Apple’s head of Worldwide Human Resources Denise Young Smith will now run diversity programs…
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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…
Apple CEO Tim Cook and the rest of Silicon Valley throw big money at Clinton and pretty much bupkis at Trump
Tim Cook will mark his five-year anniversary as the CEO of Apple by doing something that his predecessor Steve Jobs typically avoided: hosting a fundraiser for a presidential candidate…
Donald Trump’s most unlikely supporter: Silicon Valley billionaire Pete Thiel
The Republican Party’s new trade-loving, free-thinking, gay, Christian, antiwar, rich-as-hell, naturalized-citizen, Silicon Valley hero…
Tech investor Peter Thiel’s embrace of Donald Trump for U.S. President has Silicon Valley squirming
When the technology investor Peter Thiel takes the stage just before Donald J. Trump at the Republican convention this week…
No one wants to be Apple
There has been a surge in pessimism pointed towards Apple’s business model…
Apple’s Board of Directors says a call for diversity is ‘unduly burdensome and not necessary’
Apple’s eight-member board is dominated by white men, with three exceptions…
Survey: 60% of women in tech report unwanted sexual advances in the workplace
Stories and even court cases about the uphill battles women working technology face are nothing new…
Shareholder resolution looks to force Apple to put more ‘people of color’ in high-profile positions
Apple Inc. shareholders could make history next year by deciding whether the company should be forced to increase the number of non-white executives and directors…
Twitter hires Apple’s director of inclusion and diversity
Twitter Inc hired a former Apple Inc employee as its vice president of diversity and inclusion…
Apple leads Facebook, Intel, Cisco, Google on gender diversity among Bay Area companies
Gender diversity in the San Francisco Bay Area technology sector has improved over the last five years…
Second Apple ‘spaceship’ to land in Sunnyvale; deal sealed with Landbank Investments
Apple Inc. has landed its second spaceship — this time, in Sunnyvale — in a massive deal that exemplifies a new era in Silicon Valley…
Apple CEO Cook: Corporations need to step up where governments don’t, can’t, or won’t
As CEO, one of the things Tim Cook has brought to Apple is a greater push to address social problems…
Apple’s latest diversity report shows progress
In the United States, Apple has increased its hiring of black and hispanic employees by…
Apple dives into SoMa for first big San Francisco office lease
Apple Inc. reached an agreement to rent about 76,000 square feet of office space..
The Steve Jobs you never saw: Amazing photos of the Silicon Valley revolution
In 1985, the year that Steve Jobs was forced out of Apple…
Tim Cook is ‘personally involved’ in improving diversity at Apple Inc.
Apple knows it needs to do more to encourage diversity…
Apple donates over $50 million to diversity efforts
The stark lack of diversity in Silicon Valley is on the agenda at Apple…
Apple to move many security guards from contract to full-time employees
Amid debate about Silicon Valley’s sweeping use of contract workers…
Apple meticulously saves historic barn on site of new ‘spaceship’ campus in Cupertino
Apple employees agonize over every last detail in the designs of their sleek gadgets…
Protesters storm Apple campus urging better working conditions for service workers
As rain pummeled the Bay Area, a group of protesters stormed Apple’s campus…
Apple CEO Tim Cook met privately with Jesse Jackson regarding diversity
Apple CEO Tim Cook met privately with Rev. Jesse Jackson on Monday…
Apple, Amazon refuse to release federal diversity data
Apple and Amazon.com, two of technology’s most powerful companies…
Union, Jesse Jackson push for better conditions for security guards on Apple campus
As organized labor expands its efforts in Silicon Valley, a local union and civil rights activist…
Silicon Valley anticipates payoff from new GOP leader, expected McCarthy ascension
Tech’s early-stage investment in Rep. Kevin McCarthy could produce a prominent payoff…
U.S. Chamber of Commerce coming to Silicon Valley
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, among the most powerful business lobbying organizations…
What Apple’s ‘spaceship’ campus reveals about its culture, workforce, and city vs. suburbs
So much of Silicon Valley looks like generic suburbia…
How and why Silicon Valley turned on Obama
In the months leading up to the 2012 presidential election, Silicon Valley…
Google co-founder Sergey Brin splits with wife Anne Wojcicki amidst romantic relationship with another Google employee
Google co-founder Sergey Brin and his wife of six years..
Apple poised for Silicon Valley hiring spree
Apple will be hiring 7,400 more workers at its Cupertino headquarters…
U.S. Senator Rand Paul talks tech, civil liberties, and keeping the government out of your email
Rand Paul is having some problems with the jerks back at the office…
Toxic vapors seeping up from underneath Google buildings
One of Silicon Valley’s dirty secrets is coming back to haunt Google…
