Strapped startup declines acquihire, Apple poaches key engineers; NP, says court [pdf]

Re:Strapped startup declines acquihire, Apple poaches key en... by fsloth on Monday October 05, 2020 @05:41AM (#24686047)

What happened to Sophia-Antipolis near Antibes? That area was spun out as "silicon valley of europe". No tax specialization AFAIK but it did have a dense concentration of tech companies at least two decades ago.

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Re:Strapped startup declines acquihire, Apple poaches key en... by Rochetshipz on Monday October 05, 2020 @04:04PM (#24691436)

I just read a book about it from the co-creator of Siri, Luc Julia.

He spends a good part of the book complaining about french research, which does not care about products impact and thus is very theoretical, but also about the heavy hand of the government in dictating where innovation happens.

He also talks about Sophia-Antipolis. It started with a boom, and a lot of tax credits to incentivize corporations. But after the subvention dried up, many companies left. It seems to me that most of the companies left do not have innovation in their DNA.

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Re:Strapped startup declines acquihire, Apple poaches key en... by fnord123 on Monday October 05, 2020 @08:01AM (#24686882)

Everywhere is "Silicon Valley of Europe". Silicon Saxony, Silicon Roundabout (London), Silicon Fen (Cambridge), Silicon Docks (Dublin), Silicon Glen, etc

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Re:Strapped startup declines acquihire, Apple poaches key en... by benhurmarcel on Monday October 05, 2020 @07:13AM (#24686547)

It's still there, and growing.

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