TechCrunch noted in a recent article that Google CEO Sundar Pichai appears to think that Android phone users are well aware that their phones are constantly tracking and monitoring them, something which many users are unaware of.
President Barack Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) head, Lisa Jackson, who infamously used the fake name “Richard Windsor,” blasted the Trump administration Tuesday for what she called a lack of “transparency” in her former department.
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is set to resign from her position following Verizon’s upcoming purchase of the company.
I recently spoke to Gregory Gopman, the Virtual Reality leader who Twitter hired — and then fired after 24 hours following a TechCrunch hit-piece that brought up old comments Gopman had made on his Facebook account three years ago.
Techies are in Israel ahead of a Wednesday event to participate in the TechCrunch Meetup and Pitch Off in Tel Aviv, where some of the best technological minds from Silicon Valley will merge their brainpower with one of the world’s leading nations in innovation and tech.
On April 30, the tech blog “TechCrunch” examined the Democrat-led push for “smart guns” and concluded the NRA is “right” — that a successful push for smart guns will be followed by a mandate for smart gun purchases, i.e. a form of gun control.
Rapper and entrepreneur Snoop Dogg has launched a new online platform for all things marijuana.
The irrepressible Sean Parker took to the Wall Street Journal editorial pages to announce that after building a $2.8 billion fortune, mostly from stealing music and selling peoples’ deepest secrets to marketers, he wants to reinvent his public reputation from that of a greedy loud-mouthed hacker to an old money philanthropist.
Former Hewlett-Packard head Carly Fiorina is reportedly set to announce her candidacy for the presidency as a Republican on Monday, making her the only other woman in the race besides Hillary Clinton, at least for now.
TechCrunch’s Kat Zakrzewski has an odd argument against Republican bills to curb the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) recent decision to impose Net Neutrality: we don’t really need transparency, after all. Zakrzewski’s stance shows how far Silicon Valley’s “progressive” activists have come after years of pushing for the maximum transparency possible in public affairs. When the feds are doing what they want, the public is better off in the dark.
