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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_91911\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 264px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-91911\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/Bahl-264x300.jpg\" alt=\"Kumal Bahl returned to India after being educated in the U.S. because he could not get a working visa.\" width=\"264\" height=\"300\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kunal Bahl returned to India to launch a business because he could not get a working visa in the U.S. (Photo courtesy of Snapdeal)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As immigration laws make it harder for foreigners to stay and work in the U.S., Silicon Valley is losing some of its most promising talent — and its unrivaled reputation as ground zero for tech innovation. Those who came here for education or to take a stab at fame and fortune are no longer waiting around for a local job and visa to start their careers. They’re going home — to India, China, Brazil, or other countries courting them. With the growth of global tech hubs and the capital available abroad, some immigrant entrepreneurs are wondering why they should bother to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kunal Bahl, who got his engineering and business degrees at the University of Pennsylvania, made money on campus by charging students to watch cricket games. Bahl was hired at Microsoft for what he calls a “super-exciting” role traveling the globe, selling their products in Asia and Latin America. Bahl’s steady climb was halted in 2007, after his professional H1B visa was not chosen in the immigration lottery system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Bahl didn’t pine to stay in the U.S. He declined Microsoft’s offer to place him in another country and try again. After losing the lottery, Bahl was ready to place a new bet.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe the time is now getting to a point where it would be right to start a business in India,” Bahl said. “Earlier than that, there was just no meaningful internet penetration to start a technology business.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, at age 29, Bahl is the CEO of \u003ca href=\"http://www.snapdeal.com\">Snapdeal\u003c/a>, India’s largest e-commerce company (much like eBay) and employs more than 1,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#Countries\">How Other Countries Are Vying for Foreign Talent\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#Chile\">Meet the Chile-con Valley Entrepreneurs\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In the global market, two big shifts have made it possible for Bahl’s business to grow: First, people in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East are going online and buying things at breakneck speed, and what were considered “developing countries” are now called “emerging markets.” Secondly, it’s a lot cheaper to build an internet company than say, a semiconductor plant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a wave, and this wave is not stopping,”Bahl said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>AMERICAN INVESTORS FOLLOW THE TALENT\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>American money is following the foreign talent. Leading venture capitalists are opening offices in Asia and Latin America in order to more easily scout start-ups, and funds that buy start-ups are promoting foreigners to be partners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_91957\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.geeksonaplane.com\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-91957\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/Screen-Shot-2013-03-20-at-9.23.49-PM-300x157.png\" alt=\"Geeks On a Plane takes tech entrepreneur across the world to look for new opportunities.\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Geeks On a Plane takes tech entrepreneurs across the world to look for new opportunities.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley investor Dave McClure is eager to invest. McClure is the captain of a global expedition he calls \u003ca href=\"http://www.geeksonaplane.com/\">Geeks On A Plane:\u003c/a> “Fifty crazy people from all over the globe, having fun, learning about technology and meeting new friends,” as he explains in his promotional video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve known for a long time that capital is global and money knows no borders. The difference now is that Americans like McClure are warming up to start-ups founded and based outside the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>More on immigration in California\u003c/strong>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/22/tech-companies-push-to-expand-skilled-worker-visas-rankles-critics/\">Tech Companies’ Push to Expand Skilled Worker Visas Rankles Critics\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/05/on-immigration-high-tech-and-ag-dont-meet-literally/\">On Immigration, High Tech and Ag Don’t Meet, Literally\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Christen O’Brien, who does market research on the Geeks’ upcoming tour sites, says that when she started in the tech industry in 2006, “venture capital firms wouldn’t invest in start-ups in New York. That was too far away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McClure, who just returned from India, where he took a gang of investors and technologists to visit Bahl’s company Snapdeal and newer ones, estimates “at least 25 percent of our investment strategy is probably outside the U.S. and that’s probably growing to 50 percent over the next two or three years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That doesn’t mean McClure is done with America. Silicon Valley is his home, and he wants this round of immigration reform to make it easier for foreign tech entrepreneurs to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years McClure and fellow investors have pushed for a new brand of visas, dubbed Start-up Visas, with the premise that it will help stop the so-called “Reverse Brain Drain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The visa, now part of the immigration reform debate in Congress, would allow foreign entrepreneurs who start businesses in the U.S. to stay, so long as they generate revenue, have American investors and employ others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And in fact, the crazy thing is after we tried to announce these ideas, other countries copied the idea and passed legislation before we did,” McClure said. “And we’re still sitting here with our thumbs up our asses, trying to get it done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>OTHER COUNTRIES LURE ENTREPRENEURS\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chile got it done, thanks to a Chilean citizen educated at Stanford Business School. During his master’s program, Nicolas Shea noticed that many of his fellow students couldn’t get visas to stay in the U.S. After Chile’s earthquake in 2010, Shea talked his government into courting America’s visa rejects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.startupchile.org\">Start-Up Chile,\u003c/a> a tech incubator, gives entrepreneurs $40,000 to build their companies. Unlike American investors, the government does not take a share of the new companies in exchange for the cash. Unlike America’s start-up visa proposal, the companies do not have to employ others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re giving taxpayers money to people who don’t vote here, and people who are not forced to hire local talent,” said spokeswoman Maitetxu Larraechea. “We don’t force them to do anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A webcam tour of the Santiago hub showed that the startup workplace is much like a bunker: two big rooms with 20-something-year-olds hunched over laptops, writing code for their various Internet start-ups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_91960\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 150px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-91960\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/Gitu-Malwani1-150x150.png\" alt=\"Indian citizen Jeetu Melwani,moved from the U.S. to Chile for better opportunities.