
The Chinese government has just passed a security law that reportedly could require technology companies to hand over encryption keys to private data. The law is so controversial that President Obama personally raised concerns about it to President Xi Jinping.
by Ferenstein Wire27 Dec 2015, 6:31 PM PST0

Utah is booming as America’s top pro-business state, and its tech sector–“Silicon Slopes”–is beginning to suck in huge amounts of venture capital.
by Chriss W. Street22 Dec 2015, 11:37 AM PST0

Having cycled from failed video game maker to the $2.8 billion valuation as king of corporate chat rooms, Slack Technologies now wants to get into the corporate venture capital game.
by Chriss W. Street18 Dec 2015, 9:32 AM PST0

If you only read headlines about achingly politically correct tech founders like Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Silicon Valley, for all its rapacious capitalistic instincts, is a hellhole of progressive hand-wringing.
by Milo Yiannopoulos14 Dec 2015, 5:19 AM PST0

With the rise of Uber, Airbnb, and TaskRabbit, there’s a sinking suspicion that the traditional 9-5 job is being replaced by flexible, independent contract work. But, despite the existence of multiple billion-dollar Silicon Valley startups hiring an army of independent contract workers, economists have had difficulty finding any evidence that Americans were more likely to be self-employed.
by Ferenstein Wire11 Dec 2015, 9:50 PM PST0

The tech elite are teaming up to protect humanity from evil Matrix-like artificial intelligence. Elon Musk and a team of Silicon Valley elite have reportedly pledged more than a billion dollars to construct artificial intelligence that benefits mankind, rather than enslaves it.
by Ferenstein Wire11 Dec 2015, 8:52 PM PST0

Beacon Economics just published a report concluding that California is the best place for new business in America, despite high taxes, burdensome regulations, and high living costs. “Next 10,” founded and funded by F. Noel Perry, retained Beacon Economics to
by Chriss W. Street11 Dec 2015, 5:11 AM PST0

A new Progressive Policy Institute report reveals that Silicon Valley’s domination of telecom, tech, and content industries is increasingly at risk from other tech/info clusters in America–especially Texas tech hubs.
by Chriss W. Street11 Dec 2015, 5:01 AM PST0

Lack of work-life balance may be a feature—not a bug—at the world’s top companies. Glassdoor just released its annual list of “Best Places to Work,” based on its database of employee reviews.
by Ferenstein Wire10 Dec 2015, 8:02 AM PST0

Hillary Clinton is calling for Silicon Valley to help to thwart “the most effective recruiter in the world,” but no, she’s not talking about Donald Trump.
by Nate Church7 Dec 2015, 4:09 PM PST0

In the world of hyper-competitive business and San Francisco’s experimental culture a trend has emerged – microdosing psychedelic drugs to improve performance.
by Michelle Moons28 Nov 2015, 1:36 PM PST0

Mercedes-Benz research and development lab in Sunnyvale, California is racing to beat Apple, Google and Uber to dominate commercial and luxury self-driving vehicles. Google, Tesla, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Honda, Volkswagen and four other developers of autonomous vehicles already have permission from
by Chriss W. Street28 Nov 2015, 3:46 AM PST0

Money that was being appropriated for use towards protecting California power plants from terror attacks is reportedly being held hostage as a consequence of a battle between the California Public Utilities Commission and state legislators over the appropriation of $5 million in legal fees stemming from a corruption investigation into the agency.
by Adelle Nazarian25 Nov 2015, 5:06 AM PST0

California employers added 41,200 new jobs in the month of October, as the Golden State’s employment production continues at a 50 percent higher pace than the nation as a whole.
by Chriss W. Street23 Nov 2015, 11:37 AM PST0

San Francisco is a living crystal ball of what happens when a city refuses to build enough housing to accommodate the dense clustering of high-tech and service workers natural to modern industries.
by Ferenstein Wire19 Nov 2015, 9:01 PM PST0

The rumor mill indicates that the 155 acres that Apple quietly acquired near San Jose International Airport are enough for the R&D center for its “Project Titan” self-driving cars.
by Chriss W. Street15 Nov 2015, 4:26 AM PST0

Tesla claims it will sell a half million vehicles a year when its $35,000 Model 3 is introduced in 2017, but the network of charging stations in California is already imploding with just 160,000 registered electric vehicles.
by Chriss W. Street14 Nov 2015, 4:54 PM PST0

(Ferenstein Wire)—Silicon Valley is coming after unionized industries. A top investor in the Valley, Paul Graham, lit up Twitter, tweeting, “Any industry that still has unions has potential energy that could be released by startups. (I don’t mean in simply paying people less, but rather that industries afflicted by unions are sclerotic so have left lots undone.)”
by Ferenstein Wire12 Nov 2015, 9:21 PM PST0

Ted Cruz, who received widespread praise for his Tuesday debate performance in which he slammed the media for its biased coverage of immigration, continued his verbal broadside against pro-amnesty special interests on today’s program of the Laura Ingraham Show.
by Julia Hahn12 Nov 2015, 1:22 PM PST0

With wearable fitness devices the fastest-growing sector of consumer electronics, Fitbit, Inc. (FIT-NYSE) and Jawbone are engaged in a life-or-death marketplace and legal war.
by Chriss W. Street4 Nov 2015, 3:36 AM PST0

Hewlett-Packard Inc. is officially spinning out its personal computer and printer operations into a free-standing company from its enterprise software systems and consulting business on Monday, creating two companies with market capitalizations of about $25 billion each.
by Chriss W. Street2 Nov 2015, 12:01 AM PST0

Biotech sensation Theranos was supposed to be Silicon Valley’s next hot IPO. But late Thursday evening, the company told Fortune Magazine that its board of directors had shrunk from 12 members to five as it battles a perfect storm of negative publicity.
by Chriss W. Street29 Oct 2015, 4:49 AM PST0

The latest brainstorm from the Chinese Communist Party is a system for monitoring the Internet activity and financial transactions of its citizens, computing a “social credit” score on the acceptability of each person’s behavior, similar to the credit ratings compiled by financial institutions.
by John Hayward28 Oct 2015, 6:46 PM PST0

Quotas are coming to Silicon Valley. In fact, there is growing evidence they’ve already been put in place at some of the largest tech companies in the region — and soon, “diversity” will be required for start-ups seeking funding.
by Brian S. Hall28 Oct 2015, 3:04 PM PST0

Silicon Valley’s “coding bootcamps” are a cottage industry of fast-track private vocational schools for graduates looking to enter the competitive tech industry as software engineers, data scientists, and other in-demand jobs. Many coding bootcamp graduates who hold college degrees in areas notorious for slim earning potential (like English majors) and are now fully employed in the tech industry making a lot more money.
by Ferenstein Wire27 Oct 2015, 5:53 AM PST0