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Silicon Valley
May 3 2009, Marco Villa

There seems to be a model of business in Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley is, of course, the main IT hub in the world. Home to such IT giants such as Intel, Google, Yahoo, Cisco and many more, the Valley certainly knows how to make money.

But then..

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