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Indian citizen Jeetu Melwani moved from the U.S. to Chile for better opportunities.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Indian citizen Jeetu Melwani, who hopped on the webcam to share his story, said he worked in the U.S. for five years, and decided to come to Chilecon Valley — yes, that’s what they call it here — because he got tired of being the foreign worker for someone else’s company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Am I going to wait 10 more years in Corporate America to get a Green Card when I can go anyplace else in the world like Chile, where they want us to come and start business and give us money to do it?” Melwani said. “Hell yeah, I’m going to Chile.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investor McClure said that Americans should not be cavalier about our lead in the technology race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s 6.7 billion people who don’t live in the U.S.,” McClure said. “A lot of those people are smart.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McClure is taking his geeks to Southeast Asia next. Though he hasn’t seen a tech hub that compares to home yet, McClure guesses that within 20 years, it’s entirely possible that a Chilecon Valley will overtake Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Click play to hear the story from \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201303210850/c\">The California Report\u003c/a> on how immigration law is impacting Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/84287393″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> \u003ca name=\"Countries\">HOW OTHER COUNTRIES ARE VYING FOR FOREIGN TALENT\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the global economic crisis, many countries have been courting foreign entrepreneurs. From the U.K. to Chile, American citizens are among the largest applicant pool. Take a look at who’s in the game:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ctable border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n\u003ctbody>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"51\">\u003cstrong>Country\u003c/strong>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"306\">\u003cstrong>Description\u003c/strong>\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"51\">\u003cstrong>United Kingdom\u003c/strong>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"306\">In 2008, the UK gave foreign nationals a fast track to citizenship through its ‘entrepreneur visa’ program. If in 3 years the entrepreneur creates 10 permanent jobs in the UK or generates at least £5m in income, she can stay without bars to working. The UK program is small, with under 500 visas granted in the year ending June 2012. Source: \u003ca href=\"http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/553d1c5e-7d0a-11e2-8bd7-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2O0jsaUar\">Financial Times\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"51\">\u003cstrong>New Zealand\u003c/strong>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"306\">In 2009, New Zealand created a fast track to permanent residence for entrepreneurs who have been self-employed there for at least two years and benefited the country through investment money or job creation. Source: \u003ca href=\"http://www.immigration.govt.nz/migrant/stream/invest/entrepreneur/\">Immigration New Zealand\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"51\">\u003cstrong>Chile\u003c/strong>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"306\">Following Chile’s earthquake in 2010, the government launched a development program to give visas and $40,000 to entrepreneurs. The government does not take any ownership stake in the start-up, but requires the immigrant to give classes to natives on entrepreneurship. Source: \u003ca href=\"http://startupchile.org\">Startup Chile\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"51\">\u003cstrong>Canada\u003c/strong>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"306\">This year Canada begins giving permanent residency to an estimated 2750 start-up entrepreneurs and their families. Qualified applicants must speak English or French, and get an approved Canadian investor to commit seed funding.Source: \u003ca href=\"http://startupvisa.ca/\">Start Up Visa Canada \u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"51\">\u003cstrong>Australia\u003c/strong>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"306\">In 2012, Australia revamped its visa program to admit immigrants with demonstrated business experience. To stay permanently, the entrepreneur has to generate income and create 2 new jobs within 3 years — or 5 years with support from state/territory of residence.Source: \u003ca href=\"http://www.migrationinformation.org/USfocus/display.cfm?ID=896\">Australian Visa Bureau and Migration Policy Institute\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"51\">\u003cstrong>Ireland\u003c/strong>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"306\">In 2012, Ireland began taking visa applications from foreign entrepreneurs. Citizens outside the European Union with a start-up idea and funding of at least €75,000can get residency in five-year tranches. 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Santa Barbara, and headed to Chile to build Medko – a global health network of patients and doctors. Many of the foreign entrepreneurs being courted by countries like the UK and Chile are American citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-92029 alignleft\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/Carlos-Gonz%C3%A1lez--150x150.png\" alt=\"Carlos González\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\">Carlos González de Villaumbrosia, a citizen of Spain, got his MBA at U.C. Berkeley and worked for a Silicon Valley start-up. Gonzalez says he went to Chile because “Latin America is blowing up like crazy,” and Santiago is a good place to expand his business. 