Just months after Martin Nielsen made an unusual political donation to the sheriff, she apparently granted him and a few colleagues CCW permits.

And he shared enough hints for subpoena-empowered investigators to track down the true source of funds behind a $45,000 political donation.

Executive protection company AS Solution said it will help the DA as needed, and has even launched its own internal inquiry into the matter.

It’s unclear whether a ban on convincing video forgeries, known as deepfakes, would pass constitutional muster.

Jaron Lanier argues in a new book that intentionally addictive online networks undermine truth and makes us all miserable.

President Donald Trump’s draconian family separation policy has prompted some South Bay leaders to cut ties with the Republican Party.

Congresswoman Anna Eshoo grilled her constituent, Mark Zuckerberg, over his company’s stewardship of Americans’ personal information.

The Facebook data breach has policymakers debating about how to police what’s become the most powerful industry on the planet.

For years, media outlets desperately chased the clicks promised by Facebook; now the social media giant threatens to destroy them.

The valley’s well-to-do tech bros hope to outlive most of us—and how they’re investing their time and money speaks volumes.

Maybe we can start this over again? Or return it like a holiday present we didn’t need? Yes, 2016 was the gift that kept on giving.

While Silicon Valley philanthropists have stepped up charitable giving, a tiny fraction of it goes to local nonprofits and local needs.

President Obama dropped by Stanford University Friday to talk tech, business and polities at the seventh annual Global Entrepreneurship Summit.

Facebook has offered to speed up San Jose's free wi-fi with a new technology called Terragraph. The test run is set to launch later this year.

A year in review is rarely pretty, and 2015 was no exception. Here’s a brief list of the some of the biggest stories that made it a year to remember, and soon leave behind.

Santa Clara County Board of Education trustee Joseph DiSalvo examines how Silicon Valley's public schools routinely fail to secure grant funding for STEM education.