Recession Lingers On in Silicon Valley

Much has been made recently of the huge valuations of Internet players like Facebook, Twitter and Zynga, but while Web 2.0 is doing well, the Silicon Valley region itself is not. A new report shows compensation and unemployment…

Is NeXt a Better Way to Buy Into Facebook Before the IPO?

Unless you’re ultra-wealthy or willing to chance the vagaries of the secondary markets, you can’t invest yet in hot social networking companies like Facebook, Zynga or Groupon. But soon there may be an alternative: a new fund c…

The Biggest Tech Surprises and Disappointments in 2010

Forecasting which technologies will succeed is always hazardous, but it proved especially difficult in 2010, a year full of surprises — and also several disappointments. Facebook blew away even the most optimistic expectations…