Watch President Obama Talk Cybersecurity In Silicon Valley

In roughly not very many minutes, President Barack Obama is going to chat cybersecurity with the Silicon Valley types. He’s following Apple’s Tim Cook onto the stage. The event, in case you are behind, is the White House Summit on Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection at Stanford University.
Today’s event is notable for the number of tech executives that are in attendance

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Welcome To The Valley, Mr. President

Editor’s Note: Leonard Hyman is a government nerd and former Google Public Policy Fellow who lives in Los Angeles.
President Obama made the rounds in Silicon Valley over the past week, possibly looking to make amends with some of the Democratic Party’s wealthiest supporters while trying to cement his legacy among the millennial generation that embraced him as the

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CrunchWeek: President Obama In Silicon Valley, Tesla’s Earnings Miss, Facebook After Death

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Liveblog: Xiaomi Explains Itself To Silicon Valley

I’m at the W Hotel in San Francisco to hear Xiaomi President Lin Bin and VP Hugo Barra give their pitch to Silicon Valley.
We’ve been told we shouldn’t expect an announcement of the company bringing its products to the US, so the impression is that this is about explaining what Xiaomi really does.
Why does it need that, you ask?
Well, most people see headlines describing the company as the

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