Magic Johnson has the Magic to solve Diversity Divide in Silicon Valley


The lacuna in diversity that is present in Silicon Valley is the most crucial issue that is being faced by America at the moment. But it looks like Magic Johnson, who used to be a basketball player...

Tim Berners-Lee Wants an Online Magna Carta on 25th Anniversary of the Web


It seems the time has come for change. Tim-Berners Lee laid down the ABCs of the Internet two and a half decades ago. Today, his invention of sorts has taken over the global environment. ...

Silicon Valley boom eludes many, drives income gap


SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Arwin Buditom guards some of the most successful high-tech firms in America. Joseph Farfan keeps their heat, air and electric systems humming. But these workers and tens of...

French leader heads to Silicon Valley to talk tech


SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — France's president was visiting San Francisco on Wednesday and meeting with Silicon Valley technology leaders, just days after a French regulator hit Google with an embarrassing...

The Internet Of Things: An Industrial Revolution Rather Than The Digital


By Glen Martin Philadelphia’s Centennial Exposition of 1876 was America’s first World’s Fair, and was ostensibly held to mark the nation’s 100th birthday. But it heralded the future as much as it...

Silicon Valley Revitalized


Silicon Valley booming with higher incomes, housing prices, but middle class, poor left behind SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Jobs, income and investment keep soaring in Silicon Valley, but the growth is...

Steve Jobs Did Not Liberate Us. Tim Berners-Lee Did, By Freeing Ones and Zeros To Eat the World


30 years ago today, Steve Jobs unveiled the Macintosh. More accurately, The Great Magician took it out of a bag and let it talk to us. The Macintosh, as I learned from first-hand experience in 1984,...

Will Financiers Help London’s Quest To Be The World’s Favourite New Technology Center?


The idea of London becoming a technology center to rival other parts of the world has gained a lot of momentum in the last 12 months. From around 200 firms in early 2010 the city now boasts around...
    






How Silicon Valley Could Destabilize The Democratic Party


Much has been written, often with considerable glee, about the worsening divide in the Republican Party between its corporate and Tea Party wings. Yet Democrats may soon face their own schism as a...
    






2013: The Year Of The Latino Entrepreneur


@giorodriguez:  A look back on the year, from the perspective of someone on the “Latino tech beat” We’re getting to the final hours of 2013, and — no surprise to me — I am looking backward, not...