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Technology

Oakland

44 articles – accelerating

Three 2025 stories returned Oakland to coverage through an Epic v. Apple appeal, a Tesla DMV trial, and materials startup Brimstone.

Who they are

Oakland is a California city that appears in technology coverage as a venue for litigation and regulatory action, a base for startups, and a testing ground for platforms and civic-tech policies. Its role is usually geographic rather than corporate: it hosts proceedings involving companies such as Apple and Tesla, while also supplying the location for businesses including Brimstone and Mayvenn.

The recent arc

Coverage has been intermittent rather than centered on a single Oakland technology sector. The all-time quarterly high came in 2020 Q4, amid broader scrutiny of major tech companies, while 2021 coverage included The Verge’s Apple AirTag review and the continuing prominence of Apple-related stories. Earlier reporting also tracked Google’s Bulletin local-news pilot in Oakland, Uber’s abandoned headquarters plan, and city restrictions on police surveillance technology.】【:】【“】【】【。】【

The tension

The recurring tension is between technology’s local footprint and the public institutions that constrain it. Oakland is linked to limits on police surveillance technology, blocked parking-ticket operations by Fixed, and courtroom oversight of Apple and Tesla; at the same time, it is presented as a base for companies seeking to build or scale, from Mayvenn’s salon-services marketplace to Brimstone’s domestic raw-materials effort.

Why it matters

If this trajectory continues, Oakland’s significance in tech coverage will lie less in producing a single dominant platform company than in concentrating the real-world consequences of the sector: local policy, consumer-protection disputes, antitrust remedies, and industrial supply-chain ambitions. Whether that produces sustained attention depends on the outcomes of the Apple and Tesla proceedings and on whether Oakland-based companies such as Brimstone translate their strategic aims into broader industry impact.

Oakland has appeared in 44 articles since 2015-05. Coverage peaked in 2020Q4 with 3 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside California, Apple, AirTags, Google.

Articles
44
mentions
Velocity
+100.0%
growth rate
Acceleration
+1.000
velocity change
Sources
21
publications

Coverage Timeline

2025-12-12
Bloomberg 13 related

A US appeals court upholds a contempt ruling in Epic v. Apple, but says Apple can argue in a lower court to charge <27% for transactions outside the App Store

or at least a contempt ruling is not the right vehicle for imposing a royalty-free licensing obligation on Apple only because it asked for too much.  Apple wanted the injunction lifted in light of new...

2025-12-10
Wall Street Journal

How US startups like Oakland-based Brimstone are racing to develop sources of raw materials that the US needs for tech, an industry China has long dominated

Startups and venture capital are joining the nationwide push to develop new sources of metals the U.S. desperately needs

2025-07-21
Bloomberg 3 related

Tesla is set to face off with the California DMV over claims it exaggerated Autopilot's and FSD's capabilities and misled consumers, in a five-day Oakland trial

Tesla Inc. is set to face off with the California Department of Motor Vehicles over claims that the company has exaggerated …

2022-11-30
The Hollywood Reporter 2 related

Filing: Disney now owns 100% of streaming tech company BAMTech after paying $900M for MLB's 15% stake in November 2022; Disney acquired a majority stake in 2017

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter : Tweets: @injuryexpert See also Mediagazer Tweets: Will Carroll / @injuryexpert : I'm not good at math but 900m/30 is an extra $60m in found money per team. That...

2022-07-18
2022-07-17
2022-02-09
Bloomberg

As CB Insights says there are 1K unicorns globally, adding about two per day in 2022, a look at soaring valuations, the first to reach the milestone, and more

Hubert Palan signed on to Zoom from his home in Oakland, Calif., on Feb. 2 and prepared to address the 400 or so employees at his startup … Tweets: @lisaabramowicz1 and @markmilian Tweets: Lisa Abramo...

2021-12-02
Forbes 4 related

100 Thieves, which manages professional esports teams and around 15 video game streamers, raises a $60M Series C at a $460M valuation

During the 2017 NBA Finals, Matt Haag flew to Oakland, Calif., to meet with Dan Gilbert, the owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers.

2021-04-23
The Verge 41 related

Apple AirTag hands-on: works very well with a thoughtfully designed system, beautiful with a plastic body that serves as a speaker, but get scuffed easily

Or maybe lilac Joe Rossignol / MacRumors : AirTag Shipping Estimates Already Slipping Into May Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch : First findings with Apple's new AirTag location devices William Gallaghe...

2021-03-29
NBC News 3 related

Analysis shows DoorDash has added supplemental local fees in 57 of the 68 locations that imposed caps on the size of commissions it could charge restaurants

hours apart. https://www.nbcnews.com/... https://twitter.com/... Cyrus Farivar / @cfarivar : Here in Oakland, @DanKalb lead the political charge to bring about a commission cap last year. But even he ...

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