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Doerrs give $1.1 billion to Stanford for new climate school

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Silicon Valley venture capitalist John Doerr, an early investor in Google, Amazon and other leading tech companies, and his wife, Ann, have agreed to donate $1.1 billion to Stanford University to set up a new school devoted to the study of climate change and its solutions.

Tribune News Service

‘The PR speak is not landing’: Twitter employees blast Elon Musk takeover at emergency meeting

Disquiet has swelled inside the Silicon Valley firm since Elon Musk reached a deal to buy the company

The Independent UK

A new benefit is born to help companies find and keep workers

When Facebook Inc. and Apple Inc. began offering egg-freezing benefits to employees in 2014, the move was seen as typical Silicon Valley. The creative if unconventional perk helped attract and keep younger tech talent, but it was out of reach to all but a tiny slice of the U.S. workforce.

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Carolyn Chen: ‘The tech company offers the most efficient solution to providing a meaningful life’

A new book exposes Silicon Valley’s use of spiritual concepts and practices to optimise their workers’ productivity

The Guardian - UK

Obama calls for tigher reins on big tech

San Francisco (AFP) - Former US president Barack Obama on Thursday called out Silicon Valley, urging tech companies to stop dividing society and undermining democracy, and for political leaders to help guide the way with regulation.

AFP

The Chinese Way of Innovation

What Washington Can Learn From Beijing About Investing in Tech

Foreign Affairs

Silicon Valley’s COVID windfall raises alarms about region’s economy

An unprecedented flow of riches is concentrating wealth among Silicon Valley companies that capitalized on the world’s locked-down lives amid the pandemic, raising fears that a dramatically lopsided recovery will warp the economic future for the Bay Area.

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Jack Dorsey Has a Pugnacious Way to Unsettle Tech Elite

The founder of Twitter and Block has been on the attack for a few days against Tech elite of which he is a part.

The Street

Soho-based cyber security firm SEON raises £72m from Silicon Valley fund

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Evening Standard

Big Changes in Sight for Tech Workers

Silicon Valley is the U.S. tech hub, but cities and states across the country are changing rules to entice newly emancipated workers to choose their locales for their careers.

The Street

Elon Musk’s paradoxical vision of running Twitter: Less democracy, more freedom

There’s a common critique of Big Tech that goes like this: In the 21st century, social media platforms are the new public square, and it matters a great deal who sets the rules. Instead of allowing true free speech, unaccountable Silicon Valley elites like Mark Zuckerberg decide what can and…

Los Angeles Times

Silicon Valley office vacancy improves for first time since COVID outbreak

SAN JOSE, Calif — The office vacancy rate in Silicon Valley improved during the first three months of 2022, a sign that the office sector is starting to recuperate from coronavirus-linked maladies, a new report indicates.

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Mehmet Oz is worth at least $104 million and maybe a lot more, a new report says

PHILADELPHIA — Republican Senate candidate Mehmet Oz has derided big technology companies as a “cartel” and boasted about taking on the Silicon Valley giants as he campaigns in Pennsylvania.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Tesla inaugurates huge Texas plant with party just as big

Austin (AFP) - Tesla welcomed throngs of electric car lovers to Texas Thursday for a huge party inaugurating a "gigafactory" the size of 100 soccer fields.

AFP

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'Cyber Rodeo' bash fetes new Tesla plant in Texas

San Francisco (AFP) - Electric car lovers are flocking to Austin for an enormous party Thursday celebrating a new Tesla "gigafactory" in Texas the size of 100 professional soccer fields.

Tribune News Service

Is it time to test embryos for common diseases?

SAN JOSE, Calif. – A Silicon Valley company has designed a technique to decipher the genetic code of a tiny embryo and calculate its future risk of cancer, diabetes and 10 other common diseases – presaging a day when parents could select children with a greater chance of living a…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Musk Discloses 9.2% Stake in Twitter

Tesla Inc Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk has built a 9.2% stake in Twitter Inc, a regulatory filing showed on Monday, sending the micro-blogging site's shares soaring 16% in premarket trading. Late March, the silicon valley billionaire said he was giving "serious thought" to building a new social media platform.…

Birmingham Post

Silicon Valley tech company to create 40 jobs in Bristol

The Goldman Sachs-backed company was founded in 2004 - and now has offices across the world

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Michael Hiltzik: That big tech exodus out of California turns out to be a bust

Wannabe innovation hubs from coast to coast have been slavering over the prospect that the work-from-home revolution triggered by the COVID pandemic would finally break the stranglehold that California and Silicon Valley have had on high-tech jobs.

Benzinga

Google Fielded Pay-Related Questions At Recent Meet

Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google leaders faced a storm of criticism from employees on issues related to compensation, CNBC reports. Google defended the company's competitiveness at a recent all-hands meeting while conceding that the performance review process could change. Recently, Google's internal survey had reflected growing dissatisfaction with pay packages. Its peer Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN), looked…

The Independent UK

This former Uber executive traveled to Ukraine to help Zelensky. His parents still think he’s in San Francisco

Ukrainian-born Silicon Valley executive Andrey Liscovich tells Rachel Sharp how he swapped the Bay Area for the war zone so he can use his startup skills to source and route supplies to the volunteers fighting for his country’s freedom

Tribune News Service

Tech billionaires rally around nuclear as energy crisis looms

In recent weeks, some of Silicon Valley’s most famous technologists have hailed a historically polarizing energy source — nuclear power — as a solution to both cutting carbon emissions and weaning the world off now-controversial Russian gas.

The Street

Russian Silicon Valley Billionaire Caught in Russian Invasion of Ukraine

The Russian invasion of Ukraine and the sanctions of Western countries have put wealthy Russians in a delicate situation.

Financial Times

How Big Tech lost the antitrust battle with Europe

Brussels is set to finalise stringent new legislation targeting Silicon Valley giants, whose desperate lobbying has fallen on deaf ears

The Street

Jack Dorsey Takes Sides in the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

The former Twitter CEO has joined Tesla CEO Elon Musk in publicly picking a side.

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