At a time when other tech companies have trimmed research budgets or focused tightly on their core business, Google’s X division is pursuing a range of seemingly outlandish ideas.
Troy Wolverton writes: Nokia new Lumia Icon smartphone offers a lot of compelling features, but they don’t make up for the fact that the phone runs software that has proved unpopular with both consumers and developers.
Larry Magid writes: It’s time for industry, government and – most important – an enlightened citizenry to rein in some of that ‘big data’ that’s being collected about all of us to make sure that we, not big institutions with .gov or .com after their names, are in control of our own information.
If you need some quick data on the economy to win an argument, write a report or make an investment, you might want to check out the economy apps available for mobile phones and tablets.
A San Francisco startup called Lively has built a system of network-connected sensors that can help people remotely keep an eye on their aging parents.
Mercury News interview: Ali and Hadi Partovi may not be household names, but the twins have quietly helped launch some of Silicon Valley’s biggest startups of recent vintage.
Coupons.com stock more than doubled during its first day of trading on Wall Street, as investors continued to show a taste for traditional discounting models in a high-tech world.
Less than six months after an eye-popping initial public offering, security software company FireEye sold millions of new shares for more than four times the price of its IPO, bringing the company and its stakeholders more than $1 billion.
The Bay Area had one of the strongest job markets in the country in 2013, and revised figures released Friday show it was even stronger than initially thought.
