But was Yahoo about selling ads, or about cutting-edge tech?
I get to do software and hardware engineering and I'm developing cutting-edge tech all the time.
But if Wetherspoon is to budget food and drink to what Apple is to cutting-edge tech with chamfered edges, its evangelists aren't nearly so sycophantic.
The story takes place at a fictional boundary-pushing West Coast social media outfit – a walled garden of cutting-edge tech, employee benefits and great parties.
Fostering the growth of these kinds of emerging companies will help San Francisco develop a reputation as a cutting-edge tech hub, and that reputation might lure larger employers, Ms. Matz said.
Work, it seemed, was just another sort of play – which was why Liz, 35, had joined Expedia, "to play with cutting-edge tech in a big kid's sandbox".
Aerotyne International is a cutting-edge tech firm out of the Midwest, awaiting imminent patent approval on a new generation of radar equipment…" In reality, Aerotyne is a worthless, dilapidated garage in Dubuque, Iowa.
"The approaches of many of the people in the space has been, 'Hey, we're standing next to big stars,' or, 'Hey, we've got the slickest, most cutting-edge tech product,' but that's not why people use it," he said.
"Berlin is a crazy mixture of creativity and cutting-edge tech," says Eric Wahlforss, one of the founders of SoundCloud, who in 2007 went on a reconnoitring tour before deciding to base the firm in the German capital ("London was very expensive, Vienna was too boring, in Barcelona not much was going on, San Francisco didn't have the right vibe").
Rex on Trial" and starting Saturday, thanks to Kokoro Dinosaurs, the cutting-edge tech outfit that builds the creatures, and paleontologists from the Museum of the Rockies, visitors will be asked to decide whether the carnivore tyrannosaur was a fearsome predator or an opportunistic scavenger.
