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A struggling Silicon Valley maker of flash memory chips filed a pair of sweeping patent infringement suits on Monday against Samsung of South Korea.

Special shows real-life fight clubs in tech-haven Silicon Valley, Calif.

Many Internet startups are starting to heed the dire warnings of their venture capital investors and cutting costs.

How long they can last is another question.From MarketWatch.

Things aren’t looking so good in Silicon Valley these days. As the US economy adjusts to recession, funding for ventures is down, stock prices are falling, and online tabloids have to let go even their decadent Valley prostitution reporters.

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The impact from the ongoing credit crisis is finally starting to translate into layoffs for the tech sector.

The folks I'm talking to say that AT&T, Apple, Yahoo, Sun, eBay, Microsoft, Nortel, HP, EDS, and even Google are going to be passing around pink slips with alarming aggressiveness in weeks to come.

Sun looks like its ready to layoff 2,500 employees, Yahoo up to 3,500, Apple about 1,500, and HP will slice off a whopping 25,000 staffers after its buyout of EDS.

Industry statistics say that about 1,417,000 tech staffers are out of work so far this year, and that's just in Silicon Valley...

Well, as they say in Vegas, in for a dime, in for a dollar. Or in the case of the Congressional bailout that President Bush wasted no time whipping out his sharpie and signing into law, how about $700 billion?

The revote in the U.S. House of Representatives was never in doubt. Traders I know on Wall Street were telling me industry lobbyists, and especially tech industry lobbyists, were pushing hard for the bill.

Rumors of companies all over Silicon Valley running out of cash to meet payroll spread like wildfire, although I think a lot of that is just hyperbole.

It's possible some small tech...

High-tech entrepreneurs, investors and executives now believe the question is when, not if, the financial chaos will hurt the country’s cradle of innovation.

Silicon Valley Reps. urge Department of Justice not to pre-emptively block Yahoo-Google ad partnership.

Though Phil Gramm's pretty sure the recession is all in our heads, it seems that just about every road to a healthy economy is either closed or under construction.

The road to Silicon Valley, according to one analyst, is at best at a standstill.

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In the midst of Silicon Valley’s recession-proof enthusiasm for community-oriented Web sites, LinkedIn, the most boring of the social networks is grabbing the spotlight.