The Trump administration reportedly moved to block shipments of semiconductors to China’s Huawei Technology from global chipmakers on Friday as tensions with the communist country ramp up. The Commerce Department says that its announcement “cuts off Huawei’s efforts to undermine U.S. export controls.”
The Israel Innovation Authority released its 2017 annual report on Monday, detailing the government’s plans to double the country’s high-tech workforce during the next decade.
Although Tesla CEO Elon Musk shocked Silicon Valley by breaking ranks to become an official member of the White House Manufacturing Jobs Initiative, the value of his Tesla stock is up by over $2 billion since the election of Donald Trump as President.
A $10 billion venture capital (VC) firm from China is investing hundreds of millions of dollars into Israeli technology to use it directly to help China develop its own “smart cities.”
Technology giant Intel announced April 19 it will fire 12,000 skilled U.S.-based professionals — after already swelling its workforce with 14,523 requests in Washington D.C. since 2010 for visas to import foreign professionals through the controversial H-1B and Green Card programs.
On Monday, the Congressional Black Caucus sent members to Silicon Valley to bully high-tech companies into hiring more blacks as part of their Tech 2020 Initiative.
San Francisco, home to a plentitude of left-wing ideologists contemptuous of one percenters, commands a hefty average median rent of $4,225 a month, prompting one to suspect that the enemy must lie within.
On the most basic level, Israel seems to have the formula of statecraft right, prioritizing national security and economic growth above all else.
JERUSALEM, Israel — The future of tech investing is housed–barely–in a stone spice warehouse on the Hebron Road in Jerusalem. There are, I am told, bullet holes in the walls, from the days when the building faced the boundary with Jordan. On the day I visit, it sounds like a war zone–a battle of drills and hammers, fire alarms and telephones, as the company expands into neighboring space. Only two years old, OurCrowd is revolutionizing startup funding–and growing rapidly.
