{"id":988118,"date":"2026-01-28T08:09:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T02:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=988118"},"modified":"2026-01-28T08:15:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T02:45:49","slug":"as-tech-chiefs-woo-trump-silicon-valley-seethes-over-minneapolis-shootings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/28\/as-tech-chiefs-woo-trump-silicon-valley-seethes-over-minneapolis-shootings\/","title":{"rendered":"As tech chiefs woo Trump, Silicon Valley seethes over Minneapolis shootings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday evening, top technology executives gathered in Washington to attend a screening of &#8220;Melania,&#8221; a documentary produced by Amazon about the first lady, Melania Trump. Among them was Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon; Tim Cook, CEO of Apple; and Lisa Su, CEO of chipmaker AMD. <\/p>\n<p>Back in Silicon Valley, the scene was very different. <\/p>\n<p>Hours after immigration agents in Minneapolis shot and killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care nurse, a growing chorus of tech executives, investors and engineers started speaking out against the Trump administration&#8217;s deployment of federal officers across American cities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday evening, top technology executives gathered in Washington to attend a screening of &#8220;Melania,&#8221; a documentary produced by Amazon about the first lady, Melania Trump. Among them was Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon; Tim Cook, CEO of Apple; and Lisa Su, CEO of chipmaker AMD. Back in Silicon Valley, the scene was very different. Hours after immigration agents in Minneapolis shot and killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care nurse, a growing chorus of tech executives, investors and engineers started speaking out against the Trump administration&#8217;s deployment of federal officers across American cities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}