The Latest Breaking News from Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley veteran Steve Kirsch, a known anti-vaxxer, offered a woman $100,000 (£82,700) to get her to remove her face mask while on a plane, sending social media users in frenzy

Before Elon Musk was cutting deep at Twitter, inspiring legions of Silicon Valley bosses to take more unsparing approaches to running their companies, the chief executive officer of Tesla swung the axe on the car company’s small public relations team.

The UK government's changes to R&D tax relief credits have been met with a mixed reception following the Spring Statement on Wednesday. Delivering the statement in the House of Commons, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt revealed the government's plans to roll out an ‘enhanced’ tax relief package for SMBs across the country.…

Student debts and underwater mortgages are private burdens, but corporate losses are matters of urgent public interest

The run on Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) -- on which nearly half of all venture-backed tech start-ups in the United States depend -- is in part a rerun of a familiar story, but it's more than that. Once again, economic policy and financial regulation have proven inadequate.

The new CEO of failed Silicon Valley Bank is a familiar name to many in Charlotte’s banking community — Tim Mayopoulos was fired as general counsel of Bank of America in 2008 in the midst of the financial crisis and escorted out of the office by an HR representative.

Is America facing a banking crisis? As regulators try to stem the fallout from the collapse of Silicon Valley and Signature Banks, we look at the risks for the rest of the system. Kate Moody speaks to economist Nicolas Veron from the Peterson Institute for International Economics and the European…

Remote work “reduced productivity and/or significant disruptions in our business operations," SVB said in its 2023 annual report published last month.

Silicon Valley Bank almost collapsed this week until leading figures in the US and UK stepped in — but what is the bank and why did it create such panic? Rohan Silva reports

So goes Silicon Valley, so goes the world.

The collapse of the California-based Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) dominated most sessions and workshops of the Financial Sector Conference in Riyadh. The repercussions of SVB’s recent bankruptcy caused shock and confusion worldwide, especially for economies that fear that the crisis will spillover to their financial institutions. Saudi Minister of Finance…