Feature • Silicon Valley's pilgrimage to Trump Tower in New York City, to meet with President-elect Trump, on Wednesday, December 14, 2016:
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- Job creation;
- China;
- Immigration including the need for H-1B visas for the tech industry;
- Science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education;
- Paid maternity leave;
- Infrastructure needs, including upgrading the electric grid;
- Tax reform to allow repatriation of tech company profits trapped abroad;
- Alphabet/Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt suggested to Trump that he be the “software president,” after noting governmental information-technology programs were antiquated and unsafe, and needed to be upgraded.
Trump Introductory Remarks With Tech Executives:
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Today's tech summit included productive discussions about job creation & economic growth. We're on track to make America first again pic.twitter.com/tFU3ObcB0i— Reince Priebus (@Reince) December 14, 2016
Look who else showed up this week at Trump Tower:Here's who sat where during Trump's big meeting with tech leaders https://t.co/ThHMlNlgAJ via @sai— Jason Miller (@JasonMillerinDC) December 15, 2016
.@BillGates and @JimBrownNFL32 in my Trump Tower office yesterday- two great guys! pic.twitter.com/4PjSOEU5y9— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 14, 2016
- Can Tim Cook's Meeting With Donald Trump Revitalize Apple? - Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) | SeekingAlpha.com "... Apple has lost market share in nearly all its businesses in Q3 and in many sectors has been losing share for multiple quarters. A meeting between high-tech executives and President-elect Donald Trump ... Apple is considering the production of iPhones in the U.S. to avoid a 45% tariff that was campaign rhetoric from President-Elect Donald Trump. Lucrative tax and regulatory concessions with Apple will follow as an inducement for Cook to move production back to the U.S. ..." See also: Apple: Are You Paying Attention? | SeekingAlpha.com.
- Google extends conservative outreach as Trump calls tech meeting | Reuters.com
- Meanwhile the mainstream media-WaPo-NYTimes obsession about Trump & Putin has consumed Washington DC and beyond with all kinds of crazy conspiracy theories: Reid: FBI has ‘explosive information’ about Trump, Russia | TheHill.com: "[Democratic U.S. Senator] Reid [of Nevada] has a history of making damning allegations against prominent Republicans without the facts to back them up. In 2012, for instance, Reid memorably took to the floor of the Senate to accuse then-GOP [Presidential] nominee Mitt Romney of not paying any taxes over the previous decade. The allegation turned out to be incorrect, though Reid has refused to apologize." For those who have a genuine interest in why Hillary Clinton lost, read How Clinton lost Michigan — and blew the election | POLITICO.com.
Other Tech News / Quick Takes:
- Yahoo says one billion accounts exposed in newly discovered security breach | Reuters.com
- Meet Waymo.com, Google's self-driving car company.
- WhatsApp, Skype face tighter constraints under new EU privacy rules | Reuters.com
- HMD’s first new Nokia handset is a $26 feature phone | PRnewswire.com
- Google launches first developer preview of Android Things, its new IoT platform | TechCrunch.com
- Magic Leap’s Unreal Augmented Reality | TechnologyReview.com: "company’s demonstrations may have been impressive, but they also involved smoke and mirrors"
- Google signs internet deal with Cuba's telecommunications monopoly | Reuters.com
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