Google, Facebook, IBM, Intel, and Uber are among the most well-known participants in the “Coalition for the American Dream” pushing to protect the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
Artificially intelligent machines may very well come to augment every aspect of our lives, and even extend them. But these advances raise a multitude of questions.
The Israel Innovation Authority released its 2017 annual report on Monday, detailing the government’s plans to double the country’s high-tech workforce during the next decade.
One-third of IBM employees are currently based in India, despite the company’s American roots, according to a report.
American computer hardware behemoth IBM Watson is buying Israeli start-up Cloudigo, its founder said on LinkedIn over Rosh Hashana weekend.
Speaking to Axios at a Toronto artificial intelligence conference, Yoshua Bengio warned against the concentration of money and power in Silicon Valley.
The pro-outsourcing CEOs who abandoned President Donald Trump’s now-defunct American Manufacturing Council and the Strategy and Policy Forum will continue lobbying the White House.
The CEOs who fled President Donald Trump following his response to violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, last week have a history of importing foreign labor.
The number of federally registered political lobbyists has fallen by 14 percent thus far in 2017 from the 2016 total. However, based on data provided by the non-partisan OpenSecrets.org, spending by lobbyists is on track to rise by about 3 percent in 2017.
A California-based businesswoman who runs an outsourcing firm to replace American tech workers pleaded guilty to H-1B visa fraud.
After British Airways was hit with a technical problem, forcing it to shut down all of its flights at London Heathrow and Gatwick airports, unions are now blaming the fiasco on the company’s decision to outsource its IT department.
A former IBM developer has pled guilty to stealing trade secrets for the Chinese government.
New York University accidentally exposed a military computer code-breaking project to the internet, according to a new report.
Reuters has found that more than 15 percent of Facebook’s U.S. staff are immigrants employed through H-1B temporary work visas.
A pair of tech executives have been indicted for allegedly using false documents to bring in help through the H-1B guest worker program.
The Trump jobs boom continues, with computer giant IBM announcing that it is set to hire 2,000 veterans of the U.S. Military after a meeting with President Donald J. Trump.
President Trump has gathered many CEOs and business leaders together since becoming president, but some of these company leaders are facing a backlash from their employees who don’t support the president.
Amazon announced that it will he hiring 100,000 new employees during the next year-and-a-half. The good news – about 1,000 of these jobs are expect to come to Houston, Texas.
Israeli private high-tech companies, a main driver of the country’s economy, raised an all-time high of $4.8 billion in 2016, up 11 percent from 2015, a report showed on Tuesday.
The number of companies announcing a ramping up of investment in the U.S. and the corresponding rush to create jobs for Americans have jumped to a quicker pace since the election of Donald J. Trump to the White House.
Ahead of Donald Trump’s meeting with tech industry leaders, tech giant IBM announced that they will be hiring 25,000 more US workers and investing $1 billion in employee development.
Silicon Valley often gets knocked for a lack of diversity, but historically excluded groups are making an impressive showing at the top spot of the most valuable companies. Just looking at the top ten companies based in Silicon Valley by NASDAQ market cap, 40% are run by someone who is a woman, an immigrant, or non-white. By individual demographics, 20% are women, and 30% are foreign-born.
IBM announced a major breakthrough in chip technology, with a super-tiny seven-nanometer chip. This chip breaks the difficult 10nm barrier and proves that the industry can still move along an important innovation pace known as “Moore’s Law.”
