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When President-elect Donald Trump “magnanimously” met with $3 trillion worth of Silicon Valley tech CEOs that actively opposed his candidacy, he very publicly booted Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey as payback for alleged bias against his campaign.

My neighbors in Silicon Valley are outraged over two pieces of news that seem entirely contradictory to me.

Speaking to a number of Silicon Valley elites at a tech themed meeting at Trump Tower, President-elect Donald Trump stated his intentions to have an open dialogue with the tech executives and repeated his dedication to innovation.

President-elect Donald Trump met with some of the top Silicon Valley tech executives this afternoon, praising them for their innovation and promising to help them succeed in their business.

Geopolitical Futures’ annual forecast predicts the maturation of the microchip-based productivity cycle means that the economic challenges facing America’s middle- and lower-class “can’t be solved.”

Deadpool and HBO’s Silicon Valley star T. J. Miller was arrested in Hollywood early Friday morning for allegedly beating the driver of a car in which he was riding.

Silicon Valley law partners are the highest-paid in the nation, according to a new report, earning an average of $1,433,000 a year in compensation.

With Silicon Valley CEOs terrified that President Donald Trump will retaliate against offshoring production, Apple is already preparing to move iPhone production back to America.

Representative-elect Ro Khanna told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview on Monday that he plans to do his part to change the way politics has come to function in Washington D.C., and will focus on putting Americans workers first.

Tech entrepreneur and co-founder of PayPal Peter Thiel suggested that he will work for the Trump administration as an informal adviser on subjects such as technology and innovation.

Donald Trump won a Republican White House, Senate and House because he led a rebellion against the Democrats’ embrace of Silicon Valley’s business model, which profits from global trade, offshore labor and foreign skilled workers.

Silicon Valley tech elites are pushing for California to secede from the United States and become a sovereign nation following Donald Trump’s election as President of the United States.

Silicon Valley’s elite took to Twitter to express their horror earlier this morning as the election began to turn in favour of Republican candidate Donald Trump.

Silicon Valley columnist Michelle Quinn of the Bay Area News Group has panned venture capitalist Peter Thiel’s speech to the National Press Club on Monday, calling on tech leaders to “attack” Thiel for being white, male, and wealthy.

Silicon Valley leaders are befuddled as both political parties — and venture capital giant Peter Thiel — are rejecting their agenda, which includes the Trans-Pacific Partnership, expanded H1-B immigration visas, new autonomous vehicles regulations, and “gig economy” worker reclassification.

Despite growing Silicon Valley tech layoffs, and disappointing third quarter performance from Apple and Twitter, Google’s parent, Alphabet, reported an annual 20 percent revenue surge, 25 percent earnings spike, and 10,000 additional employees.

With Peter Thiel already infuriating Silicon Valley’s crony capitalist liberals by donating $1.25 million to Republican Donald Trump’s campaign, he is preparing to double-down by giving a Halloween keynote speech likening Trump to a Silicon Valley entrepreneur.

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg defended venture capitalist Peter Thiel on Tuesday from a Silicon Valley backlash against him for donating money to help Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.

The Silicon Valley Thought Police are demanding retaliation against top venture capitalist Peter Thiel for making a $1.25 million contribution to Republican Donald Trump.

Silicon Valley has been rapidly increasing its influence in the government over the past few years, as technology firms up their spending on political lobbying and increasing numbers of former Silicon Valley employees move to jobs in the government.

A Lithuanian-born marketing professional, whose dream is to work in a big Silicon Valley company, is trying to break through to potential employers by hand-delivering donut boxes with his resume posted to the inside.

A federal lawsuit filed this week by Scott Ard, editor-in-chief of the Silicon Valley Business Journal, claims that Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer led an illegal “purge” of male employees from the company. Two other female executives are also named as defendants in the suit.

A new study finds that Silicon Valley and Los Angeles basin apartment rent prices are in steep declines after four years of spiking costs.

Palantir Technologies co-founder Peter Thiel is evidently paying the price for backing Republican nominee Donald Trump, as the Obama administration has slapped his company with a frivolous lawsuit alleging “racial discrimination” against Asians.

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.

The tech industry in Silicon Valley has disrupted the restaurant industry, thanks to high rent and higher minimum wages.

TechCrunch is reporting that Unilever is negotiating to buy Jessica Alba’s e-commerce start-up The Honest Company as another online offering, like the Dollar Shave Club.

Palo Alto mayor Patrick Burt says: “Palo Alto’s greatest problem right now is the Bay Area’s massive job growth.” And he wants to “meter” businesses to control “reckless job growth” in the Silicon Valley suburb.

Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz announced late Thursday that he will be donating $20 million to far-left groups as part of an effort to defeat Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in the November election.

Hillary Clinton has vacuumed up huge amounts of cash from Silicon Valley, but she is not spending money or time with the creative people of the “Valley of the Democrats.”

The Oracle Corporation is using its deep financial resources to fund the “Google Transparency Project,” which has set up headquarters in Washington, D.C. with a mission to “out” Google’s dicey lobbying practices and expose crony relationships with President Obama and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.

Cisco Systems, Inc. announced August 17 that it will slash 5,500 jobs. The cuts are consistent with Silicon Valley tech terminations running almost double the pace of 2015.

It looks like it’s every man for himself at Twitter. The company has suffered yet another high-profile departure from its communications department, with executive Jim Prosser leaving the company after four years.

Thanks to Hillary Clinton directing the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to terminate its 2008 ban on presidential nominees taking donations from federal lobbyists and political action committees (PACs), the Clinton campaign has raised $31 million in Silicon Valley.

Ask a startup CEO what the most important thing at his company is, and you’re likely to hear something about the “company culture” — a unique blend of values and workplace norms that give startups their unique vibe.

Dallas may well be poised to overtake San Francisco as the top tech talent market say experts from the world’s largest commercial brokerage and information real estate firm, CBRE.