Peter Thiel: News

31 Jan 2018

Facebook

Facebook bans cryptocurrency, ICO ads to ensure greater user security

Facebook has banned advertisements related to cryptocurrency, binary options and initial coin offerings (ICOs), calling them misleading.

Reddit raising funds, company's valuation to be $1.7bn

Giving a major boost, venture capitalists are funding popular link-sharing website Reddit that will give the company a total valuation of $1.7 billion.

30 May 2017

PayPal

Personalized medicines: Silicon Valley doctor calls for optimized treatment

Dr. Molly Maloof isn't your everyday doctor but one that believes that one can only stay healthy by 'optimizing one's health'.

03 Feb 2017

Donald Trump

Uber CEO quits Trump's business advisory

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick quit US President Donald Trump's business advisory group citing differences of opinion over the Trump administration's controversial immigration policies.

17 Jan 2017

Donald Trump

Paypal founder Peter Thiel considering running for California governor

Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel is reportedly considering to run for California governor in 2018, according to three major Republicans.

16 Dec 2016

Donald Trump

Trump, Tech CEOs break the ice at meeting

President-elect Donald Trump's meeting with the CEOs of top US companies was closely watched by analysts; many of the CEOs openly opposed Trump's presidential bid.

14 Dec 2016

Donald Trump

Donald Trump meets with a bevy of corporates

President-elect Donald Trump will be meeting with the biggest names of Silicon Valley today including Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Facebook's COO Sheryl Sandberg and Tesla Founder Elon Musk.

26 Nov 2016

US Air Force

Palantir relentlessly raising funds

According to a new SEC filing, American software and services company, Palantir, has raised another $20 million.