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Leading venture capitalists are opening offices in Asia and Latin America in order to more easily scout start-ups, and funds that buy start-ups are promoting foreigners to be partners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_91957\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.geeksonaplane.com\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-91957\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/Screen-Shot-2013-03-20-at-9.23.49-PM-300x157.png\" alt=\"Geeks On a Plane takes tech entrepreneur across the world to look for new opportunities.\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Geeks On a Plane takes tech entrepreneurs across the world to look for new opportunities.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley investor Dave McClure is eager to invest. McClure is the captain of a global expedition he calls \u003ca href=\"http://www.geeksonaplane.com/\">Geeks On A Plane:\u003c/a> “Fifty crazy people from all over the globe, having fun, learning about technology and meeting new friends,” as he explains in his promotional video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve known for a long time that capital is global and money knows no borders. 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That was too far away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McClure, who just returned from India, where he took a gang of investors and technologists to visit Bahl’s company Snapdeal and newer ones, estimates “at least 25 percent of our investment strategy is probably outside the U.S. and that’s probably growing to 50 percent over the next two or three years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That doesn’t mean McClure is done with America. Silicon Valley is his home, and he wants this round of immigration reform to make it easier for foreign tech entrepreneurs to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years McClure and fellow investors have pushed for a new brand of visas, dubbed Start-up Visas, with the premise that it will help stop the so-called “Reverse Brain Drain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The visa, now part of the immigration reform debate in Congress, would allow foreign entrepreneurs who start businesses in the U.S. to stay, so long as they generate revenue, have American investors and employ others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And in fact, the crazy thing is after we tried to announce these ideas, other countries copied the idea and passed legislation before we did,” McClure said. “And we’re still sitting here with our thumbs up our asses, trying to get it done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>OTHER COUNTRIES LURE ENTREPRENEURS\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chile got it done, thanks to a Chilean citizen educated at Stanford Business School. During his master’s program, Nicolas Shea noticed that many of his fellow students couldn’t get visas to stay in the U.S. After Chile’s earthquake in 2010, Shea talked his government into courting America’s visa rejects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.startupchile.org\">Start-Up Chile,\u003c/a> a tech incubator, gives entrepreneurs $40,000 to build their companies. Unlike American investors, the government does not take a share of the new companies in exchange for the cash. Unlike America’s start-up visa proposal, the companies do not have to employ others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re giving taxpayers money to people who don’t vote here, and people who are not forced to hire local talent,” said spokeswoman Maitetxu Larraechea. “We don’t force them to do anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A webcam tour of the Santiago hub showed that the startup workplace is much like a bunker: two big rooms with 20-something-year-olds hunched over laptops, writing code for their various Internet start-ups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_91960\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 150px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-91960\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/Gitu-Malwani1-150x150.png\" alt=\"Indian citizen Jeetu Melwani,moved from the U.S. to Chile for better opportunities.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Indian citizen Jeetu Melwani moved from the U.S. to Chile for better opportunities.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Indian citizen Jeetu Melwani, who hopped on the webcam to share his story, said he worked in the U.S. for five years, and decided to come to Chilecon Valley — yes, that’s what they call it here — because he got tired of being the foreign worker for someone else’s company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Am I going to wait 10 more years in Corporate America to get a Green Card when I can go anyplace else in the world like Chile, where they want us to come and start business and give us money to do it?” Melwani said. “Hell yeah, I’m going to Chile.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investor McClure said that Americans should not be cavalier about our lead in the technology race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s 6.7 billion people who don’t live in the U.S.,” McClure said. “A lot of those people are smart.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McClure is taking his geeks to Southeast Asia next. 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"content": "\u003cp>Can nothing stop Google?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thanksgiving, Microsoft launched attack ads against the Internet giant that were so ferocious they made headlines in advertising and technology publications alike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Microsoft spokespeople are still warning anyone who will listen that Google is reading its users' email and delivering biased results in Google Shopping. But it has stopped buying the controversial Scroogled ads on television, in newspapers, and social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That part is about finished,\" Stefan Weitz, Microsoft senior director of online services, said on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By one measure, the ads succeeded. Over 110,000 people signed Microsoft's petition on the \u003ca href=\"http://www.thepetitionsite.com/997/086/864/tell-google-to-stop-going-through-your-email-to-sell-ads/\">Care2 petition site\u003c/a> to \"Tell Google to stop going through your email to sell ads.\" Microsoft originally set a goal of 25,000 names.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if Microsoft hoped its campaign would win it a greater share of the market for Internet search or webmail, it looks like a pretty big flop. Data from market research suggests that users of Google search and Gmail shrugged off the onslaught.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a little early to say, but it appears to be backfiring,\" said Jonathan Weber, an online advertising executive at \u003ca href=\"http://www.lunametrics.com/\" target=\"_blank\">LunaMetrics\u003c/a> digital marking firm in Pittsburgh.