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Finding the UKs largest websites for example, doesn't help my quest to find the largest UK-based tech companies:
Alexa - Top Sites in United Kingdom 25 Most Visited Websites in the United Kingdom June 23, 2014
1 google.co.uk-SAN FRANCISCO
2 google.com-SAN FRANCISCO
3 facebook.com-SAN FRANCISCO
4 youtube.com-SAN FRANCISCO
5 bbc.co.uk-LONDON
6 ebay.co.uk-SAN FRANCISCO
7 yahoo.com-SAN FRANCISCO
8 amazon.co.uk-SEATTLE
9 wikipedia.org-SAN FRANCISCO
10 live.com-SEATTLE
11 linkedin.com-SAN FRANCISCO
12 twitter.com-SAN FRANCISCO
13 dailymail.co.uk-LONDON
14 theguardian.com-LONDON
15 paypal.ocm-SAN FRANCISCO
16 theladbible.com-MANCHESTER
17 wordpress.com-SAN FRANCISCO
18 amazon.com-SEATTLE
19 telegraph.co.uk-LONDON
20 pinterest.com-SAN FRANCISCO
21 instagram.com-SAN FRANCISCO
22 tumblr.com-NEW YORK
23 t.co-SAN FRANCISCO
24 rightmove.co.uk
25 imdb.com-SEATTLE
But don't fret, I shall keep looking.
But I digress. Since the usually eager UK forumers are hard pressed to help me out with the names of their massive tech companies that put London at parity with the valley, I shall continue to search on my own..
"San Francisco is okay. San Francisco thinks it's a world class city. London is a world class city and I think for creative young people, particularly as we're moving into an era certainly in the consumer internet world - where the ideas are about the way people live their lives and interact and so forth - it's not all going to be pure mathematical hard technology. I think that vibrant open culture is the second wave and it's more about how do we connect with people.
"It's something that many Silicon Valley companies have a very hard time with because they're a bunch of guys who live in an environment where they go to work and they code all day and go home and they really don't have a sense of what's going on outside there."
The president of the EU executive said the reason so many Europeans were in the US tech capital was because it is a cultural environment encouraging innovation, new businesses and risk-taking...
Barroso insisted: “I was there not only with the big brands of Silicon Valley but the start-ups and the incubators of start-ups. I met so many Europeans there. One of the reasons they were there […] was precisely because of the general environment, the cultural environment in favour of innovation.”
Europe had to find out why young people are “attracted to other more dynamic places” for their careers, he said.
Europe has often struggled with comparisons to Silicon Valley. Entrepreneurs and their investors have cited the availability of finance, the willingness to fail and take risks as the world-renowned hub’s advantages over Europe...
But I can see why you'd want desperately to be Silicon Valley, it can be very lucrative.
Average Weekly Wage, 2013 Top 4 US Counties
San Mateo, California $2,724-SILICON VALLEY
New York(Manhattan), New York $2,041
Santa Clara, California $1,972-SILICON VALLEY
San Francisco, California $1,753-SILICON VALLEY
The Swedish telecom giant has agreed to lease 410,000 square feet at Irvine Company's under-construction Santa Clara Square office campus, making it the largest high-end office lease so far this year in Silicon Valley and one of the biggest deals in a speculatively built project in the past couple of years.
For Ericsson, the deal represents a consolidation and expansion into a campus that could house roughly 2,000 workers. It is also something of an image upgrade as the company seeks a higher profile in Silicon Valley...
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