By Chris O'Brien Mercury News Columnist Click photo to enlarge Dropbox founders Arash Ferdowsi, left, and Drew Houston. (Dropbox photo) "1234" Dropbox is the most deceptively simple of services. Place a Dropbox folder on each computer or gadget you own.

By Bruce Newman bnewman@mercurynews.com A live version of "Sylvia's Super-Awesome Maker Show!" was taking place Saturday afternoon on eBay's San Jose campus, and the show's super-awesome star was attempting to explain 3-D printing to a fifty-something nitwit while talking at approximately the speed of sound. On her Internet show (sylviashow.com), Sylvia, who is 10, goes by just the one name - like Cher, who by the way she has never heard of - and aims at a

By Mike Swift mswift@mercurynews.com Google (GOOG) is in the midst of more than $120 million in construction projects at its Mountain View headquarters, including work on a series of new or previously secret hardware testing labs that hint at the Internet giant's expanding interest in crafting consumer devices like its rivals Apple (AAPL) and Microsoft. Among the projects, revealed by a review of public records by this

by Charles Cooper From time to time the technology industry buys into convenient fibs that it tells itself even when anyone with two feet planted firmly on planet Earth knows that it's a lot of malarkey. Remember when "counting eyeballs" was on everyone's lips?

February 12, 2012, 4:56 AM EST Business Exchange E-mail Print More From Businessweek United Technologies Is Said to Consider Sale of Pumps Business Oracle Buys Taleo for $1.9 Billion, Adds Human-Resource Tool Diamond Restatement Imperils Pringles Deal, Ends CEO Dreams Facebook Amends IPO Filing to Show Zynga Partnership Details FalconeБ─(tm)s Harbinger Fund Lost 47% on LightSquared in 2011 By Jeffrey McCracken and Lauren Coleman-Lochner

J.R. Childress is up before the sun, bustling about in the French colonial brick house he built. He helps pack his wife's lunch, downs some eggs or cereal for breakfast, pores over online and newspaper job listings and hopes - even prays - this will be the day when his fortunes turn around. He's determined to stay busy, job or no job, for sanity's sake.

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BALA CYNWYD, Pa., Feb. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Law office of Brodsky & Smith, LLC announces that it is investigating potential claims against the Board of Directors of Taleo Corporation ("Taleo" or the "Company") (Nasdaq - TLEO) relating to the proposed acquisition by Oracle Corporation. ("Oracle"). Under the terms of the transaction, Taleo shareholders would receive $46.00 in cash for each share of Taleo stock they own.

By Sharon Cohen AP National Writer / February 11, 2012 J.R. Childress is up before the sun, bustling about in the French colonial brick house he built.

J.R. Childress is up before the sun, bustling about in the French colonial brick house he built. He helps pack his wife's lunch, downs some eggs or cereal for breakfast, pores over online and newspaper job listings and hopes Б─" even prays Б─" this will be the day when his fortunes turn around. By Andy Manis, AP Ted Casper of Edgerton, Wis., stands for a photograph in a machine shop at Blackhawk Technical College in Janesville, Wis., on Jan.