Peanut Butter redux, expensive Sonsini, Hoffman burned, Infinera & much more
(Updated) roundup of the high-stakes game going on in Silicon Valley:
Brad Garlinghouse’s Peanut Butter memo — The Yahoo executive complained about the company’s “proclivity to repeatedly hire leaders from outside.” This is noteworthy, because he himself was hired from the outside. Before Yahoo, he’d served as chief executive at DialPad, and drove that company into the ground. We reached out to Brad Monday night, and hope to get comment soon.
Larry Sonsini can’t be at fault — Fortune… Continue Reading
U.S. soldiers in Iraq stymied by translation tech
Integrated Wave Technologies is a Fremont company that builds a translation device for U.S. soldiers in Iraq, produced 1,300 of its machines costing between $2,500 to $3,000.
Soldiers say “house search” into the machine, and it translates in Arabic: “We’re here to search your house. Please stay in this room. Do you have any weapons?”
But then the U.S. military realized what soldiers really needed was to have a conversation with the people they encounter, not just… Continue Reading