SILICON VALLEY — LinkedIn was ordered this week to stop operating its service in Russia, after a court ruled the company had broken the country’s law about storing customer data…
SILICON VALLEY — Facebook routinely buys stolen passwords from the black market, in hopes of notifying people when their passwords on the site are not secure, Chief Security Officer said…
SILICON VALLEY — Silicon Valley’s top leaders spent Wednesday answering questions from employees about what Donald Trump’s surprise victory meant for them, and whether things would change at their companies…
SILICON VALLEY — Apple shares fell more than 1 percent in trading on Wednesday, following Donald Trump’s unexpected presidential victory. On the campaign trail, Trump mentioned the company by name…
SILICON VALLEY — Venture capitalist and Sun Microsystems cofounder Vinod Khosla this week fired a warning shot toward the IT industry: The robots are coming for your jobs. Speaking at…
SILICON VALLEY — Earlier this year, Uber quietly sold shares in its company to high-net worth, individual investors eager to own a small stake ahead of the company’s as-yet-unannounced IPO….
SILICON VALLEY — It’s been a little over a month since Samsung scooped up San Jose-based artificial intelligence startup Viv, and the company is already trying to figure out how…
SILICON VALLEY — Mountain View-based electric skateboard startup Boosted Boards is temporarily halting shipments on its newest skateboard, after two separate instances where batteries malfunctioned. “Fortunately, no one was injured…
SILICON VALLEY — Mountain View-based electric go-kart startup Actev Motors this week announced it’s begun shipping orders to customers, and taking preorders for delivery in 2017. The startup is backed…
SILICON VALLEY — Todd Katz, the former oil services executive accused of impersonating Tesla CEO Elon Musk, asked a judge in San Jose this week to throw out the automaker’s…
SILICON VALLEY — For years, Netflix customers have asked the Los Gatos-based company why they can’t download movies or TV shows onto their mobile device to watch later. It’s a…
SILICON VALLEY — Serial entrepreneur Justin Kan this week launched a new iOS app to solve a pain point for celebrities like himself: How do you answer all the questions…
SILICON VALLEY — Prince William may visit Silicon Valley next year to sit down with the CEOs of major tech companies to talk about ways to combat cyberbullying, The Sunday…
SILICON VALLEY — Billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel defended his support of presidential candidate Donald Trump today in Washington, D.C., saying the dangers facing the country were more important than…
SILICON VALLEY — Alphabet’s self-driving car division is spinning out into its own standalone entity, taking a big step forward in its goal to sell commercial products. The project had…
SILICON VALLEY — One out of four millennials — young people born between 1982 and 1998 — in a new survey said they felt discriminated against because of their gender…
SILICON VALLEY — Hyperloop One, the Southern California-based startup that’s raised $160 million to deliver on Elon Musk’s vision of a futuristic rail line, is preparing to raise a $250…