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...Salesforce, the San Francisco-based tech company, plans to put its name on a new glass tower it will occupy along the Chicago River....
...Identity crisis The turmoil at Silicon Valley Bank and First Republic has left San Francisco’s once-thriving tech scene in a state of uncertainty, Bloomberg reports....
...Maggioncalda had a modest upbringing in Pacifica, a small beach town just outside San Francisco....
...In the same week, across the Atlantic, the UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak used Twitter to announce his intention of making the UK a “global crypto assets hub,” and in San Francisco, new start-up...
...Players of Fortnite, developed by Epic, were able to purchase an in-game currency known as “V-bucks” online, but these credits would not show up when playing on the iPhone....
...In San Francisco they can now charge a maximum of 15 per cent, after city supervisors voted to maintain a pandemic-era cap on commissions....
...“I think it should surprise no one that the Biden/Harris administration’s approach on these issues is similar to the Obama/Biden administration’s approach,” said Uber’s chief legal officer Tony West....
...While Silicon Valley and Big Tech have welcomed the news that former San Francisco district attorney Kamala Harris is to be Joe Biden’s running mate, gig economy companies ought to have reservations....
...The San Francisco-based designer says her work has been increasingly visible since the Black Lives Matter rallies prompted businesses to question their stand on diversity and inclusion....
...Additional reporting by Andres Schipani in Rio de Janeiro and Bryan Harris in São Paulo...
...She joins the San Francisco Office after spending five years as CCO at Orrick....
...Mr Cook said that if another employee, an Apple Maps analyst from Peru known as W.V., had to leave the country, “his supervisor worries, ‘I don’t know if his replacement would be able to do what he can do...
...Francisco and Don Weinland in Beijing....
...The legal cases included a $30bn licensing dispute that went to trial on Monday, in which Apple was joined by four of its contract manufacturers in a suit against Qualcomm in San Diego....
...Spokespeople for the DoJ and US attorneys in San Francisco and New York declined to comment....
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...But the Democrats favour even more extensive regulation, with five presidential candidates — senators Bernie Sanders, Cory Booker, Kirsten Gillibrand, Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren — supporting three...
...‘Everybody’s been looking for the sign’ “It has been quite a week,” said Lise Buyer, who advises companies on their initial public offerings at Class V Group....
...Tristan Harris, a former design ethicist at Google who has gone on to found the Center for Humane Technology, has also done much to expose the manipulative design practices of the social media companies...
...He also likes Balistreri v Pacifica Police Dept, a 1990 appeals court decision stemming from a domestic violence case, which he has mentioned 312 times....
...The San Francisco-based company has hired the IPO advisory firm Class V, which was founded by Lise Buyer, a former investor and investment banker who worked on Google’s 2004 public offering....
...On Tuesday, a three-judge panel on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco reversed a lower court’s grant of class-action status to the drivers represented by the suit and said Uber could compel...
...The San Francisco-based rivals are both looking to launch initial public offerings in 2019....
...Qubits v bytes: how quantum computing works Quantum computing taps into the quirky behaviour of sub-atomic particles, which bend our normal understanding of physics....
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