\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the ads, still \u003ca href=\"http://www.scroogled.com/\">available online,\u003c/a> Microsoft makes two claims about its competitor. First, it charges that Google scans Gmail messages, looking for keywords it can use to serve up relevant advertising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's an example of the first claim:\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://hub.video.msn.com/embed/daf3e70b-2c71-4ba2-b792-f975eadbc2e0/?vars=bGlua292ZXJyaWRlMj1odHRwJTNBJTJGJTJGd3d3LmJpbmcuY29tJTJGdmlkZW9zJTNGbWt0JTNEZW4tdXMlMjZ2aWQlM0QlN0IwJTdEJTI2ZnJvbSUzRCZmcj1zaGFyZWVtYmVkLXN5bmRpY2F0aW9uJnN5bmRpY2F0aW9uPXRhZyZjb25maWdOYW1lPXN5bmRpY2F0aW9ucGxheWVyJmxpbmtiYWNrPWh0dHAlM0ElMkYlMkZ3d3cuYmluZy5jb20lMkZ2aWRlb3MmbWt0PWVuLXVzJmNvbmZpZ0NzaWQ9TVNOVmlkZW8%3D\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Second, it says that the results of searches in Google Shopping are paid advertisements, as in this ad:\u003cbr>\n[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WIluNt0mvA]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The complaints aren't new. Microsoft put out a longer, more humorous Gmail Man advertisement a year ago:[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXqrTfOWx60]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Asked for comments, a Google spokesperson provided a written statement pointing out that live human beings at the company don't scan everyone's emails. \"An automated algorithm--similar to that used for features like Priority Inbox or spam filtering--determines which ads are shown.\")\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On one level, the Scroogled campaign is just another example of a company trashing a rival. \"Microsoft is in the position of the underdog and so the use of negative advertising is not surprising,\" said Weber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What sets apart the Microsoft campaign is that--especially in the early weeks--it said almost nothing about its own products. In that way it differed sharply from Apple's famous \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByCyqSROGf0&NR=1&feature=endscreen\">I'm a Mac\u003c/a>\" campaign that purported to offer a side-by-side comparison with Microsoft's Windows operating system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact the Scroogled campaign was more reminiscent of political advertising. And \u003ca href=\"http://www.newrepublic.com/article/112421/microsofts-scroogle-ads-and-mark-penn\">some observers\u003c/a> said it was telling that Bill and Hillary Clinton's former pollster, Mark Penn, took a job at Microsoft before the campaign began.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\nUsing Google, said Microsoft's Stefan Weitz, \"is like smoking. It's hard to get folks to stop doing it.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Weitz said Penn had little to do with the effort. But he acknowledged that the campaign started with an opinion poll conducted by the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research. \"We found that seven out of 10 Americans don't know that this practice of scanning emails was happening, and when they found out they didn't like it,\" said Weitz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Microsoft saw an opportunity to challenge what had become an almost unconscious habit. If you want to find something on the Internet, you Google it. \"People do it with muscle memory,\" said Weitz. \"They don't even give it a thought.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By raising the privacy and bias concerns, Microsoft wanted to introduce at least a moment of hesitation. \"They will hit that cognitive speed bump,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that strategy doesn't seem to have clicked with users.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest market share scores from \u003ca href=\"http://www.comscore.com/Insights/Press_Releases/2013/2/comScore_Releases_January_2013_U.S._Search_Engine_Rankings\" target=\"_blank\">comScore\u003c/a> show Google with a 67 percent share of Internet searches for January 2013, up 0.3% from its 66.7 percent share in December 2012. The gain erased its 0.3% loss from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.comscore.com/Insights/Press_Releases/2013/1/comScore_Releases_December_2012_U.S._Search_Engine_Rankings\" target=\"_blank\">month before\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Microsoft sites registered a 0.3% gain from November to January to reach a 16.5% share, but that increase appeared to come at the expense of also-rans like Ask and the struggling Yahoo!.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.email-marketing-reports.com/metrics/email-statistics.htm\">Email market share\u003c/a> is harder to measure because people read their email on a variety of different software on different devices and sometimes read the same message multiple times. Also Microsoft launched Outlook.com, an upgrade and rebranding of its hotmail.com web-based email program during the Scroogle campaign, further muddying the metrics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even Weitz isn't claiming that Microsoft has unseated Gmail's position at or near the top of the heap among email services Americans like to use. \"It's a habit,\" said Weitz. \"It's like smoking. It's hard to get folks to stop doing it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not only that, the ads just didn't resonate, said Weber of LunaMetrics. \"This sort of talk about privacy rings false and obscures the real issues,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Users do care about privacy. But they are apparently sophisticated enough to know there isn't a human Gmail Man snooping on them, and they are willing to let a machine scan their emails and show them ads in exchange for a free service. \"By and large, people said, 'Eh, I don't care about this,'\" said Weber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And from a privacy standpoint, the distinction Microsoft made was trivial, said Seth Schoen, a senior staff technologist for the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation. \"What Microsoft was emphasizing is that they are not using users' data in the same way, in particular to target advertising,\" he said. \"As far as I know that's true. But it doesn't mean that they couldn't do that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both companies collect data on what terms users plug into their search engines and use that information to target ads, he said. The practice of looking at emails to target ads is only slightly removed from that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If they really wanted to get serious about privacy, Schoen said, Google and Microsoft would offer encrypted email programs that would be much harder for anyone to scan and analyze, including hackers, and they would create these technologies in ways that the security could be audited by third parties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far neither company seems interested in such a venture. \"Against that backdrop there's not much difference between the two,\" said Schoen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Microsoft's complaint about Google Shopping results has a little more validity, Weber and Schoen agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Users don't expect search results to be influenced by what advertisers pay, especially since the earlier version of Google Shopping, Froogle, didn't organize results that way, said Schoen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Google isn't hiding the practice--its acknowledged on the Google Shopping page. And Weber says the Scroogle ads felt heavy-handed. \"There is a legitimate difference to be exploited there. But Microsoft should adjust the tone, talk about why their product is great.