• This is "tech week" at the White House, and that means Silicon Valley's tech giants - not to mention Recode - are all over Washington, D.C. (vox.com)
  • Four of Silicon Valley's largest tech firms have agreed to pay US$415m to a number of former employees who, in an antitrust class action lawsuit, claimed the companies restricted them from changing jobs. (siliconrepublic.com)
  • At the same time, researchers say that over 10% of Silicon Valley's population lacks regular access to basic necessities, like nutritionally adequate food. (businessinsider.com)
  • San Jose is Silicon Valley's largest city, the third-largest in California, and the 12th-most populous in the United States. (wikipedia.org)
  • News, music, movies & restaurants from the editors of the Silicon Valley's #1 weekly newspaper. (metroactive.com)
  • Ms. Berlin, project historian for the Silicon Valley Archives at Stanford University, said the explosion of technology that led to much of the computing and electronics and connectivity we enjoy today can be traced to the late 1960s to the early 1980s, an era that serves as the focus of her book, "Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age. (economicclub.net)
  • Now it's up to Silicon Valley's many technology companies to pay attention. (standnow.org)
  • Last January, Tom Perkins-cofounder of one of Silicon Valley's top venture capital firms-wrote a letter to the Wall Street Journal in which he compared the "progressive war" on America's megarich to Nazi persecution of Jews. (motherjones.com)
  • In an important essay this week entitled " Silicon Valley's 'Suicide Impulse' ," Wall Street Journal columnist L. Gordon Crovitz warns that "Silicon Valley has long prided itself on avoiding the lumbering relationship between big government and most industries, but somehow it has become one of the top lobbyists in Washington. (techliberation.com)
  • Among respondents who trust someone, 3.6 times as many Germans and 1.5 times as many British drivers trust traditional car makers with their data compared to silicon valley's tech giants. (inrix.com)
  • U.S. President Donald Trump welcomes members of his American Technology Council in the State Dining Room of the White House June 19, 2017 in Washington, DC. (vox.com)
  • In October 2017, Sidewalk Labs - the urban innovation unit of Google parent company Alphabet - announced plans to develop a high-tech neighborhood in Toronto, called Quayside. (businessinsider.com)
  • In this photo taken Oct. 5, 2017, a man skates past a row of RVs where people live and sleep in the heart of Silicon Valley in Mountain View, California. (businessinsider.com)
  • What do you get if you ask 600 tech industry news readers to rank the top tech scandals of 2017? (zdnet.com)
  • A recent Business Insider article identified 19 companies aiming to launch driverless cars by 2020. (inrix.com)
  • Drunk on a truly transformational first decade of the 21st century - one that saw Google, Amazon, the iPhone and social media storm the world stage - flush tech investors turned their sights toward the next generation of startups, eager to see them do the same. (latimes.com)
  • The formula for seeking out that next multibillion-dollar "unicorn," in hindsight, was pretty simple: The next wave of startups had to promise that it would disrupt a stale industry with a newer, high-tech, app-driven alternative, promise the potential for vast scale and promise that it could do so fast. (latimes.com)
  • Vogel models his effort on Silicon Valley tech startups. (fedtechmagazine.com)
  • In addition to her government experience, Ms. Connor has held managerial and IT leadership roles for Fortune 100 companies, including Booz Allen Hamilton and EDS, and has held sales and product development positions in Silicon Valley technology startups. (cdc.gov)
  • number of successful startups in Stockholm have led to a lot of attention being paid to the ICT sector and parallels are often drawn to California's Silicon Valley. (lu.se)
  • Income inequality in Silicon Valley - home to tech giants like Google, Apple, and Facebook - is among the nation's highest. (businessinsider.com)
  • But the tech giants also have to deal with a tangled mess of foreign and domestic actors creating disinformation campaigns. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • Already under pressure from US antitrust investigations, the last thing tech giants need is to be blamed for a chaotic outcome to a dirty election. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • Existing immigration law sets a cap on the number the H1-B visas the industry can use to hire immigrant engineers, so this year Silicon Valley electronics giants have been pushing for more Hl-B workers. (projectcensored.org)
  • Tech giants like Amazon seem to have no shortage of ideas that fuel the kind of business growth that's the envy of firms across the rest of the economy. (ki.com)
