Microsoft and other Seattle tech companies import their brainpower, says the Seattle Times in an article that imagines the city going bust. Thankfully for Seattle, if Microsoft wanted to move out of the city to the source of its employees, it'd have to search for that source, and we all know how Microsoft does at search. [Seattle Times]
Watch the headlines about Silicon Valley long enough and you'll notice that India loves to name the "next Silicon Valley." Most recently, that's Project Nano City (ugh, I know), a town entrepreneur Sabeer Bhatia (co-founder of Hotmail) plans to force-clone in northern India. Of course, by the time his 10-to-15-year project congeals, the tech world will be abuzz about some exciting new field (say, the mojito industry), and the city's planned industries of nanotech, pharms, computer tech and energy will be dead. [Gulf Times]
Like electropop and the Transformers, solar power is hot again. [San Jose Mercury News]
