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| Apple CEO Tim Cook and other major tech CEOs will meet with President Obama Tuesday with to discuss the Obamacare site, cybersecurity and the economy. |
President Obama will meet with more than a dozen big-named tech CEOs on Tuesday to discuss cybersecurity and the failures of the Obamacare website.
A White House official said they will discuss how the tech
sector can help the government avoid IT screw-ups like the healthcare.gov website
rollout. They will also talk about national security and the
impact of "unauthorized intelligence disclosures."
The
tech industry has protested some of the most high-profile National Security
Agency snooping initiatives. Several prominent tech companies recently drafted a letter to Obama and Congress in opposition of the
agency's surveillance activities on their servers and systems.
The
president will also talk to the CEOs about ways the administration can partner
with tech companies to create more American jobs and address issues around
income inequality.
The
tech sector has been one of the biggest growth drivers of the U.S. stock market
and economy this year. Companies such as Netflix, Yahoo, Hewlett-Packard (HPQ,Fortune 500) and Google have all grown in the high
double- and even triple-digit percentages.
But
many tech companies have complained that they are struggling to find enough
American workers to fill their highest-paid engineering positions. They have
also largelyfailed to elevate women
and minorities to
positions of power.
Obama
has many supporters in Silicon Valley, including Schmidt, who at one point wasrumored to be on the
shortlist for Secretary of Commerce.
Cook was a guest of First
Lady Michelle Obama at
this year's State of the Union address, after the Apple CEO announced that the
company would bring back some Macintosh assembly to a factory in the United
States.
Representatives
from Twitter (TWTR),
Etsy, Dropbox, Salesforce (CRM), Zynga(ZNGA),
Sherpa Global, Comcast (CMCSA, Fortune 500), LinkedIn (LNKD),Microsoft (MSFT, Fortune 500) and AT&T (T, Fortune 500) will also be in attendance.
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