  • Faced with the looming need to build a legacy for the 2012 Olympics, it is not surprising he passed over "Silicon Fen" in Cambridge, which already has links with a world-class university, giants like ARM, Autonomy and CSR and hundreds of start-ups, in favour of dragging the magic of Silicon Roundabout further east. (cityam.com)
  • WORCESTER - Author and historian Leslie Berlin said her career choice affords her the privilege of not having to predict the future, but noted that public pushback bubbling up against tech giants such as Facebook has happened before. (economicclub.net)
  • It is well known that Silicon Valley is eyeing up the auto industry as tech giants also turn their attention to cars. (inrix.com)
  • On average, across the five countries traditional carmakers were more trusted to build driverless cars compared to tech giants, and fewer than 4% of respondents trust ridesharing companies to build AVs. (inrix.com)
  • At one extreme, in Germany automakers were favoured almost 3 (2.8) to 1 over tech companies, but in the US this was reversed with tech giants nosing head of carmakers at 1.1 to 1. (inrix.com)
  • In 2016, the region's poverty rate was 8.6%, compared to 14.4% in California and 14.1% nationwide, according to the 2018 Silicon Valley Index released by Joint Venture Silicon Valley. (businessinsider.com)
  • Rothenberg founded Rothenberg Ventures Management Company, and between 2012 and 2018, he used it to raise and manage four annual venture capital funds. (dailymail.co.uk)
  • President Trump's revised travel ban isn't defusing concerns in Silicon Valley. (cnn.com)
  • A group of large technology companies including Google, AirBnB, Netflix had a discussion over filing a lawsuit challenging President Trump's order restricting immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries. (reviewhub.in)
  • According to a report, the technology sector has become the biggest corporate opponent to the immigration ban announced last week as Trump's crackdown on H1-B visas threatens to cut-off a key labour supply. (reviewhub.in)
  • Thousands of employees of Alphabet, Google's parent company, walked out of work Monday afternoon to protest president Trump's orders. (reviewhub.in)
  • The demonstrations and speeches from Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Google co-founder Sergey Brin amounted to the strongest rebuke yet of Trump's orders, which prompted sharp criticism from Silicon Valley over the weekend as tech executives at dozens of firms blasted the President's actions. (reviewhub.in)
  • Before Silicon Valley was called Silicon Valley it was known as the Valley of Heart's Delight. (npr.org)
  • The nickname it had been known as during that period was "the Valley of Heart's Delight", Silicon Valley was born through the intersection of several contributing factors, including a skilled science research base housed in area universities, plentiful venture capital, permissive government regulation, and steady U.S. Department of Defense spending. (wikipedia.org)
  • Known by many as the "Valley of Heart's Delight," early 20th-century farms in the Santa Clara Valley supplied one-third of the world's prunes, in addition to huge quantities of tomatoes, grains, onions, carrots, cherries, and walnuts. (businessinsider.in)
  • Google Glass is one of Google's latest and most exciting projects in which user-friendliness - not technology - is the focus. (lu.se)
  • The division is located a stone's throw from Google's headquarters Googleplex in Silicon Valley, and this is also where Isabelle Olsson works. (lu.se)
  • Obviously, taking over PARC, which is the iconic font of innovation from the beginning of the Silicon Valley, is an important job. (vox.com)
  • Silicon Valley is a region in Northern California that is a global center for high technology and innovation. (wikipedia.org)
  • Silicon Valley also accounts for one-third of all of the venture capital investment in the United States, which has helped it to become a leading hub and startup ecosystem for high-tech innovation, although the tech ecosystem has recently become more geographically dispersed. (wikipedia.org)
  • With US-China tensions escalating, how do these superpower conflicts impact cross-border venture capital flows, technology innovation and corporate deal making? (constantcontact.com)
  • But even from the beginning, the Valley was a place of tech innovation. (businessinsider.in)
  • Cisco is signed up to establish a supporting innovation centre, and McKinsey and Qualcomm are promising advice on strategy and intellectual property issues, but can a package of new policies really build a rival to Silicon Valley in the Lee Valley? (cityam.com)
  • The virtuous cycle of technology, innovation and growth can be replicated in London's East End or anywhere else. (cityam.com)
