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Re:Google pays $250M for Sunnyvale offices where 3,000 could... by Nav_Panel on Thursday March 17, 2016 @08:42AM (#11303963)
This happened in Pittsburgh. Not quite a college town, but many Google Pittsburgh employees are straight out of Carnegie Mellon.
Re:Google pays $250M for Sunnyvale offices where 3,000 could... by pflats on Thursday March 17, 2016 @11:11AM (#11304809)
It's definitely a recruiting strategy. Heck, until fairly recently, Google Pittsburgh was on the CMU campus.

Apple, Intel, Disney, and a bunch of others still are.

http://www.cmu.edu/corporate/partnerships/cic/tenants.html