Billionaire investor Peter Thiel compared Silicon Valley’s one-party culture to “North Korea” in a speech to the Turning Point USA conference in Washington, DC, a gathering of conservative high school students.
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) filed a Federal Election Commission (FEC) complaint against Twitter following revelations the social networking giant shadowed his account.
Easily the dumbest article I’ve read this year was one by a posh liberal columnist in a high end political journal explaining why freedom of speech wasn’t under threat in the West. Anyone who argued otherwise, he claimed, was a “grade A chocolate-coated plonker.”
Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel addressed a group of young conservatives on Wednesday evening.
Bloomberg published an article recently discussing the issue of Google’s contract workforce — employees that are expected to work just as hard as everyone else at the company without any of the benefits, and reportedly outnumber full-time Google employees.
Mike Maples, the founder of Silicon Valley-based venture firm Floodgate Capital, has warned young entrepreneurs to watch the language they use when describing their ideas and to stop copying industry figures such as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
Lawmakers hold a second hearing into social media censorship Tuesday on Capitol Hill.
An organization named Tech for Campaigns and based in Silicon Valley has a new mission — get Democrats elected.
Billionaires from Silicon Valley and the media industry are heading to Idaho for Allen & Co.’s annual “summer camp” get-together this week.
The Economic Institute reported this month that the Bay Area would be the 19th-largest economy in the world, if it were a country, after growing at the fifth-fastest rate of any nation since 2014.
Uber’s Chief People Officer Liane Hornsey has resigned from the company via email following an investigation into her handling of racial discrimination allegations.
Twitter will purge “tens of millions” of “suspicious” accounts on Thursday, according to a report.
Twitter’s stock dropped more than eight percent on Monday following reports that the social network has been deleting over 1 million fake accounts per day.
The CEO of cloud storage company Box has stated that the mistrust and possible regulation of major tech companies such as Facebook and Google is a ‘contagion’ that could spread to other Silicon Valley tech companies.
Anton Troynikov, a robotics engineer who apparently has worked in the San Francisco Bay Area, launched a series of hilarious viral tweets on Thursday comparing Silicon Valley to the former Soviet Union.
The latest Subsidy Tracker reveals that some of the most prominent Silicon Valley tech corporations enjoy $840 billion in government subsidies.
In a recently published article, the Wall Street Journal outlined how Google still allows developers to scan the Gmail accounts of its users — including having employees read unredacted emails — despite promises to stop this practice.
Facebook has admitted to sharing the personal data of its users with 61 different companies.
Former President Barack Obama on Friday visited a prominent Silicon Valley venture capital firm.
Over 20 Silicon Valley venture capital firms have “close ties” to the Chinese government, according to a report.
Social media Master of the Universe Facebook has once again been accused of leaking users personal information via a quiz app over a period of at least two years.
President Donald Trump defended his upcoming effort to protect Silicon Valley products from foreign countries copying their technology.
According to a new report, rent increases in Silicon Valley are pricing some residents out of their own homes.
Despite previous debates relating to privacy issues following 87 million Facebook users’ data allegedly being accessed without their direct consent, Facebook has chosen to further increase the platforms on which it displays ads to its users.
President Donald Trump told reporters a 25 percent tariffs on Chinese technology goods will help Silicon Valley, but a top industry trade group that represents Google and other companies says Trump’s tariffs will hurt profits.
Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes made a court appearance Friday after being indicted for a “massive fraud” in the blood-testing business that once made her the toast of Silicon Valley.
AT&T’s stunning and total victory over the government raises the question of whether antitrust law is capable of dealing with corporate titans in our digital era.
Judge Richard Leon’s much anticipated antitrust decision on the merger of AT&T and Time Warner is in. AT&T scored a total victory against the U.S. government.
Facebook is advertising to hire “news credibility specialists,” as the company continues to take on the role of a publisher, making editorial decisions about what news content is “trusted” and what is not.
A Thursday report from Axios revealed that Google is facing billions in EU antitrust fines.
Thursday on Hugh Hewitt’s radio show, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper argued for more regulation of social media. The embattled critic of President Donald Trump suggested an agency akin to the Federal Communications Commission could be suitable for
Google will not renew their artificial intelligence contract with the Pentagon, following both internal and external complaints, according to a report.
A new poll released Sunday found that nearly half of California’s Bay Area residents want to exit the area within a few years over the cost of living and unaffordable housing prices.
The deep blue Democrat stronghold of California has been the top beneficiary of what Wall Street analysts are calling the “Trump bump” in the economy.
Residents of California’s Silicon Valley are the most likely to move elsewhere due to the incredibly high cost of living, according to a new analysis.
More than 5,000 cases of alleged abuse in the H-1B visa program have been reported in the first year since President Trump created the fraud hotline.
Microsoft surpassed Google in stock market value this week following several years of doubt over whether or not the original Silicon Valley giant would turn it around.
Net Neutrality proponents are continuing to push for their policy even though they were unable to stop the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from dumping it.
Voters in two tech-heavy Silicon Valley cities will have the chance to vote in November on drastically spiking business taxation by charging a new per-employee tax.
“It really is critical to our democracy that people get accurate information” said Clinton.