  • Connect Silicon Roundabout to the Olympic Park, where Cisco will establish an innovation centre. (cityam.com)
  • This is a full reversal of the language that tech promoters used to sell Silicon Valley-style innovation and competitiveness for decades. (feld.com)
  • They unleash innovation, democratize compute, and we have a long history as a company in this area. (intel.com)
  • And in the pursuit of getting these things just right, the guys behind Silicon Valley quickly developed a passion for finding the funny in Northern California's hub of tech, innovation, and unmanageably large egos. (motherjones.com)
  • Her responsibilities include leading the Information Technology Services Office (ITSO), Acquisition Program Management Office (APMO), Management Information Systems Office (MISO), Enterprise IT Portfolio Office (EITPO), Informatics Innovation Unit (IIU), and Office of the Chief Information Security Officer (OCISO). (cdc.gov)
  • The attention paid to Stockholm's thriving startup scene and the comparisons to Silicon Valley highlights an important feature of both academic discourse and innovation policy in recent decades, namely the influence of geography on the innovation process. (lu.se)
  • IHP students are high-performing and ambitious students selected by their home universities based on their history of academic success, and the program combines top-notch academics with extracurricular activities, such as partaking in the Silicon Valley Innovation Academy. (lu.se)
  • On Monday, President Donald Trump called for a "sweeping transformation of the federal government's technology," and with the help of Jared Kushner, his son-in-law and senior adviser, he officially kicked off the White House's new American Technology Council . (vox.com)
  • A source at Box ( BOX ) said the company is currently reviewing the new executive order and continues to be concerned by the Trump administration's approach to immigration policy. (cnn.com)
  • The Silicon Valley "resistance" to Trump is growing louder. (reviewhub.in)
  • Should Silicon Vally tech moguls be cozying up to Donald Trump ? (huffpost.com)
  • The cities of Sunnyvale, Mountain View, Palo Alto and Menlo Park are frequently cited as the birthplace of Silicon Valley. (wikipedia.org)
  • Northern California was even more welcoming, with a group of venture capitalists actively seeking high-tech business ideas, clustered on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park and Palo Alto. (wikipedia.org)
  • The term "Silicon Valley" refers to the area in which high-tech business has proliferated in Northern California, and it also serves as a general metonym for California's high-tech business sector. (wikipedia.org)
  • California's civil code undermined the usual non-compete clauses that effectively tied employees to their companies in other states, allowing California workers to freely apply the knowledge they gained from their previous employer. (wikipedia.org)
  • The plaintiffs had accused the four firms of conspiring to stop their movement as employees between companies in the tech sector so as to not obtain each other's internal operations and, as a result, keeping a lid on salaries. (siliconrepublic.com)
  • Scientists have developed a model new approach to the design of thermoelectric materials by constructing a database of digital construction parameters correlated with supplies' thermoelectric conversion … Tech employees are upset their firms are sharing payroll information with Equifax. (middlegeorgia.org)
  • By 1939, the region was home to 18 canneries, 13 dried-fruit packing houses, and 12 fresh-fruit and vegetable shipping firms, including companies owned by the Leonard family and the ancestors of what would eventually become Del Monte. (businessinsider.in)
  • Those principles are behind much of the tech sector's fast growth -- and can deliver similar results for firms elsewhere. (ki.com)
  • According to a survey conducted by our team at KI of nearly 400 architects and designers who work with tech companies, 80 percent of tech firms prioritize in-person interactions over electronic communication. (ki.com)
  • Over 90 percent of tech firms use "daylighting" -- natural light from outdoors -- to illuminate their offices in some way. (ki.com)
  • Attract major tech firms to attract even more talent. (cityam.com)
  • Saxenian has noticed the change in how the Valley describes itself, or at least in how the dominant firms do. (feld.com)
  • Hello pals and welcome to Daily Crunch, bringing you the most important startup, tech and venture capital news in a single package. (middlegeorgia.org)
  • Max Levchin, CEO of lending startup Affirm and cofounder of PayPal, tweeted that "blocking H-1B visa processing, banning countries entirely & removing protections for employees makes Canada look really attractive for tech. (cnn.com)
