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Twitter fueled run on Silicon Valley Bank, new paper finds

Social media-fueled bank runs are a new risk to the financial system, and regulators don't know yet how to manage them.

Axios

Silicon Valley Bank: the multiple warnings that were missed

Ahead of the first official postmortem on its collapse, bankers, regulators and executives admit that it was a crisis hiding in plain sight

Financial Times

NI has potential to be Singapore-style investment hub, says Silicon Valley CEO

Ms Friar was back in Northern Ireland last week to speak at a major conference marking the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement

Belfast Live

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The real streaming wars are not between Netflix and Disney. Asian smart TV makers and Silicon Valley are vying to capture your living room–and upend legacy media

87% of American TV-watching households own one. Welcome to the connected TV wars.

Fortune

Alleged ‘brazen’ theft of startup’s documents should be Silicon Valley wake-up call, fired worker says

A longtime Silicon Valley tech executive claims in a new lawsuit that a Mountain View, California, financial-technology firm stole intellectual property from its San Francisco rival so easily that every startup should fear the same thing happening to them.

Tribune News Service

Silicon Valley councilman defers plea on 49ers report leak

A Silicon Valley councilmember delayed entering his pleas Monday on criminal charges for allegedly lying about leaking a grand jury report on the San Francisco 49ers’ political influence and relationships with the city’s elected officials

The Independent UK

Silicon Valley is buzzing about 'BabyAGI.' Should we be worried?

The latest A.I. trend couples GPT-4 and other software tools to build agents that can use the internet to accomplish specific tasks.

Fortune

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Silicon valediction? Our road trip to tech industry hotspots as the sector cools

Tables may have freed up at Silicon Valley’s Coupa Cafe, but ‘scalability’ is still on the menu as tech workers look forward

The Guardian - US

Silicon Valley councilman indicted in 49ers report leak

A Silicon Valley city councilman has been charged with perjury for allegely lying about leaking a grand jury report to the San Francisco 49ers last year that detailed a purportedly unethical relationship between the team and the city council

The Independent UK

It cost $22 billion to rescue two failed banks. Now the question is who will pay

Regulators need to decide how to recover the cost of rescuing Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank — and community banks across the country are warning they should not be on the hook.

WEKU

Theranos' Elizabeth Holmes loses bid to stay out of prison

Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes has been rebuffed in her attempt to stay out of federal prison while she appeals her conviction for the fraud she committed while overseeing a blood-testing scam that exposed Silicon Valley’s dark side

The Independent UK

Credit crackdown weighs on businesses

Even before the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank last month, other banks were getting stingier about making loans. That makes it harder for businesses trying to grow and raises the risk of recession.

WEKU

Apple at heart of US-China selective decoupling, Gallagher says

Apple Inc. and Walt-Disney Co. are among U.S. businesses that will face the steepest challenges in a “selective decoupling” from China, a key lawmaker said after a series of meetings with executives and experts in Hollywood and Silicon Valley this week.

Tribune News Service

I worked on Google’s layoffs during the Great Financial Crisis. Here’s what feels different about Big Tech redundancies in the era of ‘loud firing’

Silicon Valley is becoming more transactional. It’s too early to tell whether this mass experiment in efficiency over emotional intelligence was worth it.

Fortune

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Tribune News Service

Office vacancies rise in Silicon Valley and balloon in San Francisco

SAN JOSE — Office vacancy rates have increased in the South Bay and have ballooned to scary heights in San Francisco amid a wobbly economy punctuated by wide-ranging job cuts in the tech and biotech sectors.

The Times of India

Rents double in India’s Silicon Valley as engineers fight for flats

BENGALURU: Rents in India’s technology hub of Bengaluru have nearly doubled since the start of last year, making it the country’s hottest residential market.

Fortune

Inside the struggles of Summit Powder Mountain and its ill-fated tech utopia

It was designed to be a haven for techies and billionaires. Instead, ten years on, it’s a “9,000-foot monument to the hubris of Silicon Valley’s big ideas.”

Zenger

Mercury Takes Aim At Replacing Silicon Valley Bank As Tech Hubs Go-To Bank And Lender

Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse has paved the way for other banking institutions to step up and meet demand for venture debt

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Evening Standard

Silicon slump? How worried should we be about another financial crisis?

The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank has raised the spectre of another financial crisis. As the contagion appears to be spreading, Samuel Fishwick investigates how spooked we should be feeling

Bangkok Post

Global crises put China at an advantage

As they say, you can't make this up. In the course of just over a week, China and Russia reaffirmed their friendship and military ties, the Iranian regime proxies lashed out with rockets at US forces in neighbouring Syria, North Korea shot off a few more missiles, France was rocked…

Zenger

Biden Eyes New Regulations As Congress Dives Into Silicon Valley, Signature Bank Failures

President Joe Biden is expected to tighten regulations on banks, prompted by the biggest banking collapse since the 2008 crisis

The Independent UK

GOP lawmakers accuse Fed of being lax before bank failure

Republican lawmakers accused top bank regulators of dawdling as Silicon Valley Bank hurtled toward the second-largest bank failure in U.S. history and questioned whether tougher regulations would have made a difference

Chicago Sun-Times

Fed official says banking rules are under review in the wake of SVB failure

Michael Barr, the nation’s top banking regulator, said Silicon Valley Bank was warned in the fall of 2021 that its interest rate model was not ‘aligned with reality.’

WEKU

5 things we learned from the Senate hearing on the Silicon Valley Bank collapse

A top federal regulator called the failure of Silicon Valley Bank a "textbook case of bank mismanagement" during a Senate hearing about what led to its spectacular collapse

Zenger

How A $700M Tech VC Firm Was Saved From SVB Collapse, And Why Its CEO Still Banks There

The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank has sounded an alarm for the entire banking sector as a VC Tech still banks there

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