In a plea to President Donald Trump asking him to keep an Obama-era amnesty program for young illegal aliens, Microsoft revealed that it had an invested business interest in the program continuing. While lobbying the Trump Administration to continue adding young illegal aliens to the Deferred Action for Childhood…
FLASHBACK: Google Is Not What It Seems by Julian Assange…
Google Fires Author of “Outrageous” Memo Slamming Company’s Anti-Conservative Culture…
Yesterday we reported that a 10-page document penned by an unnamed Google engineer titled “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber” which criticized the company’s “left-leaning”, “anti-conservative” culture and called for replacing Google’s diversity initiatives with policies that encourage “ideological diversity” instead, led to angry outrage among fellow Google employees and Silicon Valley liberals. The document, published in […]
Low-Income Workers Who Live in RVs Are Being ‘Chased Out’ of Silicon Valley Streets…
In a Silicon Valley town where the median home value is $2.5m, next to a university with a $22.5bn endowment, not far from a shopping mall with Burberry and Cartier outlets, they present an eye-popping sight: dozens of run-down RVs and trailers parked in a line along a main road. Their homeless inhabitants must live […]
Tech’s Social Conscience: Where Next?…
If tech is going to be a force for social good, Silicon Valley must take a hard look at itself and course correct. In an era of both increasing social divisions and unexpected alliances, the tech community must grapple with its ethical identity. How it takes action in support of the communities it so often […]
Major U.S. Tech Firms Press Congress for Internet Surveillance Reforms…
Facebook, Amazon and more than two dozen other U.S. technology companies pressed Congress on Friday to make changes to a broad internet surveillance law, saying they were necessary to improve privacy protections and increase government transparency. The request marks the first significant public effort by Silicon Valley to wade into what is expected to be […]
Occupy Silicon Valley: The Next Populist Movement…
Standout gains in large technology stocks like Amazon.com and Apple show just how much the sector is disconnected from the sluggish growth on the rest of Main Street, one notable strategist said in a report titled “Occupy Silicon Valley.” The tech stock rally “could ultimately lead to populist calls for redistribution of the increasingly concentrated […]
What’s Neoliberalism? And How It’s Killing You!…
Dore explains ‘Neoliberalism’ what the Democratic Party is really all about these days. He states Neoliberalism ‘include[s] extensive economic liberalization policies such as privatization, fiscal austerity, deregulation, free trade, and reductions in government spending in order to increase the role of the private sector in the economy and society’…
Is It Time to Break Up Google?…
In just 10 years, the world’s five largest companies by market capitalization have all changed, save for one: Microsoft. Exxon Mobil, General Electric, Citigroup and Shell Oil are out and Apple, Alphabet (the parent company of Google), Amazon and Facebook have taken their place. They’re all tech companies, and each dominates its corner of the […]