The newest app-enabled vaporizer on the market is the Firefly 2 Plus, and it shows how Silicon Valley is looking to cash in on cannabis as legalization picks up steam.
Related topics: Apple, Microsoft
The America Medical Association recently slammed Google for promoting anti-vaccination misinformation.
Related topics: Google, Vaccines
Another Silicon Valley company is settling with the SEC: the online lending company Prosper, which the SEC had accused of “miscalculating and materially overstating annualized net returns to retail and other investors.” Prosper has...
Soylent, the drink of choice for Silicon Valley bros with no time to eat, is launching a new line of snack bars. Known as Soylent Squared, the 100-calorie "mini-meal" bars are the first solid food offerings from the company since the...
Related topics: Calories
The cloud enterprise video communication company drummed up major market excitement as a Silicon Valley unicorn that has actually turned a profit.
Related topics: Initial Public Offering, Business Videos
Employees at the 20 highest-paying U.S. companies make, on average, $100,000 or more. 16 of the firms are in California, in or near Silicon Valley.
Related topics: Apple (AAPL), Zynga (business)
Employees at the 20 highest-paying U.S. companies make, on average, $100,000 or more. 16 of the firms are in California, in or near Silicon Valley.
Related topics: Apple (AAPL), Zynga (business)
A study finds that tech job listings are growing faster in established hubs, like Silicon Valley, San Francisco, and Austin, than elsewhere, even as competition increases.
Amid criticisms for letting anti-vaccination (anti-vax) content spread across YouTube, a case of the measles was reported on one of Google's Silicon Valley campuses, according to a BuzzFeed report on Wednesday.
The incident was revealed in an...
Related topics: Google, Vaccines
Twitter founder and CEO and billionaire Jack Dorsey has more money than he could ever need — but he's not acting like it. Unlike the self-made wealthy folk of years gone by, Dorsey and a growing number of top-earning tech entrepreneurs aren't...
Related topics: Social Media
Pharmaceutical giant Gilead is teaming up with Silicon Valley startup Insitro to develop better drugs for a quietly emerging disease called NASH.
Short for non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, NASH can lead to liver failure and is estimated to affect some...
Related topics: Jeff Bezos, Startup, Liver Disease
On the same day that she became a Pulitzer Prize finalist for her work bringing the Cambridge Analytica scandal to light, journalist Carole Cadwalladr took the stage at TED to “address you directly, the gods of Silicon...
Related topics: Pulitzer Prize
Game of Thrones is back, but even those who are watching closely may have missed a couple of high-profile cameos in last night’s season premiere. Did you catch Martin Starr (Silicon Valley, Party Down, Freaks and Geeks) and Rob McElhenney...
Related topics: Game Of Thrones
As people become more familiar with the extreme unsavoriness of cochair Linda Sarsour, the Women’s March is losing steam but not arrogance. It has launched a petition calling for Silicon Valley to deplatform the President of the USA:
The...
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Like so many Silicon Valley start-ups, Airbnb has an origin story that's become part of lore.Two San Francisco roommates were searching for a way to make rent one month and saw that local hotels were getting booked up for a conference in town....
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By attempting o bring internet access to every last person on Earth, tech giants have a new mission. It's also one that will put them into competition with one another -- only this time in space.
The post The next clash of Silicon Valley titans will...
The newly leaked Google memo implies that the Silicon Valley giant is policing content, something that users have always suspected, cybersecurity analysts told Sputnik. The exclusively obtained documents cast doubt on Google CEO Sundar Pichai's...
Related topics: Google, Computer Security
At the Senate Judiciary hearing on April 10, Republican senators went beyond establishing the liberal biases of Silicon Valley social media giants, and questioned the very idea of “hate speech.” Senator Ted Cruz proclaimed not only that...
Related topics: Censorship, Senate, Social Media
The book by former Google communications head Jessica Powell is fiction, but many of its tropes are drawn from real life.
Related topics: Google
Elizabeth Holmes has been an object of fascination ever since the release of John Carreyrou’s 2018 book, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, which highlighted, among other things, the deranged lengths she went to convince...
Related topics: Hulu, Startup