An in-depth look at Silicon Valley's historical corporate culture, how straight white men benefitted, and efforts by women and minorities to push for change
A new generation of tech activists, organizers, and whistleblowers, most of whom are female, non-white, gender-diverse, or queer, may finally bring change. Tweets: @patrickmcgee_ , @adrianafreitas , @...
Despite letting some employees permanently work from home, tech companies are spending billions of dollars expanding their office spaces across the US
what they've been through, their frustrations, and their hopes. This is a plea to think about those who don't get to be done with the pandemic, and to prioritize them as a matter of moral and medical ...
Despite letting some employees permanently work from home, tech companies are spending billions of dollars expanding their office spaces across the US
Even as they allow some employees to change how often they come into the office, tech companies are rapidly buying and leasing properties around the country. Tweets: @paulg , @anitakissee , @janetheee...
Semiconductor firms received more than $12B from equity investors in 2020, up 8x since 2016, as the industry sees a spike in new startups and ideas
While a variety of industries struggle with supplies, semiconductor experts say there are plenty of new ideas and, most surprising, start-ups. Tweets: @ryanaraine , @skydeck_cal , @dealbook , @donal88...
LinkedIn data from April to October shows Madison, Cleveland, and Sacramento had biggest gains in tech worker migration, while SF and NYC had steepest declines
Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology : Tweets: @cristobalyoung5 , @dalmaer , @kantrowitz , @margaretomara , @kantrowitz , @garrytan , and @kantrowitz Tweets: Cristobal Young / @cristobalyoung5 : New @Lin...
In an attempt to open during the pandemic, many US universities are forcing students to download location-tracking apps, sometimes as a condition of enrollment
In Michigan, a small liberal-arts college is requiring students to install an app called Aura, which tracks their location in real time, before they come to campus. Facebook: Zeynep Tufekci . Tweets: ...
Some Amazon workers say they're struggling to get paid sick leave as the deluge of requests swamps the company's heavily automated HR system during the pandemic
Tony Banks told Amazon.com Inc. right away when he tested positive for Covid-19. More than a month later, he's on the mend … Tweets: @mattmday , @technology , @fmbutt , @mattmday , @margaretomara , @...
Interview with Margaret O'Mara, author of The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America, on how the government became a catalyst for the birth of SV
Hope Reese / OneZero : Tweets: @medium , @sesmith , and @medium Tweets: @medium : Tech historian and author @margaretomara on how Silicon Valley was born, and why she thinks big tech companies like F...