The passage of the Bill was hailed by Indian professionals from across the US, particularly those from the Silicon Valley in California, Seattle area in Washington state, the Greater Washington DC area and the tri-state area of New York, New Jersey and... read more

The pair’s ascent is rapid even by Silicon Valley standards, where dropping out of Stanford to launch a startup is almost a cliché. read more

The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says sarin is a chemical warfare agent that is a clear, colourless, odourless and tasteless liquid. It can evaporate into the environment, prompting symptoms within seconds. read more

A delegation from the Silicon Valley, including Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and Dropbox co-founder and CEO Drew Houston, recently went all the way to Italy’s hillside hamlet of Solomeo for a meeting with the fashion designe... read more

Bangalore is paying a heavy price for its success since marketing itself as a tech hub in the late 1990s and attracting top firms, by losing it lakes and gardens to buildings. read more

Thousands of people live in RVs across San Francisco and the broader Bay Area because they can’t afford to rent or buy homes. read more

The value of the stake held by Garrett Camp, the inventor of Uber, ahead of the company’s first day of stock trading on Friday rounds around $3.7 billion. read more

From the Ugg to the floater and the platform sneaker, a timeline of our obsession with cult hideous footwear, and why the unattractive is so irresistible. read more

Tech world now wants it to be regulated by government. This is a big departure from the open internet that Silicon Valley had been evangelising all along read more

The data localisation imperative of this policy is a classic non-tariff barrier to the multinational platform companies. Under the garb of protection, the real cost falls on the consumers and small businesses read more

Zain Jaffer, founder of a promising mobile ad startup, was suddenly arrested and charged with a series of crimes, including assault and sexual abuse. The charges have been dropped. read more

Research done by a Duke and Harvard team found that family entrepreneurship, prior interest, and extreme interest, did not heavily influence the success of first-generation entrepreneur. So what had? Tertiary education — though not which university they’d... read more

Technology executives are notorious for believing they have special powers and are indestructible. They become obsessed with making money and achieving success — to the detriment of their health. I know because I am one of them. read more

EU’s view is that free social media is not a public good if its business model hoovers up user data without consent. read more

Apple’s new campus is a symbol of how the company views itself as an employer: simultaneously inspiring its workers with its magnificent scale while coddling them with its four-story café and 100,000-square-foot fitness center. read more