(L-R) Amazon's chief Jeff Bezos, Larry Page of Alphabet, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, Vice President-elect Mike Pence and President-elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower December 14, 2016. Trump is meeting with top tech executives -- including several of his sharpest critics -- to mend fences after a divisive election in which the majority of Silicon Valley backed Hillary Clinton. / AFP PHOTO / TIMOTHY A. CLARY
NEW YORK: Donald Trump met with some of America’s most powerful tech executives in a bid to mend fences with a largely pro-Hillary Clinton industry and promote job creation and trade.
The afternoon summit at Trump Tower in New York gathered some of the wealthiest and brightest brains in the tech industry around the same table as the incoming billionaire Republican president after a bruising election campaign that revealed a bitterly divided country.
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