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What Google's union means for Silicon Valley

by Jasmine Garsd
Jan 4, 2021
This union's main aim is to support employee activism, rather than negotiate a contract.
Google employees stage a walkout over sexual harassment in New York in 2018. Some employees of the giant internet company have created a union to support worker activism.
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Senators grill tech CEOs as both parties fault internet content policies

by Scott Tong
Oct 28, 2020
Legislation to tighten the oversight of internet content may be coming.
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Is it a good time for business between the U.S. and China?

by Jennifer Pak
Aug 27, 2020
Some U.S. firms complain of retaliatory measures in China. But experts see long-term opportunity.
U.S. products used in a water-treatment system at a Chinese factory. The equipment is among the goods carrying extra Chinese tariffs.
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The year in the tech economy

by Molly Wood
Dec 30, 2019
That was challenging. Now for tech's next act...
In 2019, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg influenced our discourse, our privacy, our ideas about speech — free or otherwise — and our spending habits.
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Google contractors in Pittsburgh to vote on unionizing

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Sep 23, 2019
The tech industry relies on an army of temps and contractors who don't get the cushy benefits of full-time employees.
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Is the government ready to regulate the tech industry?

by Kai Ryssdal and Sean McHenry
Aug 30, 2019
At a town hall discussion moderated by Kai Ryssdal, the answer seemed to be "no."
Diane Katz, left, from the Heritage Foundation, and "Marketplace's" Kai Ryssdal, right, at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech town hall on July 16, in Aspen, Colorado.
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Why unlimited vacation isn't all it seems

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Jul 31, 2019
Research finds employees with unlimited vacation actually take less time off.
Palm trees are silhouetted before the sunset sky at Waikiki beach in Honolulu, Hawaii.
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Why is Google leaking details of its unreleased phone?

by Jack Stewart
Jul 31, 2019
Google's taking an "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" approach to leaks.
The Googleplex Campus in Mountain View, California.
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Tech highlights its helpful side at "CES on the Hill"

by Kimberly Adams
May 3, 2019
Companies showed Congress their gadgets, steering the conversation away from privacy concerns and regulations.
Oculus on display at CES on the Hill.
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The biggest tech conference has some of the same old problems with women

by Molly Wood
Jan 11, 2019
Progress is just ... slow.
CES 2019 attendees watch an AEE drone demonstration at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
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