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Trust study: Californians don’t like tech as much (they really don’t like tech as much)

A new survey shows Bay Area residents are warier than before about its homegrown industry.

Silicon Valley should be making products for Middle America, investor Jeremy Liew says

Liew says the Valley needs to come to terms with the fact that it’s a bubble that doesn’t represent “normal America.”

HBO’s ‘Silicon Valley’ just released its first season four teaser trailer

The show returns April 23.

Silicon Valley is awash in wealth. It should stop outsourcing its lower- and middle-income jobs.

For all its focus on social justice and other progressive concerns, the tech industry displays a rather shocking lack of interest in economic inclusivity.

Silicon Valley billionaires are ‘prepping’ to survive in underground bunkers

Some in the prepper movement are afraid that AI will lead to a revolt against the wealthy.

Tech leaders shouldn't succumb to a president-Trump bully pulpit

I have a sneaky feeling that Amazon and many others do not want to rile the new boss.

Apple, Facebook, Google and Uber say they won’t help Trump build a registry of Muslim-Americans

Trump has promised to be heavy on surveillance, which has long required the cooperation of technology companies.

AngelList has acquired Product Hunt for around $20 million

Product Hunt will continue to operate as a standalone site.

Silicon Valley is now the media capital of the world

Northern California media companies now reach two billion people every day, taking billions of dollars in advertising revenue from the East Coast media conglomerates.

Here’s who Goldman Sachs thinks you should pay attention to in tech this year

On the hot list: Slack, BuzzFeed, Giphy.

Tinder is opening a Silicon Valley office and plans to double its workforce in the next 18 months

Tinder is coming to Silicon Valley to recruit.

President Obama explains the difference between Silicon Valley and the real world

“Democracy is messy.”

I’m done pretending that Silicon Valley tech is visionary

We’re smart enough to solve real problems, but we don’t.

Peter Thiel is wrong about the cities spearheading startup success

“If you are a very talented person,” Thiel told a Windy City college crowd last week, “you have a choice: You either go to New York or you go to Silicon Valley.”  

Full transcript: 'Chaos Monkeys' author Antonio García-Martinez on Recode Decode

“The book isn’t nice because Silicon Valley isn’t a nice place.”

'Silicon Valley,' season three, episode ten: And then there’s fraud

The season finale went too fast and raised too many questions.

'Silicon Valley,' season three, episode nine: The return of the box

Can I get an app that looks at me like Bernice looks at Richard?

'Silicon Valley,' season three, episode eight: Can you spot the Dick (Costolo)?

This week, a mystery: Who’s dumping shares?

Tom Perkins, venture capitalist and Silicon Valley founding father, has died at 84

He co-founded the VC firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 1972.

The tech bro / Bernie bro overlap is enough to bring the Sanders campaign down to the wire

"I gotta say it feels like a startup gone right," said Gobbler CEO Chris Kantrowitz.

‘Silicon Valley,’ season three, episode seven: Mo’ beta blues

Richard makes another stellar CEO decision, and God View rears its holy head.

'Silicon Valley' season three, episode six: Oh, the Bachmanity!

Never has "I need more space" held so much emotional heft.

Silicon Valley season three, episode five: Shut up, Richard!

Also, some tips on hard-drive disposal.

'Silicon Valley,' season three, episode four: All about that box

In which a theory dies, but a box is born.

'Silicon Valley,' season three, episode three: The box is here to stay

All is not as it seems at the devastating end of this ep.

Google's test to let media publish directly in search can't be great news for Twitter

It's yet another search experiment for the search giant.

Obama backs smart gun technology in new policy blueprint

The Defense and Justice Departments both move to give weapons advanced safety tech.

'Silicon Valley' returns: Party on, nerds!

New glossary term: Decacorn, a company that is valued at over ten billion dollars before its IPO. Like a unicorn but presumably with ten horns.

Banker bonanza! Yahoo spent $9 million on advisory fees in Q1.

A $9 million payoff for advisors.

Yahoo Gives Bidders Another Week, Moving Deadline to April 18

May the odds be forever in someone's favor. Anyone!?!

Meet the New Ford, a Silicon Valley Software Company (Q&A)

Ford CEO Mark Fields on electric cars, self-driving and the weird future of his rapidly changing industry.

How Dan Lyons Created Fake Steve Jobs, Wrote for 'Silicon Valley' and Escaped a 'Cult-y' Unicorn

The unicorn in question, HubSpot, isn't too happy about Lyons' new book, "Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble."