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Dec 16, 2013, 10:28am PST Updated: Dec 24, 2013, 9:44am PST

2013 Year in Review

Want to know about everything you were too busy working to read all year? We've pulled together the most important stories, facts and pictures of 2013 for easy reading. Check back throughout December as we remember the year.

12/20/2013
The foulest words in Silicon Valley, circa 2013

Everyone who works in Silicon Valley knows we pervert the language to our own designs. In this one regard, we’re depressingly unexceptional among business cultures. Here are the ones we hate.
12/19/2013
2013: VCs place record bets on future of drones, robots

It was a record year for funding and acquisitions in drones and robots with Amazon's unmanned delivery plans and Google's BigDog robotic buy this month putting an exclamation point on the trend.
12/20/2013
The future of money, reckoned by payment technologies of 2013

Bitcoin. Square. Clinkle. Payment technologies have been one of the hottest areas of growth and investment in Silicon Valley this year. But so far, no company, startup or incumbent has figured out how to eat Visa's lunch.
12/20/2013
2013 IPO scorecard: 28 winners, losers in the Bay Area

The IPO roared back in 2013, with more U.S. companies going public and more money raised than in any year since the dot-com boom went bust in 2000. We scored the companies that IPOd based on their share price at the end of the year. Here's the ranking.
12/14/2013
2013 in pictures: Downtown San Jose's business year

Downtown San Jose showed signs of life in 2013 that made local merchants, politicians and developers fervently hope that this time the growth trend will stick.
12/16/2013
2013 in education: The year online learning met market forces

If 2012 was the year that MOOC madness gripped the education world, then 2013 was a year of maturation in the education technology market.
12/11/2013
In 2013, Silicon Valley leaders shared their smartest business moves

If you've made it in Silicon Valley, you have undoubtedly made a handful of dumb business moves along the way. And you have, of course, made at least one smart business decision along the way.
12/16/2013
2013: The year of the burger, pizza and ice-cream sandwiches in Silicon Valley

Here’s one takeaway from 2013: Silicon Valley likes to eat.
Food ruled retail real estate, as restaurants showed an insatiable appetite for new locations across the region. A few old friends shut their doors. Some South Bay towns gained foodie hot-spot status. Here’s a couple highlights to the year in food.
12/10/2013
2013's best quotes from Silicon Valley shot callers like Musk, Cook and more

CEOs, disgraced politicians and sports leaders supplied us with the most memorable quotes of 2013 in Silicon Valley.
12/6/2013
2013: The best advice Silicon Valley's top business people ever heard

In Silicon Valley, advice is given out frequently — free of charge and often free of substance. Succeeding in business often comes down to deciding whom to listen to and whom to ignore.
12/4/2013
2013's freshman CEOs now lead iconic Silicon Valley companies

Whether their predecessors were fired, retired or moved on to better things, new CEOs arrived at Silicon Valley companies as big as Electronic Arts or as troubled as Zynga in 2013.
12/4/2013
2013: The 25 tech companies with the most funding are in no rush to IPO

As 2013 draws to a close, a small group of tech companies that have raised hundreds of millions of dollars in venture money remain in private control with no announced plans to go public.
12/3/2013
2013, cover by cover at the Silicon Valley Business Journal

Few news media shops have cracked the code for prioritizing digital content while generating best-in-class print journalism. What about earning a profit while doing so? Quite a challenge.
12/2/2013
2013 turnarounds: Will Yahoo, H-P and Zynga avoid extinction?

Are Yahoo Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co. and Zynga Inc. lumbering toward extinction? Or will they adapt to a changing Silicon Valley?
12/1/2013
2013 business blunders that made Silicon Valley cringe

It was a good year for business in Silicon Valley — but it wasn't all good news for some businesses.
12/18/2013
San Jose's most searched terms on Google in 2013

Google's 13th annual Year-End Zeitgeist shows San Jose was rather obsessed with celebrity death, transportation and caviar dreams.
12/18/2013
2013's best-read stories: Marissa Mayer's funeral home, Elon Musk's apology

If I were to guess, I’d say a lot of our readers were looking for new jobs in 2013: Many of our most-read stories of the year had to do with perks packages, best-paying gigs, and where to find the region’s happiest employees.
12/24/2013
Inside Silicon Valley: Touring the tech campus and hot spots we photographed in 2013

Business Journal readers had the opportunity to tour some of the most exclusive facilities in Silicon Valley in 2013. From Facebook's Menlo Park headquarters to Tesla Motors' Fremont automobile factory. This story rounds up every great photo array we put together.
12/23/2013
2013: The year of Silicon Valley's half-hearted diversity push

About eight months ago, it looked like 2013 might finally be the year that Silicon Valley business leaders would act to rectify their somewhat sorry records on corporate diversity. It looks like we'll have to wait for 2014 to see how talk is translated into action.