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From the White House to Wall Street, American technology companies extended their reach in 2017. Amazon went from our mailboxes to our grocery stores and living rooms. Apple is nearly a trillion-dollar company with a bigger than General Electric and a services division the size of a Fortune 100 company. Google's search has become so dominant that it got by the European Commission. Facebook's billions of users are now accessing essential services like voter registration and suicide prevention through the platform. Entrepreneurs like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk are household names. But the technology sector's runaway growth has also earned it significant pushback. Films like "The Circle" and "Ingrid Goes West" and TV shows like "Mr. Robot" and "Black Mirror," have depicted a burgeoning distrust of the industry. Real-life fumbles like a $400 juicer, and criticism from President Donald Trump, didn't help Silicon Valley's image. Here are some of the top stories that shaped the sector's year.

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10. SoftBank upends Silicon Valley venture capital and reinvigorates the start-up world with $100 billion

Japanese billionaire Masayoshi Son ended 2016 with a proclamation that then seemed outlandish: ambitions to launch a $100 billion technology fund. The idea (plus a rich commitment to create 50,000 U.S. jobs) landed Son a meeting with then president-elect Trump. Outspoken venture capitalist Jason Calacanis joked that Silicon Valley start-ups were forgoing IPOs and looking to Son as their savior instead. A year out, however, his SoftBank Vision Fund has climbed well above the punchline. SoftBank has committed money toward everything from Slack to satellites to semiconductors, making giant funding rounds the "new normal" in Silicon Valley, even for mature companies. Nary an industry has been left untouched: insurance, ridesharing, co-working, robotics and even dog-walking. Just one of SoftBank's investments — a $3 billion round in WeWork — counted for 17 percent of all investment in venture-backed companies in the third quarter, according to the National Venture Capital Association and PitchBook. Each of the top 3 rounds to U.S. companies in the third quarter were made by SoftBank, according to a report from PwC and CB Insights.

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9. Tech stocks surpass dot-com highs, while venture-backed IPOs mostly suffer

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8. Fear of Netflix drives Fox-Disney merger

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7. Against the odds, chips get hot again

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6. Uber's slow-motion collapse

Onlookers gave Uber a hard look this year amid sexual harassment allegations. That scrutiny uncovered deeper issues within the company that ultimately led to the departure of major executives and two prominent board members. Even before former employee Susan Fowler posted a February blog entry about her negative experiences as a woman at Uber, the company was under a microscope. The FTC fined Uber $20 million in January for misleading potential drivers. Critics on social media accused the ride-hailing company in January of undercutting taxi drivers protesting a controversial immigration policy enacted by Trump. Though Uber denounced the Trump travel ban, the company had already been criticized for "collaborating" with the president through Trump's Strategic and Policy Forum. Then-Uber CEO Travis Kalanick stepped back from the president's council and pledged money toward fighting the travel ban. But that didn't stop the #deleteUber trend from taking off on social media. Fowler's allegations fueled the fire. She wrote that her manager propositioned her, that complaints were consistently dismissed by human resources, and that even tasks like ordering branded leather jackets devolved into "comically absurd" diatribes on gender. February also marked the beginning of a vicious legal battle between Uber and Alphabet's Waymo over self-driving cars. The bad news kept coming, including reports that Uber mishandled of a rape victim's medical records, allowed drug use at company events, and designed programs to mislead regulators. Other executives were also accused of misconduct, especially after a video in which Kalanick berated a driver. One executive was accused of sexual harassment at a previous job, others leased out cars that caught fire, and yet others took staffers to an escort bar, reports said. More than 20 staff members were fired as part of an internal investigation. Regulators also stepped in to investigate some of the claims against Uber. Kalanick and his top deputies ultimately resigned, as did board members David Bonderman and Bill Gurley, amid a lawsuit among several top investors. New CEO Dara Khosrowshahi revealed in the fall that a 2016 data breach affecting 57 million people had also been concealed by Uber.

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5. Computer security breaches erode trust

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4. The tide turns against Facebook

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3. The war between the sexes divides Silicon Valley

Uber whistleblower Fowler was one of the first in a series of sexual harassment allegations that became public in the business community in 2017. There had long been a "whisper network" among women in technology-related fields, and complaints from women like Ellen Pao had made headlines in the past. But 2017 brought a new rawness to technology industry's gender imbalance. Venture investors like Chris Sacca and Dave McClure were accused of sexism, and McClure resigned from 500 Startups, a tech incubator he co-founded. Binary Capital partner Justin Caldbeck also resigned after he was accused of making advances toward six businesswomen. Still, the departure of many offenders did not leave Silicon Valley with a clean slate. Google engineer James Damore penned an extensive document on the left-leaning culture of the company, using the biological differences in sexes as evidence that diversity training may have gone too far. Google fired Damore, but he remains a divisive figure and a personification of the discord within technology companies.

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2. Amazon dominates tech – and leaves other industries quaking

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