Tech Company Will Pay for Employees to Move Out of Texas over Abortion Law
A San Franciso-based software company is joining others in corporate America in opposing the Texas law that protects the unborn.

A San Franciso-based software company is joining others in corporate America in opposing the Texas law that protects the unborn.
Investigative journalism group Project Veritas recently published a report detailing plans by the cloud-based software giant Salesforce to de-platform customers who have “the potential to incite politically motivated violence.” According to the Project Veritas video, executives are communicating with the RNC specifically about messages from former President Donald Trump. Project Veritas reports that its own business account with Salesforce has been cut off.
Salesforce, the company behind the RNC’s email provider, has reportedly taken action to prevent President Donald Trump and Republicans from using “our services in any way that could lead to violence.” The Trump campaign has not been able to send an email since January 6.
The notoriously left-wing CEO of Salesforce, Marc Benioff, stood in stunned silence when confronted with a question about the company’s lack of policy on political tolerance and viewpoint discrimination at the company’s annual investor meeting.
President Trump and Ivanka Trump hosted a gathering Thursday to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the Pledge to American Workers.
Gun control proponent Gabby Giffords is praising business software maker Salesforce for demanding that its firearm retail customers cease selling AR-15s.
Business software maker Salesforce is telling gun retailers they must stop selling AR-15s if they want to continue using the company’s business applications.
Two top-level Salesforce security engineers have lost their jobs over the details of an IT defense tool they revealed at the annual DEF CON hacking conference.
Although Disney seemed like the perfect suitor for Twitter, the company passed on the strategic acquisition over concerns that social media’s bullying, raunchy language and hate speech risked undermining the Magic Kingdom’s wholesome family image.
Twitter’s stock collapsed on October 14 — at one point falling over 8 percent — after potential suitor Salesforce withdrew its interest following the release of a “Teen Survey” that found virtually no interest in the Twitter brand by youth.
In Silicon Valley, it is a worse “crime” for the founder of Oculus VR, Palmer Luckey, to have donated in support of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump than for Facebook to have potentially engaged in fraudulently inflating its average video viewing times for the last two years.
Apple Inc. is promising to appeal the European Commission’s decision that it owes $14.5 billion in European taxes because it says the company’s current effective tax rate of 0.00045 percent is “fair.”
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich had scheduled a fundraiser with Donald Trump at his Silicon Valley home on June 1, but it had to be canceled after someone leaked it to the media.
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.