Silicon Valley Leaders Begin to Worry That Political Correctness Is Stifling Innovation
Tech leaders are beginning to worry that Silicon Valley’s new political correctness is stifling innovation.
Tech leaders are beginning to worry that Silicon Valley’s new political correctness is stifling innovation.
Silicon Valley’s venture capitalists are outraged that the U.S. Senate’s proposed tax reform makes employee stock option compensation less attractive and forces companies to pay employer taxes.
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.
Silicon Valley social justice warriors are planning to publish a blacklist of venture capitalists they deem sexual harassers.
Although Silicon Valley CEOs are trying to forget their efforts to back Democrat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, social justice start-ups are thriving in an effort to facilitate a “pink tea party” movement.
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk suffered huge blow-back after he lit up the blogosphere by tweeting that former ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson “has the potential to be an excellent Sec of State.”
In Silicon Valley, it is a worse “crime” for the founder of Oculus VR, Palmer Luckey, to have donated in support of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump than for Facebook to have potentially engaged in fraudulently inflating its average video viewing times for the last two years.
The EU anti-trust regulator let Apple off easy with what amounts to a spectacular bargain by ruling that the company only owes $14.5 billion in taxes and interest through the infamous “Double Irish Flip.”
Hillary Clinton has vacuumed up huge amounts of cash from Silicon Valley, but she is not spending money or time with the creative people of the “Valley of the Democrats.”
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.
Apparently worried about the populist movement led by Donald Trump, Silicon Valley tech firms are rallying companies to give workers the day off on Election Day.
Hillary Clinton’s economic advisor just threw Silicon Valley under the bus by claiming the U.S. tax law Apple uses to attribute most earnings to its tiny Ireland unit, is a “fraud.”
Many tech leaders were left “dazed and confused” after top Silicon Valley venture capitalist Peter Thiel won a standing ovation at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland last Thursday when he introduced himself as both “proud to be gay” and “proud to be Republican.”
The rise of Donald Trump and his “America First” platform is pushing tech CEOs even closer to the Democrat establishment, after two decades of Silicon Valley moguls being able to outsource millions of manufacturing jobs and still get huge government contracts.