In mid-2012, Clairemont had invested nearly $75M in Yahoo! after the tech company settled a highly visible proxy fight with prolific activist investor Daniel Loeb of hedge fund Third Point.
Tech companies settled in the Bay to take advantage of the venture capital and talent centered around Stanford and Berkeley.
It wasn't until 2015 that the tech giants settled a civil lawsuit alleging that they conspired to reduce competition by preventing employees from moving from one company to the other.
He stepped down from day-to-day duties at bea in 2001, just as tech was settling into its long slide, and was hanging out in Aspen but looking to start another company.
Just when you thought the tech world had settled down with HD TV, boom!
Palantir's move comes after Seattle-based tech company Splunk settled its own hiring discrimination suit in February.
Four of Silicon Valley's largest tech companies have settled an antitrust lawsuit brought against them over a shared no-hire agreement that prevented poaching employees from one company by another.
Within high-tech, companies settling with patent trolls find that trolls are asking for patents as part of the settlement.
After kicking around other suggestions with various tech folk (eg Silicon City, Silicon Shoreditch), I settled on Tech City".
Tech-land has settled into a feast and famine pattern, and usually maintains its sense of exceptionalism during booms.
