Tech companies continued to rally against Trump’s immigration ban, Android Wear 2.0 finally launched, Airbnb bought up another company and Zenefits laid off..
Tech companies continued to rally against Trump’s immigration ban, Android Wear 2.0 finally launched, Airbnb bought up another company and Zenefits laid off 45 percent of its workforce. These are the top stories of the week.
1. More than 100 companies filed an amicus brief voicing opposition to President Trump’s immigration ban executive order. Among them are Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Tesla, SpaceX, Airbnb and Twitter. The brief was tied into the case brought by the states of Minnesota and Washington. The Trump administration appealed the case to the 9th Circuit after a federal judge in Seattle halted the immigration ban, where it was then shut down.
2. The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative announced it is donating $3.6 million to fight the San Francisco Bay housing crisis. A majority of the funding will go to Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto to address current hardships caused by the housing shortage. In addition, the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, the nonprofit medical research org created by the pair, announced it is giving $50 million to 47 disease research initiatives.
