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As wildfires approach Silicon Valley, tech firms struggle to find fight

Winnacker, a fire district chief who led a team against the 2017 fires that scorched vineyards in Napa and Sonoma Valley, is interested in tools that can spot fires early and ease evacuations

Remote working: What the 'tech exodus' means for the Silicon Valley

Apple and Alphabet have long been deeply office-oriented; Yahoo, Best Buy and Reddit ended up reversing course on their flexible work arrangements in the past decade.

Silicon Valley-based VC Rocketship raises $100 mn for its second fund

The launch of Fund II will enable the VC to continue investing globally across sectors and company stages and increase the firm's number of follow-on investments, said the Silicon Valley-based VC

How women, immigrants, nonwhites helped American economy boom after WW II

The hopeful truth is that when Americans band together to force open the gates of opportunity for women, for Black men, for the groups that have long been oppressed in our economy, everyone gets ahead

US rescinds plan to strip visas from foreign students in online classes

Forced by Harvard, MIT lawsuits, Trump administration drops plans to deport foreign students whose courses have fully moved online

Sequoia raises $1.35 billion to invest in India, Southeast Asia startups

Sequoia India now operates seed, venture and growth funds, a structure that allows Sequoia to remain a relevant partner for founders at all stages of their journey

The debate over Silicon Valley's embrace of content moderation

Many in tech cheered when Twitter added labels to President Trump's tweets. But civil libertarians caution that social media companies are moving into uncharted waters.

Zoom's sudden popularity sets off scramble in rivals

Facebook, Google and other behemoths are training their sights on Silicon Valley's company of the moment

World Coronavirus Dispatch: Google-Apple join hands for contact-tracing

From two Silicon Valley giants joining hands, to WHO's warning against lifting lockdowns, to Russians having some fun at home

Patent for Pharmacyclic's cancer drug revoked on challenge by Laurus Labs

Patent Office rules that the drug isn't an improvement over other formulations in the same space, hence not eligible to enjoy a patent

Covid-19: US headed towards recession, but Silicon Valley still optimistic

A total of 218 people have died in the US due to the fast-spreading coronavirus pandemic

Coronavirus impact: India's Silicon Valley placed under lockdown for a week

Tech firms ask staff to work from home as Google techie tests positive; DoT relaxes norms for BPMs

Microsoft's Silicon Valley staff to work from home amid coronavirus fears

Microsoft asked many of its employees in the Seattle region near its headquarters and the San Francisco Bay Area to work from home if possible until March 25

Lawrence Tesler, Silicon Valley inventor of 'cut, copy and paste', dies

Silicon Valley on Wednesday was mourning a pioneering computer scientist whose accomplishments included inventing the widely relied on "cut, copy and paste" command. Bronx-born Lawrence "Larry" Tesler died this week at age 74, according to Xerox, where he spent part of his career. "The inventor of cut/copy & paste, find & replace, and more was former Xerox researcher Larry Tesler," the company tweeted. "Your workday is easier thanks to his revolutionary ideas. Larry passed away Monday, so please join us in celebrating him." A graduate of Stanford University, Tesler specialized in human-computer interaction, employing his skills at Amazon, Apple, Yahoo, and the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). The cut and paste command was reportedly inspired by old time editing that involved actually cutting portions of printed text and affixing them elsewhere with adhesive. "Tesler created the idea of 'cut, copy, & paste' and combined computer science training with a counterculture

Igate co-founder Ashok Trivedi bullish on biosciences opportunity for India

"What is happening right now is that emerging biotech companies are getting showered with risk capital," Trivedi said

How big tech is turning New York into a city that rivals Silicon Valley

Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google will soon have 20,000 workers in the city, many in a cluster of offices on the West Side

Make sure tech doesn't power 'Orwellian state': Pompeo to US firms

He told the industry that China's rampant theft of intellectual property is real and that it is not just a problem for the particular company affected

'Techlash' hits college campuses

"There was this ambient glow of being part of a company that was changing the world," Stapleton said. "I was totally googly-eyed about it."

Tech workers backing candidates looking to break up their employers

Elizabeth Warren is outpacing all candidates in contributions from Silicon Valley, according to FEC data

Building a culture of success

Why we need Silicon Valley's sharing spirit in India