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Thursday, November 6, 2025
TopicSilicon valley

Topic: Silicon valley

‘No Rules Rules’ – inside story of how an unsentimental man built Netflix, conquered the world

No Rules Rules is the story of Reed Hastings, who converted his small DVD-by-mail company into Netflix, the most popular TV service in the world.

We know her – Silicon Valley is relieved as ‘known quantity’ Kamala Harris gets VP ticket

Biden has tapped a politician who has spent most of her career representing the Bay Area, and has a lot of trust in Silicon Valley.

Brilliant’ Google engineer steals tech secrets, jumps to Uber but ends up in jail

Autonomous driving engineer Anthony Levandowski ordered to spend 18 months in prison for stealing trade secrets from Google as he defected to Uber.

California state sues Cisco for caste-based discrimination against Indian-American employee

The complainant reported a manager for 'outing him as a Dalit to colleagues' in 2016, but Cisco had then determined caste discrimination was not illegal in US.

Thousands of Indian couples, parents, kids separated, stranded after Trump’s H1B visa freeze

About 375,000 temporary visa-holders & Green Card applicants are banned from entering US until next year. A significant number of those are now stuck in India.

Why Trump’s suspension of H1B and other work visas will kill innovation

If the US doesn’t attract founders for the next Google or Databricks as the preeminent land of opportunity, it will only embolden its biggest rivals like China and Europe.

Facebook employees could earn less as company embraces remote work & hiring

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg added that the company will monitor its employees' locations by checking where they access its VPN.

Silicon Valley, that championed open community work spaces, won’t be the same post lockdown

Boxed meals for employees instead of community trays, cubicles, encouraging private transport will likely be some of the changes when offices reopen.

Rich Americans escaped to bunkers in New Zealand as coronavirus struck

For years, New Zealand has featured prominently in doomsday survival plans of rich Americans worried that, say, a killer germ might paralyse the world.

Why Silicon Valley is obsessed with robots delivering pizza

With labor costs rising and margins falling, no one doubts that the future of the food service industry is automation, both behind the counter and in the kitchen.

On Camera

Nur Jahan to Chand Bibi—Indian women in sports have been erased from history

Dice have been found dating to the Bronze Age in various Harappan sites in present-day northwest India and throughout Pakistan. And it’s very possible that some had female owners.

What does NCLAT order mean for data-sharing ban, penalty imposed by CCI on Meta & WhatsApp

On 4 November 2025, NCLAT bench, comprising Chairperson Justice Ashok Bhushan and Member Arun Baroka, noted that WhatsApp and Meta are distinct legal entities.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.