The identity of the Twitter contractor that temporarily deleted President Trump’s Twitter account has finally been revealed. He claims the deletion was an “accident.”
Silicon Valley tech executives and former Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano say they are urging the GOP-led Congress to attach an amnesty deal for potentially 3.5 million illegal aliens to a year-end spending bill.
Facebook claims that their most recent attempts to remove terrorism-related content on their platform using artificial intelligence has begun to “bear fruit.”
Foreign nationals, not Americans, are the future of the tech industry in Silicon Valley, California, tech executives proclaimed in a demand for Congress to pass amnesty for 3.5 million eligible illegal aliens.
Apple is rushing to patch a major operating system vulnerability that left Mac computers open to hacking. Here’s how readers can fix it now.
The city of Chicago has filed a lawsuit against Uber following the company’s failure to report a data breach that left 57 million Uber users vulnerable for over a year.
Corporations have begun pausing advertising on YouTube after ads for their products were appearing alongside inappropriate comments — some of which discussed pedophilia.
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi was reportedly aware of a hack that took place at the company last year for months before revealing the extent of the data breach to the public.
Peter Thiel has sold three-quarters of the Facebook shares he picked as Mark Zuckerberg’s first venture capitalist, even as the Silicon Valley boycott against him intensifies.
Regulators wolrdwide have begun probing Uber following the recent revelation that the company had covered up a hack that stole the personal info of 57 million users.
Meg Whitman is leaving as Hewlett Packard CEO after a successful six-year turnaround, and seems ready to take on her next Silicon Valley Fortune 500 deal.
Colorado’s Public Utilities Commission has fined Uber approximately $8.9 million for their employment of drivers with a history of criminal activities.
Foreign nationals now outnumber Americans in high-paying, high-skilled, white-collar jobs in Silicon Valley, California – the hub of the United States tech industry.
A former manager at Facebook recently published an op-ed in the New York Times describing the company’s attitude towards user privacy and warning that Facebook is not capable of regulating itself.
Silicon Valley’s Peter Thiel has finally cut ties with the Y Combinator investor fund, a year after being called a Silicon Valley traitor for his $1.25 million campaign contribution to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.
Following an update to Twitter’s terms of service, a number of conservative users have been de-verified and banned from the social media platform.
Silicon Valley’s venture capitalists are outraged that the U.S. Senate’s proposed tax reform makes employee stock option compensation less attractive and forces companies to pay employer taxes.
Global internet giants Google and Facebook can expect to receive a comprehensive tax bill from Israel within the next 12 months, according to a report in the financial newspaper TheMarker.
YouTube has removed thousands of videos featuring Anwar al-Awlaki, the Islamic hate preacher that inspired terrorists including the Boston Marathon bombers and the San Bernardino shooters.
Journalists working for Facebook as part of the company’s fact-checking initiative claim the site’s fact-checking tools have failed and the entire operation was simply a PR campaign.
An op-ed in the Wall Street Journal argues that special legal protections for social media platforms ought to be tied to their upholding of free speech.
Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) called for regulation of social networks on Wednesday, claiming, “No one company should have the power to pick and choose which content reaches consumers and which doesn’t.”
Continental, a Hanover, Germany-based developer of technologies and services for sustainable and connected mobility of people and their goods, is acquiring Argus Cyber Security, a Tel Aviv, Israel-based automotive cyber security company. The amount of the deal was not disclosed.
The recently released Paradise Papers, which detail the tax affairs of some of the world’s wealthiest people, have revealed the offshore sites used by Apple to avoid paying billions in taxes.
James Damore, the Google employee famously fired after he shared a memo alleging that the gender gap in tech could be due to biological differences, has filed an unfair dismissal case against the company.
“Silicon Valley is the new Wall Street,” a Bannon ally says.
In an article about the most prominent threats to Silicon Valley, Axios claimed Breitbart News Executive Chairman Steve Bannon “is railing against the ‘Lords of Silicon Valley.'”
The growing divide between conservatives and Silicon Valley is no accident. In a recently released survey of over 600 tech founders, I and my co-authors identified fundamental philosophical differences between Trump voters and technologists. Namely, Silicon Valley is about as “globalist” as it gets, supporting both free trade and immigration much more than the typical self-identified Republican.
Following the firing of programming chief Roy Price, Amazon Studios has faced the departure of their fourth executive in four months as Conrad Riggs, the former head of unscripted entertainment, departs the company shortly after Joe Lewis, the former head of comedy and drama.
California’s September job growth saw government employment booming at an annualized rate of over 12 percent — and the private sector crawling at less than 2 percent.
Zain Jaffer, the CEO of Silicon Valley tech startup Vungle, has been arrested for the alleged sexual assault of a minor and battery of an officer.
Google and Facebook, along with other companies in Silicon Valley, spent millions of dollars lobbying Congress in the third quarter in response to fears of regulation, according to a report.
Nearly half of tech workers are afraid of losing their jobs due to ageism, according to a survey.
Twitter revealed it will be banning “hateful display names” and published a timeline for future online safety policy changes.
The city of Stockton, California, is planning to offer a basic income grant of $500 per month to poor residents, making it the first U.S. city to provide a guaranteed income.
Twitter is reportedly planning to crackdown on ‘hate and abuse’ on their platform with the rollout of a new update.
Illegal aliens who have received temporary amnesty from the Obama administration are reportedly working as interns and aides in local California government on immigration issues.
Breitbart News Executive Chairman Steve Bannon warned against the dangers of trusting Silicon Valley and Washington elites in his speech at the Values Voter Summit on Saturday.
James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas has released a follow-up to its exposé of bias at the New York Times earlier this week. This time, the target is YouTube, the ubiquitous video-sharing platform owned by technology giant Google.
Amazon is reportedly experimenting with a new delivery service, aiming to take on private shipping companies such as FedEx and UPS.
