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Summary List PlacementTwilio, the cloud communications company, has emerged as a major winner in the pandemic economy, with its stock price more than tripling since January, giving it a market cap of some $51 billion. Founded in 2008 in the midst of the Great Recession, Twilio builds technology for developers to help them build apps that can send text messages or make phone calls....

Summary List Placement California has been the center of the enterprise tech world for decades, home to some of the industry's most dominant players like Google, Oracle, and Salesforce. While these tech giants operate globally, the way they approach the industry and the market is still shaped by strategies and practices that emerge from their California headquarters, mostly in Silicon Valley. And this particularly...

Summary List Placement   Cannabis salaries are increasing as companies poach executives and senior management from other sector like retail, consumer packaged goods, pharmaceuticals, and biotech. That's especially true for top-level positions. The average salary for executive positions rose 16% in the first half of 2020, compared to 2019, according to a report from cannabis staffing agency CannabizTeam. "Over the past six months we...

Chicago isn't known as a major tech hub, but it is home to companies like Grubhub and Groupon.  Major technology companies, including Silicon Valley behemoths like Google, Cisco, Salesforce, PayPal, and IBM, have expanded their operations to Chicago. Here's a survey of what tech companies pay employees in Chicago, based on disclosure data for permanent and temporary workers filed with the US Office of...

Hello everyone! Welcome to this weekly roundup of Business Insider stories from executive editor Matt Turner. Please subscribe to Business Insider here to get this newsletter in your inbox every Sunday.  Hello! There's often a large degree of secrecy over salaries. To shed a little light on who pays what, our reporters have been analyzing disclosure data for permanent and temporary foreign workers released by the US...

Cybersecurity has faced a shortage of tech talent for years, making its jobs market especially attractive.  Last year, Silicon Valley's Palo Alto Networks was named the highest-paying company, setting a standard for security companies.  Even non-tech roles in cybersecurity, such as marketing, can offer salaries of up to $300,000, data shows.   Here's a sampling of what Palo Alto Networks, Okta, FireEye, Trend Micro, McAfee,...

On Wednesday, Disney announced the reopening of Disneyland and Disney California Adventure will be delayed; the company previously planned to reopen these locations on July 17.   Disney World in Florida still plans to slowly reopen in July, starting with the Magic Kingdom and Animal Kingdom on July 11. Multiple Disney theme parks and other amusement parks have been closed over the past few months...