Yale Grad Emerges From Poverty, Forgoes Silicon Valley Salary To Help Others
A Bay Area woman has come full circle from her beginnings in poverty in East Palo Alto, to graduating from Yale, and back to her hometown to help others like herself.
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A Bay Area woman has come full circle from her beginnings in poverty in East Palo Alto, to graduating from Yale, and back to her hometown to help others like herself.
The move follows similar steps by Facebook and the introduction of a bill that seeks to bring more transparency to online political ads in an attempt to lessen the influence of Russia and other foreign entities on U.S. elections.
Aerospace conglomerate Embraer is banking on Silicon Valley business with the rollout of a new luxury jet and the opening of a Bay Area innovation office.
The likes of Facebook, Google and Apple are increasingly facing an uncomfortable truth: it is Europe's culture of tougher oversight of companies, not America's laissez-faire attitude, which could soon rule their industry.
Facebook and Google once aimed to connect the world. Now they would be happy just to reconnect part of it.
Saying it will always have "a special place in our hearts," AOL announced Friday that its once cutting edge instant messenger app will be taken off-line in December.
Uber is curbing the power of former CEO Travis Kalanick and taking on Japan's SoftBank Group as a major new investor as the ride-hailing service tries to recover from internal strife and a myriad of legal headaches.
Startling new numbers show how tens of thousands of homeless young people are "couch surfing" their way through Santa Clara County.
There's a surprising new claim that Silicon Valley's biggest and best days may be over.
Even in the real estate craziness of the Silicon Valley, the sale of a modest four-bedroom home in a quiet Sunnyvale neighborhood has stirred up quite a buzz.
Apple unveiled a new watch Tuesday that has cellphone access and a new version of its TV product that will broadcast in a 4k quality image in the first event held at the company's new Steve Jobs Theater.
Juicero, a Silicon Valley-backed startup known for its high-priced juicing machine, is shutting down after a report raised questions about the machine's high price tag.
A new analysis found prospective Silicon Valley homeowners will need to earn more than $220,000 to afford a median priced home.
Conservative provacateur Milo Yiannopoulos has a warning for Silicon Valley -- if you ban white supremacists from the internet, you may actually help increase their popularity.
Protests planned at Google offices in the Bay Area and around the country over the firing of an employee who questioned company diversity efforts have been postponed.
When school starts next week in East Palo Alto, families will be able to unload their clothes on campus, and for many in the working class community - their stress.
A patent law firm with Silicon Valley clients has reportedly found a way to beat the area's high real estate prices, by flying in attorneys from Texas on a private jet.
Trump's push to cut legal immigration in half is met by opposition from Silicon Valley leaders, economists and some Republicans senators.
A famous chef recently opened up a secret restaurant in the South Bay that caters to some of the wealthiest people in the world with meals starting at nearly $400 a head.
Social media giant Facebook was forced to shut down one of its artificial intelligent bot systems after it created its own language, according to tech industry reports Monday.
Intel's more than two decade-long reign as the king of the silicon-based semiconductor is poised to end Thursday when South Korea's Samsung Electronics elbows the U.S. manufacturer aside to become the leading maker of computer chips.
The people who prepare and serve food at Facebook headquarters have become the latest blue-collar employees at tech companies to join a union.
Two high-tech burglars who allegedly pulled off a roof-top heist of a Silicon Valley electronics store were captured during a traffic stop.
A former tech executive is set to be sentenced to county jail this afternoon for defrauding his business partner and high school friends out of more than $400,000, according to the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office.
