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Vinod Khosla pledges half of his wealth to charity

Indian-American Silicon Valley venture capitalist Vinod Khosla and his wife Neeru are among the latest billionaires to have pledged half of their vast fortunes to charity either during their......

Four Indian-Americans among the richest in the US

Four Indian-Americans, including Sun Microsystems co-founder Vinod Khosla, are among Forbes 400 Richest People in America, a list topped by Microsoft founder Bill Gates. Khosla occupies the 308th......

The men with the Midas touch

Most venture capitalists have hordes of entrepreneurs clamoring for a few moments of their time. Jonathan Meeks prizes his list of people who don't want to take his calls.Meeks, then a vice......

Apple unveils iPhone grand plan

Steve Jobs and two of his top lieutenants spent just over an hour last week outlining their plans to allow software makers to create programs custom-built to run on the iPhone, Apple's innovative......

Despite odds, these deal makers made it big

Recent credit crunch and market woes be damned: Technology's most powerful deal makers have been on a winning streak.Companies that venture capitalists helped launch hauled in $34 billion from 86......

Will movies now be made this way?

Until fairly recently, Kerry Conran was the kind of quiet, geeky engineer you probably have at your office. For over a decade, he held temporary jobs at a number of publications, lived in a small......

Champions League: Sehwag to lead Daredevils

Recuperating from a shoulder surgery that ruled him out of the ongoing tri-series in Sri Lanka and the subsequent Champions Trophy, Virender Sehwag will lead the Delhi Daredevils in next month's......

Etiquette rules at Wimbledon

Decorum reigns supreme at Wimbledon, a bastion of middle class gentility where the stiff upper lip never trembles on the hallowed centre court.At the Australian and US Grand Slam tournaments,......

Hackett's reign goes the distance

History will tell you there is no such thing as a certainty in sport but there is at least one swimmer looming as a sure bet to win gold in Athens -- and it is not Michael Phelps or Ian Thorpe.That......

Olympic torch relay begins in Sydney

The Olympic flame returned to Australia on Friday for the first leg of a six-week global relay leading up to the Athens Games in August.Greeted by the sort of security normally reserved for heads......

Australia mourns Thorpe's disqualification

"He's sunk," Melbourne's Sunday Herald Sun newspaper declared on its front page following Ian Thorpe's shock disqualification from the 400 metres freestyle at the Olympic trials. Olympic champion......

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Gallo Center for the Arts in Modesto Announces 2013-2014 Season

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PernixData Closes $20 Million in Over-Subscribed Series B Round

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