Google triggered a social-media backlash with the firing of an employee who had blasted the company’s diversity policies, fuelling tension over an issue shaking up Silicon Valley.

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman warned users of the site that the company knows more about them than they might think. He went as far as to tell them that the site knows "all your dark secrets."

HOURS we had spent, the two of us, scrambling for survival on an infested space station. How many corridors had we pushed through? How many enemies had we slain, this hero and I?

Lawyers in a high-profile gender bias lawsuit against a giant Silicon Valley firm argued the woman behind the case was either an accomplished junior partner who was passed over for a promotion because of discrimination or a failure who sued to get a big payout as she was being shown the door.