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San Jose Police used data from a murder victim’s Fitbit fitness device to track down her 90-year-old murder.

The executives of Silicon Valley’s tech conglomerates, outsourcing firms, and the farm industry have joined together to fight President Trump’s tariffs on imported steel, aluminum, and Chinese-made products.

The New York Times reported on the explosive Google Tape back in March but chose not to informs its readers of virtually all the key details revealed during this company town hall.

Jonathan Taplin, director emeritus of the Annenberg Innovation Lab at the University of Southern California, warned in a recent interview that tech monopolies are going to become an increasingly big problem in the future.

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Small businesses are fleeing Facebook after sweeping changes made to its news feed showing “more posts from friends and family” and “less public content,” from commercial entities.

Numerous mainstream news media outlets came together Tuesday to defend big tech giants including Google, Facebook, and Twitter, in response to warnings made by President Donald Trump earlier in the day about the left-wing bias the Masters of the Universe display on their platforms.

President Trump took to Twitter on Tuesday to condemn Google, criticizing the search engine as “rigged” for favoring liberal and establishment news publications in its search results.

Members of the Silicon Valley elite are celebrating the Burning Man festival this week, which has been described as a “networking event” for Big Tech billionaires.

Dr. Robert Epstein joined SiriusXM hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak on Thursday’s Breitbart News Tonight to warn of technology firms’ growing political power.

Democrats are fine with ‘election interference’ when it comes from Silicon Valley.

The following is a speculative “future history” of how online free speech was protected from the censorship of Big Tech progressives by the creation of a regulatory agency known as the Federal Platform Commission. 

Robert Spencer, founder and director of Jihad Watch and author of “The History of Jihad: From Muhammad to ISIS,” warned of expanding online left-wing political censorship via large technology companies. He offered his remarks in a Friday interview with Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Today.

The New York Times published a long-form article recently titled “The Unlikely Activists Who Took On Silicon Valley — and Won” discussing a group of privacy activists that successfully passed a California bill protecting user privacy from tech giants.

The video streaming service Vimeo has become the latest company to remove content created Alex Jones’s InfoWars, following an intense blacklist campaign led by CNN and other progressive media. 

Netflix CFO David Wells is reportedly stepping down from his position at the company, which he joined in 2004.

Bloomberg News reported on Sunday that Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund is interested in participating in a potential Tesla Inc. buyout for up to $82 billion.

Bloomberg published an opinion piece this week explaining why Elon Musk’s latest tweets about taking Tesla private show why the company shouldn’t be publicly traded.

Silicon Valley is hitting back against proposed tariffs on Chinese electric bikes and scooters, according to new reports.

A 26-year-old homeless man gained more than 200 job offers on Saturday after he took to the streets of Silicon Valley handing out resumes instead of begging for money.

Billionaire investor Peter Thiel compared Silicon Valley’s one-party culture to “North Korea” in a speech to the Turning Point USA conference in Washington, DC, a gathering of conservative high school students.

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) filed a Federal Election Commission (FEC) complaint against Twitter following revelations the social networking giant shadowed his account.   

Easily the dumbest article I’ve read this year was one by a posh liberal columnist in a high end political journal explaining why freedom of speech wasn’t under threat in the West. Anyone who argued otherwise, he claimed, was a “grade A chocolate-coated plonker.”

Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel addressed a group of young conservatives on Wednesday evening.

Bloomberg published an article recently discussing the issue of Google’s contract workforce — employees that are expected to work just as hard as everyone else at the company without any of the benefits, and reportedly outnumber full-time Google employees.

Mike Maples, the founder of Silicon Valley-based venture firm Floodgate Capital, has warned young entrepreneurs to watch the language they use when describing their ideas and to stop copying industry figures such as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

Lawmakers hold a second hearing into social media censorship Tuesday on Capitol Hill.

An organization named Tech for Campaigns and based in Silicon Valley has a new mission — get Democrats elected.

Billionaires from Silicon Valley and the media industry are heading to Idaho for Allen & Co.’s annual “summer camp” get-together this week.

The Economic Institute reported this month that the Bay Area would be the 19th-largest economy in the world, if it were a country, after growing at the fifth-fastest rate of any nation since 2014.

Uber’s Chief People Officer Liane Hornsey has resigned from the company via email following an investigation into her handling of racial discrimination allegations.

Twitter will purge “tens of millions” of “suspicious” accounts on Thursday, according to a report.

Twitter’s stock dropped more than eight percent on Monday following reports that the social network has been deleting over 1 million fake accounts per day.

The CEO of cloud storage company Box has stated that the mistrust and possible regulation of major tech companies such as Facebook and Google is a ‘contagion’ that could spread to other Silicon Valley tech companies.

Anton Troynikov, a robotics engineer who apparently has worked in the San Francisco Bay Area, launched a series of hilarious viral tweets on Thursday comparing Silicon Valley to the former Soviet Union.

The latest Subsidy Tracker reveals that some of the most prominent Silicon Valley tech corporations enjoy $840 billion in government subsidies.