Note: Today, media outlets indicated that President Donald Trump will nominate Dr. Scott Gottlieb to be the U.S. Food and Drug Administration commissioner. Gottlieb is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a partner at one of the world’s largest venture capital funds – New Enterprise Associates – and a former FDA deputy commissioner.
Category: Emerging Technology
Why Google once claimed that Obama was staging a coup
Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events Google’s reputation is built on its algorithms, which are increasingly being used to give answers out of the search engine’s index of results. But what used to be a list – the first page of results – has become simpler over the past couple of years: Sometimes, Google extracts one result that it thinks will best answer whatever it is you’re asking, and puts that answer in a featured section right at the top of your results.
Uber Criticized by Venture Backers Over Harassment Claims
A pair of venture capital investors in Uber Technologies Inc. criticized the company for tapping insiders to conduct an investigation into sexual harassment and discrimination claims by a former employee. Mitch and Freada Kapor, spouses and investing partners at Kapor Capital, said they have been unsuccessful in their attempts to convince Uber behind the scenes to prioritize diversity issues.
Key tech companies oppose Trump immigration order in court
Google, Facebook, Intel, Netflix, Microsoft, Apple and Twitter are among a large group of companies that have filed a brief in opposition to an immigration order by U.S. President Donald Trump, citing the benefits to industry from liberal immigration rules and the disruption to business as a result of the regulation. A total of 97 companies from the technology and other sectors asked permission late Sunday from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to file an amici curiae, also known as a friends-of-the-court brief, in favor of maintaining a restraining order from a lower court on Trump’s decision that restricts the entry of certain classes of visitors from seven Muslim-majority countries.
Demonstrators gather for a second day at the arrivals terminal at the …
Demonstrators gather for a second day at the arrivals terminal at the San Francisco Airport in San Francisco, Calif., for a demonstration against Donald Trump’s executive order that bars citizen of seven from predominately Muslim countries from entering the U.S., Sunday, January 29, 2017. less Demonstrators gather for a second day at the arrivals terminal at the San Francisco Airport in San Francisco, Calif., for a demonstration against Donald Trump’s executive order that bars citizen of seven from … more The technology industry showed a mostly united front Sunday as it stepped up its confrontation with the Trump administration over immigration policies.
Abrams: Travel ban threatens Main Street small businesses
Abrams: Travel ban threatens Main Street small businesses Risks include fewer foreign visitors and U.S. business people becoming less welcome abroad. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/2katnhO President Trump speaks before signing an executive order surrounded by small business leaders in the Oval Office of the White House January 30, 2017 in Washington, DC.
Airbnb’s Chris Lehane rewriting Silicon Valley’s political playbook
Chris Lehane rarely wears the tailored Italian suits that he was known for during his days as a high-profile Washington operative. Now he favors the Silicon Valley uniform of jeans and Patagonia vests.
Pompeo sworn in as CIA chief amid opposition from surveillance critics
Mike Pompeo was sworn in late Monday by U.S. Vice President Michael Pence as the new director of the Central Intelligence Agency, amid protests from surveillance critics who worry about his conflicting views on a number of key issues. Critics of Pompeo, a Republican representative from Kansas, are concerned that he may weigh in with the government on a rollback of many privacy reforms, including restrictions on the collection of bulk telephone metadata from Americans by the National Security Agency under the USA Freedom Act.