Silicon Valley, California

While California continues to struggle with some of the highest unemployment in the nation, in Silicon Valley there are jobs to be found, and that helps keep California in the game. Anyone reading this story is touched by Silicon Valley, such a force in the California business landscape that they had to rename the Bay Area to comprise this region which is much larger than San Francisco, once the only recognized icon for the region. How does Silicon Valley affect you? The photo collage you see on this page was created using Adobe software. You'll find Adobe corporate headquarters in San Jose. The Feedburner subscription that delivers this information t0 your email is powered by Google, located in Mountain View. Our stories often get tweeted on Twitter from San Francisco, may appear on our SeeCalifornia Facebook page ( Menlo Park,) and show up in our LinkedIN account, headquartered in Mountain View. If you use free email services to receive this story, it may arrive in your Gmail (Google) account or Ymail from Yahoo, whose corporate headquarters is in Sunnyvale.

If you live in these cities, you may be in Silicon Valley: Atherton, Belmont, Burlingame, Campbell, Cupertino, East Palo Alto, Emeryville, Foster City, Fremont, Gilroy, Hayward, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Los Gatos, Menlo Park, Millbrae, Milpitas, Monte Sereno, Morgan Hill, Mountain View, Newark, Palo Alto, Redwood City, San Bruno, San Carlos, San Francisco, San Jose, San Leandro, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Saratoga, South San Francisco and Sunnyvale

Companies located in Silicon Valley include but aren't limited to these: Adobe Systems, Advanced Micro Devices, Agilent Technologies, Align Technology, Apple Inc., Applied Materials, Cisco Systems, eBay, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Intuit, Juniper Networks, KLA Tencor, LSI Logic, Marvell Semiconductors, Maxim Integrated Products, National Semiconductor, NetApp, Nvidia, Oracle Corporation, Salesforce.com, SanDisk, Symantec, Western Digital, Yahoo!, Adaptec, Aeria Games and Entertainment, Akamai Technologies, Altera, Amazon.com's A9.com, Amazon.com's Lab126.com, Amdahl, Ampex, Facebook, Fairchild Semiconductor, Force10, Foundry Networks, Hitachi Data Systems, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, IBM Almaden Research Center, Kerio Technologies, LinkedIn, Logitech, LynuxWorks, Maxtor (acquired by Seagate), McAfee (acquired by Intel), Mozilla Foundation, Move Inc, Netflix, Netscape (acquired by AOL), NeXT Computer, Inc. (acquired by Apple), Ning, NXP Semiconductors, PayPal (now part of eBay), Playdom, PlayPhone, Quanta Computer, Quantcast, Quora, Rambus, Riverbed Technology, Salesforce.com, Silicon Graphics, Silicon Image, Sony Ericsson, SRI International, Sun Microsystems, SunPower, Synopsys Inc., Tibco Software, Tesla Motors, TWiT, TiVo, Twitter, VA Software (Slashdot), WebEx, VeriSign, Veritas Software, VMware, Vocera, Xilinx, YouTube, Yelp, Inc., Zoran Corporation, and Fry's Electronics.