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If one separates San Francisco from San Jose, then it seems like it should also be on the list. Not only does the Silicon Valley spread up the peninsula (into what the census considers the San Francisco MSA), but San Francisco itself is home to many web companies. But the Bay Area really functions as a whole, so I think its more accurate to just count the two together.
If one separates San Francisco from San Jose, then it seems like it should also be on the list. Not only does the Silicon Valley spread up the peninsula (into what the census considers the San Francisco MSA), but San Francisco itself is home to many web companies. But the Bay Area really functions as a whole, so I think its more accurate to just count the two together.
Yes. San Mateo County, nestled between San Francisco County and Santa Clara County (San Jose) has high-tech companies throughout. Some much closer to San Jose and what's considered Silicon Valley and some much closer to San Francisco. The point is its almost a continuous chain along the peninsula, and it's getting to be the point along the East Bay (which also hosts some fairly prominent tech companies).
Employment Numbers are irrelevent when trying to determine the Top Tech Metros.
What's more important is the work that's done there. I would rather have 10,000 innovators than 100,000 drones.
NY or DC are certainly not anywhere near as important as the Silicon Valley-as if.
Does the report deal solely with the private sector? If not, the Bay Area probably gets a huge boost because of the national laboratories and the public universities there for the public sector and the same for the voluntary sector. Very exciting.
The Bay Area is both the tech capital (Silicon Valley) and the "Birthplace of Biotechnology" (SSF). How is it possibly not ranked #1 by ANY account?? Many of those who want to hate on the Bay will dismiss it as JUST being ground zero for tech jobs, and when it has been pointed out in the past that it has the largest concentration of the 20 most innovative US cities (18Montclair has posted this list I believe) people brush that all aside and say aside from weather, that is all we've got. But now we're not even number 1 in what we specialize in?? Gimme a freakin break!
The Bay Area is both the tech capital (Silicon Valley) and the "Birthplace of Biotechnology" (SSF). How is it possibly not ranked #1 by ANY account?? Many of those who want to hate on the Bay will dismiss it as JUST being ground zero for tech jobs, and when it has been pointed out in the past that it has the largest concentration of the 20 most innovative US cities (18Montclair has posted this list I believe) people brush that all aside and say aside from weather, that is all we've got. But now we're not even number 1 in what we specialize in?? Gimme a freakin break!
They probably broadened the list to include what is normally not considered "Tech" within tech circles. Bay Area quite easily crushes the rest of the U.S. and everywhere else besides Tokyo.
Lets just look at the "big boys" of tech, actually lets look at the top companies in the world.
To do that lets look at the top 100 market cap of all firms, world wide.
Apple #2 in the world.
Google #17 in the world.
Cisco #24 in the world.
Intel #27 in the world.
Oracle #31 in the world.
HP #32 in the world.
lets just stop right there, game over, no need to go on.
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