David Needle

MENLO PARK, Calif.—California Attorney General Kamala Harris and Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg were among the speakers at an event here on Feb. 10 that also featured panel discussions that engaged educators, students and high-tech executives about the need for a safer Internet. Facebook, along with several of its big-name rivals including Google and […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. —Online chat, information at your fingertips and mobile devices that let you work anywhere are transforming the workplace for the better, but there are caveats, according to a panel of experts meeting at the Churchill Club here Thursday. Toni Schneider, a venture capitalist who heads R&D at Automattic spoke passionately about the […]

SAN FRANCISCO—The promise of big data is that IT and C-suite executives will gain profit-driving business insights from the latest analytics tools that sift through gigabytes and terabytes of corporate data. From customers’ buying habits to medical research, companies and institutions have far more data on what people are buying, searching for and chatting about […]

Consumers know Amazon best as an online reseller and for its line of Kindle devices, but the tech giant continues to develop products for business users. On the enterprise side, Amazon is better known for its cloud service division, Amazon Web Services (AWS), which powers many Websites, including those of Netflix and Unilever. On Jan. […]

PALO ALTO, Calif.—How safe is your company from malware attacks and security breaches? As the technology and methods behind cyber-attacks are constantly evolving, it’s virtually impossible for any company to accurately say it’s completely safe, but there are steps you can take to minimize threats. Ganesh Krishnan, who runs security at the popular job site […]

San Jose, CALIF.—You can look at the impact of new technology in many different ways. Analyst Larry Downes thinks Star Trek had it about right. “I’ve always been an optimist about the outcome of technology,” said Downes, co-author of Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. “In Star Trek, you had the […]

In a closely watched trial that included a video deposition by late Apple CEO Steve Jobs, a jury Tuesday unanimously found Apple didn’t try to create a monopoly by blocking other music services from playing on its best-selling iPod. In taking only three hours of deliberation to issue its verdict, the jury ended a complex […]

Did Apple’s iPod become the dominant music player illegally? That’s the charge in a billion dollar suit that claims Apple shut out competitors. But in a new wrinkle to the high-profile case that got under way earlier this week, Apple Thursday challenged the legal qualifications of two women who are the primary plaintiffs to pursue […]

The era of the so-called Internet of things has been talked about so much in tech circles the past few years that some may think it’s already here. But smartwatches, Google Glass and clothing embedded with sensors hardly represent a full mainstream deployment of the system. So what has to happen to make the Internet […]

New mobile technology and startup ventures dominated at the DEMO Fall conference Nov. 18-20 in San Jose, Calif., and there was a good reason for that, according to industry analyst Benedict Evans, a partner at the Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. “Mobile is eating the world. It’s the first time the tech industry […]