Silicon Valley

Snap Inc., owner of the Snapchat platform, is one of the most highly-anticipated Silicon Valley IPOs in recent memory. Snap officially filed for its IPO in late 2016, which valued the social media giant at roughly $25 billion. Investors itching to get a piece of Snap at its IPO price are likely out...

President Donald Trump continued his action-packed first week in office last Friday when he issued an executive order instituting a 90-day travel ban restricting citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States. In addition, Trump’s order prevents any refugees from...

Technology executives have made their nearly unanimous voices heard during the presidential campaign trail and wrote an open letter against President-elect Donald Trump. Several months later, much has changed: Silicon Valley executives are now optimistic of what is to be expected from Trump's...

Donald Trump's support among Silicon Valley hotshots and deal makers includes Peter Thiel and possibly a few closeted supporters afraid to speak up. If Trump does have any other supporters, then they are likely to remain silent based on how Thiel is being treated. According to a Bloomberg report,...

Silicon Valley has a problem. Not necessary a bad problem, but a problem nonetheless. Venture capital firms have too much money and too few investment ideas. According to a Bloomberg report, venture capital firms raised a whopping $12 billion in the first quarter of 2016 alone, which marks a 10-...

While it's now widely known that Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) has bought the core assets of Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) for $4.8 billion, what is new is that Verizon secured something equally coveted in Silicon Valley: real estate. "When the deal closes, the New York telecom giant will...

The next major Silicon Valley innovation may change the way companies look at quarterly earnings. “The Lean Startup” author Eric Ries is in the preliminary stages of launching a brand new “long-term” stock exchange in the United States, according to a recent Bloomberg report...

Fans of the hit Time Warner Inc (NYSE: TWX) HBO show “Silicon Valley” praise the show’s authentic representation of the quirky Silicon Valley business world. According to a new piece by the New Yorker’s Andrew Marantz, the show’s authentic feel is no accident. “...

When you think of a typical Silicon Valley dress code, the image of hoodies, tees and sneakers may easily come to mind. On the other hand, when you think of a Ritz Carlton hotel in London, England, the image of high-end business suits and super-expensive ties for the gentleman and cocktail dresses...

Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) and founder of SpaceX just met with the U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter and high level officials at the Pentagon. The topic of conversation however won't be disclosed, for obvious reasons. However, the conversations did focus...

Within the field of finance, perhaps nothing is more intriguing than a startup. In fact, HBO created a hit TV show called "Silicon Valley" in which a genius but shy developer creates a music app called Pied Piper. Once the app was discovered to contain a revolutionary data compression algorithm,...

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said in an interview with Reuters that there may be a tech bubble. In the interview, Trump pointed out that there a lot of technology startups that "have never made any money" and have a "bad concept" as a business model. Despite that, Trump pointed...

If reinventing the gas station business model sounds like a great business opportunity to you, you're not alone. That's exactly what a group of San Francisco startups thought, and launched a number of apps that aim to bring the gas to you instead of the other way around. If delivering...

This interview comes courtesy of Benzinga, host of the 2016 Benzinga Fintech Awards Securities and Exchange Commission chairwoman, Mary Jo White, is tracking a herd of rouge "unicorns," and she's expressed concern. In the Silicon Valley basin, at Stanford University, White spoke...