“We decided for optical reasons it just wouldn’t make sense to expose ourselves further to investors coming from a country where there is now so much by way of trade tensions and IP tensions,” said Carson Kahn, CEO of Volley, an artificial intelligence training firm. … [Read more...] about End of an Era: China-Silicon Valley Relationship Chills
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How Silicon Valley’s ‘Vampire’ CEOs Are Just Like Trump
Recode co-founder Kara Swisher has this thing she likes to call the “prick to productivity ratio”—how big of a jerk a particular executive is, verus how much he gets done. And these days, both in Silicon Valley and in Washington, that ratio has gone all wrong. … [Read more...] about How Silicon Valley’s ‘Vampire’ CEOs Are Just Like Trump
The backlash to Silicon Valley returns with a vengeance
"To members of our Black community: I stand with you. Your lives matter. Black lives matter," he said. He stopped short of committing to concrete change, however, saying the company "may not come up with changes we want to make" in all the areas being reviewed. Several people and groups criticized Zuckerberg's statement for not doing enough, days after prominent civil rights organizations said they were "disappointed" by a conversation with the Facebook CEO about Trump's posts. … [Read more...] about The backlash to Silicon Valley returns with a vengeance
Silicon Valley can no longer ‘tinker around the edges’ to fix its diversity problem
"Black people are finding that their attempts to create 'safe spaces' on Facebook for conversation among themselves are being derailed by the platform itself. Non-black people are reporting what are meant to be positive efforts as hate speech, despite them often not violating Facebook's terms of service," Luckie wrote, linking out to past media coverage of the issue. (In a statement at the time, Facebook said it had been "diligently" working on increasing diversity over the prior few years and "want to fully support all employees when there are issues reported.") … [Read more...] about Silicon Valley can no longer ‘tinker around the edges’ to fix its diversity problem
Why Silicon Valley’s biggest companies are investing billions in India
"Much as it pains me to say it, the US isn't nearly as attractive a place for innovation as it was five years ago," Lemley said. "As the Trump administration makes it harder and harder to bring the best and brightest people from around the world to Silicon Valley, I think tech companies may be looking towards a world where we are no longer the center of innovation." … [Read more...] about Why Silicon Valley’s biggest companies are investing billions in India
