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Meredith Whittaker, an Organiser of Google Walkout, Is Leaving the Company
Meredith Whittaker, who helped lead employee protests at Google over the search giant's military work, artificial intelligence and policies, is leaving the company.
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League of Legends Maker Riot Games Keeps Arbitration Clause Despite Employee Protest
Riot Games, maker of the worldwide hit video game League of Legends, will keep its requirement that employees' sexual-harassment or discrimination complaints be handled via arbitration.
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Apple Contractors Reveal What It's Like to Work Inside Company’s 'Black Site'
Apple’s ‘black site’ building is as bland as the main Apple campus is striking.
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Apple's "Black Site" Gives Workers Few Perks And Little Security
Apple's new campus in Cupertino, California, is a symbol of how the company views itself as an employer: simultaneously inspiring its workers with its magnificent scale while coddling them with its four-story cafe and 100,000-square-foot fitness center.
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Microsoft Threatens to Pull Gab Services Over Anti-Semitic Posts
Microsoft's Azure cloud-computing division said it would take action in two business days if Gab didn't remove two posts that prompted the complaint about "malicious activity."
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Forget Scooters: Transit Pods Will Soon Clutter City Streets
Over the last several months a handful of startups have dropped hundreds or thousands of electric scooters on the sidewalks in cities like San Francisco, Austin, and San Diego, allowing anyone who downloads an app to unlock and ride them across town for a small fee. It's a radical - and controversial - experiment in urban mobility. But scooters cou...
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Net Neutrality to Get US Senate Vote as Democrats Force Issue
Democratic senators have collected enough support to force a vote to block the changes from taking effect.
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For H-1B Visa Holders And Their Employers, Life Is Newly Hellish
Donald Trump came into office promising a restrictive new approach to immigration and there has been little question about his intention to follow through - with one seeming exception.
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Silicon Valley Far More Reliant On H-1B Visas Than Earlier Acknowledged
Cisco Systems Inc. applied for about 3,000 H-1B visas in fiscal 2016, intending to hire people to work at its sprawling, utilitarian campus in suburban San Jose. These were good jobs - many of them for management-level logisticians and operations research analysts - and they paid well. The average annual salary was about $120,000. At the upper end,...
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H-1B Visa Revamp Poised To Benefit Big U.S. Tech, Punish Outsourcers
The new way foreign worker visas are doled out in the U.S. is poised to benefit some of the biggest technology companies, like Alphabet Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Facebook Inc., while punishing outsourcing firms that developed a disproportionate dependence on the program.
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New H-1B Guidelines Crack Down on Computer Programmer Jobs
The changes don't explicitly prohibit applications for a specific type of job. Instead, they bring more scrutiny to those for computer programmers doing the simplest jobs.
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Donald Trump Cracks Down On H-1B Visa Program That Feeds Silicon Valley
The U.S. administration began to deliver on President Donald Trump's campaign promise to crack down on a work visa program that channels thousands of skilled overseas workers to companies across the technology industry.
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Airbnb Turns the Volume Down on Its Fights With Regulators Everywhere
At some point Airbnb needed to start getting along with regulators in order to prepare for an eventual IPO.
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Donald Trump's Stunning Victory Over Hillary Clinton Leaves Silicon Valley in Shock
Trump's win is the final twist in a surreal race that had drawn the technology hub into an increasingly assertive political role.
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Google and Facebook Chase New Kind of VR Headset
This week, Facebook and Google made it clear that theyre both rushing toward a middle ground.
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Meredith Whittaker, an Organiser of Google Walkout, Is Leaving the Company
Meredith Whittaker, who helped lead employee protests at Google over the search giant's military work, artificial intelligence and policies, is leaving the company.
-
League of Legends Maker Riot Games Keeps Arbitration Clause Despite Employee Protest
Riot Games, maker of the worldwide hit video game League of Legends, will keep its requirement that employees' sexual-harassment or discrimination complaints be handled via arbitration.
-
Apple Contractors Reveal What It's Like to Work Inside Company’s 'Black Site'
Apple’s ‘black site’ building is as bland as the main Apple campus is striking.
-
Apple's "Black Site" Gives Workers Few Perks And Little Security
Apple's new campus in Cupertino, California, is a symbol of how the company views itself as an employer: simultaneously inspiring its workers with its magnificent scale while coddling them with its four-story cafe and 100,000-square-foot fitness center.
-
Microsoft Threatens to Pull Gab Services Over Anti-Semitic Posts
Microsoft's Azure cloud-computing division said it would take action in two business days if Gab didn't remove two posts that prompted the complaint about "malicious activity."
-
Forget Scooters: Transit Pods Will Soon Clutter City Streets
Over the last several months a handful of startups have dropped hundreds or thousands of electric scooters on the sidewalks in cities like San Francisco, Austin, and San Diego, allowing anyone who downloads an app to unlock and ride them across town for a small fee. It's a radical - and controversial - experiment in urban mobility. But scooters cou...
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Net Neutrality to Get US Senate Vote as Democrats Force Issue
Democratic senators have collected enough support to force a vote to block the changes from taking effect.
-
For H-1B Visa Holders And Their Employers, Life Is Newly Hellish
Donald Trump came into office promising a restrictive new approach to immigration and there has been little question about his intention to follow through - with one seeming exception.
-
Silicon Valley Far More Reliant On H-1B Visas Than Earlier Acknowledged
Cisco Systems Inc. applied for about 3,000 H-1B visas in fiscal 2016, intending to hire people to work at its sprawling, utilitarian campus in suburban San Jose. These were good jobs - many of them for management-level logisticians and operations research analysts - and they paid well. The average annual salary was about $120,000. At the upper end,...
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H-1B Visa Revamp Poised To Benefit Big U.S. Tech, Punish Outsourcers
The new way foreign worker visas are doled out in the U.S. is poised to benefit some of the biggest technology companies, like Alphabet Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Facebook Inc., while punishing outsourcing firms that developed a disproportionate dependence on the program.
-
New H-1B Guidelines Crack Down on Computer Programmer Jobs
The changes don't explicitly prohibit applications for a specific type of job. Instead, they bring more scrutiny to those for computer programmers doing the simplest jobs.
-
Donald Trump Cracks Down On H-1B Visa Program That Feeds Silicon Valley
The U.S. administration began to deliver on President Donald Trump's campaign promise to crack down on a work visa program that channels thousands of skilled overseas workers to companies across the technology industry.
-
Airbnb Turns the Volume Down on Its Fights With Regulators Everywhere
At some point Airbnb needed to start getting along with regulators in order to prepare for an eventual IPO.
-
Donald Trump's Stunning Victory Over Hillary Clinton Leaves Silicon Valley in Shock
Trump's win is the final twist in a surreal race that had drawn the technology hub into an increasingly assertive political role.
-
Google and Facebook Chase New Kind of VR Headset
This week, Facebook and Google made it clear that theyre both rushing toward a middle ground.
