If the human race ever makes it to Mars, the rigors of staying alive on a hostile planet with a poisonous atmosphere should keep astronauts pretty busy. But if Anheuser-Busch has… Read more »

Slack is not just a messaging tool anymore–and, for the record, it’s not trying to “kill” email. Over 8 million users log into Slack every day, according to founder and CEO… Read more »

It’s not easy to promote closer US-China ties these days. The countries are moving toward a trade war; a US delegation left Beijing Friday reporting little progress on resolving disputes…. Read more »

Amazon Web Services has announced that Oath, the former Yahoo, has selected AWS as its preferred public cloud provider. Sounds like another routine “win” announcement from a cloud vendor, doesn’t… Read more »

When you address security in the cloud for your enterprise use, you need to think of it in several layers: Layer 0 is the primary IaaS cloud on which everything… Read more »

BEIJING (Reuters) – Smartphone and connected device maker Xiaomi [IPO-XMGP.HK] filed for a Hong Kong initial public offering on Thursday, in what is expected to be the largest listing by… Read more »

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Ducking analysts’ questions has a price: $2 billion. Tesla Inc investors gave a rare rebuke to iconoclastic Chief Executive Elon Musk on Wednesday after he cut… Read more »

(Reuters) – Qualcomm Inc has broadened its use of a lower-cost licensing model for the next generation of mobile data networks, a move that could help in contentious talks with… Read more »

Apple’s long-rumored augmented reality headset will have virtual reality capabilities built in, too. It’s codenamed T288, and it’s currently scheduled to be released in 2020. While Augmented Reality, or AR,… Read more »

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Amazon.com’s Whole Foods Market sparked social media outrage after its newest store in its 365 grocery chain partnered with an Asian restaurant with the racially charged… Read more »

Amazon will charge U.S. customers $119 per year to join its free delivery Prime program starting May 11, a 20% price hike in the popular offering that also includes access… Read more »

Microsoft may not be a favorite in the race to a becoming the country’s first trillion-dollar public company. But recently, after its younger tech peers whizzed past in valuation, Microsoft… Read more »

Every month, I have a ‘what I need to re-stock on from Amazon’ day. This month, it was time to replace my water filter, so off to Amazon I went…. Read more »

Imagine your happy place. Now, imagine that in order to get to your happy place, you first have to sit next to a screaming toddler in economy on American Airlines… Read more »

In early February of 2018 we published an article about the cooperation between AMD (AMD) and Intel (INTC), or as we dubbed it, AMD’s hidden strategy against Nvidia (NVDA). Please… Read more »

Amazon Prime has over 100 million subscribers worldwide, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said on Wednesday, marking the first time that the company has disclosed such detailed information about its increasingly… Read more »

Growth at big companies chasing mature markets is supposed to slow down. Think about wireless phones or cable TV. But that rule doesn’t seem to apply to Netflix, at least… Read more »

Absurdly Driven looks at the world of business with a skeptical eye and a firmly rooted tongue in cheek.  They say you should get out ahead of a bad story. Present… Read more »

Wrangling a partnership with Uber can’t be easy. Large companies can already be difficult to work with–and Uber’s recent history has been, well, tumultuous. On Wednesday, San Francisco-based car-rental startup… Read more »

About two hours, or 20 percent, into Mark Zuckerberg’s marathon testimony before Congress this week, the Facebook CEO had a slightly awkward exchange with senator John Cornyn (R-Texas). Cornyn wanted… Read more »

Way back in 2004, Jonathan Schwartz, then Sun’s chief operating officer, suggested that cars could become software platforms the same way feature phones were. He was right. But, it’s Linux,… Read more »

In most motorsports, the engineer’s cruelest foe isn’t the rules of physics or the driver’s inability to wring every crumb of power from their vehicle. It’s the rules. Rules laid… Read more »

After finally agreeing to testify before Congress last week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg heads to Capitol Hill Tuesday and Wednesday to answer for his company’s recent troubles. Expect him to… Read more »

On April 4th, Bloomberg reported that HSBC (HSBC) is considering an exit or sale from smaller consumer operations such as Bermuda, Malta, and Uruguay. In addition, the bank plans to… Read more »

Nearly three years after a Russian propaganda group infiltrated Facebook and other tech platforms in hopes of seeding chaos in the 2016 US election, Facebook has more fully detailed its… Read more »

(Reuters) – Under Armour Inc (UAA.N) (UA.N) said on Thursday that data from some 150 million MyFitnessPal diet and fitness app accounts was compromised in February, in one of the… Read more »

In August of 2016, I emailed Ryan Holiday and asked if he would help me write my first book proposal. I paid him $1,000 an hour for his time. He probably… Read more »

(This is a guest post by my coauthor on Modern Monopolies, Nicholas Johnson.) What a mess. Facebook once again finds itself at the heart of a media firestorm after revelations… Read more »

No one ever became a programmer so they could mange open-source licenses. But, that’s what many developers must do these days. Black Duck Software, the open-source software logistics and legal… Read more »

Tumblr confirmed on Friday that Russian trolls spread misinformation on the blogging service in prelude to the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Tumbler, part of the Verizon Communications’-owned Oath media group,… Read more »