TIFF 2025: Bumble biopic ‘Swiped’ takes on Silicon Valley ‘boys club’
- 10-Sep-2025
TORONTO: The new biopic “Swiped,” starring British actor Lily James as dating app Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe Herd, takes the audience back to Silicon Valley in the early 2010s, before swiping left or right had anything to do with match-making. Directed by Rachel Lee Goldenberg, the film follows Wolfe Herd’s journey through a male-dominated tech […]
Kumail Nanjiani reveals why Elon Musk didn’t like ‘Silicon Valley’
- 20-Aug-2025
Actor Kumail Nanjiani has revealed that tech billionaire Elon Musk was not pleased with certain scenes in his ‘Silicon Valley’ show. Click here to read more Lifestyle stories The series was nominated for 40 Emmy awards, including five consecutive Emmy nominations for Outstanding Comedy Series, after its release in 2014. The series tells the story […]
‘Invest in Pakistan’ tech summit concludes in Silicon Valley
- 06-Oct-2019
Pakistan's envoy in the US highlighted reforms introduced by the government to improve ease of doing business
Blood-testing startup founder ordered to stand trial
- 29-Jun-2019
Questions were first raised about the accuracy and reliability of her signature blood-testing device in a series of articles in the Wall Street Journal in 2015
Apple invites Hollywood to Silicon Valley
- 25-Mar-2019
“It’s show time” is how the iPhone maker billed the affair slated for the Steve Jobs Theater at its Cupertino, California, headquarters
Smartphones market continues to fall
- 03-Feb-2019
Fresh surveys show global sales had their worst contraction ever in 2018, and the outlook for 2019 isn't much better
Chinese investors flee Silicon Valley
- 08-Jan-2019
SAN FRANCISCO: New Trump administration policies aimed at curbing China’s access to American innovation have all but halted Chinese investment in US technology startups, as both investors and startup founders abandon deals amid scrutiny from Washington. Chinese venture funding in US startups crested to a record $3 billion last year, according to New York economic […]
Bomb threat spurs evacuation at Facebook’s Silicon Valley campus
- 12-Dec-2018
SAN FRANCISCO: A bomb threat prompted authorities on Tuesday to evacuate a building at the Silicon Valley headquarters of Facebook Inc near San Francisco, police said, but hours after a sweep of the structure began there was no word of explosives found. The New York Police Department received an anonymous tip about a bomb threat […]
Palestinian teens reach finals of Silicon Valley app pitch
- 05-Aug-2018
Four Palestinian high school friends are heading to California this week to pitch their mobile app about fire prevention to Silicon Valley’s tech leaders, after winning a slot in the finals of a worldwide competition among more than 19,000 teenage girls. For the 11th graders from the Israeli-occupied West Bank, the ticket of admission to […]
Silicon Valley eyes Africa as new tech frontier
- 15-Jul-2018
LAGOS: With its colourful hammocks and table tennis table, a new tech hub in the Lagos metropolis wouldn´t look out of place among the start-ups on the other side of the world in Silicon Valley. But the NG_Hub office is in the suburb of Yaba — the heart of Nigeria´s burgeoning tech scene that is […]