President Donald Trump will be attending a campaign fundraising event at Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison’s Rancho Mirage in Palm Springs, California, on February 19 — less than two weeks before California’s Super Tuesday primary election. Ellison’s Trump fundraiser flies in the face of Silicon Valley’s progressive political culture.
In a recent article for Issues & Insights, Justin Danhof examines the power that search giant Google wields and how it could be used to influence elections. According to Danhof, “It is hard to fathom a greater bully than Google.”
Google is facing a supreme court showdown with Oracle this year over accusations that the Internet giant stole intellectual property from its rival. In the high-stakes case, Google’s funding of think tanks may help it manipulate legal opinion.
Google will go into next year facing a Supreme Court showdown with Oracle, a long-time competitor that alleges the Internet giant took code that was copyrighted by the company for use in its Android smartphones.
Tech giants including Google and Facebook engage in extensive “one-way mirror” surveillance of their users, sharing the data they collect with third parties via a complex and unregulated system that puts private information at risk, according to a newly published study by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
Oracle filed a lawsuit against the Department of Labor (DOL) Wednesday, challenging an Obama-era decision that held Oracle had discriminated against women and minorities.
Oracle, considered one of Google’s biggest enemies in Silicon Valley, has reportedly received requests for information on its rival from congressional and state investigators looking into possible antitrust violations by the Masters of the Universe.
Oracle CEO and influential Silicon Valley billionaire Larry Ellison is no fan of Uber, reportedly calling the ride-sharing company “almost worthless” at a recent talk.
Senator Mike Lee’s (R-UT) green card giveaway for the nation’s biggest tech corporations has been at least temporarily blocked in the U.S. Senate by Sen. David Perdue (R-GA).
The Pentagon inspector general said Tuesday it would conduct its investigation into the Department of Defense’s Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) program “expeditiously” and consider releasing the results.
Software giant Oracle has accused Google of spying on millions of people and developing profiles containing “intimate lifestyle details” of Google users.
Multinational corporation Oracle America, Inc., a computer technology firm, discriminated against black American employees and women in favor of hiring foreigners, primarily from Asia and India.
The success of Unite Here Local 19 in organizing Facebook’s 500 contracted cafeteria workers has paved the way for the union to push ahead to start organizing professionals at Silicon Valley’s leading tech corporations.
The number of federally registered political lobbyists has fallen by 14 percent thus far in 2017 from the 2016 total. However, based on data provided by the non-partisan OpenSecrets.org, spending by lobbyists is on track to rise by about 3 percent in 2017.
When President-elect Donald Trump “magnanimously” met with $3 trillion worth of Silicon Valley tech CEOs that actively opposed his candidacy, he very publicly booted Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey as payback for alleged bias against his campaign.
Google’s corporate motto is “Don’t Be Evil,” but after year of using its Washington, D.C. lobbying to trash other tech companies, the “Google Transparency Project,” funded by a secretive cabal of Silicon Valley interests, is producing a steady stream of investigative reporting exposés on Google’s crony capitalism.
The Oracle Corporation is using its deep financial resources to fund the “Google Transparency Project,” which has set up headquarters in Washington, D.C. with a mission to “out” Google’s dicey lobbying practices and expose crony relationships with President Obama and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich had scheduled a fundraiser with Donald Trump at his Silicon Valley home on June 1, but it had to be canceled after someone leaked it to the media.
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison’s net worth increased $1.3 billion overnight, after the company’s third quarter earnings report led to an increase in the firm’s stock price.
Pushing his immigration platform, which includes calls for broader reforms to the legal immigration system and “a merit-based system” that gives people a path to citizenship, Marco Rubio said “my argument is if you’re the best at what you do on this planet, I don’t want you here temporarily. I want you here permanently. I want you to become American.
Silicon Valley often gets knocked for a lack of diversity, but historically excluded groups are making an impressive showing at the top spot of the most valuable companies. Just looking at the top ten companies based in Silicon Valley by NASDAQ market cap, 40% are run by someone who is a woman, an immigrant, or non-white. By individual demographics, 20% are women, and 30% are foreign-born.
Oracle’s billionaire guru Larry Ellison will be hosting a $2,700 per-person fundraiser for 2016 presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Florida) on Tuesday at his mansion in Woodside, California.