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which brings us to the best advice Weber has to offer Microsoft. \"What they really have to focus on is having a better product.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Microsoft put out a longer, more humorous Gmail Man advertisement a year ago:\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/yXqrTfOWx60'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/yXqrTfOWx60'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Asked for comments, a Google spokesperson provided a written statement pointing out that live human beings at the company don't scan everyone's emails. \"An automated algorithm--similar to that used for features like Priority Inbox or spam filtering--determines which ads are shown.\")\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On one level, the Scroogled campaign is just another example of a company trashing a rival. \"Microsoft is in the position of the underdog and so the use of negative advertising is not surprising,\" said Weber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What sets apart the Microsoft campaign is that--especially in the early weeks--it said almost nothing about its own products. In that way it differed sharply from Apple's famous \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByCyqSROGf0&NR=1&feature=endscreen\">I'm a Mac\u003c/a>\" campaign that purported to offer a side-by-side comparison with Microsoft's Windows operating system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact the Scroogled campaign was more reminiscent of political advertising. And \u003ca href=\"http://www.newrepublic.com/article/112421/microsofts-scroogle-ads-and-mark-penn\">some observers\u003c/a> said it was telling that Bill and Hillary Clinton's former pollster, Mark Penn, took a job at Microsoft before the campaign began.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\nUsing Google, said Microsoft's Stefan Weitz, \"is like smoking. It's hard to get folks to stop doing it.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Weitz said Penn had little to do with the effort. But he acknowledged that the campaign started with an opinion poll conducted by the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research. \"We found that seven out of 10 Americans don't know that this practice of scanning emails was happening, and when they found out they didn't like it,\" said Weitz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Microsoft saw an opportunity to challenge what had become an almost unconscious habit. If you want to find something on the Internet, you Google it. \"People do it with muscle memory,\" said Weitz. \"They don't even give it a thought.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By raising the privacy and bias concerns, Microsoft wanted to introduce at least a moment of hesitation. \"They will hit that cognitive speed bump,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that strategy doesn't seem to have clicked with users.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest market share scores from \u003ca href=\"http://www.comscore.com/Insights/Press_Releases/2013/2/comScore_Releases_January_2013_U.S._Search_Engine_Rankings\" target=\"_blank\">comScore\u003c/a> show Google with a 67 percent share of Internet searches for January 2013, up 0.3% from its 66.7 percent share in December 2012. The gain erased its 0.3% loss from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.comscore.com/Insights/Press_Releases/2013/1/comScore_Releases_December_2012_U.S._Search_Engine_Rankings\" target=\"_blank\">month before\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Microsoft sites registered a 0.3% gain from November to January to reach a 16.5% share, but that increase appeared to come at the expense of also-rans like Ask and the struggling Yahoo!.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.email-marketing-reports.com/metrics/email-statistics.htm\">Email market share\u003c/a> is harder to measure because people read their email on a variety of different software on different devices and sometimes read the same message multiple times. Also Microsoft launched Outlook.com, an upgrade and rebranding of its hotmail.com web-based email program during the Scroogle campaign, further muddying the metrics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even Weitz isn't claiming that Microsoft has unseated Gmail's position at or near the top of the heap among email services Americans like to use. \"It's a habit,\" said Weitz. \"It's like smoking. It's hard to get folks to stop doing it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not only that, the ads just didn't resonate, said Weber of LunaMetrics. \"This sort of talk about privacy rings false and obscures the real issues,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Users do care about privacy. But they are apparently sophisticated enough to know there isn't a human Gmail Man snooping on them, and they are willing to let a machine scan their emails and show them ads in exchange for a free service. \"By and large, people said, 'Eh, I don't care about this,'\" said Weber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And from a privacy standpoint, the distinction Microsoft made was trivial, said Seth Schoen, a senior staff technologist for the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation. \"What Microsoft was emphasizing is that they are not using users' data in the same way, in particular to target advertising,\" he said. \"As far as I know that's true. But it doesn't mean that they couldn't do that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both companies collect data on what terms users plug into their search engines and use that information to target ads, he said. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/03/yahoo.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-58972\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/03/yahoo.jpeg\" alt=\"yahoo\" width=\"268\" height=\"188\">\u003c/a>The news that Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has banned telecommuting has created as much buzz as \u003ca href=\"http://news.cnet.com/8301-33617_3-57473289-276/what-hiring-marissa-mayer-immediately-does-for-yahoo/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">her initial hiring\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/16/marissa-mayer-the-first-ever-pregnant-ceo-of-a-fortune-500-tech-company/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">her pregnancy\u003c/a>, or her \u003ca href=\"http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2012/10/02/marissa_mayer_gives_birth_to_baby_boy_yahoo_ceo_s_short_maternity_leave_is_a_big_mistake_.