Silicon Valley

San Francisco investigates Hotel Twitter, Musk might pack up and leave

In a $3,000/month for a bedsit city, how many seconds do you think it took locals to call building inspector?

Offbeat09 Dec 2022 | 199

Apple ends corporate COVID mask mandate

Now will you all please return to our $5b headquarters?

On-Prem02 Aug 2022 | 35

Departing Space Force chief architect likens Pentagon's tech acquisition to a BSoD

US military must 'ride the wave of commercial innovation ... or risk drowning under its own weight'

On-Prem19 Apr 2022 | 58

Plans for UK rival to Silicon Valley ditched

Government said to be looking further north than the Oxford-Cambridge Arc

Science28 Feb 2022 | 91

Y'all ready to get back to the office this October, Facebook tells staff in the US

Sure, you can apply to work from home in the middle of nowhere, just don't expect Silicon Valley pay

On-Prem10 Jun 2021 | 15

So, bye-bye mighty nerd haven Fry’s, took Silicon to the Valley... and now you must die

End of an era for iconic electronics shop chain

Personal Tech25 Feb 2021 | 34

Now that's a Finnish-ing move: Finland offers free 90-day tryout of Helsinki tech scene with childcare thrown in

Just don't think about winter

Science05 Nov 2020 | 44

Two out of five Silicon Valley techies complain Trump's H-1B crackdown has hit 'em hard

End of fast processing upsets the Apple cart (and workers at other Silicon Valley giants)

On-Prem10 Jan 2019 | 38

Silicon Valley CEO thrown in the cooler for three years, ordered to pay back $1.5m for bullsh*tting investors

Yes, apparently, that can actually happen

On-Prem21 Dec 2018 | 25

Silicon Valley CEO admits $1.5m wire fraud: Bouxtie boss forged signatures to investors

When I said I have $2m in the bank...

Security07 Sep 2018 | 13

OK, who is shooting at Apple staff buses in California? Knock it off

CHiPs deploy bait bus to catch Silicon Valley sniper

Bootnotes02 Mar 2018 | 65

Infamous Silicon Valley 'sex party' exactly as exciting as it sounds

Comment Maybe they should have shoved in some AI love-bots to spice things up

Bootnotes12 Jan 2018 | 60

Bulletproof Coffee lacks bulletproof security: Nerd brain juice biz hacked, cards gulped

Buttered beverage second-nastiest thing on upstart's site

Security27 Nov 2017 | 21

CEO of $300m-a-year ad upstart Vungle cuffed for allegedly sexually abusing toddler son

SF startup boss denies charges

On-Prem20 Oct 2017 | 3

Silicon Valley IT biz boss cops to lying about Cisco H-1B jobs

Consulting firm fibbed about hirings to import more workers

On-Prem21 Jul 2017 | 24

Oh no, Silicon Valley! Failed startup CEO on fraud rap after allegedly bullsh*ting staff and refusing to pay them

Isn't that, like, 90% of tech upstarts' biz models?

On-Prem08 Jun 2017 | 17

Silicon Valley tech CEO admits beating software engineer wife, offered just 13 days in the clink

Despite evidence and previous offense, Abhishek Gattani unlikely to face serious charges

Bootnotes19 Apr 2017 | 102

H-1B applications down after Trump's 'American techies first' rhetoric

Silicon Valley wants foreigners, POTUS preparing to say no

Legal18 Apr 2017 | 12

Startup offers $10,000 to Silicon Valley techies … who will leave Bay Area

High cost of peninsula leads to 'de-location' offer

On-Prem21 Mar 2017 | 27

Why software engineers should ditch Silicon Valley for Austin

And it has nothing to do with South by Southwest

Devops09 Feb 2017 | 64

Trump's immigration clampdown has Silicon Valley techies fearing for their house prices

Don't worry too much, suggest real-estate bods

Legal04 Feb 2017 | 88

Trump's visa plan leaks: American techies first

Analysis Big Tech gets ready to defend Low Pay. Again

Legal31 Jan 2017 | 82

Who's in Peter's file? Moneybags Thiel hits up Silicon Valley brains to join his Trump think tank

And all he hears is crickets, apparently

Legal22 Nov 2016 | 38

Silicon Valley VCs: We're gonna make California great again – on its own

Move over Brexit, this is Calexit

Legal10 Nov 2016 | 110

Tech Trump: Silicon Valley steps into the valley of unhappiness

It's a long litany of problematic positions

On-Prem09 Nov 2016 | 62

This MySpace investor keeps spamming Google with lawsuits – and the ad giant just wants him to stop

Chocolate Factory asks court to block Greenspan's complaints

Legal19 Aug 2016 | 18

Washed out summer? Fear ye not: DVDs for DevOps droogs

Stob Virtual box sets for REAL IT pros

Columnists26 Jul 2016 | 23

Euro researchers more loyal and cheaper than Silicon Valley folk

Comment DDN hires staff for Paris R&D centre

On-Prem04 Jul 2016 | 11

Ego and CEO are 66 per cent the same

RECAP Silicon Valley episode five: Back to form

Legal23 May 2016 | 10

When the reach-around goes wrong. Or is that right?

