U.S. News & World Report (February 6)
“A report published last year stated that more than 37 percent of workers in Silicon Valley are foreign-born.” Not surprisingly, given that, “a group of nearly 100 tech companies have filed an amicus brief to a federal appeals court voicing concerns over President Donald Trump’s stalled immigration-focused executive order.” Among them were “Google, Apple, GoPro, Facebook, Dropbox, eBay, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Netflix and Twitter.”
Tags: Amicus brief, Apple, Dropbox, EBay, Facebook, Foreigners, Google, GoPro, Immigration, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Netflix, Silicon Valley, Tech companies, Trump, Twitter, U.S.
Bloomberg (June 7)
How much for the Buffet lunch? At least $51,000. That’s only the current bid. The price is expected to rise by two figures over the remaining three days. To benefit a San Francisco charity, lunch with famed investor Warren Buffet is being auctioned on EBay. In 2009, the Buffet lunch brought $1.68 million. The record was $2.11 million in 2008 from Chinese hedge-fund manager Zhao Danyang. The Glide Foundation, where Buffet’s first wife Susan volunteered, will receive the “lunch money.” Buffet called Glide “one of the great organizations I’ve seen for helping people that are really down and out…. It takes people who have hit bottom and brings them back.”
Tags: Charity, EBay, Lunch, Warren Buffet
