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This is a guest post by David Manheim. If you’re in Silicon Valley, you might have missed the trend, but the percentage of American workers working for big companies has been increasing, even as co…
Apple Inc.’s tough stance in refusing a request by the Justice Department to unlock an iPhone sets the front line for a war between Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C., while will get emotional, overheated and technical and likely impact the coming presidential election.
Om Malik writes about the failure of Richard Branson’s ride-sharing venture, Sidecar.
SU isn't about the singularity and isn't a university. It isn't about abundance and isn't an ExO. Then what is SU about?!
With humans as the secret engine that powers Facebook's virtual assistant M, it's time to stop worrying about robot overlords in favour of their human underlings
What’s a linear system? Think governments, politicians, regulators, large and slow-moving legacy companies, and the like…
What’s an exponential system? You. Today’s exponential entrepreneurs. Silicon Valley startups. Fast-moving innovators and disruptors that want to change the game.
Pioneering tech firms now viewed with suspicion, writes Lucy P Marcus
The list of investors in petition site Change.org's new $25 million funding round reads like a potted history of the internet industry, from Bill Gates and Arianna Huffington to the co-founders of Yahoo, Twitter, LinkedIn, and eBay.
The "sharing economy" makes Silicon Valley rich and takes from the rest of us. We ignore this at our imminent peril
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Over the past 20 years, the number of people around the world living in extreme poverty has been cut in half. This past September, 193 of the world's leaders came together to adopt the
Venture capitalist Sam Altman explains how basic income could turn America into an incubator...
Over the last two decades, most of my adult life, I've watched as the world has grown more interconnected than ever, fuelled by changes in information technology which have almost universally been ...
For years, the venture capital industry has lavished money on Silicon Valley and Asia. Now, Europe is getting some love.
Throwing stones at Silicon Valley is fun, but a tour of Sam Keen’s flawed screed against the evils of Internet culture suggest that he’s looking to loathe in all the wrong places.
The Handy lawsuit is a perfect example of Silicon Valley's newest dilemma: Startups that deliver real-world services through an app want the product to be great every time.
Silicon Valley has a cherished history of manipulating language to facilitate creation of great wealth. Hats off to the marketers who create this vocabulary, and woe to those who use it.
Shanley Kane challenges the assumptions and practices of the tech industry.
I was in the audience listening to the interview and was surprised and impressed with his willingness to address serious tech-related issues head on. He called NSA’s mass surveillance operations unconstitutional, quoted from James Bamford’s book “The Puzzle Palace,” criticized the ongoing push to privatize public education and repeatedly talked about America’s yawning wealth inequality and the hijacking of its political system by the ultra rich. He also argued against the idea that charity can replace government, and dismissed the widely held belief in the tech world that capitalism and markets are somehow more efficient than democracy.
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