WASHINGTON (AP) — To the U.S. technology industry, there’s a dramatic shortfall in the number of Americans skilled in computer programming and engineering that is hampering business. To unions and some Democrats, it’s more sinister: The push by Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg to expand the number of visas for high-tech foreign workers is an attempt to dilute a lucrative job market with cheap, indentured labor.
NEW YORK (AP) — Launching his namesake company’s news division in the 1990s, Michael Bloomberg largely rejected long-held rules of the journalism trade that insist on keeping thick firewalls between reporters and the profit-making workings of their companies.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — For Google CEO Larry Page, happiness is a warm computer.
Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad:
ALAMOGORDO, N.M. (AP) — Alamogordo officials have decided not to prohibit drivers from texting or using cell phones while behind the wheel.