Google girds for battle against its employees over military contracts—again

Staples offers to buy Office Depot parent company in $2.1 billion deal

Staples offered to buy the parent of Office Depot in a deal valuing the company at $2.1 billion, the latest attempt to consolidate the office-products space to better compete against online retailers. Closely held Staples, under the corporate name USR Parent Inc., said it sent a letter to ODP Corp. laying out a plan to […]

IBM to Divide into two companies at the end of 2021 

A large blue Large Blue graph showing how this will do the job. (charge: IBM) IBM announced this morning that the firm will be turning off a number of its lower-margin traces of business to a new business and focusing on higher-margin cloud solutions. Within an investor telephone, CEO Arvind Krishna confessed the movement has […]

Investors still engage in racist redlining. Why haven’t we done something about it?

I am a Black woman of multiethnic, including white, heritage working in the tech startup world. From this statement alone, it’s obvious I don’t fit the typical mold of Silicon Valley. My background doesn’t either. I spent part of my youth in foster care and was a liberal arts major at UC–Berkeley.  In college, I […]