Year: 2020

Silicon Valley executives pushed back against President Trump’s move to suspend new immigration on several employment-based visas programs, warning it could damage the U.S. tech industry’s competitiveness and jeopardize job creation.

Saks Fifth Avenue will reopen its Manhattan flagship store on Wednesday with ultraviolet handrail cleaners on its escalators, a remote video-shopping service and a host of other measures designed to make customers feel safe amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

Opponents of social-distancing rules are using Facebook to organize and broadcast protests at the homes of health officials, sometimes using violent rhetoric, in campaigns that health authorities say amount to harassment.

Businesses are grappling with whether to require customers to wear masks, on top of more-typical mandates for employees to cover their faces, a process that risks alienating some portion of the public no matter what position they take.

Apple on Monday announced a shift from Intel-based processors to its custom-designed chips for future Mac computers, a move that will have major repercussions for Mac users.

The tech giant is ending a partnership that rejuvenated the Mac computer over the past 15 years, in a split aimed at tightening Apple’s control over its products, customers and software developers.