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">incredibly short maternity leave\u003c/a>. In other words, it’s getting a lot of attention, and much of it negative. It’s also sparked a serious debate about the relationship between employees’ work and home life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The discovery of the internal memo announcing the restriction (dug up by Kara Swisher of \u003ca href=\"http://allthingsd.com/20130222/physically-together-heres-the-internal-yahoo-no-work-from-home-memo-which-extends-beyond-remote-workers/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">All Things D\u003c/a>) has stirred up that Internet-age old question of whether working at home actually benefits organizations. \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201302260900\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KQED’s Forum with Michael Krasny\u003c/a> took up the conversation Tuesday. 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Women should be as diverse as men should.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As much as the media and perhaps individual women across the globe view Mayer as a harbinger of work/life balance reform or a bellwether for women in tech, she is simply a woman in charge of a tech giant, trying to keep it profitable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To me this isn’t really about work/life, it’s about company/no company,” said Shane Mac, director of products at \u003ca href=\"http://about.zaarly.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zaarly,\u003c/a> a San Francisco based startup, who realized relatively early on that his company could not be run remotely. “It’s about taking in Yahoo, which is a pretty legendary brand and kind of symbolizes what this valley and area is, and not becoming \u003ca href=\"http://sixrevisions.com/web_design/popular-search-engines-in-the-90s-then-and-now/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AltaVista, Lycos and AskJeeves\u003c/a> …”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe [management] feels like this is the medicine that Yahoo needs,” said Swisher. “Maybe she feels like there’s no other way of fixing it. Unfortunately what’s happened is she’s created a focus on the work-from-home thing versus fixing what ails Yahoo.” \u003c!--more-->\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. Yahoo Might Have Needed A Kick in the Butt\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.istockanalyst.com/finance/story/5658887/yahoo-s-woes-in-search-engine-share-continues-as-microsoft-gains\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">plenty of evidence\u003c/a> that Yahoo has been suffering in recent years and that \u003ca href=\"http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57478331-93/marissa-mayer-enters-the-yahoo-pressure-cooker/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">there’s lots of pressure\u003c/a> on Mayer to put the company back on top. Swisher says that the telecommuting ban may have been prompted by a perceived lack of urgency among company employees:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know from sources she was frustrated that the Yahoo parking lots were sort of slow to fill in the morning and quick to empty out in the afternoon,” said Swisher. “I think that was a big issue. ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you go to the Yahoo campus, you know when you comparatively visit Google or Twitter or Facebook, there’s a real energy on those campuses and Yahoo for years has been rather enervated …” said Swisher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. Working From Home is Productive, Despite Stigma\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/research/striking-the-balance.html?cmpid=alumni\">A recent Stanford study\u003c/a> found that workers who telecommute are happier and more productive than their in-office counterparts. \u003ca href=\"http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/research/striking-the-balance.html?cmpid=alumni\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The study\u003c/a> examined productivity of call center workers for a Chinese travel agency who worked from home versus those who worked in an office. The telecommuters in the study answered more calls, worked more hours, and took shorter breaks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forum received \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/KQEDForum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">multiple comments\u003c/a> from telecommuters saying that they are perceived as slackers and have to try harder to make their contributions known. Williams, from the Center for WorkLife Law, called this the “flexibility stigma.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The assumption is that if you’re working in a traditional way and not taking time off and your you-know-what is on your chair, then you’re productive. And the assumption is, if you even so much as take family leave, especially for fathers, that you’re unproductive and uncommitted. This is a very strong automatic assumption; it’s a very strong stigma and it’s not related to reality, it’s related to perception. ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For men actually, it’s related to the perception that if you’re taking leave or you’re on a flexible schedule that you’re more feminine than other men,” said Williams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. Being Productive is Different Than Being Innovative\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even supporters of telecommuting acknowledged that it wouldn’t work for every company or for every position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are people at Yahoo who could be collaborating and innovating and haven’t been,” said John Roberts, a professor of strategic management and international business at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. “And that collaboration and innovation is encouraged by having people there face to face, interacting formally and informally. But for people who are doing technical support or doing relatively straightforward programming tasks, or people who are managing databases — there’s not a lot of innovation potential in their jobs. To allow those who want to work from home to do so makes their lives better, makes them happier, and makes them more productive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Said Williams: “It’s not an issue of whether telecommuting suits a company, it’s really an issue of whether telecommuting — properly managed — is suitable for an individual job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just as most of the Forum guests agreed that telecommuting is not appropriate for every position, most also agreed that managing remote workers required a different approach than managing those you see every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5. Remote Workers Require Different Management\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The management of remote takes a lot of time,” said Mac of Zaarly, the startup. “And you have to invest in it and put time into it. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>By Matt Drange, \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The largest tech companies in the Bay Area have avoided paying federal taxes on more than $225 billion they have accumulated through foreign subsidiaries, documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By sheltering their assets overseas, Silicon Valley companies such as Apple, Google, eBay and Hewlett-Packard are able to reduce their annual taxes in some cases by billions of dollars, according to a Center for Investigative Reporting analysis of the\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>50 largest firms’ financial statements filed in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/02/cash-overseas.