  • Silicon Valley is home to many of the world's largest high-tech corporations, including the headquarters of more than 30 businesses in the Fortune 1000, and thousands of startup companies. (wikipedia.org)
  • Located in the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area, it corresponds roughly to the geographical area of the Santa Clara Valley. (wikipedia.org)
  • Other major Silicon Valley cities include Santa Clara, Redwood City and Cupertino. (wikipedia.org)
  • As more high-tech companies were established across San Jose and the Santa Clara Valley, and then north towards the Bay Area's two other major cities, San Francisco and Oakland, the term "Silicon Valley" came to have two definitions: a narrower geographic one, referring to Santa Clara County and southeastern San Mateo County, and a metonymical definition referring to high-tech businesses in the entire Bay Area. (wikipedia.org)
  • Before it was Silicon Valley, the Santa Clara Valley was a land of orchards and farmland. (businessinsider.in)
  • As the region's railway network improved over time, the Santa Clara Valley became the world's largest center for canned goods and fruit processing. (businessinsider.in)
  • Wealthy families, who had moved to the West Coast with the Gold Rush and the construction of the railroad system, were some of the earliest settlers in the Santa Clara Valley. (businessinsider.in)
  • Slowly but surely, the Santa Clara Valley - and San Jose in particular - started to grow. (businessinsider.in)
  • And by 1940, Santa Clara Valley had a population of nearly 175,000 people. (businessinsider.in)
  • youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGlXQSucorQ&w=560&h=315] DiceTV Job Minute: Dell is expanding in Silicon Valley at its Santa Clara facility. (dice.com)
  • The drivers of Santa Clara County's economy - tech companies, foreign travel and close human interaction - made it a ripe target for the coronavirus. (latimes.com)
  • In 2012, venture capital investment for companies based in San Francisco and Oakland totaled $7 billion, versus $4 billion for Silicon Valley companies, according to a report by the Boston Consulting Group. (cnet.com)
  • Ahead of her keynote address Thursday night at the 552nd meeting of the Worcester Economic Club, held at the Beechwood Hotel, Ms. Berlin noted that during that period - which included the birth of the personal computer, venture capital, and the video game - the tech industry, evolving in a small area of former agricultural land near San Francisco, faced many of the same criticisms seen today. (economicclub.net)
  • Saman Farid is the US head of Baidu Ventures, the AI-focused venture capital firm of Chinese technology giant Baidu. (businessbecause.com)
  • Top execs from several tech companies were quick to speak out against the new executive order on Monday, with some hinting at possible legal action. (cnn.com)
  • Stanford University was a sort of tech incubator from the very beginning. (businessinsider.in)
  • Over the past several decades, Silicon Valley has become synonymous with entrepreneurship. (dice.com)
  • It is found that (1) the implementation of innovative urban policy can significantly improve the level of science and technology entrepreneurship, but the pilot policy has a time lag effect and has a continuous promoting effect since the third year. (bvsalud.org)
  • 4) The effect of the establishment of innovative cities on the level of technological entrepreneurship mainly shows that the siphon effect does not show radiation effect, and this siphon effect mainly improves the level of technological entrepreneurship by increasing the number of incubators of technological enterprises. (bvsalud.org)
  • With one of many black bins from the China Eastern Airlines crash reportedly discovered, here's precisely what the cockpit voice recorder and flight knowledge Technology News recorder do on airliners. (middlegeorgia.org)
  • News companies lost control of distribution because they weren't traditionally tech companies, staffed with engineers or thinking programmatically. (kbia.org)
  • The first known appearance in print was in his article "Silicon Valley U.S.A.", in the January 11, 1971, issue of the weekly trade newspaper Electronic News. (wikipedia.org)
  • Thousands of Silicon Valley area tech professionals work for distant companies, reports the San Jose Mercury News. (dice.com)
  • Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. (nextgov.com)
  • The big news this week is all the different tech companies announcing their moves to Texas. (newgeography.com)
  • That's almost as expensive as it was before the tech bubble popped in 2000 , when it was $67.20. (cnet.com)
  • The 'Party Animal' of Silicon Valley had a resume very similar to his peers within the multi-million dollar world of start-ups - he was a Stanford and Harvard grad who went on to work at Bain & Company in his 20s. (dailymail.co.uk)
  • We are right across the street from Intel's first silicon chip factory - or fab. (npr.org)
