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Dylan’s Desk: You are all to blame for Apple’s factories
As everyone knows by now, iPhones and iPads are built in huge Chinese manufacturing plants where tens of thousands of people work 12-hour shifts for little money, have little privacy, and ...
What it takes to compete with Silicon Valley
This week, my column takes a look at the growth of regional centers of innovation. Although Silicon Valley still creates the most software startups and takes home the lion's share of ...
What you need to know about the Facebook IPO
Facebook filed its paperwork for an initial public offering this week, putting it on track to be the largest tech IPO so far. The company hopes to raise $5 billion with ...
Dylan’s Desk: It’s the season for Monday-morning quarterbacking
As the San Francisco 49ers fumbled their shot at a Superbowl appearance on Sunday, you could almost hear the Monday-morning quarterbacks warming up their complaints.It’s no different in Silicon Valley, where ...
Dylan’s Desk: Saddle your horses and fire up the 3D printer
MakerBot from Venturebeat on Vimeo.Is there anything more American than a robot that can create anything you want out of a spool of plastic and some electricity?It’s only a ...
Dylan’s Desk: 6 must-watch trends for 2012
I wrote this column sitting on a floor in a hallway of a big Vegas hotel, the Venetian, as members of the press and bloggers swarmed past me en route to ...
Dylan’s Desk: The most revolutionary products you’ll see in 2012 (video)
Anyone can pick most interesting phones of 2011, but it takes real foolhardiness to predict the most revolutionary products of the coming year.Call me a fool. I’m placing bets on these five ...
Dylan’s Desk: Meltwater aims to build a billion-dollar business without venture capital
This column is a profile of independent Norwegian entrepreneur Jorn Lyseggen. Meltwater Group is 10 years old, and has been almost entirely self-funded. Lyseggen started the company in Oslo with $15,000 of ...
Dylan’s Desk: Android hates me, and it doesn’t like you much, either
I’ve come to the conclusion that my Android phone hates me.It probably hates you, too.The breaking point came today when I tried to use my phone to Google the word “Edsel.” ...