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It’s no secret that Facebook and the Silicon Valley tech giants discriminate against conservatives.
In 2017, following the presidential election in November 2016, both the “Harvard Berkman Klein Center study and...
Related topics: Facebook, Social Media, United States Presidential Election, Harvard University
Immigration Silicon Valley
When engineer Seth Vargo found that a company using his open-source code worked with US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, he pulled the code off Github. The company, enterprise software maker Chef, found that,...
Related topics: Github, Open Source Software
Lawmakers are busy building their case against Silicon Valley's giants, but they're less optimistic about the agencies in charge of antitrust enforcement.
Employees in Silicon Valley want their companies to do more to help the planet. Will this activism make a difference?
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Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.
This week Kate and Alex were back at TechCrunch’s San Francisco headquarters to chat the news with Kleiner...
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Audrey Conklin
Politics, Americas
What's the role of Silicon Valley?
Atlanta, Chicago, Washington, San Francisco, San Diego and Boston have made a top 50 list of the most surveilled places in the world.
Some city police departments use...
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Chris White
Politics, Americas
The number is 'uge!
President Donald Trump scooped up $15 million for his reelection campaign during a two-day trip to California, tapping Silicon Valley for money before the 2020 election kicks into high gear.
Trump...
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Silicon Valley is terrified.
In a little over three months, California will see the widest-sweeping state-wide changes to its privacy law in years. California’s Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) kicks in on January 1 and rolls out sweeping new...
“Until you acknowledge the problems, you can’t solve them,” Brad Smith said. “And nobody is going to believe you’re trying.”
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Whenever the inevitable Swingers reboot comes to pass, you can count Thomas Middleditch in. Speaking in an interview with Playboy, the Silicon Valley star opened up about his experiences with the “swinging” lifestyle and how it’s...
According to a Silicon Valley Bank survey, more than half of today’s health and tech startups expect to exit via acquisition. All too many founders think their lofty dreams and cleverly worded pitch decks will carry them through to successful...
Related topics: Startup, Polls
Trump's Silicon Valley donors traveled to a secret location in Palo Alto, California on Tuesday to attend a fundraiser for the president where tickets cost as much as $100,000 per couple, according to a new report from The Wall Street...
The actor shared that he and his wife, Mollie, have different roles in their relationship: “I’m gas, and she’s brakes."
The two federal agencies charged with investigating Big Tech are jockeying over how to divide up their responsibilities, setting up a messy showdown that could undermine the government’s efforts to take on the Silicon Valley giants.At a Senate...
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“Three years ago, an uproar among company employees forced the chief executive of Intel Corp. at the time to cancel an event for candidate Donald Trump at his Atherton, Calif., home hours after the plan became public. On Tuesday, the president...
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On Monday, the startup hub Y Combinator and the $1.4 billion company Ginkgo Bioworks unveiled a new partnership aimed at giving startups access to tools to make materials from living things.
Ginkgo was Y Combinator's first investment outside...
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Employees at Silicon Valley technology companies have access to some of the most extravagant employee perks around.
Complimentary catered meals have become almost standard as tech giants compete to have the most appealing campus.
Generous paid leave...
During Thursday's debate ABC News moderator Linsey Davis asked Andrew Yang one question that dropped the veil on his true motives for running for office. Forget UBI, Yang is Silicon Valley's school privatization missionary.
DAVIS: Here in Houston,...
Related topics: Debate
The co-creators of Silicon Valley are developing a series on the origins of Match.com, according to Variety. John Altschuler and David Krinsky are reportedly adapting a book entitled The Players Ball: A Genius, a Con Man, and the Secret History of...