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-88894\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/02/cash-overseas.jpg\" alt=\"cash-overseas\" width=\"550\" height=\"400\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\nWidespread tax avoidance by some of California’s most prominent companies has contributed to federal revenue shortfalls as President Barack Obama and Congress consider whether to cut government programs. 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Many companies designate their holdings overseas even though much of the money is invested in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five companies – Cisco Systems, Apple, Hewlett-Packard, Google and Oracle – accounted for more than two-thirds of the $225 billion in accumulated foreign earnings as of Dec. 31, 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tech companies that relied on foreign income to reduce their taxes include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Apple, which reported $40.4 billion in holdings overseas and had an effective global tax rate of 12.6 percent over the past three years\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>eBay, which reported $10 billion overseas and had an effective tax rate of 15.3 percent over the past three years\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Google, which reported $24.8 billion overseas and had an effective tax rate of 17.6 percent over the past three years\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Yahoo, which reported $3.2 billion overseas and had an effective tax rate of 17.9 percent over the past three years\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Cisco, which reported $41.3 billion overseas and had an effective tax rate of 20.9 percent over the past three years\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/02/Silicon-Valley-Taxes.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Audio: Interview with reporter Matt Drange\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The companies declined to comment on their offshore holdings or the amount of taxes they paid.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>The effective tax rate is based on the Center for Investigative Reporting’s calculation using the firm’s publicly available information; companies are not required to make public how much they paid the Internal Revenue Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of Silicon Valley’s biggest firms will benefit from a two-year extension of a tax provision – included in the January fiscal cliff deal – allowing them to defer taxes on royalties earned by their foreign subsidiaries. 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The other companies avoided disclosure by citing an exception that estimating their tax burden was impractical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a disgrace,” said Kleinbard, the USC professor. “It’s entirely optional whether companies provide U.S. tax estimates on offshore earnings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the companies analyzed by the Center for Investigative Reporting\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>support a lobbying effort in Washington for a one-time tax holiday that would allow them to transfer foreign earnings to the United States at rates as low as 5 percent. An industry group, which calls itself the WIN America Campaign, has spent $760,000 on lobbying since it was formed in 2011, federal records show. Its backers include the \u003ca href=\"http://www.svtdg.org/index.html\">Silicon Valley Tax Directors Group\u003c/a>, made up of representatives from dozens of tech companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A similar amnesty was offered in 2004. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>by Sam Harnett\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even from outside on the street I could hear the screams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After braving the morning rush of the financial district, I had arrived to cover the first day of \u003ca href=\"//devbootcamp.com/%E2%80%9D\">Dev Bootcamp\u003c/a>, an intensive web development course held in a nondescript building not too far from Chinatown. That’s where the screams -- well, more like cheers, really -- were coming from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_88357\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/02/06/dev-bootcamp/devbootcamp/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-88357\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-88357\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/02/DevBootcamp-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Photo courtesy Dev Bootcamp\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy Dev Bootcamp\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The program claims to transform, in nine short weeks, normal people into programmers. Price: $12,000. I hoped to be out of there and onto my next assignment before the coding got too heavy and the morning coffee wore off. But the very point of these bootcamps is that no one slips into the background and the energy remains at a constant boil. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thus after my Dev Bootcamp contact caught me slinking away from the 18 cheering participants, he soon had me walking through the rows, slapping their hands. Soon we went into forced mingling and touchy-feely ice breaking. A loud burst of “Gangnam Style” signified it was time to form a circle and engage in intimate AA-style personal introductions. Here I linked arms with the would-be devs and discussed in earnest the most embarrassing moment of my life. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Looking for a new career\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of the students sitting around the circle resembled the stereotypical programming geek that still sometimes crop up in movies or TV shows. No coke-bottle classes or pallid skin, and not even the remotest sign of anti-social behavior. Even those with a computer science background were witty, enterprising and self-deprecating. Everyone in the circle talked about startups and areas of interest as if at an NGO round table discussion on how to save the world. How could web development reform the justice system? Could it change how we get our food? What about education reform? Linguistic analysis?\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>The focus of the camp is to develop basic programming capacity while refining “soft skills” like teamwork and self-reflection\u003c/strong>.