Silicon Valley

Selena Gomez is laying much of the blame for the violent attack on the U_S_ Capitol at the feet of Big Tech_ The singer told the leaders of Facebook, Twitter, Google and YouTube that they’ve allowed “people with hate in their hearts” to thrive and therefore “failed all the American people.”

A decade before Ryan Cohen co-founded online pet retailer Chewy.com at age 25 in 2011, he was a teenager making thousands of dollars a month off affiliate link websites he built himself. If Cohen needed extra money today, he would go back to his roots.

A firestorm is brewing in the South Bay after a local Republican leader posted a message online that appeared to encourage the violence as the nation’s Capitol was being overrun by pro-Trump rioters.

Elizabeth Holmes intended to use Theranos “as a tool to better her personal situation,” prosecutors wrote in a motion with the court Friday night.

A surge in coronavirus cases in California has led to a four-month delay in the criminal trial of Elizabeth Holmes, the former CEO of health tech firm Theranos.

Roughly 43% of women founders say the harassment occurred within the last 12 months, according to a Women Who Tech report.

A business advisory firm co-founded by Joe Biden’s pick to run the State Department has ties to a little known venture capital fund.

The trial is scheduled to begin March 9, 2021 after being delayed due to the pandemic.

Elizabeth Holmes employed personal assistants to run her luxury shopping sprees, traveled by private jet, stayed at exclusive hotels and drove an expensive SUV.

A major global cyber threat to election security was squashed by the FBI with the help of Silicon Valley social media companies.

Already in his young career, Kyle Woumn, 25, has had disappointing experiences that are too typical for a Black techie in white Silicon Valley.

For the first time, Airbnb is taking legal action against a guest for violating its ban on unauthorized parties

Apple on Monday provided a glimpse at upcoming software changes designed to make the iPhone even easier to use and announced underlying hardware changes to its line of Mac computers.

The founder of a Silicon Valley venture capital firm has been sentenced to six months behind bars for paying about $450,000 in bribes to boost his two daughters’ entrance exam scores and get one of them into Georgetown University as a bogus tennis recruit.

Tech giant Apple on Tuesday announced its plan to reduce the company’s carbon footprint to net zero across its entire business by 2030, according to a company blog post.

The Silicon Valley data-mining firm Palantir Technologies confidentially filed to go public, setting up what could be the biggest stock offering from a technology company since Uber’s debut last year.

The top 10 richest Silicon Valley moguls, all of whom are white men, are worth a combined $248.2 billion yet the number of Black women employed by 10 of the valley’s largest tech companies is zero, according to a study out of San Jose State University.

The Justice Department is proposing that Congress roll back legal protections for online platforms such as Facebook, Google and Twitter that generally could not be held legally responsible for what people post on the sites

A lot of people have lost their jobs, but not so much in the Silicon Valley. A study by Beacon Economics and UC Riverside noted that tech companies did cut jobs, but fewer jobs than other sectors of the economy.

Worldwide demand for COVID-19 testing could potentially threaten supply levels of certain chemicals needed to process the tests. Now, a Bay Area company hopes its tiny invention will solve a potentially massive dilemma.