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Quote: Tech giants turn on their smarts and figure out where to take the Internet

Job advertisements flood the Internet, seeking workers for Google, Yahoo and eBay. Newspaper headlines blare reports of those companies raking in money hand over fist and bingeing on multimillion-dollar shopping sprees. And Apple Computer, the personal computing pioneer, makes its umpteenth comeback.

After a few bleak years of retrenching and downsizing, suddenly there's a feeling of ebullience in Silicon Valley...

full article: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...FFD6J1.DTL
Silicon Valley may be "humming again" for corporations, but the "hum" doesn't seem to extend to US job seekers.  Smile

Quote:Even the newest startups factor India and China into their business plans from the get-go as a source of both revenue and talent. Of course, that overseas talent is one reason the local job market remains soft.

"The go-go days of people hiring tons of employees have just not returned,"