  • Intel's more than 121,000 employees are shaping the future with computing and connectivity technologies. (intel.com)
  • Uber and Lyft have never been sustainably profitable, WeWork collapsed dramatically when it became clear that it was merely a wildly over-leveraged real estate company, and Theranos' futuristic medical technology was outright fraudulent. (latimes.com)
  • The space race with the Soviet Union was in full swing and math wizards like Clay were crucial for the nation's high tech engineering efforts. (redhat.com)
  • Information technology enables CDC to fulfill its core mission of protecting the nation's health," says Ms. Connor. (cdc.gov)
  • In the company's summary , locals expressed worries that Quayside would become a "new Silicon Valley," bringing issues like gentrification/higher housing prices and income inequality. (businessinsider.com)
  • Protesters blame the tech industry for gentrification and the even higher cost of housing in the city. (cnet.com)
  • Kokaram's technology uses motion estimation to embed special effects and enhance movies in an automated rather than manual fashion as had been the case for decades. (siliconrepublic.com)
  • Facebook is] a much more powerful platform [than other social media sites] for campaigners because they can use the Facebook advertising tools to reach out beyond their own list of voters to find voters,' says Martin Moore, author of Democracy Hacked: How Technology is Destabilising Global Politics. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • Specifically it's Facebook and Twitter - the large social platforms created in Silicon Valley. (kbia.org)
  • The big is beautiful line is coming especially from the large companies (Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple) that are threatened by antitrust and need to justify their scale. (feld.com)
  • In addition to the obvious applications in driverless cars, Ford has also developed AI-based technologies that enable different functions in support of vehicle engineering. (oreilly.com)
  • While Kokaram was helping the movie industry make the most of digital technology, he was aware of a shift in terms of the likelihood that one day soon every individual would be carrying devices capable of HD video recording. (siliconrepublic.com)
  • I warned them many times, here on scripting.com, that they would regret letting the tech industry own their distribution system. (kbia.org)
  • A major migration is under way, with technology companies large and small setting up shop in San Francisco and bypassing the historic heart of the tech industry. (cnet.com)
  • Tech companies and trade groups are still in the process of parsing through the updated immigration order and figuring out the right response, according to industry sources. (cnn.com)
  • Before the expansive growth of the tech industry, the region had been the largest fruit-producing and packing region in the world up through the 1960s, with 39 fruit canneries. (wikipedia.org)
  • For the high-tech industry this protection against strikes and unions is a key attraction of the H1-B program, especially in the aftermath of the Boeing Corp. engineers who mounted one of the most successful strikes in recent history. (projectcensored.org)
  • Ms. Berlin said she thinks the growing concern about the tech industry is a course correction. (economicclub.net)
  • The technology industry has been late to engage in politics and larger global issues, but this one is tailor-made for its attention. (standnow.org)
  • One indication of this is the interest in last year's report from executives not only in the technology industry, but also in retail, consumer products, industrials, financial services, telecommunications, and more. (bain.com)
  • After the extraordinary equity growth of the hyperscalers, some of the fastest-growing value creators in the technology industry are a group of software providers that includes Snowflake, Datadog, Cloudflare, and Twilio. (bain.com)
  • Kathy Cotton recounts how few opportunities Roy Clay had growing up-but how, later, talk of his genius helped him get his break in the tech industry. (redhat.com)
  • The incumbent auto industry has two main advantages over the tech challengers. (inrix.com)
  • The sector has however held a prominent role in Swedish industry for a long time with companies such as Ericsson and Asea/ABB. (lu.se)
  • As of 2021[update], the region employed about a half million information technology workers. (wikipedia.org)
  • This article is part of Bain's 2021 Technology Report. (bain.com)
  • Here's what's going onWhy tech staff are upset that companies like Google and Apple are sharing their payroll information with Equifax. (middlegeorgia.org)
