Workers on tech campuses across Silicon Valley live with a dichotomy virtually unknown to people employed in other industries — there are two tiers of tech jobs. One is seen as respectable and is highly paid. The other comes with low wages and little dignity. But a group of organizers who have been pushing for...
San Jose: Google grants $1.5M to The Salvation Army for new homes
Google will give The Salvation Army $1.5 million to expand the legacy nonprofit’s footprint and housing in San Jose and support veterans’ programs in San Francisco. The donation, through Google.org, is the first grant the company has distributed after announcing this summer it would open up $50 million in funding to nonprofits focused on homelessness...
Takeaways from top female leaders during Women Equality Day
Monday marked Women Equality Day and in Silicon Valley, more than 20 high-ranking female business and government leaders convened to share their stories and hard-earned lessons. The event, hosted in a modest, single-story building at NASA’s Ames Research Center, was filled with some of the most accomplished women in Silicon Valley and the country, including Speaker of...
America’s top female leaders stop in Silicon Valley to talk women equality
Megan McArthur may be the first woman to “plant her boots on the moon” as she puts it, and she drew her inspiration from her childhood growing up on what is now NASA’s Ames Research Center in Mountain View. “I grew up right here on Moffett Field Naval Air Station when it was still a...
Sleepless nights: What it’s like being a tech entrepreneur in Silicon Valley
It’s no secret that Silicon Valley is a breeding ground for success. But that usually doesn’t come easy. For many entrepreneurs in the region, it often means long hours, sleepless nights and many failures. But not everyone makes it, and the pressures that many new businesses face in the region is overwhelming, exacerbated by the...
Google rolls out red carpet in San Jose, receives warm reception
Hundreds of South Bay residents on Saturday got a glimpse of a future that includes Google in San Jose’s downtown core during the tech giant’s first community meeting since unveiling its vision for a massive new campus near Diridon Station. Food trucks dotted the Arena Green West park offering free lunches while children ran around with...
Google unveils framework for San Jose Diridon Station area
Google representatives unveiled an early look at the company’s mixed-use development framework for the Diridon Station in San Jose amid tension from some residents who chanted and held signs about displacement from the massive development. The Mountain View-based tech giant’s plans didn’t include detailed renderings or building heights, but did outline a breakdown of the...
Developer sues San Jose-Evergreen Community College District
Republic Urban Property LLC is suing the San Jose-Evergreen Community College District for what it calls “bad faith negotiations” over a swath of South San Jose land. Republic Urban’s claim comes after the college district last month opted not to renew its exclusive negotiating agreement with the San Jose developer, instead deciding to reevaluate how the...
Judge sides with San Jose on transparency lawsuit over Google negotiations
A judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed against San Jose over an alleged lack of transparency in the city’s dealings with Google, which is working on plans for a massive campus in the city. Local nonprofit thinktank Working Partnerships USA and the First Amendment Coalition, a Bay Area nonprofit public interest organization, sued San Jose...
San Jose cannabis dispensary becomes the first to unionize in South Bay
San Jose is now home to the South Bay’s first unionized cannabis dispensary. An announcement just after noon on Friday at San Jose City Hall detailed the partnership between MedMen and the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 5 union. This will be an expansion of the union partnership into the South Bay, as MedMen...