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Silicon Valley vet to head women’s advocacy group Catalyst
NEW YORK — A former Silicon Valley CEO will lead one of the oldest organizations dedicated to promoting women in the workplace. Lorraine Hariton becomes CEO at Catalyst in an era when the #MeToo movement has ensnared major corporations and, with exit of PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi serving as a reminder, the top jobs at the nation's largest companies remain elusive for women. She says the "timing is fantastic." She said #MeToo has created a level of awareness of gender equality that she's not seen since she began her business career at IBM in the 1970s. Hariton has been the CEO at two tech startups, Beatnik and Apptera. She served in the State Department under President Barack Obama and most recently was a senior vice president at the New York Academy of Sciences. … [Read more...] about Silicon Valley vet to head women’s advocacy group Catalyst
Stanford tears down piece of Silicon Valley history
By Khalida Sarwari | [email protected] | Bay Area News Group PUBLISHED: August 17, 2018 at 6:05 pm | UPDATED: August 17, 2018 at 6:05 pm Long after its headquarters moved to Hayward in 2016, the Ampex sign remained at the company’s former site in Redwood City, a beloved fixture for drivers on Highway 101 and a standing testament to the birth of Silicon Valley’s Golden Age. For decades, someone would light the sign every night. But last week that came to an end. The last vestige of Silicon Valley’s pioneering companies of digital recording systems was finally removed to make way for Stanford University’s new satellite campus, leaving many who worked for the company or have a nostalgic connection to the sign somewhat sad. James Glover started his business career at Ampex in the early 1980s when the company was still in its heyday. Though he now lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, he has fond memories of driving past the iconic … [Read more...] about Stanford tears down piece of Silicon Valley history
Silicon Valley’s attempts to self-police are anti-democratic. They’re also not new.
Grant Wythoff, The Washington Post Published 7:17 am PDT, Friday, August 17, 2018 At first glance, it looks to be any other Fourth of July parade in the faded Kodachrome photos. That is, until subtle details begin to pop: the uniformed marchers handing out pamphlets, the yin-yang emblem adorning banners, the fleet of identical gray automobiles driving in slow procession. "Operation Golden Gate" was the name of a 1948 plan among the followers of a political movement known as Technocracy Inc. to converge on the San Francisco Bay area. These self-described Technocrats gathered from around the country to educate the public in their central belief: that politicians lacked the ability to effectively manage the complexities of the modern world and that the public should delegate decision-making instead to a small group of technological experts. Some of the Technocrats' more fanciful proposals included a 16-hour workweek, equal income for all in the form of energy certificates, … [Read more...] about Silicon Valley’s attempts to self-police are anti-democratic. They’re also not new.
NYT Magazine: ‘The Unlikely Activists Who Took On Silicon Valley – and Won’
The New York Times Magazine published a long-form article recently titled “The Unlikely Activists Who Took On Silicon Valley — and Won” discussing a group of privacy activists that successfully passed a California bill protecting user privacy from tech giants. The article published in the New York Times Magazine opens by discussing a man named Alastair Mactaggart, a bay area real estate mogul who had made much of his money thanks to the exorbitant rent prices in areas surrounding Silicon Valley tech companies. If anyone should have been happy about the presence and actions of tech firms it should have been Mactaggart, but instead, the real estate businessman became increasingly worried about the information that these tech companies were collecting on users.The article states: The way Alastair Mactaggart usually tells the story of his awakening — the way he told it even before he became the most improbable, and perhaps the most important, privacy … [Read more...] about NYT Magazine: ‘The Unlikely Activists Who Took On Silicon Valley – and Won’