Senators Mike Lee (R-UT) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), the chairman and top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee’s antitrust panel, said the hearing was scheduled for Sept. 24…
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Woz: Apple should’ve split up a long time ago, ‘Big Tech’ is too big
Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Wozniak comments on the antitrust scrutiny of big tech companies…
20+ U.S. states to move forward with antitrust probe of ‘Big Tech’ firms including Apple
A group of U.S. states is preparing to move forward with a joint antitrust investigation of big technology companies…
Apple, not Google or Facebook, the target of global antitrust regulators
Apple – not Facebook or Google – is rapidly emerging as the test case for how officials in Brussels, Washington and beyond clamp down on Big Tech’s digital empires…
U.S. Senate Democrats ask for details on antitrust probes into Apple, other tech firms
Seven U.S. Senate Democrats asked the Trump administration on Friday to disclose details of possible Federal Trade Commission and Justice Department…
Senator Bernie Sanders: ‘We should definitely take a look at’ breaking up Google, Amazon, Apple
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Tuesday “we should definitely take a look at” splitting up Google, Amazon and Apple…
Apple Campus 3: Apple’s insatiable appetite for office space devours Wolfe Campus
Apple Park’s sprawling ‘Campus 2’ remained a center of media attention ever since plans for…
Senator Elizabeth Warren’s simple solutions, like breaking up Apple, won’t work
Only when pushed to say it, Warren gives up the App Store…
Senator Elizabeth Warren wants to break up Apple, too
Warren said Apple uses its market dominance to squash competition…
Senator Elizabeth Warren pushes to break up big tech companies Google, Facebook, and Amazon; affect Apple’s App Store
Sen. Elizabeth Warren unveiled a plan Friday to break up massive technology companies…
Google CEO Pichai denies company’s political bias in congressional hearing
Google’s chief executive officer Sundar Pichai rejected claims of political bias against conservatives…
U.S. senator says privacy bill draft could arrive in early 2019
Members of U.S. Congress from both parties have criticized Facebook, Google, and Twitter over data breaches, a lack of online privacy options, and concern about political bias…
Congress to grill Google CEO about political bias; ‘Search engines can be used to suppress particular viewpoints’ – U.S. Congressman
Google CEO Sundar Pichai is scheduled to testify before Congress next Wednesday…
Facebook fired top exec Palmer Luckey for supporting Donald Trump for President
Facebook Inc. executive and virtual-reality wunderkind Palmer Luckey was a rising star of Silicon Valley…
Apple signs major lease for nearly 314,000 square feet of industrial manufacturing space in Milpitas
Apple Inc. has signed a major lease for nearly 314,000 square feet of industrial manufacturing space…
Majority of Apple employees are deciding to delay starting a family due to cost of living in the Bay Area
According to a new survey by Blind, the anonymous community app for the workplace…
Want a lower tax bill? So do Apple and Genentech
For-profit companies don’t typically downplay the value of their assets…
‘Valley of Genius’ author reveals the biggest secrets about Steve Jobs’ life and death
The pioneers behind some of the world’s most influential technology companies might not be the lovable nerds…
Apple CEO Cook meets with members of the Congressional Black Caucus to discuss diversity
For members of the Congressional Black Caucus, who arrived in the Bay Area on Monday, the tech sector…
Black lawmakers will visit Silicon Valley next week to talk to Apple about diversity
A record number of black lawmakers will be visiting Silicon Valley next week to ask executives at Apple…
Apple’s third large California campus is already built
In January, Apple announced plans to build a new campus in the United States…
Home prices near Apple Park are setting records
Home prices in the Bay Area of California are already crazy expensive…
Silicon Valley’s new D.C. partner: Charles Koch
The tech industry has found a surprising new ally in its effort to shape public policy in Washington…
Apple’s VP of Inclusion and Diversity leaving at year’s end
Apple’s first-ever vice president of diversity and inclusion, Denise Young Smith…
Apple diversity chief Denise Young Smith apologizes to staff for statements made at summit
Apple VP of Inclusion and Diversity Denise Young Smith on Friday issued an internal memo to apologize…
Apple’s first ever VP of diversity and inclusion says she focuses on everyone, not just minorities
Denise Young Smith is Silicon Valley’s most powerful black woman…
Sorry, but Silicon Valley isn’t special anymore
Steve Jobs once said, speaking about the irreverent culture he helped create…
Fired Google engineer Damore says the company is hiring and promoting workers based on race or gender
I’m saying that people that go into tech are interested in ‘things’ versus ‘people’ generally…
Here’s why the tech industry doesn’t need more female software engineers
I feel quite strongly that people should stop trying to get women into coding and software engineering…
Apple disrupts Silicon Valley with another eye-catcher: Apple Park
Things change when a spaceship comes to town…
Apple’s new Vice President of Inclusion and Diversity will report directly to CEO Tim Cook
Apple’s head of Worldwide Human Resources Denise Young Smith will now run diversity programs…
Steve Jobs’ last great product: Apple Park
Steve Jobs’s vision for Apple’s headquarters was to stay close to home…
The new age of Ayn Rand: How she won over President Trump and Silicon Valley
As they plough through their GCSE revision, UK students planning to take politics A-level…
Apple CEO Tim Cook: ‘U.S. will lose its leadership in technology’ unless more women are hired
Apple CEO Tim Cook says that society, including the tech community, is not moving fast enough on issues like equal rights and diversity…
Psychopathic CEOs are rife in Silicon Valley, experts say
There is a high proportion of psychopathic CEOs in Silicon Valley…
Investors bet Trump-fueled tech rally is far from over
Technology companies have been a driving force behind the U.S. stock market’s recent record rally…
Apple’s board has urged shareholders to reject proposal to tie executive compensation to racial diversity quotas
Apple shareholders will decide next week whether to force the tech giant to diversify its leadership…
Apple Inc. fights shareholders group demand for more diversity
Silicon Valley has a long way to go on diversity, but most tech companies would argue…
Silicon Valley chiefs frozen out of President Trump’s White House
In President-elect Donald J. Trump’s newly named kitchen cabinet of business advisers, Wall Street is in. Silicon Valley is out…
Why Donald Trump bests Hillary Clinton on key tech policies
I’m a small IT business owner and a decade-long IT pro, and I’m standing with Trump on the issues closest to my heart: technology issues and their related policies…
Silicon Valley donated 60 times more to Clinton than to Trump
For every $1 that employees at the world’s biggest technology companies donated to Donald Trump…
99% of Silicon Valley’s political dollars are going to Hillary Clinton
Data compiled by Crowdpac, a nonpartisan group that tracks campaign donations, shows that employees at technology companies…
