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News Articles: Silicon Valley

Abdulwahab Omira, 28, stands in front of his destroyed family home in Damascus, Syria. Omira and his family fled Syria's civil war in 2012 when he was a teenager. Now a U.S. citizen and a graduate student at Stanford, Omira recently returned to his home country to look for ways the tech industry could help rebuild it.

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He fled Syria's war as a teenager. He went back to help launch a tech industry

Abdulwahab Omira escaped Syria's war with his family as a teenager. He recently returned as a Stanford graduate student and a budding entrepreneur, hoping to help jumpstart the country's tech industry.

March 11, 2025
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  • Greg Myre
This photo illustration shows the DeepSeek app on a mobile phone in Beijing on Jan. 27. Chinese firm DeepSeek's artificial intelligence chatbot has soared to the top of the Apple Store's download charts.

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  • Business

U.S. stock markets tumble as investors worry about DeepSeek

The Chinese AI company may be about to burst Silicon Valley's bubble.

January 27, 2025
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  • Maria Aspan
Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki speaks at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, on May 24, 2022.

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  • Obituaries

Susan Wojcicki, former YouTube CEO and Silicon Valley visionary, dies at 56

Over the past three decades, Susan Wojcicki had a knack for seeing a startup's potential. Her intuition helped shape the growth of YouTube and Google.

August 10, 2024
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By:
  • Juliana Kim
Vice President Harris delivers a speech on artificial intelligence in London on Nov. 1, 2023.

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  • News

Tech luminaries and VCs go all-in on Kamala Harris campaign, 5 things to know

Harris started her political career in the Bay Area. And since launching her campaign, donations from Silicon Valley have poured in. But that doesn’t necessarily mean she’ll go easy on Big Tech.

August 04, 2024
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  • Dara Kerr
Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio shakes hands with former President Donald Trump during a rally in Delaware, Ohio in 2023. Vance has ties to tech billionaires who are endorsing his vice presidential nomination.

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  • Technology

Five things to know about J.D. Vance’s ties to tech billionaires

Vance, who has become a darling to the Silicon Valley elite, made inroads in tech and venture capital circles during a stint in San Francisco. Now, Vance is tapping that network to supercharge the Trump re-election bid.

July 17, 2024
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By:
  • Bobby Allyn
TikTok is the latest technology company to cut staff, as firms reorganize and re-allocate resources, just as the video-sharing app reports strong growth.

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  • Technology

TikTok cuts jobs as tech layoffs continue to mount

The wildly popular video-sharing app is the latest technology firm to reduce staff in response to what executives say are ongoing business challenges.

January 22, 2024
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  • Bobby Allyn
A.J. King, the CEO of Three Rivers Bank in Kalispell, Mont., sitting at his office. King says his bank shouldn't have to pay for mismanagement at Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank.

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  • Business

It cost $22 billion to rescue two failed banks. Now the question is who will pay

Regulators need to decide how to recover the cost of rescuing Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank — and community banks across the country are warning they should not be on the hook.

April 13, 2023
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  • David Gura
A customer stands outside of the shuttered Silicon Valley Bank headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif., on March 10, 2023. The lender was taken over federal regulators on Friday, marking one of the largest bank failures since the 2008 Global Financial Crisis.

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  • Business

A Silicon Valley lender collapsed after a run on the bank. Here's what to know

Silicon Valley Bank was taken over by federal regulators on Friday, capping a spectacular collapse after the lender suffered a run on deposits.

March 11, 2023
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  • David Gura
The TikTok logo is displayed outside a TikTok office on December 20, 2022 in Culver City, Calif. Congress passed legislation to ban the popular Chinese-owned social media app from most government devices.

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  • Technology

From Twitter chaos to TikTok bans to the metaverse, social media had a rocky 2022

From Facebook's troubled pivot to the metaverse to Twitter's management chaos to industry-wide layoffs, social media companies have had a rocky 2022

December 23, 2022
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By:
  • Shannon Bond
Founder and CEO of Theranos Elizabeth Holmes speaks at the Fortune Global Forum in San Francisco on Nov. 2, 2015.

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  • Technology

It's judgment day for Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes

The fallen Silicon Valley star faces up to 15 years in prison for defrauding investors in her blood-testing company. A U.S. senator is among those who have written letters asking for mercy.

November 18, 2022
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  • Bobby Allyn
SpaceX founder Elon Musk during a T-Mobile and SpaceX joint event on August 25, 2022 in Boca Chica Beach, Texas.

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  • Technology

Texts released ahead of Twitter trial show Elon Musk assembling the deal

Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter went down via private text messages between the Tesla CEO and a small circle of Silicon Valley's rich and powerful, according to court filings released this week.

September 30, 2022
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  • Raquel Maria Dillon
Faris Ajluni (right) land Jose Nazario pose in their vests in downtown San Francisco.

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  • Technology

The Patagonia vest endures in San Francisco tech circles, despite ridicule

Flyers around San Francisco are urging tech workers to give up the quintessential Silicon Valley uniform: the fleece vest. It's just the latest flashpoint in the city's class battle.

March 31, 2022
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  • Bobby Allyn
Apple's massive" spaceship" campus designed to centralize work and foster collaboration in 2017 may have to make way for satellite offices and other remote work.

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  • Economy

Why Remote Work Might Not Revolutionize Where We Work

Apple joins the ranks of tech firms freeing many employees from Silicon Valley offices. What this might mean for the geography of the American economy.

July 13, 2021
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  • Greg Rosalsky

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  • Technology

Social Audio Began As A Pandemic Fad. Tech Companies See It As The Future

Live conversations on Clubhouse and Twitter took off during the pandemic, connecting people online when they couldn't in real life. Now social media companies are scrambling to launch audio features.

June 11, 2021
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  • Shannon Bond
Many tech workers say they have experienced more harassment, hostility and anxiety while working remotely during the pandemic.

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  • Technology

Remote Work Is Leading To More Gender And Racial Harassment, Say Tech Workers

Women and people of color are reporting the biggest increases in harassment while working remotely during the pandemic, a survey says.

March 30, 2021
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  • Shannon Bond
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