  • Twitter announced it would ban political advertising in October last year while Google - whose parent company Alphabet also owns YouTube - cracked down a month later, ruling political advertisers could target voters based on their political affiliation. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • Even tech companies like Google and LinkedIn, headquartered outside of the city in Silicon Valley, are expanding their presence in San Francisco -- and fueling a blockbuster commercial real estate land grab along the way. (cnet.com)
  • And the idea even embedded itself right near the heart of the Valley, at Google. (feld.com)
  • She says that Google Glass has the potential to improve people's lives by allowing people to be more connected, while the technology itself is less distracting. (lu.se)
  • Our core is from Google, he said, a company trying to organize information, but we want to do it in such places as healthcare and transportation. (medscape.com)
  • Those ideas flow freely -- and disproportionately -- at fast-growth tech companies in part because they've designed their workplaces to encourage that kind of activity. (ki.com)
  • But just as it did when it was issuing from the tech sector during the 2010s, this talk too often amounts to a smokescreen that lets executives and investors line their pockets and risks leaving workers holding the bag. (latimes.com)
  • The term Silicon Valley is often used as a synecdoche for the American high-technology economic sector. (wikipedia.org)
  • Civil rights groups add that if Silicon Valley companies were interested in increasing the domestic high-tech labor market, they could train American workers-an approach that could also increase minority representation in the high-tech sector. (projectcensored.org)
  • Why should we care about the increasing politicization of the information technology sector? (techliberation.com)
  • In a forthcoming Mercatus Center working paper entitled, "A History of Cronyism & Capture in the Information Technology Sector," Brent Skorup and I explain how "time and resources spent focusing on influencing politicians and capturing regulators represent time and resources that could better be spent competing and innovating in the marketplace. (techliberation.com)
  • The technology sector has led the way with strong equity values. (bain.com)
  • In response, about half of the initial distribution of this year's report will include client executives from outside the technology sector. (bain.com)
  • The second section offers a general manager's view of major competitive battlegrounds in the technology sector. (bain.com)
  • Silicon Valley (and the broader San Francisco Bay Area) has certainly experienced these problems at alarming rates. (businessinsider.com)
  • This week we will be looking more closely at the tech-driven economy of the San Francisco Bay Area . (npr.org)
  • We create world-changing technology that improves the life of every person on the planet. (intel.com)
  • They underpin how we achieve our purpose: We create world-changing technology that improves the life of every person on the planet. (intel.com)
  • As federal agencies take on executive orders demanding upgrades in cybersecurity and customer service, these technology leaders can offer guidance and support. (fedtechmagazine.com)
  • He describes his Washington office - in US Postal Service headquarters - as an open pit, which he compares to a technology lab at your average San Jose start-up. (fedtechmagazine.com)
  • Last month, Svane moved the company to new headquarters in the city's Tenderloin district -- one of San Francisco's roughest neighborhoods -- from a smaller office just a few blocks away. (cnet.com)
  • Many headquarters of tech companies in Silicon Valley have become hotspots for tourism. (wikipedia.org)
  • Take cosmetics company L'OrĂ©al , which opened its new headquarters in New York this year. (ki.com)
  • The Garden City Bank Building, located in downtown San Jose, was the site of a number of technological breakthroughs. (businessinsider.in)
  • By 2008, Intel had closed its last fab in Silicon Valley. (npr.org)
  • Intel put the silicon in Silicon Valley. (intel.com)
  • We have four critical beliefs that guide the way Intel is shaping the future of technology. (intel.com)
  • Intel is uniquely positioned to capitalize as the entire world becomes digital with our depth and breadth of software, silicon and platforms, and packaging and process with at-scale manufacturing. (intel.com)
  • Silicon" refers to the chemical element used in silicon-based transistors and integrated circuit chips, which is the focus of a large number of computer hardware and software innovators and manufacturers in the region. (wikipedia.org)
  • Large companies shouldn't be guaranteed big IT contracts by back room deals. (cityam.com)
  • About 15 years ago, Ford Motor Company introduced one of the first large-scale industrial applications of neural networks. (oreilly.com)
