Silicon Valley

Stripe commuters swap traffic jams for hydrofoil glam

SF employees set sail on exclusive six-seater sea shuttle – the rest will have to stick to roads

Offbeat18 Jan 2024 | 18

Google shifts Cloud Next sales shindig from SF to Las Vegas

What could possibly have attracted this tech titan to an all-day party zone?

Off-Prem06 Sep 2023 | 2

Silicon Valley billionaires secretly buy up land for new California city

Not just a company town - it's the new feudal age

Offbeat28 Aug 2023 | 70

Uncle Sam sounds like it may actually do something about rampant visa H-1B fraud

Gee, you mean that surge to 800,000 applications in one year isn't entirely legit? Shocking

Legal01 May 2023 | 34

Techies all GUI-eyed as Xerox says goodbye to Palo Alto Research Center

Legendary R&D lab donated to SRI International where it will continue to innovate

Personal Tech25 Apr 2023 | 40

That sound you hear is VCs shutting wallets, tucking them back into Patagucci vests

OpenAI and Stripe snaffled a lot of what cash was dished out, or so this report claims

Personal Tech07 Apr 2023 | 5

Matthew Brown Companies confirms it's in funding talks with Virgin Orbit

Back to work on Monday? Branson and co still fighting to get funding

Offbeat24 Mar 2023 | 7

Now collapsed SVB's parent files for bankruptcy as Biden calls for stiffer penalties

Thought you guys were into fail fast, fail often?

Legal17 Mar 2023 | 32

Watch Reg vultures wrap their heads around Silicon Valley Bank collapse

Register Kettle Can we blame social media for this? We can try

Personal Tech14 Mar 2023 | 19

US government says Silicon Valley Bank depositors can get their cash on Monday

Feds say this won’t cost taxpayers a dime

Legal13 Mar 2023 | 36

Silicon Valley Bank seized by officials after imploding: How this happened and why

2023, just like 2008

Legal10 Mar 2023 | 133

Two tech-centric banks strike trouble, spooking markets

Silicon Valley Bank sold billions in bonds as startups struggle, crypto-centric Silvergate Bank just gave up

Legal10 Mar 2023 | 12

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