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Channel 4 strikes deal to air 1,000 hours of hit shows for free on YouTube

Exclusive: agreement allows broadcaster to sell ads around programmes in potential new era of deals with Silicon Valley

The Guardian - UK

Sadiq Khan to meet tech giants on trade mission to Silicon Valley

The Mayor of London is to meet representatives from the likes of Google and LinkedIn during a US tour to boost tourism and tech in the UK capital.

The Independent UK

Sadiq Khan pitches for tech investors in Silicon Valley

Sadiq Khan on Tuesday switched from banging the drum to pitching for London as he headed to Silicon Valley and prepared to open a baseball match.

Evening Standard

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Silicon Valley firm chooses Hyderabad to set up engineering, business innovation hub

1,000 engineering talent to be hired for the Grid Dynamics India facility by 2022

The Hindu

Musk’s $44-Bln Twitter Deal at Risk of Being Repriced Lower - Hindenburg

Short-seller Hindenburg Research warned on Monday that Elon Musk's $44-billion offer to take Twitter Inc private could get repriced lower if the Silicon Valley billionaire walked away from the deal. "Musk holds all the cards here," Hindenburg, which has a short position on Twitter, said in a report. "If Elon…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Doerrs give $1.1 billion to Stanford for new climate school; largest gift in Stanford history

SAN JOSE, Calif. — In the largest gift ever to Stanford University, Silicon Valley venture capitalist John Doerr and his wife, Ann, have agreed to donate $1.1 billion to set up a new school on the campus devoted to the study of climate change and its solutions.

Tribune News Service

Doerrs give $1.1 billion to Stanford for new climate school

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Silicon Valley venture capitalist John Doerr, an early investor in Google, Amazon and other leading tech companies, and his wife, Ann, have agreed to donate $1.1 billion to Stanford University to set up a new school devoted to the study of climate change and its solutions.

Tribune News Service

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‘The PR speak is not landing’: Twitter employees blast Elon Musk takeover at emergency meeting

Disquiet has swelled inside the Silicon Valley firm since Elon Musk reached a deal to buy the company

The Independent UK

A new benefit is born to help companies find and keep workers

When Facebook Inc. and Apple Inc. began offering egg-freezing benefits to employees in 2014, the move was seen as typical Silicon Valley. The creative if unconventional perk helped attract and keep younger tech talent, but it was out of reach to all but a tiny slice of the U.S. workforce.

Tribune News Service

Carolyn Chen: ‘The tech company offers the most efficient solution to providing a meaningful life’

A new book exposes Silicon Valley’s use of spiritual concepts and practices to optimise their workers’ productivity

The Guardian - UK

The Chinese Way of Innovation

What Washington Can Learn From Beijing About Investing in Tech

Foreign Affairs

Silicon Valley’s COVID windfall raises alarms about region’s economy

An unprecedented flow of riches is concentrating wealth among Silicon Valley companies that capitalized on the world’s locked-down lives amid the pandemic, raising fears that a dramatically lopsided recovery will warp the economic future for the Bay Area.

Tribune News Service

Soho-based cyber security firm SEON raises £72m from Silicon Valley fund

The Seon team

Evening Standard

Elon Musk’s paradoxical vision of running Twitter: Less democracy, more freedom

There’s a common critique of Big Tech that goes like this: In the 21st century, social media platforms are the new public square, and it matters a great deal who sets the rules. Instead of allowing true free speech, unaccountable Silicon Valley elites like Mark Zuckerberg decide what can and…

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Silicon Valley office vacancy improves for first time since COVID outbreak

SAN JOSE, Calif — The office vacancy rate in Silicon Valley improved during the first three months of 2022, a sign that the office sector is starting to recuperate from coronavirus-linked maladies, a new report indicates.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Mehmet Oz is worth at least $104 million and maybe a lot more, a new report says

PHILADELPHIA — Republican Senate candidate Mehmet Oz has derided big technology companies as a “cartel” and boasted about taking on the Silicon Valley giants as he campaigns in Pennsylvania.

Tribune News Service

Is it time to test embryos for common diseases?

SAN JOSE, Calif. – A Silicon Valley company has designed a technique to decipher the genetic code of a tiny embryo and calculate its future risk of cancer, diabetes and 10 other common diseases – presaging a day when parents could select children with a greater chance of living a…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Musk Discloses 9.2% Stake in Twitter

Tesla Inc Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk has built a 9.2% stake in Twitter Inc, a regulatory filing showed on Monday, sending the micro-blogging site's shares soaring 16% in premarket trading. Late March, the silicon valley billionaire said he was giving "serious thought" to building a new social media platform.…

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Birmingham Post

Silicon Valley tech company to create 40 jobs in Bristol

The Goldman Sachs-backed company was founded in 2004 - and now has offices across the world

Los Angeles Times

Michael Hiltzik: That big tech exodus out of California turns out to be a bust

Wannabe innovation hubs from coast to coast have been slavering over the prospect that the work-from-home revolution triggered by the COVID pandemic would finally break the stranglehold that California and Silicon Valley have had on high-tech jobs.

Benzinga

Google Fielded Pay-Related Questions At Recent Meet

Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google leaders faced a storm of criticism from employees on issues related to compensation, CNBC reports. Google defended the company's competitiveness at a recent all-hands meeting while conceding that the performance review process could change. Recently, Google's internal survey had reflected growing dissatisfaction with pay packages. Its peer Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN), looked…

The Independent UK

This former Uber executive traveled to Ukraine to help Zelensky. His parents still think he’s in San Francisco

Ukrainian-born Silicon Valley executive Andrey Liscovich tells Rachel Sharp how he swapped the Bay Area for the war zone so he can use his startup skills to source and route supplies to the volunteers fighting for his country’s freedom

Tribune News Service

Tech billionaires rally around nuclear as energy crisis looms

In recent weeks, some of Silicon Valley’s most famous technologists have hailed a historically polarizing energy source — nuclear power — as a solution to both cutting carbon emissions and weaning the world off now-controversial Russian gas.

Financial Times

How Big Tech lost the antitrust battle with Europe

Brussels is set to finalise stringent new legislation targeting Silicon Valley giants, whose desperate lobbying has fallen on deaf ears

Evening Standard

Elizabeth Holmes set for prison: Why Hollywood can’t get enough of Silicon Valley stories

The jaw-dropping stories of Silicon Valley’s biggest successes - and biggest failures - make for thrilling TV

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