  • The demand for employees was so high that the annual turnover at a Silicon Valley manufacturing facility was 50 percent. (npr.org)
  • Many big tech companies have employees who already live in San Francisco. (cnet.com)
  • IBM's Silicon Valley presence eventually grew to include multiple research centers, another card plant, and a branch office, which in total accommodated more than 3,000 employees. (businessinsider.in)
  • A growing list of companies are offering employees an exciting new perk to win the war for talent: free tuition. (nbclosangeles.com)
  • Jack Hartung, Chipotle's chief financial officer, told CNBC in April that employees who participated in the tuition program were about three times more likely to stay with the company and seven times more likely to become managers than those who didn't. (nbclosangeles.com)
  • Chipotle first introduced its free tuition program in 2019, covering the full tuition costs for employees to earn a bachelor or associate's degree in 75 different business and technology fields through its partnership with Guild Education. (nbclosangeles.com)
  • Companies' interest in designing a workplace that promotes healthier employees has doubled in the past three years. (ki.com)
  • Our purpose is enabled by our technology and delivered through the expertise and passion of our employees. (intel.com)
  • A lot of people have a lot of different reasons for companies leaving, but I think the rent factor and how it's extremely hard for employees to live is the problem. (newgeography.com)
  • Taxes, a more affordable cost of living for employees, a lower cost of doing business, and less competition for talent are among the top drivers for the companies' moves, though there is also a growing sense that culture is a factor, as well. (newgeography.com)
  • Spanning the years 1971-1997 and based on Paul Freiberger and Michael Swaine's 1984 book Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer , it explores the impact that the rivalry between Jobs ( Apple Computer ) and Gates ( Microsoft ) had on the development of the personal computer . (wikipedia.org)
  • It's that the studio executives both new and old have embraced the powerful - and ultimately disastrous - magical thinking pumped out by Silicon Valley for the last 10 years. (latimes.com)
  • The engineers who founded what became the world's biggest chip companies wanted to create an egalitarian economy. (npr.org)
  • can't see that this is drawn by silicon valley perspective, not hugh's personal opinion. (gapingvoid.com)
  • These companies blew up a successful business model that the public enjoyed, that was immensely profitable, and they replaced it with a mishmash that we have now," Adam Conover, the star of "Adam Ruins Everything" and a negotiating committee member of the Writers Guild of America, tells me. (latimes.com)
  • One of the miracles of the evolving digital media space is how individuals quietly working away on new technologies can send ripples through entire industries, like the movie business. (siliconrepublic.com)
  • The enigmatic view is a fitting one for the leader of a company doing business on relatively unfamiliar terrain. (cnet.com)
  • Workers can choose between different diploma, degree and certificate programs in a wide range of subjects such as business administration and leadership, finance, marketing, technology and culinary studies. (nbclosangeles.com)
  • Marconi was in London looking after his company business and he was one of the first prominent Italians abroad to send congratulations to the new leader. (huffpost.com)
  • The company's transfer of blue collar jobs to Asia shocked advocates of high tech and brought charges of union busting. (multinationalmonitor.org)
  • Labor advocates counter that the problem is not a labor shortage, but instead the industry's unwillingness to pay the salaries that American high-tech workers demand. (projectcensored.org)
  • Yet if Silicon Valley would take the millions they are pouring into political contri-butions and raise salaries instead, they would find all the workers they need. (projectcensored.org)
  • The urbanized area is built upon an alluvial plain within a longitudinal valley formed by roughly parallel earthquake faults. (wikipedia.org)
  • The area between the faults subsided into a graben or dropped valley. (wikipedia.org)
  • The success of the so-called Silicon Roundabout area around Old Street, with 700 per cent growth in tech start-ups based there in just three years, comes precisely from its unplanned, organic nature. (cityam.com)
  • While major tech companies are now moving in, the area hosts almost 100 start-ups. (cityam.com)
  • Unlike most tech centres, the area is not tied to a university. (cityam.com)
  • The name also became a global synonym for leading high-tech research and enterprises, and thus inspired similarly named locations, as well as research parks and technology centers with comparable structures all around the world. (wikipedia.org)
