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Apple & Friends Pay $415M for ‘No-Poaching’ Pact

U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh has approved a $415 million settlement offer by Apple, Google, Adobe and Intel in a Silicon Valley class-action lawsuit alleging that 64,000 tech workers were defrauded by the tech giants conspiring in secret “no-poaching” agreements to suppress tech workers’ wages in “The Valley.”

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Google’s Endgame Is a Single Perfect Search Result

Google’s entire multi-billion dollar software utopia is designed to find the perfect search result. Back in 2005, before American and European Union government regulators painted Google as a monopoly, now-chairman Eric Schmidt was quite open about the search giant’s endgame.

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FTC Leak Suggests Google Searches are Biased, Discriminatory

In what is sure to lead to a customer scandal and heighten a U.S. Antitrust Probe, Federal Trade Commission (FTC) staffers determined in an undisclosed report that Google, Inc. allegedly used an algorithm to manipulate search results to favor their own less relevant search over competitors. The alleged Google fraudulent practice only became public when FTC staffers inadvertently shared the document with the Wall Street Journal.

Kissinger: Israel Should Not Seek 'Permanent' Peace Now

Kissinger: Israel Should Not Seek 'Permanent' Peace Now

Former Secretary of State and Nobel laureate Henry Kissinger told an awards dinner in New York this week that Israel should not seek a permanent or comprehensive peace with the Palestinians until regional turmoil settles down, Algemeiner reports.   Kissinger’s advice

Income Inequality Protesters Target Google Lawyer's Apartments

Income Inequality Protesters Target Google Lawyer's Apartments

Two dozen income inequality protesters took to the streets of San Francisco on Friday to hold demonstrations against Google lawyer Jack Halprin, as class-based tensions escalate between activists and wealthy Silicon Valley employees over what protesters deem unwelcome gentrification. Halprin,

Common Core Woes Lead to New 'Dumbed-Down' SAT

Common Core Woes Lead to New 'Dumbed-Down' SAT

It is no accident that the so-called “architect” of the Common Core standards is now president of the College Board. Barack Obama’s plan to “fundamentally transform” education into the latest social justice iteration has hit a road block, and David

Google Is Killing Privacy and We Should All Be Worried

Google Is Killing Privacy and We Should All Be Worried

Who hasn’t been stumped with a question, quickly banged in a Google search query, and received an answer in a split second? It’s a modern wonder. How did we ever live without it? Google’s official mission statement, “to organize the world’s information

Obama Huddles with Tech Giants on Obamacare, NSA Scandal

Obama Huddles with Tech Giants on Obamacare, NSA Scandal

President Barack Obama is meeting with top Silicon Valley CEOs Tuesday to discuss the Obamacare debacle and the impact that National Security Agency (NSA) scandals have had on high-tech companies. Among the list of attendees are top Obama campaign fundraisers

Google Cracks Down on Child Porn

Google Cracks Down on Child Porn

(AP) Google: Searches for child abuse sites blockedBy SYLVIA HUIAssociated PressLONDONGoogle and Microsoft have introduced software that makes it harder for users to search for child abuse material online, the companies said in a joint announcement Monday. Writing ahead of

Google Turns on the NSA

Google’s chairman Eric Schmidt ripped into the NSA after reports surfaced that the NSA was spying on Google’s data center.  “It’s really outrageous that the National Security Agency was looking between the Google data centers, if that’s true. The steps

Google Hires Obama's Reelection Campaign E-Team

Google Hires Obama's Reelection Campaign E-Team

The hand-in-hand nature of this White House and some of the nation’s biggest corporations is seen in yet another incident as Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign data team is now moving from team Obama to team Google. This week, Bloomberg reported

Obama to Appoint Google Bigwig to National Science Board

Obama to Appoint Google Bigwig to National Science Board

President Obama plans to appoint Google’s Chief Internet Evangelist to the National Science Board, the news organization Politico reported Wednesday afternoon. The elevation of Vint Cerf, who has worked at the Internet behemoth since 2005, was announced Wednesday.  His appointment

Google Executive Chairman Arrives In North Korea

Google Executive Chairman Arrives In North Korea

Google’s chairman, Eric Schmidt wants a first-hand look at North Korea’s economy and social media during his private visit Monday to the communist nation, his delegation said, despite misgivings in Washington over the timing of the trip.

'This Week' ABC Panel Part I

'This Week' ABC Panel Part I

Carly Fiorina, Jennifer Granholm, Paul Krugman, Eric Schmidt and David Walker sit on the “Miller Center” panel on ABC’s “This Week”.