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The so-called Silicon Valley Six, Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Apple and Netflix have a combined "tax gap" (read shortfall) of more than US$100 billion this decade, according to a new analysis by British organisation Fair Tax Mark. The UK

Microchip manufacturers contaminated the groundwater in the 1980s. Almost 40 years later, the cleanup still isnt complete.

The term 996 refers to working from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week. For some companies and employees, working 996 became a badge of honor and Silicon Valley heavyweights such as Sequoia Capital’s Mike Moritz highlighted it as a competitive advantage over the United States.

Journalists complaining about recent layoffs want you to think that their entire profession is at risk. And maybe it was, at one point. But those same journalists now receive hundreds of millions of dollars from both national governments and tech giants, special favors in the latter’s algorithms,

In the latest example of Silicon Valley opulence, two cats are reportedly the sole occupants of a $1,500-per-month studio apartment in the San Francisco Bay Area. With the average rent for a studio apartment in the San Jose area at roughly $2,000 per month, Tina and Louise are making out relatively

Rajasthan government has sent 91 students under 'Student Startup Exposure Program' to Silicon Valley as part of its efforts to promote entrepreneurship in the state. As part of the two-week program, the students visited Stanford University's various departments on first day, official statement said.

"Silicon Valley" star Thomas Middleditch recently did an interview with Larry King, and it was brutal to watch him discuss former castmate T.J. Miller. Miller left the hit HBO show at the end of seaso

More tech folks call themselves libertarian than anything else. So why are they afraid to speak up at work?

Commentary: Why are hard-working adults in San Francisco living in dorm rooms? This "lazy millennial" has a theory.

The tech giants now constitute the world’s five largest companies in market capitalization. Rather than idealistic newcomers, they increasingly reflect the worst of American capitalism — squashing competitors, using indentured servants, attempting to fix wages, depressing incomes, creating ever

Two former Google employees are trying to make Bodegas a thing of the past with their startup, according to Fast Company. The startup -- called Bodega -- sets up unmanned five-foot wide pantry boxes in apartments, offices, dorms or gyms. The boxes contain products that are non-perishable. The

The new corporate leviathans that used to be seen as bright new avatars of American innovation are increasingly portrayed as sinister new centers of unaccountable power, a transformation likely to have major consequences for the industry and for American politics.

That turn has accelerated in recent

High cost of peninsular leads to 'de-location' offer A startup is offering workers a hefty sign-on bonus – if they move out of the San Francisco Bay Area.…