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Well regarded tech entrepreneur Vivek Wadhwa warns that talent fleeing the U.S. for India and China is threatening innovation here. But at a popular Valley eatery, you can see -- and hear -- a very different picture of the area's global brainpower.

More than 13,000 people come to South by Southwest Interactive in Austin to launch new products, play, learn -- and party. It's become one of the hottest tech shows in the country for creative types to network with geeks.

"Nice shirt." That's the first thing Mint.com CEO and online finance wunderkind Aaron Patzer said to me when we sat down in a small conference room in the company's offices in Mountain View, Calif., in the heart of Silicon Valley. My shirt was lime green. Patzer also wore a green shirt. The office...

Based on the current scenario, the S&P 500 has always bounced in the past. _________________ I'm pleased that this Christmas list for Warren Buffett fans includes my worst-selling book, Trade like Warren Buffett. _________________ Funny. CNBC's debut segment from its initial launch.

Someone stole all the tea at the TechCrunch50 Conference. All the tea bags, that is. I wanted a pick-me-up and coffee can send me over the top. Alas, no tea. "I'm so sorry. This is the first time in all my years of catering that this has ever happened," said one of the catering company reps. (She's...

Here's some advice to entrepreneurs looking for early stage capital to build a mobile phone or mobile Web application. Hit up your grandma, cash out your IRA, or look under the car seat for quarters. Because you certainly aren't going to get any love from the venture capitalist community. In data...

Kai-fu Lee has $115 million, and he wants to put it to work. Monday, he announced that his new angel-focused venture fund, Innovation Works, is targeting a rate of five successful Chinese start-ups a year. Previously, Lee was in charge of Google's (GOOG) operations in China. The new endeavor is...

With all the stock market frothiness these days and tech stocks like Apple (AAPL) and Google (GOOG) leading the charge, one would think it's high time the tech IPO market rebounded. Well, the broader IPO market appears to be bouncing back somewhat. Over the past three months, 23 companies filed S-1...

It's been said that it makes sense to start a business when times are tough. The current spate of layoffs has led many businesses to rely on temps, contractors and other outside service providers, actually leading to a market opportunity for entrepreneurs. If they can carve out a piece of the...

Unless you're like me and obsessed with the morbid, you may never have wondered what happens to your online life when your real life ends. What happens to your Gmail account? How do your survivors de-activate your PayPal account? Perhaps most vexing: Who updates your Facebook page and alerts...