SAN JOSE—Home to many Fortune 500 companies, Silicon Valley isknown as a hub of information-technology development and brainpower. San Jose ranks as the third-largest city in California and the 10th-largest US city,according to city government stats. Santa ClaraCounty is the largest Bay Area county in terms of population(nearly 2 million) and total employment, including 1 millionwage-and-salary jobs, according to a recent Santa Clara Countyeconomic forecast.
Furthermore, in a report that analyzes 30 metropolitan areas interms of the economic impact of digitalization, Brookings has just ranked San Joseas number one, GlobeSt.com learns. In recent decades, the diffusionof digital technology into nearly every business and workplace ordigitalization has been remaking the US economy and the world ofwork.
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Lisa Brown
Lisa Brown is an editor for the south and west regions of GlobeSt.com. She has 25-plus years of real estate experience, with a regional PR role at Grubb & Ellis and a national communications position at MMI. Brown also spent 10 years as executive director at NAIOP San Francisco Bay Area chapter, where she led the organization to achieving its first national award honors and recognition on Capitol Hill. She has written extensively on commercial real estate topics and edited numerous pieces on the subject.
