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Silicon Valley’s tech elites are spoiling for a fight against a legal immigration overhaul backed by President Donald Trump.

Following the circulation of an internal memo criticizing Google’s restrictive PC workplace environment, employees have freaked out, calling for the memo’s author to be fired.

The newly-opened Hiroshi Japanese restaurant in Silicon Valley represents the pinnacle of tech executive opulence.

Reddit, the self-styled “front page of the internet,” has received $200 million in venture capital funding valuing the company at around $1.8 billion.

Google has reportedly purchased 52 properties worth $820 million in Sunnyvale, California, in the heart of Silicon Valley

Fenox Venture Capital CEO Anis Uzzaman has filed a lawsuit in San Francisco alleging that an alleged anonymous victim of sexual harassment who posted a salacious story online was a male competitor trying to trash his rival. SiliconValley.com reported that Uzzaman investigated

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.

Actor T.J. Miller slammed his former Silicon Valley castmates in an interview this week for failing to sufficiently contribute to the “fight” to prevent Donald Trump from becoming president.

Steph Curry of the NBA champion Golden State Warriors just proved that the best athlete on the planet can lose big in real estate.

Silicon Valley early-stage venture capital (VC) funding has been cut in half in the last two years, as venture capitalists are stuck with investments in mature companies that are not able to go public.

Silicon Valley social justice warriors are planning to publish a blacklist of venture capitalists they deem sexual harassers.

Hyperloop One may have just killed California’s high-speed rail project, after the company’s 28-foot long aluminum and carbon-fiber production-scale pod hit its first milestone by traveling down a 1,640-foot near-zero-resistance vacuum tube test-track at a speed of 70 miles-per-hour.

Social media company Facebook has announced plans to develop 1500 apartments as part of a “social housing” project in Silicon Valley.

A female tech worker in Silicon Valley says she rejected NBC News talent Megyn Kelly’s interview request about sexual harassment in the tech industry.

Silicon Valley billionaires are reportedly committing hundreds of thousands of dollars in a quest to rejuvenate the Democratic Party.

Leftist elites and their Silicon Valley monopoly overlords understood something important about the internet from its very inception. Control the medium, and you control the message.

Plagued by recent company scandals, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has stepped down from his position at the company following a shareholder revolt.

Some of the top CEO’s of technology companies in America met with Donald Trump at the White House on Monday, praising him for hosting an afternoon summit on important tech issues.

Amazon.com’s $13.7 billion acquisition bid for Whole Foods Market represents an existential threat to Silicon Valley: namely, that the $500 billion cash hoard held by U.S. tech giants will be spent on the real economy, instead of funding another cycle of disruptive tech start-ups.

Actor and stand-up comedian T.J. Miller believes that the roles of entertainers have changed drastically with the election of President Donald Trump.

After 9 months of media flogging fake news stories that Silicon Valley’s top supporter is a vampire planning to live forever through transfusions of children’s’ blood, the Tech Crunch blog says there is no basis for the stories.

Liberal geographer Joel Kotkin has penned an op-ed in the Orange County Register warning that California is “descen[ding] into socialism” — one that is deigned to protect, rather than expropriate, its rich Silicon Valley elite.

A number of the largest tech corporations in Silicon Valley hide their hiring of foreign workers through the H-1B visa by contracting them through India-based outsourcing firms, a report states.

Following a companywide investigation into claims of sexual harassment, Uber has fired 20 employees.

LinkedIn’s Workforce Report for June found that of the 20 largest U.S. metropolitan areas, Silicon Valley has plunged to 12th place in job attractiveness.

The New York Times reports Silicon Valley tech elites are attempting to affect change in America’s education system.

The average sales price of a Silicon Valley home is up 6.4 percent in the last 12 months. But at the increasingly unaffordable price of almost $1.5 million, the volume of sales is down 11 percent over the same period.

Google co-founder Sergey Brin is secretly building the world’s largest airship at a cost of up to $150 million to serve both as the ultimate luxury yacht and rapid transit for remote natural disasters.

Silicon Valley elites continue to push for a universal basic income in America that would give all citizens a guaranteed annual income from the government.

Bank of America just warned that America’s next social justice movement will be “Occupy Silicon Valley,” which will demand a redistribution of wealth from liberal tech moguls to workers.

California’s unemployment rate fell to 4.8 percent in April, the lowest rate since the top of the dot-com bubble in December 2001.

Silicon Valley’s Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA) reportedly referred to Middle America as “Podunk, USA” during a closed-door Energy and Commerce Committee meeting last week.

The New York Times Magazine recently ran a story declaring Silicon Valley to be the “center of anti-trump resistance.” The article, written by Farhad Manjoo, is titled “Can Facebook Fix Its Own Worst Bug?” and poses the question: “Mark Zuckerberg

Interns at top technology companies, including Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, and Amazon, earn more money than the average American, according to a new report.

A newly published report has accused Facebook of rejecting female developer’s code 35 percent more often than code written by male developers.

Federal Communications Commission Chairman (FCC) Ajit Pai announced his plan Wednesday to reverse the “Net Neutrality” rules adopted under President Barack Obama. And Democrats, and Silicon Valley activists, are already preparing to fight the change.