After the biotech firm Genentech informed her she wouldn't have access to their potentially lifesaving drug Pertuzumab until June, breast cancer patient Darlene Gant, who was told she might not live that long, took to YouTube with the help of her husband to plead for an early release of the medication.

Silicon Valley businessmen fancy themselves unflinching hard-core capitalists. Yet they hate to compete for workers — and the New York Times found an email to prove it.

Tech giants have long sought more work visas, saying they enrich immigrants. But a reported Justice Department investigation raises the possibility Google, Apple and Yahoo, among others, colluded to hold down wages.