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Here's a list of the companies that may participate in an anti-SOPA blackout protest. The Stop Online Piracy Act is so polarizing in the tech world that huge web companies like Amazon , eBay , Facebook , and Google are considering going dark in order to spread awareness, reports ExtremeTech .

Here's a list of the companies that may participate in an anti-SOPA blackout protest. The Stop Online Piracy Act is so polarizing in the tech world that huge web companies like Amazon , eBay , Facebook , and Google are considering going dark in order to spread awareness, reports ExtremeTech

Here's a list of the companies that may participate in an anti-SOPA blackout protest. The Stop Online Piracy Act is so polarizing in the tech world that huge web companies like Amazon , eBay , Facebook , and Google are considering going dark in order to spread awareness, reports ExtremeTech

Here's a list of the companies that may participate in an anti-SOPA blackout protest. The Stop Online Piracy Act is so polarizing in the tech world that huge web companies like Amazon , eBay , Facebook , and Google are considering going dark in order to spread awareness, reports ExtremeTech .

Imagine that you are an employee at a hot Silicon Valley startup. Your salary is solid, but you know that your real payoff will come one day--in a year, or four years, or some undetermined day down the road--when your company has an IPO and its much-lusted-after shares get bid up by eager investors. But, for whatever reason--you want to buy a house, you want to diversify your personal assets, you want to leave the company before it goes public--you don't want to wait that long

"July's small business data cheers me up," says an economist. Small businesses across the U.S. added 50,000 people to payrolls in July, continuing the trend of small increases in hiring that started nearly two years ago.

One of the reasons that so many companies are formed in Silicon Valley is that they are all groomed from Day One for sale to another Silicon Valley company.