Fri, Aug 29, 2008 The California Report Magazine Cisco's Prize Listen (RealMedia stream) MP3 not available Around the world, Silicon Valley holds the reputation as the capitol of high tech innovation. However, many companies are casting a wider net these days to find that next, next thing. When Cisco Systems -- one of the Valley's pioneers -- looked to build a new multi-million dollar business unit, it created an Internet contest to look beyond the Valley for ideas. « back to week of August 29, 2008 Email this page to a friend *Your name:  *Your email address:  *Friend's email address:  Additional Message:  (optional)  * Indicates required field. Names and email addresses are not collected by KQED.org. For more information, please see our privacy policy.

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