Alex Salkever

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  • LANSING, MICHIGAN – APRIL 01: A man walks by a closed church in downtown Lansing on April 01, 2024 in Lansing, Michigan. According to recent state employment data projections, the number of jobs in Michigan is not expected grow over the next seven years as the state struggles with population growth and an auto industry facing challenges. In population growth, Michigan ranks 49th in the country ahead of only West Virginia. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)Commentary

    Why a ‘heartland visa’ for skilled workers could be the answer to America’s immigration debate

    By Vivek Wadhwa and Alex Salkever
  • SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – JULY 26: A pedestrian walks by a sign at a LinkedIn office on July 26, 2023 in San Francisco, California. LinkedIn announced plans to cut nearly 200 jobs at offices in the San Francisco Bay Area. The cuts follow 700 layoffs earlier in the year. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)Commentary

    LinkedIn is uniquely positioned to benefit from Twitter’s meltdown–and disgruntled X users are offering Microsoft a blueprint for social media supremacy

    By Vivek Wadhwa and Alex Salkever
  • BERKELEY, CA – NOVEMBER 04: Sproul Plaza at the University of California at Berkeley on November 4, 2022 in Berkeley, California. UC-Berkeley, with about 45,000 students, is one of the most prestigious institutions in public higher education. Like other public universities in the state, UC-Berkeley must follow a California law, approved in 1996, that prohibits the consideration of race in admissions. The Supreme Court is considering ending decades of precedent allowing race-conscious admission decisions at colleges and universities. (Photo by Marlena Sloss for The Washington Post via Getty Images)Commentary

    A broken U.S. immigration system is helping foreign countries woo California’s tech founders. The Golden State’s new global talent program could reverse the trend

    By Vivek Wadhwa and Alex Salkever
  • Close-up shot of female hand choosing fresh tomato in store. Grocery shopping routine. Healthy eating and vegetarian lifestyles.Commentary

    The gene-editing technology in your store-bought tomatoes that could eat agriculture

    By Vivek Wadhwa and Alex Salkever
  • A worker wearing a protective mask scans a package during a so-called pink shift, consisting of just women, at a Flipkart Internet Pvt. warehouse in Koduvalli, Thiruvallur, in the outskirts of Chennai, India, on Wednesday. Sept. 22, 2021. Walmart-backed e-commerce giant Flipkart added 115,000 jobs this Diwali holiday sales season, up from 70,000 in 2020 and 50,000 in 2019. hotographer: Anindito Mukherjee/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesCommentary

    Why India could single-handedly shape the future of e-commerce this summer

    By Alex Salkever, Ismail Amla, and others
  • A customer at a mobile phone store in Bengalaru, India.Commentary

    As Silicon Valley fantasizes about Web3, India leaps ahead on payments

    By Vivek Wadhwa, Ismail Amla, and others
  • A wind turbine at a NextEra wind farm in California.Commentary

    As oil and gas prices soar with Russia disruptions, clean-energy bets by Florida’s NextEra look even wiser

    By Vivek Wadhwa, Ismail Amla, and others
  • Russians line up to use an an ATM in a Russian mallCommentary

    Brilliant tech and science minds want to escape Putin’s Russia. The U.S. should welcome them with open arms

    By Vivek Wadhwa and Alex Salkever
  • Bracken Darrell attends the Logitech And Visionary Choreographer JaQuel Knight Drive Change For BIPOC Creators Through Copyright Protection And New Film on July 28, 2021 in Los Angeles, California.Tech

    Mouse- and keyboard-maker Logitech was dying a slow death. A design-focused CEO helped it thrive

    By Vivek Wadhwa, Ismail Amla, and others
  • Satya Nadella, CEO of MicrosoftTech

    How Microsoft made the stunning transformation from Evil Empire to Cool Kid

    By Vivek Wadhwa, Ismail Amla, and others
  • Shadows of People in a street and Flag of The USA as Background concept toned PictureCommentary

    A ‘startup visa’ will help Biden jump-start the economy

    By Vivek Wadhwa and Alex Salkever
  • People wait for injections at a vaccination facility in Los Angeles on January 12, 2021. – With its record number of positive coronavirus cases, California is reviewing a change to its vaccine priority as people aged 65 and older and those with serious underlying health conditions could soon become eligible for the Covid-19 vaccine as federal officials urged states today to distribute the vaccinations more widely. (Photo by Frederic J. BROWN / AFP) (Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)Commentary

    The lesson from the botched COVID vaccine rollout: Sometimes you need ‘Big Government’

    By Vivek Wadhwa and Alex Salkever
  • People gather on April 16, 2018 to protest at a Starbucks in Philadelphia, where days earlier two black men were arrested.Commentary

    A.I. Bias Isn’t the Problem. Our Society Is

    By Alex Salkever and Vivek Wadhwa
  • The Amazon logo is illuminated at night in Toronto.Commentary

    Amazon Has a Massive New Division—and No One’s Paying Attention to It

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  • The Fortnite Battle Royale video game is displayed on an iPhone.Commentary

    Fortnite Is Poised to Rule the Summer. Are Parents Prepared?

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