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To create the jobs our economy needs, the US must expand immigration

As a second-generation immigration attorney, I’ve spent three decades helping people navigate the U.S. immigration system. At my Silicon Valley firm, we support tech entrepreneurs and business owners

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Trump vs. Bolton: The fireworks have only just begun

John Bolton, then national security adviser, listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House, Washington, August 16, 2018. /AP Donald Trump is a man who kn

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Statue of controversial Italian journalist defaced in Milan

03:26 The statue of a famous journalist is at the center of a debate on racism in Italy.In Milan, anti-fascist activists covered the monument to Indro Montanelli in red paint. Montanel

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French court slaps down Google’s appeal against $57M GDPR fine

France’s top court for administrative law has dismissed Google’s appeal against a $57M fine issued by the data watchdog last year for not making it clear enough to Android users how it pr

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Trump shared a deceptive video blaming ‘fake news.’ Twitter just labeled it as fake

The same day that Facebook removed a set of Trump campaign ads for violating the company’s rules against hate symbols, the president continued to push the envelope with his social media presence

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Supreme Court blocks Trump effort to wind down DACA program

The Supreme Court on Thursday delivered a blow to President Trump's immigration agenda, ruling the administration's attempt to dismantle an Obama-era program that prote

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Interview: Apple’s Schiller says position on Hey app is unchanged and no rules changes are imminent

In a brief call today about Basecamp’s Hay email app from the iOS App Store, Apple’s Phil Schiller told me that there would currently be no changes to its rules that would allow the app to continue to

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How we’re rebuilding the VC industry

The venture capital industry is less transparent today than at any time in recent memory.For all the talk about expanding access and improving its sordid record on diversity, in reality, it has never

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Colin Kaepernick joins Medium board of directors and inks partnership publishing deal

The online publishing platform Medium said that it has added former San Francisco 49ers quarterback and civil rights advocate Colin Kaepernick to its board of directors.The company also said it had in

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Boris postures, while the EU awaits

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson (L) and former president of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker attend a press conference at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium

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Bose calling it quits on audio AR platform, report says

Headphone-maker Bose is calling it quits on their Bose AR platform play, noting that they’ll be winding down support for third-party developers on their platform next month.In a statement to Pro

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Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s Imagine Impact entertainment “accelerator” inks deal with Netflix

Imagine Impact, the entertainment accelerator launched by Brian Grazer and Ron Howard to try and bring Silicon Valley style mentorship and project development techniques to Hollywood, has inked a deve

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Bearish VCs, bullish founders and changing investing trends

During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, concern was high, public markets were suffering and it wasn’t hard to find wags on Twitter declaring that the world had changed and startup valuat

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FirstMark Capital announces new funds with a fresh $650 million in investment capital

FirstMark Capital, the NY-based VC firm whose portfolio includes Shopify, Riot Games, Pinterest, Airbnb, InVision and more, has today announced the close of its two newest investment vehicles.FirstMar

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Basecamp launches Hey, a hosted email service for neat freaks

Project management software maker Basecamp has launched a feature-packed hosted email service, called Hey — which they tout as taking aim at the traditional chaos and clutter of the email inbox.

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T-Mobile hit by phone calling outage

T-Mobile appears to be having problems.Customers are reporting that they can’t make or receive phone calls, although data and text messages seem to be unaffected. DownDetector, which collects o

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Statues of controversial figures hit the fore in Western protests over George Floyd's death

The wave of protests in Western countries triggered by the death of African American George Floyd has featured damage to statues of historical figures who are deemed controversial given their as