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Plus: Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo, Silicon Valley’s approach to history, and Tonga’s disastrous eruption.
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Planned fundraising illustrates how Silicon Valley firms are fuelling boom in cryptocurrency start-ups
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Autograph, the NFT platform by NFL star Tom Brady, raised $170 million from Silicon Valley firms.
Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins, and a16z alum Katie Haun contributed to the funding round.
Brady has sold...
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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy once said that his vision was “to have government as innovative as Google, customer-centric as Apple, and as quick as Amazon.”
Now, he’s the man charged with leading the GOP’s battle against Big Tech —...
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Sunnyvale, CA plans to use lasers to scare away crows that have been hanging out in its downtown.
The city has tried other dispersal strategies in the past, all of which failed.
City officials and residents said crow droppings have...
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— by Wombat-socho Silicon Valley delenda est. I figured I should make a post about where I’ve been and what I’ve been up to these last three weeks. I have not been on vacation; rather, I have been in hospitals as close as...
As noted below, Big Tech is only too happy to obey Biden’s command that it censor on behalf of the Democratic Party. Silicon Valley came through for the Dems in 2020. It is doubling down in 2022. Yahoo has even forbidden the dissident rallying...
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Facebook and its social media peers require users to be at least 13 years old to use their sites.
That age traces back to a 1990s law that prohibits the tracking and data collection of...
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Being asked about your current salary in a job interview can be very off-putting.
Nick Corcodilos, a Silicon Valley headhunter, said you shouldn't reveal this information.
A job...
Other regions have tried to capture the tech title for decades. Why haven't they succeeded?
The first trailer for Super Pumped has arrived!
Based on Mike Isaac‘s best-selling book Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber, the series will chart the company’s rise and fall as one of Silicon Valley’s most prolific start-ups.
Joseph...
Citadel Securities is taking its first outside investment from the Silicon Valley firms Sequoia and Paradigm.
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Two former Silicon Valley executives are now making $194,500 off-road, four-seasons capable RVs.
Aeonrv's camper RVs are based on 2021 Ford all-wheel-drive Transit chassis.
The interior has a kitchen, bathroom, bedroom,...
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Amazon’s TV series based on the Fallout video games is moving into production this year. Deadline and Variety report that Geneva Robertson-Dworet (Captain Marvel) and Graham Wagner (Silicon Valley)...
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As Elizabeth Holmes's verdict likely clears the way for prosecuting more fraud in California, will Silicon Valley investors avoid risky investments?
Forget Blue Origin, Silicon Valley, and unicorns—small but mighty innovations are the true breakthroughs of human ingenuity.
Fraud convictions this week for Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes will send a chill through Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, insiders say, now they know there is the threat of jail for airy promises that come to nothing.
But with billions of dollars...
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Cowen assumed coverage on shares of Rodgers Silicon Valley Acquisition (NASDAQ:ENVX) in a research note released on Tuesday, Analyst Price Targets reports. The firm issued an outperform rating and a $32.00 price objective on the stock.
A number of...
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We spoke to Gerrit De Vynck, the Washington Post’s Technology Reporter, who’s been following the case of Elizabeth Holmes and began by asking how she was able to dupe so many rich business people.