Silicon Valley episode 4: leopard or gazelle?

Legal16 May 2016 | 3

Falling flat: Silicon Valley satire is a no show

Recap We watched this week's episode so you don't have to

Legal09 May 2016 | 10

Getting shafted the Silicon Valley way

Recap We review season 3, episode 2 of HBO's tech satire

Legal02 May 2016 | 8

Silicon Valley, season 3: CEO Richard learns humility, tech style

Recap Time to torch the egos

Bootnotes26 Apr 2016 | 4

SEC chair blasts Silicon Valley for its hokey valuations

That unicorn look suspiciously like a horse with a rubber horn, says Mary Jo White

On-Prem01 Apr 2016 | 26

New-economy poster child LivingSocial slashes staff amid another startup collapse

Looks like the tech shakeout is with us

On-Prem16 Mar 2016 | 5

Silicon Valley VCs ranked one to 100

Because nothing says investing like assigning arbitrary numbers

On-Prem14 Mar 2016 | 1

Rocky times for startups: Mutual funds devalue and VCs turn off money hose

Everyone's waiting for the crash

On-Prem11 Mar 2016 | 22

You're fired! No – you're acquired! Reality TV hits Silicon Valley startups

First, Trump with The Apprentice. Now, Jason Calacanis in San Francisco

Legal05 Mar 2016 | 21

Yelp minimum wage row shines spotlight on … broke, fired employee

Comment Donald Trump's America is already with us

On-Prem24 Feb 2016 | 156

Your xenophobia is killing us, Silicon Valley warns US Congress

Open letter warns new visa waiver rules will cost jobs and business

On-Prem23 Feb 2016 | 59

Coding is more important than Shakespeare, says VC living in self-contained universe

Khosla joins list of people it's really worth not listening to

On-Prem13 Feb 2016 | 173

Girls! Girls! Girls! Intel brags about diversity push, Silicon Valley tells itself it's doing great

Gender equality report raises issues, asks questions

Channel03 Feb 2016 | 38

How hard can it be to kick terrorists off the web? Tech bosses, US govt bods thrash it out

Uncle Sam wants to cut these Daesh-bags off from social networks, encryption

Legal08 Jan 2016 | 66

Monster fund manager sticks pin in Silicon Valley's unicorn bubble

Silly-con Valley

On-Prem02 Dec 2015 | 11

From $6bn to $4.2bn to $2.9bn: Square's ever shrinking unicorn horn

Analysis IPO price set late and set low

On-Prem19 Nov 2015 | 15

Google's new squeeze: Brotli compression open-sourced

Chocolate Factory turns Pied Piper to Deflate expectations

Software23 Sep 2015 | 14

The good burghers of Palo Alto are entirely insane

Worstall @ the Weekend They're willing to pay for value they created themselves

On-Prem23 Aug 2015 | 89

Would YOU make 400 people homeless for an extra $16m? Decision time in Silicon Valley

Poll Land owner to decide: $39m and his pals – or $55m

On-Prem14 Aug 2015 | 121

Google takes latest self-driving buggies to the streets

Relax, Mountain View, they'll have drivers… for now

Personal Tech26 Jun 2015 | 13

Silicon Valley season closer: Would you like fried servers with that?

Recap Ah the sweet smell of successful failure

On-Prem15 Jun 2015 | 13

Silicon Valley, episode 9: Too sexy for this headline, too sexy...

Recap Crotch touching, lawyers, of course it's on HBO

Bootnotes10 Jun 2015 | 1

Silicon Valley, episode 8: Larping, mogging and losing its way

Recap White Hat/Black Hat, where have the writers gone?

Networks01 Jun 2015 | 8

So why exactly does almost ALL tech live in Silicon Valley?

Worstall @ the Weekend And how come the nerds get so much damn money?

SaaS19 Apr 2015 | 43

We're off to DC! Silicon Valley startups start up law lobbying machine

Analysis Save America's economy: Do as we say – and GIVE US MORE MONEY

SaaS02 Apr 2015 | 5

Thought Apple was kidding about diversity? Here's 50 MEEELLION reasons you're wrong

Big bucks to make Silicon Valley less white, civilian, and male

On-Prem11 Mar 2015 | 17

Venture Capital investment in Silicon Valley hits dot-com boom levels

Analysis But here's why we're (probably) not staring at a crash

Channel17 Jan 2015 | 11