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Ethan Baron

Ethan Baron is a business reporter for the Bay Area News Group and a native of Silicon Valley before it was Silicon Valley. Baron has worked as a reporter, columnist, editor and photographer in newspapers and magazines for 25 years, covering business, politics, social issues, crime, the environment, outdoor sports, war and humanitarian crises. He is a graduate of UC Berkeley with a BA in humanities and MA in journalism.

Guests including Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai and Elon Musk, arrive before the 60th Presidential Inauguration in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, Pool)

Silicon Valley tech giants cozied up to Trump — his istration is still suing them

March 17, 2025 at 10:27 a.m.

Feds' continuing demand for breakup of Google may signal Trump istration committed to anti-monopoly legal action.

May 30, 2023: Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes, left, is escorted into a Federal Prison Camp in Bryan, Texas, where she will spend the next 11 years serving her sentence for overseeing an infamous blood-testing hoax. (AP Photo/Michael Wyke)

Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes loses her appeal

February 24, 2025 at 11:27 a.m.

Holmes was charged in connection with $878 million in losses among investors in her startup.

Silicon Valley’s brilliant young techies help Musk, Trump penetrate government, drawing Democrat fury

February 5, 2025 at 10:35 a.m.

Bay Area of Congress blasted incursions by Elon Musk's team into government's sensitive data and systems.

The company of opera singer Elizabeth Zharoff, shown here performing at West Bay Opera in Palo Alto, is a plaintiff in the lawsuit against PayPal. (Otak Jump / West Bay Opera)

Tech giant PayPal accused of fraud over Honey online-shopping coupon finder

January 6, 2025 at 10:12 a.m.

Lawsuit alleges PayPal uses Honey browser extension to steal money from internet content creators.

San Jose State’s Brooke Slusser (10) and her teammates celebrate a point against San Diego State during a volleyball match at San Jose State University in San Jose, Calif., on Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group)

Judge rules that San Jose State’s purportedly transgender player can compete at MW tournament

November 25, 2024 at 2:43 p.m.

Co-captain Brooke Slusser and her co-plaintiffs waited too long to seek an emergency court order, judge rules

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