  • High-tech companies claim that a domestic labor shortage justifies the use of immigrant contractors with H1-B visas. (projectcensored.org)
  • Moreover, use of immigrant labor protects high-tech companies from strikes and union demands. (projectcensored.org)
  • I have a six mile, 15 min commute to a job in a high tech medical device company. (gapingvoid.com)
  • Silicon Valley has experienced a rise in housing costs and homelessness in recent years as well. (businessinsider.com)
  • For years companies here spoke of themselves as families. (npr.org)
  • AMD is one of the world's oldest CPU makers and the subject of polarizing debate among tech enthusiasts for nearly 50 years. (techspot.com)
  • And years later, when he was finally given an opportunity to shine-when he was finally allowed to show the world what kind of work he could do-Roy Clay would remake one of the world's most powerful tech companies. (redhat.com)
  • Courses are listed through Guild Education, an online platform that Fortune 100 companies such as Walmart and Disney have partnered with to design their own education benefit programs. (nbclosangeles.com)
  • But Zendesk, which went public in May, was the pioneer in taking advantage of a tax break designed to lure companies to the distressed neighborhood. (cnet.com)
  • To help lure talented minority students into the Silicon Valley culture, the non-profit code2040 launched a summer fellowship program to bring Black and Latino engineering students into the Valley for a summer. (dice.com)
  • Previously, Bell says, "the pioneers of journalism were also pioneers of communications technology. (kbia.org)
  • And when he did, he also lifted up a whole generation of tech pioneers. (redhat.com)
  • Intellectual property protection has been a cornerstone of US growth in Boston, Nashville and Silicon Valley. (cityam.com)
  • We're on the front end of sustained growth in semiconductors and technologies, driven by the digitization of everything. (intel.com)
  • Technology-fueled growth across all sectors is poised to accelerate. (bain.com)
  • Part of that growth story has to do with the extensive and far-reaching penetration of technology in all sectors of the economy. (bain.com)
  • The discussions among the tech companies come after Amazon.com and Expedia filed declarations in court on Monday supporting a lawsuit filed by the Washington state attorney general. (reviewhub.in)
  • Each specialised in arts and technology-intensive work but became powerhouses as their policy environments drew investors, which appealed to more start-ups. (cityam.com)
  • Surely the Silicon Valley brain trust could work to solve this. (standnow.org)
  • And brilliant as Clay was, searching for meaningful work in tech was at first pretty futile. (redhat.com)
  • The technology also enables motion picture restoration and has been used to restore some of the earliest films shot in Ireland. (siliconrepublic.com)
  • And we're committed to being the company that creates, democratizes, and enables these open ecosystems. (intel.com)
  • Margaret O'Mara, who wrote The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America , also has a good reminder. (feld.com)
  • Despite the companies agreeing to a settlement of US$324.5m to end the dispute last year, US District Judge Lucy Koh rejected this offer as being too low. (siliconrepublic.com)
  • Sick workers who participated in a wellness program at one company increased output by more than 10 percent the following year, according to a new study out this summer. (ki.com)
  • Why 40-Year-Old Tech Is Still Running America's Air Traffic Control (Wired, Sara Breselor) - ok, is from 2015, but it makes the point. (feld.com)
  • The big one for Houston is the announcement that HP Enterprise is moving its HQ from Silicon Valley to Spring just north of Houston - a long-term legacy benefit of Compaq Computer (which was acquired by HP and kept substantial operations here). (newgeography.com)
  • The company released a summary of the meeting this week. (businessinsider.com)
  • This week Yoel Roth, Twitter's head of site integrity, told Reuters that the company is exploring changes to the small blue notices that it attaches to misleading tweets, to make these signals more 'overt' and be more 'direct' in giving users information. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • As I was reading The Atlantic article Silicon Valley Abandons the Culture That Made It the Envy of the World I kept flashing to the end of Anna Wiener's awesome memoir Uncanny Valley . (feld.com)
  • I think what we're seeing now with the public attitude toward Silicon Valley is something new," Ms. Berlin said. (economicclub.net)
  • Hugh is not himself saying that the midwest is nothing but rednecks, he is lampooning the attitude of those in the Valley who think that. (gapingvoid.com)