Los Angeles Clippers owner Steve Ballmer features prominently as the 18th richest on the newest Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans, but he isn’t the only sports figure on the big list. This year’s Forbes 400 list numbers many
Former Microsoft CEO and the new owner of the Los Angeles Clippers Steve Ballmer vowed to ban all Apple products from his newly-acquired team. Ballmer, who served on the board of Microsoft, and was the company’s CEO between 2000 and
As high-tech billionaires push for more guest-worker visas, the income gap between the elite and the rest of Silicon Valley is widening. According to The Wall Street Journal, an “analysis of U.S. census data” by the “non-profit think tank Joint
The Silicon Valley tech giants that have been engaging in widespread internet surveillance of their customers’ shopping preferences, general attitudes, and deepest life-style secrets have failed to appreciate the mounting global concern over their record on online privacy and security. Yet
A prominent public policy professor said massive increases in guest-worker visas for some of the most prominent high-tech companies will only pull the ladder out from under Americans trying to move into the middle class. On The Laura Ingraham Show
The Los Angeles Unified school board, under fire because of the release of internal emails outlining a possibly inappropriate relationship between its executives and Apple, as well as textbook publisher Pearson, has decided to buy a service that will automatically
Call it the Donald Sterling effect. On Sunday, Atlanta Hawks Controlling Owner Bruce Levenson announced that he will sell his interest in the team after self-reporting an “offensive” email from 2012 in which he said that white fans may be
With Chinese Internet behemoth Alibaba being preliminarily valued at $165 billion as it prepares for its initial public offering (IPO), it seems that investors are playing the same type of dangerous game they played in 1999. At the time, “I
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Apple is acknowledging that computer hackers broke into the accounts of several celebrities to steal personal photos that have been posted online, a security breakdown that the iPhone maker blamed on the intruders’ ability to figure
During a Friday conference call sponsored by Texas-based Women on the Wall, Stanford mathematician and former member of the Common Core Validation Committee Dr. James Milgram, told listeners that if the controversial standards are not repealed, America’s place as a
As the November elections draw closer, public contribution disclosures show that Bill and Melinda Gates have given a total of $1 million to support the passage of Washington state’s Initiative 594 – a gun control initiative expanding background checks over private
The federally funded Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC), a Common Core assessment consortium, issued a press release Friday that confirmed the Common Core standards and their associated tests are intended to drive curriculum. Though developers
Joe Green, the FWD.us president who was also Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg’s college roommate, was asked in a recent Bloomberg TV interview how he felt about big-tech companies like Microsoft, Cisco, and Hewlett-Packard that are slashing American high-tech jobs while
American Airlines flight 362 en route to San Diego was diverted to Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport on Sunday after a hacking group targeting the Playstation Network (PSN) tweeted a bomb threat to the airline company. .@AmericanAir We have been receiving reports
Ralph Peters, the iconoclastic author and military strategist has been very vocal of late regarding US national security policy and the growth of the global jihadist movement. A former US Army intelligence officer, he is a prolific and very successful
They’re not disabled. They don’t have learning difficulties. They’re not elderly or otherwise infirm. Nor are they even necessarily all that hard up. So why are 25,000 Brits about to get free computers from the government, in an act of charity
Just because he served as the CEO of one of the world’s leading corporations doesn’t make Steve Ballmer stiff and reserved. On Monday afternoon, the new Los Angeles Clippers owner slam-dunked his entrance at the Clippers Fan Festival. Exiting the
The Washington Post relates a fascinating little cloak-and-dagger story that ends with a heck of a punchline: a U.S. defense contractor was apparently working with foreign companies that create spyware and virus programs to develop new tools for spying on
A year after insisting that Congress must pass comprehensive amnesty legislation, Cisco announced Wednesday that it would lay off another 6,000 workers, about 8% of its workforce. According to BizJournals, Cisco has previously announced that “it would lay off 4,000
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Donald Sterling’s latest effort to block the $2 billion sale of the Los Angeles Clippers to former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was shot down Wednesday by a California appeals court. The 2nd Appellate District Court issued
Steve Ballmer, who officially became the new Los Angeles Clippers owner on Tuesday, and his wife have donated $600,000 to a Washington state gun-control initiative. According to SeattlePi, Ballmer and his wife Connie recently gave another $250,000 to the Washington Alliance
When Steve Ballmer became the official owner of the Los Angeles Clippers on Tuesday, he was reportedly contractually obligated to name Shelly Sterling, the wife of Donald Sterling, “owner emeritus,” “Clippers Number One Fan,” and the head of the team’s
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Steve Ballmer officially became the new owner of the Los Angeles Clippers on Tuesday. The team said the record $2 billion sale closed after a California court confirmed the authority of Shelly Sterling, on behalf of
BEIJING, Aug. 7 (UPI) — Apple Inc. products were removed from a list of Chinese government procurement lists, as accusations between China and the United States over cyber-espionage continue. Despite Apple’s sales growth throughout Asia, ten products of the California-based
American football is a game of tradition–as exemplified in last weekend’s induction of players into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. But it’s also a game constantly chasing the next thing. A century ago, with little protective
