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Who would you rather work for: Apple or Domino’s Pizza?
Google employees protest outside the Google Corporate Campus Headquarters in Mountain View, California on November 1, 2018.
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Industrial action by Google workers shows collective representation is needed even in what is meant to be the best company in the world.
Google employees protest outside the Googleplex HQ in Mountain View, California.
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At a time when discussions about tech companies revolve around algorithms making automated decisions, the walkout gives Google a thousand human faces.
‘Computer, compose tweet.’
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Our ‘Tony Stark’ image of tech moguls is obscuring the talent and toil of ordinary workers, and inflating the egos of the bosses.
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Google needs to stop relying on just advertising if it wants to be successful in the next 20 years – but that is proving difficult.
Elon Musk has spoken to Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund about taking Tesla private.
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Talk of Saudi Arabia helping Elon Musk take Tesla private is the latest example of a long line of sovereign wealth fund investments.
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We urgently need to contemplate the myths we tell about ourselves and technology as a way of evaluating the relationship between the two.
Once lauded for their vision and promise, Silicon Valley giants have made life so hard for locals that residents regularly protest the companies, including their amenities like charter buses to save workers from the region’s terrible traffic.
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Big technology firms are becoming known for mistreating workers, customers and society as a whole. Is an economic powerhouse about to collapse like Detroit did years go?
Charities should not make amassing more and more money their top priority.
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When organizations dedicated to doing good make money their top priority, they get into trouble.
Many voices mean many viewpoints.
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Large Silicon Valley firms are not particularly diverse in terms of gender or race, but there are some companies doing better than their peers.
Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes.
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Elizabeth Holmes has been charged with ‘massive fraud’. She maintains her innocence but what lessons can boards take away from the whole affair?
There are considerable differences in pay, employment levels, and the types of activities that men and women perform in the workplace.
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Automation could transform our working world. Here’s what we can do to ensure it is a more gender equal one.
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The dangers of AI solutionism need to be addressed.
Will they disrupt the tech sector?
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Americans’ widespread belief that they live in a meritocracy where anyone can get ahead actually makes inequality even worse, particularly in terms of gender.
Companies should listen to both male and female employees on this issue and pay attention to any backlash.
Research has found Silicon Valley engineers feared speaking up when they recognise poor behaviour among their male colleagues.
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Uber, Tesla and Waymo (Google) are leapfrogging traditional car makers like Ford, VW and General Motors when it comes to self-driving cars.
The tech sector has long had a diversity problem.
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Amazon, like the entire tech sector, has suffered from a lack of diversity in its workforce. This trend is likely to continue when it opens a second headquarters in one of 20 cities.
Aerial view of San Jose, California, 2016.
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Silicon Valley brought together natural surroundings, suburban homes and futuristic high-tech work. But industrial pollution betrayed the California dream.
LeWeb 2014 start-up competition finalists. The popular conference went on hiatus for 2015.
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Paris generates nearly a third of France’s GDP, yet the city falls short as a destination for immigrant entrepreneurs.
One of China’s biggest bitcoin exchanges recently stopped trading after regulators ordered all digital currency exchanges to close — demonstrating traditional institutions’ nervousness about distributed trust technologies. In this 2013 photo, a staff member at Bitcoin mining company Landminers in southwestern China checks a computer used for that purpose.
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The development of distributed trust technologies is making traditional institutions like banks, corporations and governments nervous. Those who have power like to hold onto it. What’s next?