Last year, Brazil opened a government-funded office, Apex-Brasil, in the Financial District to promote the country's high-tech sector to movers and shakers in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. [...] all the above-mentioned countries have a much larger presence in Miami, whose tech hub has become a natural fit for south-of-the-border startups. [...] San Francisco, which is in the "final stages" of hiring the head of the LatinSF operation and is rounding up $100,000 from private donors to match the city's contribution, seems all set to go. Foreign-owned firms employed 90,000 people in the San Francisco area in 2011, primarily in the pharmaceutical, banking and computer system design sectors. All told, U.S. affiliates of foreign companies employed 5.6 million people in the nation's top 100 metro areas; 600,000 of them are in California, mostly in grocery stores, restaurants, banks and, topping the list - "investigation and security." A federal judge on Thursday dismissed Weisel from the $120 million whistle-blower lawsuit filed by cyclist Floyd Landis in connection with the doping scandal surrounding Lance Armstrong and the Tour de France team owned by Weisel.
Reported by SFGate 9 hours ago.
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