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Where innovation happens Innovation can happen anywhere. Take a look at the headquarters, quirky office set-ups, labs and gathering places of some of the world’s most powerful and innovative tech companies and their employees.
Apple Inc.
Apple's current headquarters are located in Cupertino, Calif. The company has gone from a start-up out of Steve Jobs's garage, to a company that, at one point, was calculated to have more cash on hand than the U.S. Treasury.
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Apple's proposed headquarters
This rendering provided by Apple shows a proposed 150-acre campus built around a circular building made almost entirely of curved glass. Apple CEO Steve Jobs made a surprise appearance at a Cupertino City Council meeting on June 7, 2011, to announce plans for a major expansion.
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Hewlett-Packard garage
George Bodway, center, takes a peek at the historic garage where Hewlett-Packard was founded in Palo Alto, Calif. Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard, used the garage as a research lab, development workshop and manufacturing facility for the company founded in 1939.
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Hewlett-Packard headquarters
Hewlett-Packard printers and computers sit on display in the lobby of the company's headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif.
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Linkedin
Linkedin, the social media site that allows users to network based on their professional and personal connections, is based in Mountain View, Calif. The company's initial public offering in May shattered expectations, with its stock nearly doubling within minutes of the opening bell on the New York Stock Exchange.
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Linkedin
Reid Hoffman, right, co-founder and chairman of Linkedin, speaks with Jeffrey "Jeff" Weiner, Linkedin’s CEO, at the Allen & Co. Media and Technology Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, in July 2011. Allen & Co. is one of the leading investment houses in media and entertainment, and its annual conference is one of the most high-profile corporate events of the year.
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Netflix
Netflix headquarters are located in Los Gatos, Calif. The company recently announced it would be raising monthly fees for its DVD mailing service. The announcement was met with a rash of negative feedback from customers.
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Netflix
Reed Hastings, founder and CEO of Netflix, poses at his company's Los Gatos, Calif., headquarters in 2007. According to a report by Forbes, in a call with investors in July 2011, Hastings said the feedback the company received after the price-increase announcement was not as harsh as they expected. "Believe it or not, the noise level was actually less than we expected, given a 60 percent price increase for some subscribers,” Hastings said.
Noah Berger
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Intel
A photo of Intel Corp. headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif.
Paul Sakuma
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Intel
President Obama, accompanied by Barbara Miner, the manager of Intel’s Transmission Electronic Microscope Lab, looks at a computer screen at the Intel Corp. offices in Hillsboro, Ore., in February 2011.
Carolyn Kaster
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Sun Microsystems
The exterior of Sun Microsystems headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif.
Paul Sakuma
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Future home of Facebook
Facebook announced in February 2011 that it will move its headquarters from Palo Alto, Calif., to Menlo Park, Calif., and take over the former Sun Microsystems campus, pictured here, which consists of 57 acres, nine buildings and about one million square feet of space.
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Sun Microsystems
Jochen Furthmueller demonstrates Project Sun SPOT, which stands for Small Programmable Object Technology, by controlling a robotic arm with hand gestures at the Sun Microsystems Sun Labs Open House in Menlo Park, Calif., in June 2006.
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Google Inc.
A view of the Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif.
Paul Sakuma
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Google Inc.
A worker takes a "G-bike" for a ride outside Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., in January 2011. Google provides a number of employee perks, including, at some office locations, a slide, complimentary laundry service and cafeterias.
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Google
Scooters sit in a hallway for use by Google employees at the company offices inside historic Chelsea Market in New York. The space, which is across the street from the older Google office, houses around 300 employees.
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Google
Google employees work at a "Tech Stop" at the Internet company's New York office complex. "Tech Stop" is the company's internal tech support hotline.
Spencer Platt
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YouTube
The YouTube headquarters are located in San Bruno, Calif. The popular video Web site launched in 2005 and was purchased by Google in 2006.
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YouTube
Employees work at YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, Calif., in 2006. The company recently launched a new interface for its web video service. The project was named "Cosmic Panda."
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Groupon Inc.
Groupon Inc. signage is displayed on the screensaver of a computer at company headquarters in Chicago. The company provides deal-of-the-day coupons to customers.
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Groupon Inc.
Groupon team members sit on rubber exercise balls as they work at the company's headquarters in Chicago.
Tim Boyle
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Groupon
Groupon Inc. team members work at the company's headquarters in Chicago. In June 2011, Groupon announced it planned for a $30 billion valuation, according to reports.
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Facebook
Employees play pool during a break at the headquarters of Facebook Inc. in Palo Alto, Calif., in 2009.
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Facebook
Branded refrigerators greet visitors at the headquarters of Facebook Inc. in Palo Alto, Calif., in August 2010. Perks like free food and unconventional office spaces are the hallmark of Silicon Valley start-ups and tech companies.
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Proposed Facebook campus
Facebook Director of Global Real Estate John Tenanes is silhouetted against a projection of the new Facebook campus during a February 2011 news conference at the Menlo Park City Council Chambers in Menlo Park, Calif.
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Facebook
Offices at Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif., in April 2011.
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Facebook
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg prepares to speak at a news conference in July at Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif. Zuckerberg announced new features coming to Facebook: video chat and a group chat.
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