Business Insider reports: United Airlines has launched the first direct flight between San Francisco and Israel, connecting two of the world’s leading startup hubs in the process. The United Airlines 954 flight from San Francisco to Tel Aviv takes off on
Google told the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee that Congress must fast-track self-driving cars by waiving states’ rights with a federal takeover of all roads and highways, the better to keep America ahead of Europe, China, and Japan, which are “hot on our heels.”
Michael Goguen, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist who has helped fund Paypal and Google projects, has been accused of abusing ex-stripper Amber Laurel Baptiste for over 13 years.
Square, Inc. stock popped when its mobile payment service crushed fourth-quarter sales expectations on March 9 — but then plunged as the company racked up a bigger-than-expected losses.
On hate speech, social media companies are enthusiastically liking, retweeting, and faving national governments. In December, the German government announced that they had secured the co-operation of Facebook, Google and Twitter in removing “hate speech” from their platforms. A wave
The latest billionaire buffoon is Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook. Having noticed that Jack Dorsey is out-doing him in the realm of leftist political whackery, the social media kingpin has begun to wear his progressivism on his sleeves. Facebook’s users — far more numerous than Twitter’s — are sure to suffer.
Disdain and outright fear of a Donald J. Trump presidency has changed Silicon Valley politics and is pushing more donations towards the Hillary Clinton camp, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. However, a number of leading tech executives have quietly conveyed their admiration for Trump and his campaign, especially his use of social media.
This weekend, Democratic congressional candidate Ro Khanna ripped into California’s Democratic establishment, saying the party’s rules are rigged, following an overwhelming endorsement of incumbent Rep. Mike Honda (D-CA).
With rents jumping over 50 percent in the last four years, there are many horror stories about evictions across Silicon Valley — most recently, the story of a 97-year old woman who has lived in the same rental for 66 years.
Northern California won and Southern California lost, as the California High-Speed Rail Authority has decided that the first leg of the bullet train will be built between Bakersfield and San Jose.
Silicon Valley has been enjoying a terrific economic boom, but the current tech-crash and stock market wipeout are already impoverishing the state of California.
Yelp! stock became the latest Silicon Valley darling in the week before Valentine’s Day to tank by double-digits, as big investors retaliated for the 50 percent stock drop since December by forcing the company’s CFO to resign.
With less than a week until Valentine’s Day, investors’ love affair with Silicon Valley continues to come undone as the tech-stock heavy NASDAQ Index plunged on the Feb. 8 opening down 3.5 percent.
LinkedIn’s epic $11.1 billion single-day-stock-plunge on February 5 represents the proverbial “ canary dying” in Silicon Valley’s gold mine as tech jobs are vaporized.
The bipartisan Legislative Analysts’ Office has announced that California’s 2015-16 personal income tax collection has fallen from a huge surplus to a $147 million deficit. The cause appears to be plummeting Silicon Valley capital gains and weakening tech employment.
Only four counties out of California’s 58 have fully recovered from the Great Recession, in the sixth year after the official economic recovery began.
With Hillary Clinton’s polls collapsing, Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s project “The Groundwork,” which was supposed to lead Silicon Valley’s effort to put Clinton into the White House, appears to be failing.
Since Obama bundler Chris Sacca led the board of directors coup to fire CEO Dick Costolo in June, Twitter has fallen from number 3 to number 7 in social media popularity, and the stock price has lost $12 billion in value.
The Obama Administration’s new Countering Violent Extremism Task Force is an effort to coerce Silicon Valley tech companies to cooperate in encryption back-door digital surveillance.
The Chinese government has just passed a security law that reportedly could require technology companies to hand over encryption keys to private data. The law is so controversial that President Obama personally raised concerns about it to President Xi Jinping.
Utah is booming as America’s top pro-business state, and its tech sector–“Silicon Slopes”–is beginning to suck in huge amounts of venture capital.
Having cycled from failed video game maker to the $2.8 billion valuation as king of corporate chat rooms, Slack Technologies now wants to get into the corporate venture capital game.
If you only read headlines about achingly politically correct tech founders like Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Silicon Valley, for all its rapacious capitalistic instincts, is a hellhole of progressive hand-wringing.
With the rise of Uber, Airbnb, and TaskRabbit, there’s a sinking suspicion that the traditional 9-5 job is being replaced by flexible, independent contract work. But, despite the existence of multiple billion-dollar Silicon Valley startups hiring an army of independent contract workers, economists have had difficulty finding any evidence that Americans were more likely to be self-employed.
The tech elite are teaming up to protect humanity from evil Matrix-like artificial intelligence. Elon Musk and a team of Silicon Valley elite have reportedly pledged more than a billion dollars to construct artificial intelligence that benefits mankind, rather than enslaves it.
Beacon Economics just published a report concluding that California is the best place for new business in America, despite high taxes, burdensome regulations, and high living costs. “Next 10,” founded and funded by F. Noel Perry, retained Beacon Economics to
A new Progressive Policy Institute report reveals that Silicon Valley’s domination of telecom, tech, and content industries is increasingly at risk from other tech/info clusters in America–especially Texas tech hubs.
Lack of work-life balance may be a feature—not a bug—at the world’s top companies. Glassdoor just released its annual list of “Best Places to Work,” based on its database of employee reviews.
Hillary Clinton is calling for Silicon Valley to help to thwart “the most effective recruiter in the world,” but no, she’s not talking about Donald Trump.
In the world of hyper-competitive business and San Francisco’s experimental culture a trend has emerged – microdosing psychedelic drugs to improve performance.
Mercedes-Benz research and development lab in Sunnyvale, California is racing to beat Apple, Google and Uber to dominate commercial and luxury self-driving vehicles. Google, Tesla, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Honda, Volkswagen and four other developers of autonomous vehicles already have permission from
Money that was being appropriated for use towards protecting California power plants from terror attacks is reportedly being held hostage as a consequence of a battle between the California Public Utilities Commission and state legislators over the appropriation of $5 million in legal fees stemming from a corruption investigation into the agency.
California employers added 41,200 new jobs in the month of October, as the Golden State’s employment production continues at a 50 percent higher pace than the nation as a whole.
San Francisco is a living crystal ball of what happens when a city refuses to build enough housing to accommodate the dense clustering of high-tech and service workers natural to modern industries.
The rumor mill indicates that the 155 acres that Apple quietly acquired near San Jose International Airport are enough for the R&D center for its “Project Titan” self-driving cars.
Tesla claims it will sell a half million vehicles a year when its $35,000 Model 3 is introduced in 2017, but the network of charging stations in California is already imploding with just 160,000 registered electric vehicles.
(Ferenstein Wire)—Silicon Valley is coming after unionized industries. A top investor in the Valley, Paul Graham, lit up Twitter, tweeting, “Any industry that still has unions has potential energy that could be released by startups. (I don’t mean in simply paying people less, but rather that industries afflicted by unions are sclerotic so have left lots undone.)”
Ted Cruz, who received widespread praise for his Tuesday debate performance in which he slammed the media for its biased coverage of immigration, continued his verbal broadside against pro-amnesty special interests on today’s program of the Laura Ingraham Show.
With wearable fitness devices the fastest-growing sector of consumer electronics, Fitbit, Inc. (FIT-NYSE) and Jawbone are engaged in a life-or-death marketplace and legal war.
Hewlett-Packard Inc. is officially spinning out its personal computer and printer operations into a free-standing company from its enterprise software systems and consulting business on Monday, creating two companies with market capitalizations of about $25 billion each.
