Union address, here is a summary Read More
Davos' Q&A on Climate Change and Green Tech
Jan 25, 2008 | At the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos yesterday, Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin and Google.org chief Read More
Green Jobs, and Even Greener Investments
Jan 17, 2008 | We first wrote about green-collar jobs last October. Since then, there have been a series of reports, campaign speeches and Read More
CEA: Gadgets are Great, but Trade Matters Too
Jan 8, 2008 | Amidst the lure of shiny new gadgets - and the many distractions that make Vegas what it is - the Read More
Gravel's Take on Tech
Dec 9, 2007 | TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington has released a transcript of his fifth presidential candidate interview -- this time, he spoke with Read More
Debating Workforce, H-1B Issues in Iowa
Dec 6, 2007 | Even though Iowa may not have a reputation as a hot bed for tech policy issues, according to Computerworld, some Read More
Barack Obama's Take on Tech
Nov 26, 2007 | A week after publishing his Q&A with former Sen. John Edwards, TechCrunch's Michael Arrington has published the transcript of an Read More
John McCain's Take on Tech
Nov 12, 2007 | Techcrunch blogger Michael Arrington is interviewing presidential candidates to get their views on tech-related issues. We wrote about his first Read More
House Approves Peru Trade Bill
Nov 8, 2007 | Earlier today, the House of Representatives voted in favor of a free trade agreement with Peru, one of four pending trade pacts that President Read More
Sending Federal Workers Home (to Work)
Nov 7, 2007 | It's not that unusual these days for employees to telecommute, especially in Silicon Valley where connectivity is plentiful and work Read More
President Bush on Free Trade and TAA
Nov 6, 2007 | At a White House Forum on International Trade and Investment earlier today, President Bush made his case for free trade Read More
Blending Clean Tech and U.S. Manufacturing
Nov 2, 2007 | CNET editor Michael Kanellos believes that "the clean-technology revolution will likely make a lot of people in Silicon Valley rich, but Read More
Mitt Romney's Take on Tech
Nov 1, 2007 | We've written before about the growing role of social media in the 2008 elections -- whether it's YouTube debates, MySpace Read More
Tech Coalition Keeps Fighting for Immigration Reform
Oct 29, 2007 | "The demise of comprehensive immigration reform does not change [or] reduce the urgency for congressional action this year on skilled immigration Read More
Editorial: Education Shortage is a Myth
Oct 26, 2007 | Improving math and science education has been a core issue for U.S. tech companies who see a need for more Read More
Creating "Green-Collar" Jobs
Oct 23, 2007 | We recently wrote about the massive amount of venture capital funding in the clean tech sector: $1.1 billion in the Read More
TechNet Leaders Gather at Summit in Berkeley
Oct 12, 2007 | Industry group TechNet held its annual Innovation Summit on the UC Berkeley campus yesterday. As in previous years, PBS Read More
Republicans Debate Economic Issues
Oct 10, 2007 | CNBC, MSNBC and The Wall Street Journal hosted a Republican presidential debate yesterday in Dearborn, Michigan that focused on Read More
Silicon Valley, D.C. Ranked "Techiest" Cities
Oct 2, 2007 | Using data from the U.S. Census Bureau's 2006 American Community Survey, Computerworld reports that Silicon Valley is the most Read More
How India is Outsourcing Outsourcing
Sep 25, 2007 | The New York Times takes a look at how leaders in the Indian outsourcing market like Infosys and Tata Consultancy Read More
Follow-up Study on Immigrant Entrepreneurs
Jun 15, 2007 | In conjunction with the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, researchers from Duke University and UC Berkeley have published a follow-up report Read More
Does Silicon Valley Need More H-1B Visas?
May 25, 2007 | Mercury News writer Dean Takahashi weighed in on the H-1B visa issue yesterday in this column called "We need more Read More
Congress Gets More Proposals for H-1B Increase
May 17, 2007 | As we blogged about last month, the U.S. government received a record number of applications for H-1B visas this year Read More
H-1B "Surge" Makes History
Apr 5, 2007 | It only took one day for the U.S. government to reach its annual cap on H-1B visa applications -- the Read More
H-1B Visa Process Underway
Apr 3, 2007 | News.com's Declan McCullagh wrote yesterday about the "rush for H-1B visas" that began April 1st. As McCullagh explains, that is Read More
Elizabeth Corcoran on Immigration in Silicon Valley
Mar 9, 2007 | In her latest Letter from Silicon Valley column, Forbes contributing editor Elizabeth Corcoran writes about "Silicon Valley's Immigration Problem." Corcoran, Read More