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The students come from a broad mix of backgrounds. One is a Spanish ophthalmologist, another a Ph.D student in Japanese literature. A smattering of young college grads are also in the mix. These aren't slackers with dim employment prospects; they’re overachievers, with varying reasons for signing on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I wanted to work for a small company doing something that I loved, something that I was interested in,\" said Brayden Cleary. \"With my major, what I learned in college, I didn't have an in at any of those companies – no marketable skills. I am doing this so that I have a fundamental understanding of programming technology ... \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eno Compton, the Japanese literature Ph.D., said he likes the educational approach. \"As I came close to finishing my doctorate ... it became clear that there is something really wrong with the university system now. To me, Dev Bootcamp is ... this tremendous new beginning for education ... that isn't [biased] towards what kind of degree you have, or did you get good grades. None of that. It's all about really loving something and wanting to learn it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are all bright, determined people, dead set on making the jump to a new career. But can they really become programmers in just nine weeks?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Beyond just programming chops\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Dev Bootcamp curriculum centers around \u003ca href=\"//www.google.com/search?q=ruby+on+rails%E2%80%9D\">Ruby on Rails\u003c/a>, a versatile web development language. But as the founder, Shereef Bishay, explains, the language doesn't really matter. The focus of the camp is to develop basic programming capacity while refining “soft skills” like teamwork and self-reflection. That includes sessions on counseling, yoga and something on the F word. It's hard to imagine Bill Gates or Steve Jobs gave these topics much thought as they built their empires. But times have changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003ca href=\"http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/03/dev-bootcamp/\" target=\"_blank\">Dev Bootcamp transforming education\u003c/a> (TechCrunch) \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>And the truth is, programming itself has changed, too. Computer languages have evolved to be less code-intensive and more intuitive than what self-schooled programmers once punched out on hulking mainframes in the basements of universities, or on astronomically expensive home computers. Programmers who once had to write thousands of lines of code to complete a task can now do the same thing in minutes with Ruby on Rails or Python.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These innovations have dropped the technical bar significantly for an entry-level web developer. You still need to have the problem-solving skills of a programmer, but you don't have to memorize massive tomes of language rules or churn out lines of immaculate C++. According to recruiter Lisa Hall, what companies are putting a priority on when they look for developers are motivation, drive, creative thinking, team orientation and learning ability. These qualities, says Hall, are now prized more than pure programming power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hall works at VonChurch, an agency that specializes in hiring for the digital entertainment industry. She’s currently working with two recent grads from a program similar to Dev Bootcamp based in New York. Neither had any previous experience in programming, but now that they've graduated, tech companies have come calling with offers of a job interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hall says companies still need great hardcore programmers with the kind of deep background developed at four-year college computer science programs. But to meet current demand, there just aren't enough of those to go around. So the tech industry is hungry for progammers with even basic qualifications. The rewards can be great. In the Bay Area, the starting salary for an entry-level web development position is roughly $85,000 a year, says both Bishay and Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dev Bootcamp says 16 of the 17 job-seekers who graduated with its first cohort last spring found employment. Twitter and OUYA, a maker of video game consoles, confirmed to me they have hired Dev Bootcamp graduates. Bishay is set to open another school in Chicago, and his classes are booked through June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bishay says the acceptance rate into the program is about 15 percent, around the same as it is for a prestigious college. But the attributes that will gain you a spot couldn’t be more different. First off, traditional factors factors like grades, prerequisites, and tests matter very little. Applicants only have to plug in some basic information and upload a video of themselves. To make the final cut, Bishay conducts an interview over Skype. He says he is looking basically for “nice people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone in the industry is so sanguine about the ability of novices to ramp up so quickly and attain parity with those who have taken a more traditional route.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There have always been bootcamps in the tech skills business,\" says Scott Melland, CEO of Dice, a tech employment site where job-seekers post profiles and recruiters can search for particular skills. \"The most successful ones have been training programs where they are taking existing tech professionals and updating their skills, or helping those people learn new technology or new programming languages ... The ones that profess to take someone from no familiarity to great skill-sets in a short time, I think you have to look very closely at them before jumping to go and use them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would say that the most successful software developers we see are ones that actually have a broad background, either get a college degree or an engineering degree, and then specialize into various technologies. They’ve shown the ability to learn, and the flexibility and the general understanding.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It will be interesting to see how the job placement rates for these intense bootcamp programs evolve as more pop up to meet demand. How companies view the programs will depend much on the performance of the first few rounds of graduates. And while they have shown initial success as employable beginners, whether any will find a spot in the next generation of ground-breaking programmers remains to be seen.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Neither had any previous experience in programming, but now that they've graduated, tech companies have come calling with offers of a job interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hall says companies still need great hardcore programmers with the kind of deep background developed at four-year college computer science programs. But to meet current demand, there just aren't enough of those to go around. So the tech industry is hungry for progammers with even basic qualifications. The rewards can be great. In the Bay Area, the starting salary for an entry-level web development position is roughly $85,000 a year, says both Bishay and Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dev Bootcamp says 16 of the 17 job-seekers who graduated with its first cohort last spring found employment. Twitter and OUYA, a maker of video game consoles, confirmed to me they have hired Dev Bootcamp graduates. 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